Authors:Nsah; Kenneth Toah Abstract: In the context of climate change and ecological breakdown, this essay suggests that some Congo-Basin writers had prophesied the emergence of global youth/children’s climate activism. Specifically, it contends that Congolese writer and former cabinet minister Henri Djombo, Francophone Cameroonian-born, Brazzaville-based playwright, stage director and climate activist Osée Collins Koagne, Gabonese geographer, activist publisher and writer Nadia Origo, and Anglophone Cameroonian writer and environmentalist Ekpe Inyang had literarily predicted youth climate activism that correlates with the current global Youth Strikes for Climate. Drawing on postcolonial ecocriticism and writers as literary prophets, it uses Djombo and Koagne’s co-authored play Le Cri de la forêt (2015a), Djombo’s play Les Bénévoles (2015b), Nadia Origo’s novel Le Voyage d’Aurore (2014 [2007]), and Inyang’s plays The Hill Barbers (2010) and Beware (1993), among others, to argue that current global youth climate... PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Ramlogan; Rajendra Abstract: This essay analyzes the issue of copyright laws being used to stifle public involvement in the environmental decision-making process in Trinidad and Tobago. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the problem of the Environmental Management Authority (EMA), which is the regulatory body in Trinidad and Tobago (TT), attempting to treat an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as copyrighted. The essay tracks the challenges faces by Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS), a local NGO, in its efforts to promote environmentalism. This led to a legal challenge by FFOS on the issue, which is examined in this essay. The essay delves into the fundamental principles of public participation/consultation as articulated by Parliament, the EM Act, the National Environment Policy, and related case law. It highlights the critical relationship between access to information and public participation/consultation. Moreover, the essay provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between... PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Durmaz; Yakup Abstract: It is widely known that environmental degradation caused by human behaviors that are incompatible with the natural world, and the excessive misuse of natural resources, leads to changes in consumer behavior. This change involves a greater sensitivity to the environment and a preference for products that are less harmful to the planet. This study aims to determine the impact of green advertisements on the intention to buy eco-friendly products and the mediating role of environmental responsibility in this relationship. Data for the study was collected through an online questionnaire from 794 millennials from the Y generation. The study used the "purposive sampling" method, which is a non-probabilistic sampling technique. The collected data was analyzed using AMOS and SPSS software through structural equation modeling and a structural mediation model. The research findings show that attitudes towards green advertising affect environmental responsibility and intention to purchase... PubDate: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Krumenacher; Mark Abstract: Since 2013, there has been a proliferation of opinion pieces pertaining to a global shortage of sand. Because of the current volume of such articles, the situation is taken as fact and industries like fiberglass insulation manufacturers are being criticized for exploiting the earth’s dwindling supply of sand. Research has shown that these are sensationalized headlines (rather than actual scientific reporting) and they are proliferating because they benefit author of opinion and social media content. The genesis of the popular sand shortage story can be traced to a 2013 documentary, Sand Wars, and an unintentional foundational basis for the issue derived from a short discussion on international trading and island building in the book, Sand, The Never-Ending Story. Extensive research conducted for this article confirms that there is no general, worldwide shortage of sand; instead, there are only isolated shortages in some areas outside... PubDate: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +000
Authors:Aczel; Miriam R Abstract: Rewilding: India’s Experiments in Saving Nature by Bahar Dutt is an important contribution to the literature on attempts to reverse the well-documented loss of species. Dutt, an environmental journalist, focuses on small-scale projects in India that aim to ‘rewild’ areas that have lost their native species. While there is a wide and growing body of literature on environmental and ecological degradation and biodiversity loss, what sets this book apart is that the message at the end is a hopeful one—ending with solutions that can reverse global species loss. The projects described are small and localized, relating stories of people bringing back indigenous ecosystems in a range of communities. PubDate: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +000
Authors:Sinha; Ranendra
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Annamdevula, Subrahmanyam Abstract: Environmental friendly products and packaging are necessary for survival and competing in the current markets. This paper examines the effect of green skepticism on green purchase intentions in the context of Indian households. The study proposed a model with relationships between the antecedents of green purchase intentions. The primary data (n345) is collected through a structured self-administered questionnaire, establishing validity and reliability through confirmative factor analysis (CFA). The results of structural equation modelling (SEM) support that green skepticism does not affect green purchase intentions directly but through environmental knowledge and concern. Environmental knowledge and concern have a robust direct positive effect on green purchase intentions. The study summarizes consumer skepticism as an essential indirect input to green purchase behaviour. The research contributes to the marketing literature by supporting the contention that consumer skepticism... PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Owusu-Ansah; Nana Abstract: The study was designed to understand how the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) scores in a Protected Area (PA) were influenced by conservation activities. Data were collected from documents on major conservation activities of the PA. Conservation outputs indicators of annual numbers of patrols organized, mammal and Roan Antelope observed, illegal activities recorded, offenders arrested and livelihood beneficiaries were related to the METT scores in Spearman correlation tests. There were no statistically significant relationships between each of the METT elements and number of patrols, mammals and Roan Antelope observations. However, Illegal activities, offenders arrested and livelihood beneficiaries strongly correlated positively with all the elements. Again, Pearson correlation tests among patrols, illegal activities and mammals observed were not statistically significant. Results indicated the PA socio-economic benefits to local... PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Choudhary; Abhishek
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Jain, Amit
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Gupta, Toolika
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Shah, Tejas R Abstract: Fast fashion and overconsumption have contributed to the increase in apparel waste, raising concerns for the environment. Collaborative consumption can give the solution to ecological anxiety around apparel manufacturing by encouraging recycle and reuse of existing goods thereby reducing landfill waste. Consumer orientation such as fashion awareness and magnificence realization would be less characterized in second-hand apparel utilization. Companies in the apparel industry trying to find innovative sustainable business models may look around collaborative consumption as a potential path to achieve market competence along with adequacy and sustainability. The review of literature on collaborative consumption along with second-hand apparel use was analyzed to understand the relevant issues for the industry, marketers, and consumers to adopt the consumption of sustainable fashion. The study through a primary survey explores the possibility of adopting... PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Liu; Yanjing (Tracy Abstract: This article discusses the biopolitics of the coronavirus pandemic practiced on both human and non-human animals. I begin by introducing the idea of biopolitics and othering. I then bring two animals, bats and minks, together to explain the role of biopolitics in manipulating the bodies of non-human animals. In particular, I compare the discourses surrounding both animals that frame bats as the wild and minks as the productive— the categorization of both disembodies the animals and subjects them to exploitation. I also examine the role of the environment in creating a shared vulnerability between human and non-human animals. I argue that the coronavirus pandemic is a crisis evoked by a system that profits from the use of biopolitics through the creations of dichotomies between the “normal” and the “abnormal.” To reimagine our future, we need to seek a sustainability that fosters entanglements, instead of separations, of all creatures. PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Aczel; Miriam R
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Cao, David
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Makuch, Karen Abstract: Citizen science (CS) is the practice where amateurs without formal scientific training collect data to contribute to the scientific observations available to scientists and decision makers (Bonney, et al., 2009). Citizen science is increasingly utilized for environmental protection and conservation as well as related purposes such as education, access to nature, access to justice, inclusion, civics and equality or other ‘social goods’ (Mor Barak, 2020; Makuch & Aczel, 2020). Several eco-citizen science projects are developing in China (Chen, et al., 2020; Hsu, Yeo & Weinfurter, 2020), though little research has evaluated their effectiveness in facilitating environmental protection or advancing social goods. This paper aims to identify the role and potential benefits of environmental citizen science in China to promote environmental and social objectives within the context of what has been called “authoritarian environmentalism” (Beeson, 2018).Through... PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Authors:Zarkin; Michael Abstract: In the early 1990s, ecosystem management was touted as an emerging new paradigm for US national forest planning, but by the end of the decade the phrase had virtually disappeared from public discussion of the subject. The purpose of this article is to understand what legacy, if any, that ecosystem management left on national forest management. While Klyza (1996) has arguably offered the leading viewpoint on how policy ideas influence change in national forest management, this article relies more heavily on insights from the work of Carstensen (2011) and other scholars who view policy idea change as an evolutionary process. Ultimately, it is concluded that ecosystem management was one component of a longer-term evolution in ideas that culminated most recently in the promulgation of the 2012 forest planning rules. PubDate: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000
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