Environmental Policy and Governance

Climate Change politics gives rise to shifting forms of green colonialism the effects of which can be at once surprising and predictable. The following paper analyzes the life of two Korea-Cambodia partnership projects designed to increase forest cover in a rapidly deforesting Cambodia. This paper updates earlier case studies (Scheidel and Work, 2016; Work, 2017) and follows the life of these two projects. The first is a REDD+ project and the second is an afforestation/reforestation (AR) project situated respectively at the southwest and northeast boundaries of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary (PLWS) in north-central Cambodia between the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap Lake. Both projects were conceived and justified within the logics of climate change politics and the green economy (Fairhead, Leach, and Scoones, 2012; Franco and Borras, 2021).

This study assesses disaster risk reduction policies following the 2023 Al Haouz earthquake in Morocco, focusing on four key areas: risk knowledge and assessment, prevention, emergency response, and recovery and reconstruction. The findings reveal notable policy shortcomings. In the area of risk knowledge and assessment, data were not consistently updated, and public awareness of surrounding risks remained low. Preventive measures also showed weaknesses; regulations were not fully enforced in land-use planning and construction monitoring, and essential infrastructure-including roads and critical facilities, particularly in rural areas-was lacking. For emergency response, crisis preparedness did not adequately consider scenarios tailored to the distinct characteristics of different regions. Finally, in recovery and reconstruction, the study highlights slow program implementation, largely due to a gap between financial capacity and expectations.

The planning elements of settlement structure creates different conditions for social cohesion. The article proposes to model the planning structure of settlements taking into account the factor of social cohesion, the indicator of which is the connectivity of population. A scale of optimal planning elements is based on models of macro spaces developed in the theory of Cognitive Urbanizm The benefits of this approach are expected to include social inclusion, growth of human capital and social sustainability of communities. Social cohesion is aimed at the involvement of the population in city life, active participation in social practices, trust, social mobility, equality of opportunities for all groups of the population.

In the flood-prone rough neighbourhoods of the Global South, water and adaptation infrastructure are not simply technical matters of service delivery or humanitarian relief; they are arenas where belonging, visibility, and political worth are actively negotiated. This paper revisits and re-theorizes hydro-citizenship as a relational, performative, and contested practice through which marginalized residents convert everyday hydrosocial struggles into claims to recognition, dignity, and the moral right to remain. Drawing on political ecology, Southern urban theory, and ethnographic engagements in Cape Town, I advance the concept of Adaptation Citizenship to show how formal climate planning, through flood-risk maps, early warning systems, zoning logics, and infrastructure upgrades, can function as a regime of selective legibility, routinely rendering rough neighbourhoods "too informal" to count and "too risky" to protect. Against this technocratic triage, I document how trench digging, informal drainage construction, WhatsApp alert networks, participatory monitoring, and public clean-ups operate as vernacular infrastructures of presence: material practices that do not just cope with flooding but author political claims to the city's climate future. The paper also argues that hydro-citizenship is not reducible to flood events alone; it is equally negotiated through intermittent supply, contamination and water quality, sanitation and drainage failure, affordability and metering regimes, and the policing of "illegal" connections. The paper concludes by calling for a paradigmatic shift from infrastructure-first to justice-first adaptation: one that recognizes rough neighbourhood residents as co-producers of adaptive futures, legitimizes everyday knowledges as planning intelligence, and evaluates resilience only where it expands recognition, redistributes decision-making power, and reduces unequal exposure.

This study determines the management of downstream oil palm development in the technopolitan areas of Pelalawan Regency. The study object was analyzed qualitatively in stages, including the development, potential, and management of downstream oil palm. The results show that the downstream oil palm facilitates the development of various ideas, innovations, and knowledge from the use of products with high selling value. This supports the government, academia, business, and society in implementing Good Agricultural Practice (GAP). The downstream oil palm development in Pelalawan Regency is managed in an integrated, competitive, and sustainable manner. This allows all stakeholders and society (independent smallholders) to receive economic, social, and environmental benefits.

In 2014, the Third International Conference on the resilience of social-ecological systems chose the theme "resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation." The conference aimed specifically at fostering an encounter between the experiences and thinking focused on the issue of resilience through a social and ecological system perspective, and the experiences focused on the issue of resilience through a development perspective. In this perspectives piece, we reflect on the outcomes of the meeting and document the differences and similarities between the two perspectives as discussed during the conference, and identify bridging questions designed to guide future interactions. After the conference, we read the documents (abstracts, PowerPoints) that were prepared and left in the conference database by the participants (about 600 contributions), and searched the web for associated items, such as videos, blogs, and tweets from the conference participants. All of these documents were assessed through one lens: what do they say about resilience and development? Once the perspectives were established, we examined different themes that were significantly addressed during the conference. Our analysis paves the way for new collective developments on a set of issues: (1) Who declares/assign/cares for the resilience of what, of whom? (2) What are the models of transformations and how do they combine the respective role of agency and structure? (3) What are the combinations of measurement and assessment processes? ( ) At what scale should resilience be studied? Social transformations and scientific approaches are coconstructed. For the last decades, development has been conceived as a modernization process supported by scientific rationality and technical expertise. The definition of a new perspective on development goes with a negotiation on a new scientific approach. Resilience is presently at the center of this negotiation on a new science for development.

This paper offers an analytical model for policy analysis. It aims at providing a comprehensive framework of instruments to assess whether and how a policy is leading towards sustainability in a broad, deep and transformational sense. It uses the theoretical principles of green political economy to develop analytical axes, namely social-ecological resilience, capabilities for human flourishing and strong sustainability. Furthermore, critical processes are articulated in order to search for additional sources of evidence for structural change. These are identified as addressing inequality, decoupling development from growth and relocalising the economy. This policy analysis framework is designed for policies that integrate environmental, social and economic dimensions, for example Integrated Conservation and Development Projects, REDD+ programs as well as other all-encompassing policies.

South Africa and Nigeria are developing countries and leading economies in sub Sahara Africa. Thus, effective management of the environment in their respective boundaries is not only essential for the overall goal of emission reduction across the globe but for the health of the people within their respective borders. However, while Nigeria has been classified as the second largest gas flaring nation in the world because of the unmitigated gas flaring activities that is associated with petroleum operation in the Niger Delta region, emission from refineries and other sources have been a contentious issue during and after apartheid era in South Africa, particularly in places like South Durban and Salsosbourg which are industrial settlement. The paper examines the legal and structural frameworks for management of the environment and in particular gas emission in Nigeria and South Africa in the context of the growing global demand for equity and effective governance of the environment. T...

In agrarian and peasant studies, Scott is an influential scholar who provided new and radically different ways to look at the state, peasants, peasant resistance, state domination, and large-scale social planning, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. Scott's latest book, posthumously published, In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life it Brings, is a fascinating new account of ecological and political reframing of rivers as living entities embedded within multispecies systems beyond human time scales. The book argues that rivers are living, dynamic systems whose movements, flows and floods are essential for sustaining ecological and peasant life. In Scott's words, 'rivers are born, they change, they shift their channels, they forge new routes to the sea, move gradually and violently, and may die a natural death, they are frequently maimed and even murdered '. The book calls rivers assemblages of life forms that depend on the movement of water, silt, clay, gravel and seasonal floods. These assemblages encompass rivers, tributaries, wetlands, floodplains, backwaters, eddies, periodic marshlands, and innumerable life forms that depend on rivers for their existence and well-being. Scott reimagines a river as an ecosystem of water, fish, microbes, birds, silt, plants, seeds, insects, and flood-adapted communities that the water governance regimes of the modern states and river managers, engineers and hydrologists try to tame, redirect and manage. The attempts by states and development advocates to control rivers by creating embankments, dams and hydropower projects, and interventions such as straightening, channelization, dredging and deepening, mining and deforestation in the watershed, have created greater ecological damage than the river's natural behaviors ever caused. Though Scott engages with several rivers around the world, the Ayeyarwady River, the major river of Myanmar stretching around 1400 miles, and Myanmar's most important waterways are at the center of his analysis. The book begins by looking at how movement is a defining attribute of rivers, and how historically they constantly shift, jump beds and carve new paths in response to tectonics, sediments and internal hydrodynamics. Rivers operate in their own time scales, seasonal pulses, and sediment cycles. State and modernist interventions that do not consider such river logics have failed across the world, from Penn's Creek to the Yellow River and the Ayeyarwady. The first chapter lays the conceptual foundation by dismantling human and modern state notions about rivers: that they are stable, linear entities. The second chapter then shows how floods are not aberrant or destructive interruptions to rivers, but cyclical and generative events in riverine systems. In Scott's words, a flood 'is just the river breathing deeply, as it must '. Floods have historically created flooded forests, seasonal wetlands and ephemeral

There has been over a decade of research on the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus, which by definition focuses on improving governance across WEF sectors to address resource scarcity. The purpose of this paper is to identity the extent and types of governance and policy recommendations covered in the WEF studies. The systematic review methodology is used to assess peer-reviewed WEF studies based on the set of inclusion criteria published between 2011 and 2023. Out of 683 paper, 40 papers were selected and assessed their contributions to governance and policy. The results show that the included studies have strongly focused on quantitative representations of the WEF nexus (63 %), but they showed limited attention to specific governance and policy implications (17.5 %). To the extent that governance and policy were considered, the studies were framed around improving engagement with policymakers, academia and communities (32.5 %), improving coordination efforts (27.5 %) and suggesting technological solutions to manage WEF resources (35.0 %). The study concludes that WEF research holds significant potential to contribute to governance and policy development by testing innovative governance mechanisms, informing strategic policy decisions, shaping implementation strategies, and supporting the monitoring of policy outcomes to tackle resource scarcity and advance sustainability.

Interdisciplinarity is a notoriously diYcult concept to deWne, and even harder to achieve in practice. All too often social approaches reduce science to an object of study, or conversely physical science approaches are invoked as a source of 'higher' truth. Drawing upon our experiences as ESRC-NERC PhD students within geography, we outline a paratactical approach that links disciplines by adjacency rather than hierarchy. Toppling the disciplinary hierarchy creates the potential for non-reductionistic dialogue between science and social science, but it also raises a series of practical diYculties. These are considered around the themes of polyvocality, breadth over depth and (im)permanence. We suggest that while this kind of approach is increasingly encouraged by research funding bodies, it is less easily sustained within the everyday mechanics of the academic world.

As consequencias do desequilibrio na relacao do homem com o meio ambiente esta evidenciado atraves do aquecimento global, a alta emissao dos gases de efeito estufa e as oscilacoes na temperatura do planeta. Embora, no momento, a expressao meio ambiente seja amplamente conhecida e compreenda a interacao entre todos os componentes da natureza, incluindo o ser humano, a complexidade dessa interacao costuma trazer dificuldades para que as pessoas se percebam como parte integrante dela e, que, sao elas responsaveis e capazes de influenciar e contribuir para a diminuicao dos problemas ambientais que nos cercam. Alem de se perceber como parte do meio ambiente e preciso entender que a saude esta intimamente ligada ao ambiente e que a compreensao de muitos de seus eventos e acoes sobre esses, so podera ocorrer numa perspectiva sistemica. Para tanto, devese considerar as alteracoes no ambiente fisico, as relacoes socioeconomicas, a populacao e suas condicoes de vida, bem como as modificacoes ...

The expansion of industry, increased persons, and consumption patterns has strained India's ecosystems extensively, causing environmental governance to emerge as a pressing national concern. In such context, India's judiciary and National Green Tribunal (NGT) have taken center stage in enforcing environmental law and principles where strong governance is absent. Beginning with new judicial directions through Public Interest Litigations (PILs) in the 1980s, courts have incrementally enriched notions of environmental rights under Articles 21, 48A, and 51A(g), linking such rights to right to life for citizens and the responsibility of the government to safeguard the environment (Gill, 2015; Rai & Kadam, 2021). Concurrently, NGT was established in 2010 with special dispensation for dealing with environmental matters, making India one among the handful of nations in the global system to institutionalize such autonomy (Amirante, 2011; Rengarajan et al., 2018). This review article adopts a thematic methodology founded upon twenty-four peer-reviewed sources to reflect upon how judiciary and NGT have impacted India's environmental governance to address matters such as climate change, pollution in cities, deforestation, and sustainable development. It draws attention to successes and failures coupled with institutional conflicts among these institutions while proposing pathways to consolidate their roles consistent with global environmental justice activism and India's Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goal commitments.

Transcriptie van de lezing die Catherine Malabou op 20 sept. 2015 hield aan het Media and Communication Studies Department van de European Graduate School, in Saas-Fee (Zwitserland).
De opname daarvan is als EGS Video Lecture gepubliceerd op de site van de onderzoeksinstelling, maar ook beschikbaar op YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdTqr-5APg
Please do not quote from this transcript: it has not been proofread by C.M. and serves merely as a tool to help you follow and understand the lecture as presented.

This article provides a comprehensive review of selected materials from the legacy of the greatest architect of the Russian classicism era Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov, a bright supporter of classicism in architecture and at the same time one of the founders of the Russian Empire style Vasily Petrovich Stasov, as well as his faithful assistant, representing the era of late classicism in Russian architecture Nikolay Efimovich Efimov.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging at a time of complex societal crises. Governments around the world face the mounting specter of social and environmental change while navigating polarized politics and declining institutional trust. AI has been promoted by governments, consultants, and techno-optimists as a novel opportunity to improve and capacitize governance, deepening a longstanding commitment to technocratic and evidence-based policymaking through sophisticated tools for gathering and analyzing data. At the same time, social advocates are calling for AI to shed inherent biases and promote equity. This article discusses injustices in the design and operation of AI systems, and how the techno-optimist narrative hides them while doubling down on failed policy logics. A conceptual framework illustrates the ways in which AI garners political legitimacy and replicates embedded power structures by optimizing rather than questioning anachronistic and exploitive policy epistemics. The article concludes by discussing how these tensions point to the need for deeper societal reflection in confronting existential crises.

The excessive use of synthetic fertilizers poses environmental and economic challenges, particularly for smallholder farmers in Barangay Salvacion Baybay, Calabanga, Camarines Sur, where fluctuating market prices and limited access to affordable inputs further intensify these issues. This study addressed these concerns by developing and evaluating fermented malunggay (Moringa oleifera) and lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) as an alternative organic foliar fertilizer for tomato production. Specifically, this study aimed to describe the formulation process, assess the best formulation based on yield performance, assess the significant difference among the different formulations in terms of number of fruits and weight of fruits and determine its potential as a sustainable agricultural input. The study employed a descriptive-comparative and research and development (R&D) design. Three formulations with varying proportions of malunggay and lemongrass were prepared and fermented for seven days. A total of 60 tomato plants were cultivated over a four-month cropping period, with 20 plants assigned to each treatment group. Data were gathered through fruit counting, weight measurement, and farmer evaluation using a Likert scale, and analyzed using frequency count, mean, and one-way ANOVA with Scheffé Test. Results showed that the fermented malunggay and lemongrass served as an effective, low-cost, and environmentally sustainable organic foliar fertilizer that enhances tomato yield. Among the three formulations, Formulation 3 emerged as the most effective, particularly in terms of fruit weight, indicating its superior performance compared to the other treatments. These findings support the potential of this organic foliar fertilizer as a viable alternative to synthetic inputs and highlight its role in promoting sustainable and organic farming practices, especially for smallholder farmers facing economic and environmental constraints. It is recommended that farmers consider adopting this organic foliar fertilizer as an alternative to commercial inputs, while future researchers are encouraged to refine the formulation, explore its application to other crops, and conduct studies with larger sample sizes to further validate its effectiveness and broader applicability.

Preface
I have spent most of my professional life at the intersection of academic inquiry and community development — writing reports that sit on government shelves, designing M&E frameworks for NGO projects, and teaching graduate students who return to work in the same coastal communities I study. What I have always found missing is a single, comprehensive, approachable guide that takes a student by the hand from 'What is the Blue Economy?' all the way to 'How do I design a Blue Economy project, evaluate it, and advocate for evidence-based policy?'
This book is my attempt to fill that gap. It draws on more than fifteen years of field experience, published research, and consultancy practice in Kenya's Coast Region and beyond. I have structured it as a genuine step-by-step guide — each chapter builds on the last, with concepts introduced progressively, reinforced by case studies, illustrated with data, and concluded with reflection questions and practical exercises.
My deepest hope is that this book will find its way into university lecture halls in Mombasa, Nairobi, Accra, Dar es Salaam, Manila, and Port Moresby — and into the hands of young researchers who will take these ideas further than I can imagine.
I welcome collaboration, feedback, and engagement. The oceans belong to all of us, and so does the responsibility to understand, protect, and sustainably develop them.
Dr. Martin Otundo Richard
Kwale County, Kenya's Coast Region
Email: [email protected] | Phone: +254 721 246 744

A ação humana moldou a paisagem da Mata Atlântica, porém com mais intensidade a partir da invasão europeia no século XIV. Esse Bioma foi o primeiro a ser impactado desde as atividades extrativistas até os diferentes períodos econômicos que reduziram
significativamente suas formações vegetacionais. Na Região Serrana do estado do Rio de Janeiro a Mata Atlântica é caracterizada, principalmente, pela Floresta Ombrófila Densa Montana em diferentes estágios de regeneração. Uma atividade comum nesta região é a agricultura de coivara intercalada com pousio.

This document profiles an active ingredient currently eligible for exemption from pesticide registration when used in a Minimum Risk Pesticide in accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) section 25b. The profile was developed by the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program at Cornell University, for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The authors are solely responsible for its content. The Overview Document contains more information on the scope of the profiles, the purpose of each section, and the methods used to prepare them. Mention of specific uses are for informational purposes only, and are not to be construed as recommendations. Brand name products are referred to for identification purposes only, and are not endorsements. Summary: Citric acid is a naturally occurring substance and a common food ingredient. It is a severe eye irritant and can cause other health problems to exposed people. Its pesticidal u...

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Climate change has emerged as a major driver of disaster risk globally, with developing countries like Nigeria experiencing disproportionate impacts due to high levels of socio-economic vulnerability and weak adaptive capacity. This study examines the relationship between climate change and disaster risk patterns in Nigeria, with particular attention to regional variations and local experiences in the Savannah belt, including Taraba State. The paper adopts a qualitative, analytical approach to explore the manifestations of climate-induced hazards such as drought, flooding, desertification, and gully erosion across different ecological zones.

Findings reveal that climate change has intensified environmental degradation, threatened food security, and increased human displacement, as evidenced by the shrinkage of Lake Chad and recurrent flooding along major river basins. The study further evaluates Nigeria’s disaster management architecture under the National Disaster Management Framework, coordinated by National Emergency Management Agency, highlighting progress in emergency response and early warning systems. However, significant challenges persist, including reactive policy orientation, weak institutional coordination, and inadequate integration of climate risk into development planning.

The paper argues for a paradigm shift toward proactive and resilience-based disaster risk reduction strategies. It proposes the adoption of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS), such as afforestation, wetland restoration, and green infrastructure, alongside community-led early warning systems. Emphasis is placed on the integration of indigenous knowledge with scientific data from agencies like Nigerian Meteorological Agency to enhance local adaptive capacity. The study concludes that sustainable disaster management in Nigeria requires strengthened institutional frameworks, increased investment in capacity building, and active community participation to effectively mitigate the impacts of climate change.

This paper introduces the concept of the Altruism Economy, a monetary framework in which currency is explicitly backed by objectively verifiable production rather than by debt or purely speculative expectations. The system is mediated by an AI agentthe Holistic Altruistic Learning Language Model ("HAL")-which acts as a transparent, auditable bookkeeper and coordination layer rather than an opaque decisionmaker. The core mechanism is simple: when verifiable value is created in the real world, new units of currency (e.g., HALCOIN / ANCHOR) are minted; when value is consumed, redeemed, or decays (e.g., perishable goods), corresponding adjustments are made. Unlike traditional fiat systems, which expand and contract money supply primarily through credit and central bank policy, the Altruism Economy links monetary expansion directly to measured productivity, durability, and utility. A key innovation is the Adaptive Rake System-minting and transaction fees that dynamically adjust based on environmental, social, and governance performance, creating built-in incentives for sustainable and equitable practices. Governance is multi-layered: direct democratic input, expert review, and representative bodies share oversight of parameter choices and large allocations. This draft outlines the motivation, design principles, core mechanisms, and governance structure of the Altruism Economy. It is intended as a conceptual and technical baseline for further formalization, critique, and implementation.

El presente documento aborda los conceptos de daños y pérdidas en el Acuerdo de París, en el marco del Mecanismo de Varsovia sobre Pérdidas y Daños originado en la COP19 de 2013. Se analiza el rol del tema pérdidas y daños en el Acuerdo de París y en la Decisión 1/CP.21, como así también se aborda el trabajo del Comité Ejecutivo y de la Fuerza Especial de Desplazamiento de dicho Mecanismo, y las presentaciones de las Partes a la Convención. Finalmente, se presentan los resultados específicos sobre el tema de la COP24 realizada en Katowice, finalizando una primera parte del proceso de implementación del mencionado Acuerdo. Palabras claves: cambio climático -pérdidas y daños -desplazamientos -Mecanismo de Varsovia sobre Pérdidas y Daños -Fuerza Especial de Desplazamiento Los fenómenos vinculados al cambio climático, como es el caso de las inundaciones, los huracanes, la desertificación o el aumento del nivel del mar, entre otros, tienen el potencial de provocar serios efectos adversos sobre las poblaciones y las economías locales. Sin embargo, estas consecuencias pueden evitarse o reducirse poniendo en práctica medidas de mitigación y adaptación. Pero, ¿qué ocurre cuando estas medidas no resultan suficientes? En esos casos, entran en juego los conceptos de pérdidas y daños. Puede decirse que dicha cuestión constituyó uno de los temas más debatidos en las negociaciones que tuvieron lugar en París en el marco de la COP21. De hecho, la inclusión en el texto final del Acuerdo de un apartado sobre pérdidas y daños también fue bastante controvertida. Los países en desarrollo, particularmente vulnerables a los efectos adversos del cambio climático, en especial los pequeños Estados insulares en desarrollo y los países menos adelantados, presionaron para que se reconozca la problemática como un pilar separado de la acción climática, además de la mitigación y la adaptación, y crear

The Anthropocene specifies the new context of an increasingly altered earth caused primarily by fossil fuelled industrial activities. Geopolitics has long been about rivalries over space and access to resources by so-called great powers. Based on assumptions of separate spaces and inevitable power struggles, these formulations take for granted a relatively stable earth as a given context. In contrast, discussions of a single fragile earth, epitomized by the formulation of “only one earth” at the Stockholm conference on the human environment in 1972, and subsequent discussions of sustainable development, start from a very different contextualization, one of ecological vulnerability because of the rapidly growing technosphere within the earth system. Shaping a future with an economy not based on fossil fuels is now a key requirement if Anthropocene geopolitics is to be sustainable and avoid disastrous climate disruptions in future.

The study of forest-related conflicts in the Global South has largely focused on the struggles of forest-dwelling communities to defend rights to resources being usurped by states, usually acting in concert with private capitalists or elite groups. This article examines how these contestations over value are negotiated when they are institutionalized into legal-bureaucratic procedures of public decision-making. It analyzes the complex, even contradictory, stances of forest officials and villagers in the case of a proposed forest clearance for coal mining in east-central India. Drawing on the experience of serving on a government committee that evaluated the proposal, I argue that, despite the dominant tendency of the state machinery to endorse the exploitation of forests, bureaucrats may offer unexpected resistance when certain favorable conjunctures occur. Economic arguments about efficiency and rational use may be deployed against the grain to protect forests. An ethnographic view of bureaucratic practice reveals not only how value is appropriated through the structural violence of the state and its systematic exclusions but also how value may be defended and strategically redirected by state actors.

Recoge en forma integral la experiencia desarrollada entre noviembre del 2023 y julio de 2025 en la provincia de Ayabaca, región Piura, articulando con precisión los componentes técnicos, sociales y culturales del proyecto. Destaca el rol protagónico de mujeres, hombres y jóvenes de las organizaciones comunales y la institución educativa local. La ANA resalta las estrategias de AbE con enfoque de igualdad, mingas inclusivas, educación ambiental intergeneracional y la integración de conservación con desarrollo productivo sostenible para la seguridad hídrica de la cuenca Chira Piura.Recoge en forma integral la experiencia desarrollada entre noviembre del 2023 y julio de 2025 en la provincia de Ayabaca, región Piura, articulando con precisión los componentes técnicos, sociales y culturales del proyecto. Destaca el rol protagónico de mujeres, hombres y jóvenes de las organizaciones comunales y la institución educativa local.

This paper examines how land-use planning in Ontario manages conflicts between agricultural operations and nearby residential development. Drawing on AgMaps soil analysis, a review of existing literature, and an expert interview, the study identifies key sources of conflict, including environmental externalities, land-value pressures, and social tensions between farmers and non-farm residents. The findings suggest that while policy instruments such as the Greenbelt and Minimum Distance Separation provide important protections, they are limited by infrastructure development priorities and market dynamics. The paper concludes that more integrated planning approaches are required to balance urban growth with farmland preservation.

The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of the Brumadinho dam rupture that occurred in Minas Gerais (Brazil) on labour productivity. As a typical case of negative externalities, this type of disaster leaves behind large-scale environmental and economic damages at both local and regional levels. To account for these, we translated the environmental effects into labour productivity changes in the affected area. It is assumed that changes in the payment of workers is proportional to the labour productivity, which captures the economic responses. Regional economic effects are modelled using the BMaria-MG, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model calibrated with data of 2015. The analysis is performed to fill a gap found in the literature, given this is a topic currently in growing development. The results indicate a small impact on GDP in all regions. This is due to the low significance of labour productivity in the sectors. Since the study provides only a partial perspective of the productivity changes, disregarding for example the effects on capital productivity, results are limited. This is an improvement considered for the next phase of the research, which will disaggregate the input-output analysis in a more appropriate manner to better capture the related impacts for the most affected areas.

The alternative economies of the Ecoxarxes (eco-networks) are created by autonomous networks of like-minded groups that use social currency and mutual support practices for producing and exchanging goods, services and knowledge in the Spanish region of Catalonia. Drawing on ethnographic research, we show that these commoning projects aim to establish and sustain alternative economies that are predominantly framed as fostering cooperation, mutual aid and the commons. However, we complicate the picture by using a social studies of economisation approach as an analytical method, highlighting the variegated and contested character of the Ecoxarxes. This perspective demonstrates how economic projects, including alternative ones, have their own framings, frictions, challenges and misfires that emerge from within. As much as the Ecoxarxes have a post-capitalist spirit and a commoning praxis, we equally engage with issues such as overaccumulation of social currency, the need for regulation, burnouts and constraints to participation.

The alternative economies of the Ecoxarxes (eco-networks) are created by autonomous networks of like-minded groups that use social currency and mutual support practices for producing and exchanging goods, services and knowledge in the Spanish region of Catalonia. Drawing on ethnographic research, we show that these commoning projects aim to establish and sustain alternative economies that are predominantly framed as fostering cooperation, mutual aid and the commons. However, we complicate the picture by using a social studies of economisation approach as an analytical method, highlighting the variegated and contested character of the Ecoxarxes. This perspective demonstrates how economic projects, including alternative ones, have their own framings, frictions, challenges and misfires that emerge from within. As much as the Ecoxarxes have a post-capitalist spirit and a commoning praxis, we equally engage with issues such as overaccumulation of social currency, the need for regulation, burnouts and constraints to participation.

Across the urban global South, flood adaptation is too often framed as a technical exercise, even though the deepest risks are concentrated in informal settlements shaped by long-running social and spatial injustices. This paper reframes flood adaptation as a justice project, asking who is protected, who is displaced and whose knowledge and claims to space shape decisions about risk. Using a qualitative, document-based comparison of 13 informal settlements across Africa, Asia and Latin America, the paper identifies recurring "infrastructures of exclusion", planning by omission and partial participation that stratify resilience. The paper proposes a Justice-Oriented Framework for Flood Adaptation (JOFFA), integrating distributive, procedural, recognitional and spatial justice into operational tools such as equity audits, citizen mapping, justice scorecards and spatial justice dashboards. Grounded in practices from Mukuru, Khayelitsha, Dharavi, Vila Autódromo and nine other sites, the paper advances a seminal agenda for co-produced, justice-driven flood adaptation in the urban global South and beyond.

Este proyecto responde a un momento historico de gran importancia, que por supuesto no pudo ser mas oportuno. Colombia celebra en el ano 2006 los quince anos de la promulgacion de su Constitucion Politica, y los cambios de trascendentales surgidos a partir de su aplicacion has sido prolificos, Particularmente, el tema ambiental ha sobresalido dentro de las grandes transformaciones del pais, y por ello no en vano hoy se afirma que tenemos una verdades Constitucion ecologica. De igual forma, la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario conmemora los die anos de la creacion de la especializacion en Derecho Ambiental, y tal coincidencia historica fue una motivacion adicional para proponer la realizacion de un analisis de la evolucion normativa surtida para proponer la realizacion de un analisis de la evolucion normativa surtida en este decenio, una evaluacion de la gestion ambiental colombiana y de sus distintos impactos en una sociedad que cuenta hoy en dia con herramien...

Andre Berger est ne en 1942 a Acoz, petit village du centre de la Belgique. Apres une licence es sciences mathematiques de l’Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) en 1964, il a obtenu unmaster en sciencesmeteorologiques auMassachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) en 1971, puis soutenu une these de doctorat en sciences de l’UCL. Aujourd’hui professeur emerite et chercheur honoraire a l’UCL, il a consacre sa vie a l’enseignement de la meteorologie et de la climatologie dynamique, mais surtout a la recherche sur les climats anciens, ce qui l’a conduit a s’interesser a toutes les facettes de cette sciencemultidisciplinaire, y compris aux impacts du rechauffement global et de la pollution sur l’environnement et la societe. Il a connu une carriere internationale et recu de nombreuses recompenses (docteur honoris causa de l’Universite d’AixMarseille III, de l’Universite Paul Sabatier de Toulouse et de la Faculte polytechnique de Mons, notamment). Il est, par ailleurs, membre de plusieur...

Most previous studies of policy change in the BC resource and environmental sectors have stressed the importance of exogenous factors, notably the changing profitability of key industries, such as forestry; the appearance of new actors and policy ideas; and the domestic and international linkages so ably exploited by ENGOs. Without denying the importance of these factors, this case study of BC's integrated land use policy illustrates the weight that policy legacies bring to bear on the path of policy transformation. This study explores the interplay of the processes and outcomes of policy change by comparing the processes and outcomes of three consecutive regime transitions in BC land use policy. The transitions suggest a complex relationship between layering, exhaustion, and conversion, in which layered elements that are pushed to the background of the policy regime can either be allowed to die or be brought back to become the centrepiece of a policy transition that takes place without the appearance (and associated political costs) of novelty.

Los bosques primarios intactos de la Amazonía peruana se comportan como sumideros de carbono: un servicio ecosistémico clave a nivel mundial. Este sumidero fue cuantificado en 0.54 Mg C ha-1 año-1 (1990-2017) para los bosques amazónicos intactos de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas (ANPs) de Perú y las zonas de amortiguamiento. En otras palabras, la conservación de bosques intactos en ANPs ayudó a remover 9.6 millones de toneladas de carbono de la atmósfera por año, lo cual equivale aproximadamente al 85% de las emisiones de la quema de combustibles fósiles del país durante el 2012. Este servicio de remoción de CO2 atmosférico es necesario incluir en el inventario nacional de gases de efecto invernadero, y en los compromisos nacionales de reducción de emisiones, por dos razones. Primero, debido a ser un flujo importante, nos ayudaría a tener una aproximación más real del balance de carbono en Perú. Segundo, fortalecería la necesidad de mantener la integridad de estos bosques tanto por ...

The concept of "integrated environmental protection" take into consideration all sectors of environment impacts (air, water, waste) like a complex instead of separated view on each sector particularly. The reason of this concept is that substances and emissions outflow from one environmental sector can cause transport to another environmental sector. New attitude in integrated process represents change until now applied segment system of assessment and permitting installations to the integrated permitting. It is a new aspect with which we haven't got practical experiences and make demands on both sites which are in this process involved. Integrated permit doesn't mean increased responsibilities contrariwise allow operators be actively connected to the permitting, transpose their own ideas in communication between competent authority and operator what existing practice doesn't allowed.

The paper aims at exploring a small sample data on the determinants of customer behavioural responses in the Nigerian retail banking. Hence, instrument validity, reliability and subsequently the data normality were examined through panel of expert and also by analysing small sample data with aid of SPSS software. Results show that the instrument is reliable and the data for preliminary study exhibit reasonable normality. The research explored and validated the instrument of the various antecedents of consumer behavioural responses most of which were hitherto ignored.

The rise of industrialization has given rise to profound environmental challenges in urban areas across many Asian countries, especially Southeast Asian countries, necessitating a comprehensive examination of environmental governance mechanisms. This article focuses on Japan's innovative approach to managing environmental pollution guided by democratic consultation theory and model of social capacity for environmental management, scrutinizing the involvement of both non-governmental actors and government policy guidance. Through an analysis of several case studies in Japanese cities, this study evaluates the evolving landscape of democratic consultation in Japan. The findings emphasize the crucial role of citizens' participation in environmental pollution management, advocating for educational initiatives and citizen 90 zou, yu and mukhia PHILIPPINE POLITICAL SCIENCE JOURNAL 46 (2025) 89-115 movements to heighten awareness. The study underscores the significance of a democratic consultation mechanism in fostering effective environmental pollution management. When the conditions for consultation and democracy align, the government can solicit a diverse range of citizens' opinions, enhance trust, and facilitate more efficient environmental pollution management.

Kerala has a heightened susceptibility to multiple hazards, including
floods, landslides, and coastal erosion, worsened by its unique topographical outline and intensive monsoon patterns. The state has garnered international recognition for its commendable disaster response mechanisms, particularly in public health emergency management and environmental rehabilitation initiatives involving both government and non-government actors. In spite of these institutional capabilities, the response to localised disasters often makes known gaps in recovery frameworks. The Vilangad landslides in Kozhikode district of Kerala, which occurred during the 2024 monsoon, disclose an urgent case study that challenges conventional disaster response paradigms. While the incident recorded only one fatality, the catastrophic disruption to livelihoods, agricultural systems, and community infrastructure exposed the inadequacy of existing reconstruction/rehabilitation mechanisms adopted by the state government. The disproportionate emphasis on mortality statistics as determinants of institutional response urgency raises critical questions about disaster governance priorities. This study employs qualitative methodological approaches, utilising in-depth narrative analysis of affected community members’ testimonies. Through systematic transcription and thematic analysis of lived experiences, the
research observes the institutional neglect experienced by disaster-affected populations. The discrepancies between official disaster response protocols and ground-level implementation stress the marginalisation of communities whose suffering fails to generate substantial casualty statistics.

The global sustainability agenda, championed through international frameworks like the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promotes a vision of environmentally conscious growth, equity, and resilience. However, this narrative often masks deeper contradictions and structural inadequacies that challenge its practical realization. This paper interrogates the so-called "green myth"-the assumption that sustainable development is steadily progressing through current policy frameworks and technological solutions. It explores a multifaceted spectrum of challenges facing environmental conservation and sustainable growth in the 21st century. Traditional threats such as climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss persist with alarming intensity, while new-age challenges-ranging from digital overdependence and environmental data manipulation to socio-political fragmentation and economic inequalities-further complicate the sustainability landscape. Through a qualitative, interdisciplinary methodology, this study synthesizes insights from academic research, international institutional reports, and real-world case studies across various geopolitical regions. Special focus is given to the gaps between environmental commitments and tangible outcomes, revealing patterns of greenwashing, fragmented governance, and misaligned development priorities. By analysing global and regional trends, the paper argues for a paradigm shift in how sustainability is conceptualized and implemented. It advocates for intersectional and adaptive governance structures, community-led ecological restoration, ethical technology regulation, and a recalibrated economic model that values ecological boundaries and social justice. Ultimately, the research underscores the necessity of moving beyond symbolic environmentalism to embrace actionable, inclusive, and transformative sustainability strategies.

The rapid growth of urban populations has intensified the demand for sustainable, efficient, and resilient urban systems. Smart cities have emerged as a strategic response to these challenges, leveraging engineering innovations, digital technologies, and integrated planning frameworks to optimize urban performance. This study examines engineering-driven urban planning strategies for sustainable smart cities, focusing on the integration of infrastructure design, energy systems, and digital technologies. Through a comprehensive review of contemporary literature, the research identifies key components that contribute to resilient urban development, including smart infrastructure, renewable energy integration, and data-driven governance systems. The findings reveal that engineering-led approaches significantly enhance urban efficiency, reduce environmental impacts, and improve service delivery. However, barriers such as high implementation costs, institutional fragmentation, and technological complexity remain critical challenges. The study presents two analytical tables outlining core engineering systems and their sustainability impacts. It concludes that successful smart city development requires interdisciplinary collaboration, policy alignment, and continuous technological innovation. The research provides actionable recommendations for policymakers, engineers, and urban planners seeking to develop sustainable and resilient urban environments.

In South Sudan, the rumor that the Murle people suffer from infertility evolved into a politically instrumental myth used to justify child abduction, securitization, and systemic exclusion. Rooted in colonial misrepresentations, the claim pathologizes Murle reproduction and legitimizes violence. Drawing on ethnography and archival, medical, and humanitarian sources, the article conceptualizes this narrative as a rumor-myth: a necropolitical discourse that transforms speculation into governance. Though lacking evidence, the infertility narrative endures through repetition and political utility. Counteroral histories challenge these racialized fictions, revealing how communities contest exclusion and expose the broader structures of power that sustain scapegoating, violence, and inequality. Résumé Au Soudan du Sud, la rumeur selon laquelle le peuple Murle souffrirait d'une crise d'infertilité s'est transformée en un mythe politiquement instrumentalisé, utilisé pour justifier la sécurisation et l'exclusion systémique des Murle, ainsi que pour expliquer les enlèvements d'enfants. Ancrée dans des représentations coloniales, cette narration pathologise la reproduction des Murle et légitime la violence. S'appuyant sur des sources ethnographiques, archivistiques, médicales et humanitaires, cet article conceptualise ce récit comme une rumeur-mythe: un discours nécropolitique qui transforme la spéculation en mode de gouvernance. Malgré l'absence de preuves, le mythe de l'infertilité persiste par sa répétition et son utilité politique. Des contre-histoires orales remettent en question ces fictions racialisées et montrent comment les communautés contestent

Rapport de synthese des resultats du projet de recherche ATOUMO (Analyse des trajectoires de gouvernance en reponse aux changements systemiques marins et littoraux de Martinique) soutenu par la Fondation de France (2013-2015) et l’Agence des 50 pas geometriques de Martinique. Date de derniere mise a jour : 20 fevrier 2015 Imprime au mois de mars 2015 chez Cloitre Imprimeurs a Saint-Thonan Depot legal : mars 2015 Responsable du projet : Catherine Meur-Ferec, LETG Brest, Geomer UMR 6554 CNRS – UBO Coordination : Mathilde de Cacqueray Conception graphique du rapport : Mathilde de Cacqueray Conception de la frise chronologique : Laurence David, Mathilde de Cacqueray Auteurs : Mathilde de Cacqueray, Nicolas Rocle Relecture : Jacques Denis, Yves Henocque, Catherine Meur-Ferec Credits photos : Mathilde Brassy (MB), Mathilde de Cacqueray (MDC), Amandine Limouzin (AL) Photo de couverture : Bateaux de peche a Tartane, presqu’ile de la Caravelle (MDC) Rapport disponible en telechargement sur :...

India's Smart Cities Mission (SCM), encompassing 100 cities since 2015, integrates ICT with sustainable infrastructure to address rapid urbanization (projected 600 million urban dwellers by 2036; MoHUA, 2023). Solar rooftops emerge as a cornerstone of green energy, aligning with India's 500 GW non-fossil capacity target by 2030 (NDC, 2022). Rapid urbanization, rising electricity demand, and ambitious national renewable energy targets have elevated rooftop solar energy as a strategic lever for sustainable urban decarbonization in India. This paper examines the role of solar rooftops within the Smart Cities Mission as an enabling pathway towards a green energy transition. Also evaluates solar rooftop deployment in Indian smart cities, focusing on techno-economic feasibility, policy efficacy, and sustainability impacts Drawing on national policy frameworks, recent deployment data, and illustrative smart-city case studies, the study analyses drivers, technical and institutional enablers, socioeconomic impacts, barriers, and practical recommendations for scaling rooftop solar across urban India. We find that grid-connected rooftop solar (RTS) can substantially contribute to urban decarbonization, energy access, and distributed energy resilience when supported by integrated city-level planning, streamlined regulatory processes, financing innovations, and capacity building. Policy synergies between central schemes (e.g., Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Programme Phase II, PM Surya Ghar) and city-level Smart Cities initiatives have produced promising pilot outcomes, yet persistent challenges-landlord/tenant split incentives, distribution network constraints, financing gaps, and data/monitoring shortfalls-need targeted interventions. The paper concludes with a city-action framework and policy recommendations to scale RTS in smart cities to meet both climate and urban development objectives.