AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)最新文献

{"title":"Foreign Engagement in the Global South: The Case of Arab Investments in the Philippines in the 21st Century","authors":"M. Soriano","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3799010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3799010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a preliminary examination into the extent and nature of Arab investments in the Philippines, and describes the implications of these investments to both nations. This is cognizant of the fact that one of the main reasons for Arab investment is food security. A major underlying driver for the recent spate of interest in international investment in food production appears to be food security and a fear arising from the recent high food prices and policy-induced supply shocks that dependence on world markets for foods supplies or agricultural raw materials has become more risky. Thus, by engaging other countries through agricultural investments, the Arab nations increase their agricultural productivity that might address food insecurity caused by a booming population, limited arable lands, and climate change concerns, among others. By looking at the developmental implications of foreign investment to both countries—the investor and the receiver—we will see that international investment is a positive way to engage countries in mutual cooperation and solidarity.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116269437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Housing Impacts of Hazardous Waste Cleanups","authors":"Alecia Cassidy, E. Hill, Lala Ma","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3766930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3766930","url":null,"abstract":"The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) manages cleanup of hazardous waste releases at over 3,500 sites across the US, which covers approximately 17.5% of all developed land in the country. This paper evaluates the housing market impacts of cleanups performed under RCRA by estimating the program's impacts on the distribution of housing prices. We find that cleanups near residential properties yield significant, yet localized, increases in home prices, and that impacts are concentrated in lower deciles of the price distribution. We find no evidence of sorting along socio-demographic dimensions in response to cleanup. Our findings suggest that cleanups could correct pre-existing disparities in exposure to contaminated water.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122497377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Justification of Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Using the Tools of System Analysis To Ensure the Protection of Atmospheric Air","authors":"N. Bordіug, A. Rashchenko, Irina Korpan, Vitaliy Cherkavsky","doi":"10.15587/2706-5448.2020.214726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15587/2706-5448.2020.214726","url":null,"abstract":"The object of research is the degree of air pollution as a result of the work of enterprises of certain industries and the technology of their purification. One of the priority tasks is to ensure the country's environmental safety, but for its implementation it is necessary to minimize air pollution. For this, it is necessary to establish a full-fledged monitoring system, as well as modernize, maintain the functioning and control of air purification systems, polluted as a result of technological processes of enterprises of various industries. The work carried out the development of a methodology for control and selection of treatment equipment at the enterprise, using the tools of system analysis. Two scenarios of organizational and managerial actions have been identified using this technique. The first scenario – the purification degree of emissions of more than 90% – provides that the equipment available at the enterprise ensures a satisfactory condition of the air entering the environment as a result of production processes. If this scenario is realized, the main task is to maintain a high purification level of the plant's emissions. For this purpose, it is advisable at the enterprise to carry out:<br><br>- constant monitoring of the operation and condition of air purification systems;<br><br>- proper maintenance of equipment (timely replacement and cleaning of filters, etc.);<br><br>- periodic training and advanced training of the personnel of the enterprise responsible for the operation of the equipment and the main technological processes of the enterprise.<br><br>The second scenario – purification degree of emissions up to 90% – assumes that the equipment available at the enterprise is in an unsatisfactory condition and does not provide adequate air purification. If this scenario is realized, the algorithm of actions of the management and chief specialists of the enterprise should include such managerial and organizational actions<br><br>– study and evaluation of scientific developments and modern treatment equipment available on the market;<br><br>– comparison of technological characteristics of alternative equipment models and selection of the best option, taking into account regulatory requirements and production and technological limitations;<br><br>– making a decision based on the results of a SWOT analysis.<br><br>The effectiveness of the developed methodology has been established on the example of the meat processing industry.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"157 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128782171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"True Price as Condition of Sustainability: The Global Coffee Crisis (1999–2003) and the Brazilian Amazon as Case Studies","authors":"Xavier Andrillon","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3666512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3666512","url":null,"abstract":"Current approaches to pricing have proved inexplicable and unable to deliver sustainable development. This study explores how the combination of accounting logic and the concept of ‘true price’ — first proposed by Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) — can provide a novel, dynamic and comprehensive causal model to understand how prices can contribute to unsustainability. Case studies are used to verify if the purported model is fit for explaining real-world issues, here, farmers facing untrue prices during the global coffee crisis (1999-2003) and on deforestation fronts in the Brazilian Amazon. The analysis of these case studies leads us to framing true prices as a necessary condition of sustainability, although it is probably not the only one. Combining accounting as a gauging tool and true price as a reference point lends both concrete meaning and technical grounding to the notion of sustainability, and guidelines to measure progress toward it. We make recommendations on how producers, consumers, investors, and public policymakers could further true prices and thus support sustainability.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121558851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Microbiological Sources and Nutritional Value of Single Cell Protein (SCP)","authors":"Adnan W. H. Al-Mudhafr, Abeer M. A. Al - G arawyi","doi":"10.31033/ijrasb.6.6.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31033/ijrasb.6.6.1","url":null,"abstract":"Working to achieve food security through the development of a food protein food renewable able to meet the daily dietary needs of protein and the production of food safe and healthy and healthy value added because of its production on the media (substrates) cheap and technological requirements available locally. It is a single-cell protein  in addition to finding new and radical solutions to the problem of environmental pollution resulting from the dumping of large quantities of incidental substances, which cause a great deal of pollution and the destruction of useful microorganisms and useful and imbalance in the environmental balance, so it is possible to use microorganisms (bacteria, yeasts, fungi, algae) in the production of biomass It can be used to feed both humans and animals.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122037466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of Altitudes of Coffee Plants on the Alkaloids Contents of Green Coffee Beans","authors":"Mulurhab Gebrekidan, M. Redi-Abshiro, B. Chandravanshi, E. Ele, A. Mohammed, M. Mamo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3407495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3407495","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of altitude of coffee plant and soil pH and organic carbon on alkaloid contents of green coffee beans was evaluated. The alkaloids content of 54 green coffee beans samples collected from coffee plants in Sidama, Illubabor, Jimma, Wellega and Gedeo grown at different altitudes (1515-2220 masl) was determined by high performance liquid chromatography. The caffeine and trigonelline were found in the range of 0.68-1.74% (w/w) and 0.68-1.44% (w/w), respectively. Theobromine was detected in only 18 samples and ranged 0.0186-0.32% (w/w). Theophylline was not detected in any of the green coffee beans samples. A weak negative correlation (R = -0.222) was found between the caffeine contents and the altitude of the coffee plants while a very weak positive correlation (R = 0.072) was found between the trigonelline contents and the altitude of the coffee plants. A strong negative correlation (R = -0.775) was found between the trigonelline contents and the caffeine content. A weak negative correlation was found between the caffeine contents and the soil organic carbon (R = -0.279) and between the trigonelline contents and the soil organic carbon (R = -0.101) while a weak positive correlation was found between the caffeine contents and the soil pH (R = 0.173) and between the trigonelline contents and the soil pH (R = 0.358) at which the coffee plants were grown.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125154140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping Climate Justice: Future Climate Wealth of Nations","authors":"Julia M. Puaschunder","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3353905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3353905","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces a 3-dimensional climate justice approach combining intra-country, intra-country and inter-temporal aspects. The goal is to find ways to distribute the benefits and burden of climate change in an economically efficient, legally equitable and practically feasible way around the globe. Climate justice within a country pays tribute to low- and high income households carrying the same burden proportional to their dispensable income through consumption tax, progressive carbon taxation and a corporate inheritance tax. Climate change burden sharing between countries ensures those countries benefiting more from a warmer environment bear higher responsibility regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation. Climate justice over time is proposed by a bonds climate change burden sharing strategy (Puaschunder, 2018, forthcoming).","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132595402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cities and Nature","authors":"Dani Broitman, D. Czamanski, D. Malkinson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3868397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3868397","url":null,"abstract":"The world is continuing to urbanize. As a result, most of the interactions between humans and nature take place in cities. These interactions are varied and complex. But, contrary to past conception, urbanites do not decimate nature in cities and it continues to thrive. The rich urban biodiversity includes both endemic and cultured species. People oriented evaluations of the importance urban nature differ from evaluations focused on the ecological system. Most of the urban-economic literature has focused on estimates of the positive externalities of the proximity to nature, albeit in relations to very limited aspects of such effects. The quantification of eco-services has been only partly successful. Recently there is a growing realization that there exist associated negative externalities as well. For example, in many cities the penetration of large mammals, made possible by the morphology of built areas, is generating behavior patterns, such as at least partial changes in the spatial incidence of the demand for housing. The paper surveys literature concerning various aspects of urban nature and its relationship to urban morphology. It raises several issues that have not been addressed sufficiently by urban nature scholarship. The commonly accepted view of ecosystem services is that the provisioning, regulating and cultural services stem from the biodiversity of the ecosystem. But, while the cultural services of ecosystems within cities may be high, they do not necessarily stem from the values of biodiversity. So is the relationship between provisioning/regulating services and biodiversity. And so the question remains open, whether future cities can sustain human welfare while retaining biodiversity patterns and function. Finally, we ask which type of species do we wish to conserve? What is the contribution of conservation biology to the issue and to what extent conservation biology and urban economy are compatible?","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126700736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agrotourism as an Alternative Form of Tourism in Bali Indonesia","authors":"I Gusti Bagus Rai Utama","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2517811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2517811","url":null,"abstract":"This study finds that (1) the most potential opportunity of agrotourism is increasing family, followed by employee involvement, generating tourism income and increasing value of the village; (2) the hardest barriers of agrotourism development in Bali is inadequate infrastructures, other barriers are limited public facilities, imperfect human resource skills, scarce investments, and insufficient government supports; (3) the ecological resources particularly lakes, social life especially farmers and their lives, and cultural resources such as unique traditions are the strength factors of agrotourism development in Bali; (4) lacks of government support, investment, infrastructures, and human skills are weakness factors; (5) generating related tourism businesses are the most potential opportunity of agrotourism development in Bali. Other opportunities generated from agrotourism are providing local employments, increasing family incomes, and increasing value of the village; (6) degradation of natural resources regarded as the riskiest threat of agrotourism development in Bali. The second most serious matter is land using problems. Other threats are pollutions, host attitude changes, increasing criminalities, and tradition commercializations; (7) agrotourism contributes lots in improving the economy of the local communities. The contributions are on agricultural product improvements and stimulations of related tourism enterprises; (8) agrotourism helps improving the social situations particularly poverty alleviation, decreasing unemployment, and declining urbanization; (9) nature conservation is the greatest contribution toward sustainable tourism development in Bali. Other contributions are visitor increase and generating economic income.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"440 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124258431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coconut Planting in Ben Tre Is a Culture That Responds to the Natural Environment and Responds to Climate Change From a Cultural Ecological Perspective","authors":"Dai-Long Ngo-Hoang","doi":"10.31220/osf.io/6m74h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31220/osf.io/6m74h","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 Coconut farming in Ben Tre plays a very important role, creating unique features of the province's culture and economy. In the land of Coconut - Ben Tre in particular as well as in the sweet \"phu sa\" sub-region in general, for the first time the work of coconut cultivation has become a profession, that is the profession of coconut farming. It is this profession that has created so many livelihoods for the people at the same time, it also helps us to recognize the nuances of \"hard-working civilization\" that have a very specific characteristic for the resident community in this land. In the context of climate change today, people must \"save themselves\" by offering initiatives (folk experience) to adapt, mitigate risks that may occur to themselves, family and community before outside intervention. The following article of the research team will contribute to clarify the cultural values that deal with the natural environment and adapt to climate change from the ecological ecological culture inherited from coconut plantation back to local.","PeriodicalId":309549,"journal":{"name":"AgriSciRN: Other Agricultural Sustainability & Security (Topic)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115397658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}