Enviromental Studies

COMPARATIVE DISTRIBUTION AND DIVERSITY OF BATS FROM Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. 2011.1

by M.T. Abdullah, PhD

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Surveys on the chiropteran diversity were conducted at eight different localities in Sarawak to document the bat... more Surveys on the chiropteran diversity were conducted at eight different localities in Sarawak to document the bat diversity as well as to estimate the composition of bats in these areas. The major finding of bat surveys shows that montane areas have distinct chiropteran composition compared with those in lowland and logged areas. Disturbed habitats do pose a threat to the overall diversity of bats, with the generalist bats been more successful in colonising altered area than those with specialised habitat requirements. Sampling of bats targeted at different site and vegetation type from several protected areas in Sarawak have revealed the current record of bats in Sarawak and its diversity can be monitored for better management of biodiversity in this important region.

Keywords: Diversity, chiroptera, forest types, montane, habitat disturbance, Borneo

Ectoparasites of small mammals in Malaysia. 2010

by M.T. Abdullah, PhD

Ixodes granulatus and Leptotrombidium deliense are of known medical importance.

http://www.tm.mahidol.ac.th/seameo/2011-42-4/06-4984.pdf

A total of 16 animals comprising 5 species of hosts were caught and examined for ectoparasites. The hosts examined... more A total of 16 animals comprising 5 species of hosts were caught and examined for ectoparasites. The hosts examined were Maxomys rajah, Maxomys whiteheadi, Leopoldamys sabanus, Lariscus insignis and Tupaia glis. Of these hosts, 9 genera, consisting of 14 species of ectoparasites were extracted. Three species of ticks (Ixodidae), 7 species of mesostigmatid mites (Laelaptidae), 3 species of chiggers (Trombiculidae) and 1 species of listrophorid mites (Listrophoriidae) were identified. The infestation rate of ectoparasites observed ranged from 12.5% to 62.5%. Among the ectoparasites found, Ixodes granulatus and Leptotrombidium deliense are of known medical importance.

Keywords: ectoparasites, small mammals, wildlife reserves, Peninsular Malaysia.

A Madinah, A Fatimah, A Mariana and MT Abdullah

The Provincial Agency for Sustainable Development (OPDS) and municipalities under the law of industrial settlement: delegation and decentralization in provincial regionalization [Abstract]

by Federico Del Giorgio Solfa

Co-authored with Luciana Mercedes Girotto, published in VII Congreso de Medio Ambiente de la AUGM, May 22th - 24th 2012.

The objective in environmental issues aims at clean production, that is, a preventive strategy against contamination... more The objective in environmental issues aims at clean production, that is, a preventive strategy against contamination and key point in the environmental policy. There is a tendency to generate a sustainable productive development, including the environmental dimension. Among the rules and regulations, the General Environmental Act of the Province of Buenos Aires (Law No. 11723) seeks to protect, preserve, enhance and restore natural resources within the territory. This Act also compels the Provincial Executive Branch and the Municipalities to guarantee environmental rights, environmental policy principles as well as an environmental impact assessment of industries. In this context, this paper shows the relationship between the Provincial Agency for Sustainable Development (OPDS) - as the authority to enforce the law- and the municipalities within the Province of Buenos Aires. Municipalities were classified according to their productive features and resources within the territory. The industrial profile of each municipality was analyzed and the need for more exhaustive and direct control was determined in order to strengthen environmental protection. Advantages and obstacles (operative, legal and economic) from a local and a provincial perspective were also analyzed in order to delegate the OPDS faculties to Municipalities so the latter can issue environmental certificates and control industrial business . Once this analysis has been made, in order to strengthen the environmental action taken by the provincial government , some proposals were made. Two lines are stated to improve the control of productive enterprises with a sustainable development: 1. to strengthen the delegation of the OPDS faculties to municipalities, 2. to decentralize OPDS in the provincial program.

[2010] The Production of ALF/ELF Tactical & Operational Intelligence: Moving Towards Active Participation within a Continuum of Involvement

by Michael Loadenthal

Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, [written within a 'security studies' framework so please excuse the liberal use of Statist terrorism rhetoric...but hey, we all write for an audience from time to time]

The execution of politicized acts of violence by individuals and groups cannot exist as the sole indicator of an... more The execution of politicized acts of violence by individuals and groups cannot exist as the sole indicator of an actor‟s involvement with terrorism. The identity of “terrorist” and the status of “involved” in terrorist acts must be understood as a gradated categorization that exists with fluidly over a time period of sustained political engagement. This continuum, discussed herein as a scale of terrorist involvement, can contain a veritable infinite degree of distinct identities, accounting for increasingly nuanced levels of engagement. With this complexity in mind, this essay attempts to develop four broad categorical labels for describing terrorist involvement, discussing them in relation to their legality as well as their utility in terrorist operations. The examples utilized for discussion come from the participants and supporters of the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, two groups typically conflated under the “eco-terrorist” label of “special interest” or “single issue” terrorism. Through examination of three types of actors within this movement, People for the Ethical treatment of Animals, Peter Young and the clandestine cell network termed “the family,” this essay seeks to examine the increasingly difficult task of determining terrorist involvement; a task more complex as fighters move from the formalized training camps of Amman and Colombo to the apartments and computer desktops of North American cities.

[2010] The Earth Liberation Front: A Movement Analysis

by Michael Loadenthal

Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence [written within a 'security studies' framework so please excuse the liberal use of Statist terrorism rhetoric...but hey, we all write for an audience from time to time]

The Earth Liberation Front is a radical environmental movement that developed from the ideological factionalization of... more The Earth Liberation Front is a radical environmental movement that developed from the ideological factionalization of the British Earth First! movement of the 1990s. Its ideological underpinnings are based in deep ecology, anti-authoritarian leftism highlighting its critique of capitalism, a commitment to non-violence, a collective defense of the Earth, and a warranted feeling of persecution by State forces. In its current form, the Earth Liberation Front is a transnational, decentralized network of clandestine, autonomous, cells that utilize illegal methods of protest by sabotaging and vandalizing property. The small unit cells are self-contained entities that can operate without the support of external entities such as financiers or weapons procurers. Tactical and operational knowledge is developed and shared through commercially available books written by the broader environmental movement throughout the last four decades, as well as inter-movement publications produced by the cells and distributed through numerous sympathetic websites. Membership in the Front can be understood as occurring on two levels, the covert cell level and the public support level, both of which operate in tandem to produce and publicize acts of property destruction. At the cell level, individuals conduct pre-operational reconnaissance and surveillance, develop and construct weapons systems, carry out orchestrated attacks, and announce their actions to support groups and media while maintaining internal security and anonymity. At the aboveground level, support entities help to publicize attacks carried out by cells, respond to media inquiries and other public engagements, identify and coordinate aid to imprisoned cell members, and develop and distribute sympathetic propaganda produced by, and in support of affiliated individuals. This case study uses the history of the Earth Liberation Front‟s United States attacks as its unit of analysis, and seeks to outline the ideology, structure, context and membership factors that constitute the movement.

The Effects of Ecology-Based Summer Nature Education Program on Primary School Students’ Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Affect and Responsible Environmental Behavior

by Halil Eksi

Mehmet ERDOĞAN
Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice - 11(4) • Autumn • 2233-2237

The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of ecology-based nature education program on elementary school... more The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of ecology-based nature education program on elementary school students’ environmental knowledge, environmental affect, and responsible environmental behavior. A total number of 64 elementary school students including 26 females and 38 males who participated in summer natural education organized in Ankara in 2008 and supported by TUBITAK was the sample of this study which was designed as pretest- posttest experimental study. A series of data collection instruments was administrated
to the sample at the beginning and at the end to assess students’ knowledge, affect, and behavior regarding to environment. Qualitative data were subjected to content analysis whereas quantitative data were analyzed using repeated measures of ANCOVA and t-test. This study showed that ecology-based nature education program
contributed significantly to children’s responsible environmental behavior. Although students’ posttest environmental
knowledge and affect scores were higher than those of pretest scores, no significant effect of nature
education program on environmental knowledge and affect were observed.

Spatial statistical analysis of land-use determinants in the Brazilian Amazonia: Exploring intra-regional heterogeneity

by Gilberto Camara

A Political Sociology of Socionatures

by Damian White

Getting stuck into the grow or die/treadmill of production/ecological modernization, political ecology/new ecology/skepticism debate around political economy. Wrote this five years ago and I'm still amazed by how little US environmental sociology and political ecology engage with each other. It's almost as if they live in different worlds.....

Technonatures Introduction White Wilbert

by Damian White

An attempt to survey and think through the political implications of hybridity discourses such as Latour and Haraway for environmental politics. This is the introductory chapter from D.White and C.Wilbert (Eds) Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first CenturyISBN13: 978-1-55458-150-4, 2009.

Lots of other really interesting cuts in the book from Erik Swyngedouw, Sarah Whatmore, Mike Michael, Steve Hinchliffe and others ...check it out at Available from http://www.wlu.ca/press/Catalog/white-wilbert.shtml

Removal of organic matter and nitrogen in an horizontal subsurface flow (HSSF) constructed wetland under transient loads.

by Antonio Albuquerque

A Albuquerque, M Arendacz, M Gajewska, H Obarska-Pempkowiak, P Randerson, P Kowalik
Water Science and Technology, 2009, V. 60, 7, 1677-1682.

A monitoring campaign in a horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland under the influence of transient loads of... more A monitoring campaign in a horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland under the influence of transient loads of flow-rate, organic matter, nitrogen and suspended solids showed an irregular removal of COD and TSS and lower both removal efficiencies and mass removal rates than the ones observed in other studies for similar operating conditions. This circumstance is associated to the presence of large amount of particulate organic matter from non-point sources. The mass removal rate of ammonia increased 39% as both the water and soil temperatures increased from weeks 1–8 to weeks 9–14. A good correlation between mass load and mass removal rate was observed for all measured parameters, which attests a satisfactory response of the bed under to transient loads.

[2011] Book Review: Donald Liddick's "Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements"

by Michael Loadenthal

published in "Journal of Terrorism Research"

Since the “eco-terrorism” movement was first identified by the United States government as presenting the ‘number one... more Since the “eco-terrorism” movement was first identified by the United States government as presenting the ‘number one domestic security threat,’ a number of books and academic articles seeking to address the issue have emerged. Generally these scholarly pieces of work have tended to examine these movements through only their most extreme manifestations (e.g. bomb attacks, large scale arsons), failing to contextualize such incidents within a larger political praxis. Though ample literature discussing the movement’s ideological development, historical roots and tactical overview exist, Donald Liddick’s 2006 book, Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements, is one of the lone examples which aims to develop anincident-based picture of the movement. Liddick’s book is broken down into seven distinct units, and while all deserve unique attention, Chapter 6 “Structure and Modus Operandi of Radical Movements,” presents the widest breadth of new contributions to the field.

Analysing institutional arrangements for agrienvironmental schemes in Europe: ITAES WP4 Final Report

by Melf-Hinrich Ehlers

Merleau-Ponty, Perception, and Environmental Embodiment: Implications for Architectural and Environmental Studies

by David Seamon

chapter prepared for Carnal Echoes: Merleau-Ponty and the Flesh of Architecture, Rachel McCann and Patricia M. Locke, editors, forthcoming, 2012 or 2013. © David Seamon 2010.

In this chapter, I draw on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to explore environmental embodiment—the various lived ways,... more In this chapter, I draw on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to explore environmental embodiment—the various lived ways, sensorily and motility-wise, that the body in its pre-reflective perceptual presence engages and synchronizes with the world at hand, especially its architectural and environmental aspects. First, I consider Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of perception, giving particular attention to his claim that perception involves a lived dynamic between perceptual body and world such that aspects of the world—for example, the heavy hardness of a granite block or the cool smoothness of a chrome railing—are known because they immediately evoke in the lived body their experienced qualities.

Second, I consider the architectural and environmental significance of what Merleau-Ponty calls body-subject—pre-reflective corporeal awareness expressed through action and typically in sync with and enmeshed in the physical world in which the action unfolds. I focus on the taken-for-granted sensibility of body-subject to manifest in extended ways over time and space. I ask how routine actions and behaviors of individuals coming together regularly in an environment can transform that environment into a place with a unique dynamic and character—a lived situation I term place ballet. For both perception and body-subject, I consider how qualities of the physical and designable world—for example, materiality, form, and spatiality—contribute to the lived body’s engagement with and actions in the world.

2011 Fall Speaker Series in Applied Ethics

by Danielle Bromwich

EL CONCEPTO DE LITIGIO ESTRATÉGICO EN AMÉRICA LATINA: 1990-2010/ THE CONCEPT OF STRATEGIC LITIGATION IN LATIN AMERICA: 1990-2010

by Ana Milena Coral Díaz

Revista Vniversitas Ana Milena Coral-Díaz;  Beatriz Londoño-Toro; Lina Marcela Muñoz-Ávila  Bogotá (Colombia) N° 121: 49-76, julio-diciembre de 2010.

El presente artículo examina, sobre la base de una revisión bibliográfica, el concepto de litigio estratégico en... more El presente artículo examina, sobre la base de una revisión bibliográfica, el concepto de litigio estratégico en América Latina en los últimos dos dece- nios, desde una perspectiva teórica y práctica, explorando los aprendizajes y dificultades de dicho ejercicio. La propuesta toma como punto de partida la interpretación del concepto de litigio estratégico por las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y las universidades a través de la enseñanza clínica y las acciones con proyección social, y finaliza con una profundización en tres áreas de especial trascendencia para el futuro de los derechos humanos en el continente: los derechos de las mujeres y los derechos humanos ambientales y étnicos en América Latina.
Palabras clave autor: Litigio estratégico, clínicas legales, ONG y derechos humanos.
Palabras clave descriptor: Acción y defensa (Derecho), América Latina, De- rechos humanos, Derechos de la mujer.
ABSTRACT
This article examines the concept of strategic litigation in Latin America over the past two decades from a theoretical and practical learning which explores and challenges of that period. The proposal takes as its starting point the inter- pretation of the concept of strategic litigation by civil society organizations and universities through the clinical teaching and activities with social projection and it ends with a deepening in three areas of paramount importance for the future of the human rights in the continent: women ́s rights and human being environmental and ethnic rights in Latin America.
Key words author: Strategic litigation, legal clinics, NGO and human rights.
Key words descriptor: Actions and defenses (Law), Latin America, Human rights, Women’s rights.

Space and terrritory: development and evolution of the territorial analysis in the Chicamocha River Basin

by Felipe Cárdenas

Territorios andinos Colombia Boyacá Análisis territorial.

A comparative study between different landscape readings. Social cartography, functional geography, landscape ecology.... more A comparative study between different landscape readings. Social cartography, functional geography, landscape ecology. Holistic ecology rural planning rural development.

Human ecology: master science of the 21st century

by Felipe Cárdenas

ΑΥΤΟΜΑΤΟΣ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ στις ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΕΣ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΕΣ

by Dimitrios VENTZAS

Βέντζας Δ 1 , Λατσός Θ. ΤΕΙ Λαμιας - Λαμια 35 100 - ΣΤΕΦ
TEI ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑ - ΤΜΗΜΑ ΑΥΤΟΜΑΤΙΣΜΟΥ - ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ “ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ & ΑΥΤΟΜΑΤΙΣΜΟΣ “ / 9-10 Μαιου 1996

H θεωρια των ΣΑΕ εχει αναπτυχθει σε σημαντικο βαθμο, ενω συγκεκριμενα προβληματα αντιμετωπιζονται συστηματικα. Ωστοσο,... more H θεωρια των ΣΑΕ εχει αναπτυχθει σε σημαντικο βαθμο, ενω συγκεκριμενα προβληματα αντιμετωπιζονται συστηματικα. Ωστοσο, αυτό που είναι σημαντικο είναι η αναδειξη των ιδιαιτεροτητων των ΣΑΕ, ανα κλαδο επιστημης και τεχνολογιας μεσα από την αναπτυξη γενικων θεωριων με αφορμη ειδικα προβληματα αλλα και από την γενικευση ειδικων λυσεων σε γενικοτερες εφαρμογες.
Τα συγχρονα computerized συστηματα αυτοματισμων καταλληλα για αυτοματο ελεγχο μοναδων επεξεργασιας αποβλητων, κλπ. αξιοποιουν αλγοριθμους, αρχιτεκτονικες και διασυνδεσεις για την βελτιστη αποδοση και διαχειριση τετοιων μεγαλων χημικων μοναδων επεξεργασιας.