Environment, Human Systems, and Social Science

Harper, Charles L.; Snowden, Monica

doi:10.4324/9781315463254-1

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“…The emerging energy crisis and global climatic issues have impelled scientists and engineers to explore renewable energy technologies [1], of which PEMFC has become one research hotspot due to various advantages, such as using renewable and green hydrogen as a fuel, high power conversion efficiency, high energy density [2] and so on. However, the cathodic ORR usually shows a sluggish charge-transfer kinetics which requires efficient electrocatalysts to boost.…”

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confidence: 99%

Probing Active Sites on Metal-Free, Nitrogen-Doped Carbons for Oxygen Electroreduction: A Review

Zhou

Wang

et al. 2018

Catalysts

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The Metal-free nitrogen-doped carbons represent an emerging low-cost nonprecious electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) that is a sluggish process at the cathode of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and a verity of metal-air batteries. During the past few years, the ORR catalytic activity of nitrogen-doped carbons has been significantly increased, making them highly competitive alternatives to conventional precious metals based electrocatalysts for ORR. However, controversies remain in the unambiguous identification of the ORR active sites on nitrogen-doped carbons. This review summarizes the recent progress in probing the potential active sites on metal-free nitrogen-doped carbons for ORR, aiming to gain in-depth understanding of the ORR catalytic mechanism on nitrogen-doped carbons for further enhancing ORR activity.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Probing Active Sites on Metal-Free, Nitrogen-Doped Carbons for Oxygen Electroreduction: A Review

Zhou

Wang

et al. 2018

Catalysts

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“…In our study, the differences between Asian and European ethnicities and in particular the Asian visitors’ significantly different IAS orientation scores, pose some questions about ethnicity and human–nature relations. If we accept that the Asian cosmology of human–nature relations is different from, and more environmentally aligned than, the Western cosmology (Harper and Snowden 2017), this may in part explain these findings. However, the Asian human–nature cosmology could manifest in different ways in terms of Asian orientation toward IAS.…”

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“…Similarly, Asian perspectives of nature, which are particularly articulated in Buddhism, Daoism, and Hinduism, portray humans and the natural environment as a harmonious unity (Bruun and Kalland 2014; Harper and Snowden 2017; Kellert et al 1995; Tu 1989). Empirical research does lend support to this view; for example, a study of Asian New Zealanders’ relationships with nature suggests that their experiences are less reliant on perceptions of naturalness (ecological integrity) (Lovelock et al 2011), a finding reinforced by Packer et al (2014) with Chinese visitors in Australia.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tourists’ (mis)understandings of nature: international and domestic visitors’ perceptions of invasive alien plants in New Zealand

Lovelock,

Ji,

Carr

et al. 2023

Invasive plant sci. manag.

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Tourism, as one of the world largest economic sectors, moving a substantial body of individuals and materials about the world, is implicated in the spread of invasive plants and is itself impacted by biological invasions which can degrade touristic landscapes and affect destination communities. Tourists constitute not only an immediate biological threat, but through their landscape and biota preferences also constitute a substantial economic and ecological force that has implications for invasive plant management in destinations. Tourists and the tourism industry are therefore significant stakeholders in invasive plant introduction, spread and management. This paper discusses an onsite survey (n=231) of domestic and international visitors in New Zealand, a destination where invasive species are an important ecological and economic issue. Findings show that visitors have a low understanding of the presence and level of threat of invasive plants, and express preferences for some plants that are highly invasive. However, there were substantial variations across the international sample, with visitors from Asian and European ethnicities expressing significantly different attitudes towards a range of invasive plants. Asian visitors were more likely to show preferences for some plants that were seriously invasive, and to be more accepting in general of invasive plants within landscapes, and less supportive of invasive species eradication. These findings suggest that attitudes towards invasive plants and their management may be culturally determined, which poses challenges for managers aiming to generate awareness and support from across diverse tourist cohorts for invasive species control. There are also challenges for gaining support from the tourism industry for invasive plant control programmes where particular ‘charismatic’ or attractive invasive plants may contribute to touristic landscapes and visitor itineraries.

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“…On the one hand, man is a fragment of the surrounding nature, hence he must submit to the laws that govern it. On the other hand, he often acts as a plunderer who seeks to exploit and shape nature in any way he wishes, mainly according to his needs (Harper and Snowden, 2017). Neither of these approaches is appropriate, because man can and sometimes should, shape the environment around him, but he cannot do so as he sees fit while disregarding the consequences leading to degradation (Sutton, 2017).…”

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The Anthropocene and ecological awareness in Poland: The post-socialist view

Chodkowska‐Miszczuk

Rogatka

Lewandowska

2021

The Anthropocene Review

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Dynamic and unrestrained socio-economic development is upsetting the balance of nature’s mechanisms, causing a climate stalemate, or even climate destabilisation. After the Second World War a new political system – real socialism – was enforced on Poland. It brought about changes of a social, cultural, economic and environmental nature. Its immanent feature was the application of top-down decisions that did not take into account environmental components. There was also little ecological awareness within Polish society at that time. The transformations of the 1990s resulted not only in the liberalisation of the Polish economy, but also in the permeation of new trends oriented towards pro-environmental activities. The aim of the article is to find an answer to the question: How is ecological awareness currently shaped in the context of Anthropocene in Poland during the transition from a socialist economy to a capitalist economic system?

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Environment, Human Systems, and Social Science

Cited by 7 publications

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Probing Active Sites on Metal-Free, Nitrogen-Doped Carbons for Oxygen Electroreduction: A Review

Probing Active Sites on Metal-Free, Nitrogen-Doped Carbons for Oxygen Electroreduction: A Review

Tourists’ (mis)understandings of nature: international and domestic visitors’ perceptions of invasive alien plants in New Zealand

The Anthropocene and ecological awareness in Poland: The post-socialist view

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