Environmental pollution, economic growth, population, industrialization, and technology in weak and strong sustainability: using STIRPAT model

Nasrollahi, Zahra; Hashemi, Mohadeseh-sadat; Bameri, Saeed; Taghvaee, Vahid Mohamad

doi:10.1007/s10668-018-0237-5

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“…Sustainability is introduced in the literature alongside the three pillars involving the aspects of economic, environmental and social domains [17,18]. The three pillars are essentially complementing one another as the economy operates within the society that resides within the environment [19]. Following the steps of previous work, the three pillars can be defined using a developed framework; environment reflects the availability of resources, the physical environment and the awareness of their vulnerabilities; economy represents limitations, economic growth and their impact on environment and society; society consists of a system based on democracy, citizen's participation and free expressions of opinions [20][21][22][23].…”

Section: Sustainability and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Level of Sustainability Awareness among University Students in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

Alsaati

El-Nakla

2020

Sustainability

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In recent years, there has been a tremendous interest and increased awareness about sustainability and its related issues globally. The literature reviewed presented the positive role of sustainability education and how it affects students’ levels of sustainability awareness and influences behaviors. Therefore, to measure that level of current students’ awareness and knowledge of sustainability, a questionnaire was developed and conducted in seven universities within the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, targeting a sample of 500 students from different study programs. The results show that high percentages of participants have heard the term “sustainability” from educational sources, but they lack the knowledge of sustainability, especially when it comes to recognizing recycling materials or renewable materials and energy consumptions measures. It is also noticed that the majority of students are not involved in any type of recycling anywhere. Other results reflecting students’ behaviors and lifestyles pertaining to sustainability showed high percentages of involvement in sustainability and conservation actions. The study concludes that in order to promote sustainability awareness among students, other stakeholders such as universities, schools, governments and local municipalities need to take part in the process. Recommendations introduced include actions to be implemented by educational institutes in sustainability literacy and behaviors such as offering mandatory sustainability courses, demonstrating and supporting students’ activities in-campus and off-campus to promote sustainable behavior, and to take some measures toward resources conservation and the necessary educational methods to influence students’ behaviors. Recommendations are also broadened to include other stakeholders that hold great influence on individuals’ sustainable knowledge and behaviors.

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Section: Sustainability and Sustainable Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Level of Sustainability Awareness among University Students in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

Alsaati

El-Nakla

2020

Sustainability

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“…We have also invoked the notions of weak and strong sustainability (Gowdy and McDaniel, 1999;Dietz and Neumayer, 2006;Nasrollahi et al, 2018) to relate biophysical conditions of hydrologic deficit to economic deficit between revenues and costs. In this way, the analysis of hydrologic and economic deficit shows whether irrigation is strongly sustainable, unsustainable or weakly sustainable.…”

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Weak and Strong Sustainability of Irrigation: A Framework for Irrigation Practices Under Limited Water Availability

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Rosa

Marinello

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Agriculture strongly relies on irrigation. While irrigated land accounts for roughly 20% of the global cultivated area, it contributes to about 40% of crop production. In the last few decades, the growing demand for agricultural commodities has translated into an increasing pressure on the global freshwater resources, often leading to their unsustainable use. Here we investigate the sustainability of irrigation, balancing farmers' profit generation objectives and the needs of ecological systems. We ask the question "sustainability of what?" to stress how the sustainability of irrigation is often evaluated with respect the opposing needs of humans and nature. While from the farmers' perspective irrigation is sustainable when it provides uninterrupted access to water resources at a price not exceeding the marginal revenue they generate (clearly without accounting for environmental externalities), from the standpoint of water resources, irrigation is sustainable if it does not deplete freshwater stocks or environmental flows. We invoke the notions of "weak" and "strong" sustainability to develop a novel framework for the evaluation of tradeoffs between human needs and the conservation of natural capital. Through the analysis of criteria of performance, we relate water deficit and irrigation overuse to the reliability and resilience of irrigation. This approach is applied to the case of Australia, a major agricultural country affected by water scarcity. The application of the framework to the case of Australia shows how this approach can be used to highlight areas in which irrigation contributes to a weakly sustainable use of water resources with impacts on environmental flows and groundwater stocks. Solutions, such as increasing efficiencies or reducing water applications through the adoption of deficit irrigation, can enhance water sustainability in some water scarce locations.

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“…International tourism offers viable economic solutions that do not sacrifice positive economic growth, but address issues such as sustainable management and provide answers to questions about the economic impact of tourism and its impact on the economy, without sacrificing any of these answers for positive economic growth (see Vasylchak, Halachenko, 2016;Radovic et al, 2017;Garau-Vadell et al, 2018;Lisin et al, 2018;Eslami et al, 2018;or Nasrollahi et al, 2020).…”

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Economic impacts of innovations in tourism marketing

Štreimikienė

Коrneeva

2020

Terra Econ.

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Our paper tackles the novel issues of the economic impacts and innovations in tourism marketing in the 21st century. The paper examines the economic impact of tourism and its influence on the economy and the tourism industry in general from the angle of innovations in the tourism marketing and the new challenges for the tourism industry brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted international tourism and caused major economic losses to the industry. We analyse the changes that the coronavirus pandemic made to the tourism industry and focus on the novel trends in tourism marketing that embeds the new informational technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), online Zoom tours, and other novelties that emerged after the lockdowns and social distancing imposed in the first half of 2020 in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection. Our results show that tourism marketing in the 21st century should be based on sustainable management and provide the right answers to questions about the impacts of tourism on the economy without sacrificing positive economic growth. We also show that information technologies might offer viable alternatives to massive international over-tourism and package tours ensuring both the safety of travel and deeper immersion into the travel experience before, during, and after the trip. Our outcomes might be useful for tourism scholars, policymakers, as well as stakeholders specializing in international tourism marketing.

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Environmental pollution, economic growth, population, industrialization, and technology in weak and strong sustainability: using STIRPAT model

Cited by 190 publications

References 35 publications

Level of Sustainability Awareness among University Students in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

Level of Sustainability Awareness among University Students in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

Weak and Strong Sustainability of Irrigation: A Framework for Irrigation Practices Under Limited Water Availability

Economic impacts of innovations in tourism marketing

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