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BP’S CONSTRUCTION OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY ON ITS WEBSITE: A CASE STUDY OF DISCURSIVE LEGITIMIZATION

Author(s): Dita Trčková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

The paper presents a critical discourse analysis of the website of one of the world’s major oil companies, Beyond Petroleum (BP), formerly British Petroleum, with the focus on investigating the construction of BP’s corporate identity. The analysis reveals that BP enacts multiple positive discursive roles, including the identities of an indispensable organization, a philanthropist, an environmentally conscious company, an explorer, a researcher, an educator and an American dream achiever. These roles serve as a potent legitimizing strategy since they enable BP to be associated with higher social and moral values. The analysis shows that BP’s environmentally protective ethos adopts the ideology of the domination of human beings over nature through technology, an ideology which is suited to the company’s profit-making purpose.

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Essence of Technology and Ecological Disaster: A Heideggerian Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood

Author(s): Wu Lanxiang,Zhou Xiaolin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

In his criticism about modern technology, Martin Heidegger etymologically examines the word “Technē” and points out that, technology, as a mode of revealing, does not solely refer to the bringing forth of truth through machine-based experiments and exploration, it also contains the poetic revealing inside which a saving power can be found. Following this argument, this paper conducts a textual analysis of Margaret Atwood’s 2009 novel The Year of the Flood and argues that the Compound elites are so delivered over to technology that they have turned everything into standing-reserve, and thereby have fueled the impending ecological disaster in their pursuit of bioengineering innovation. By contrast, a Heideggerian meditative person – Adam One, the leader of God’s Gardeners, illustrates the practice of “arts of the mind” by his words and his deeds, exemplifying the possibility of poetic revealing in an emblematic way. Although the trajectory of environmental deterioration cannot be reversed, the ending of the novel does strike a promising note by referring to music, an old form of fine arts.

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THE LEGALITY PRINCIPLE IN THE ACTIVITY OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – CROSSING BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND POLITICAL NEGLIGENCE. A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Andrea Kajcsa / Language(s): English Issue: Supliment2/2017

It is unanimously accepted that the principle of legality is paramount in the activity of the public administration, especially of the local public administration. However, there can be events in the life of a community when the political factor, driven by the desire to pursue a higher purpose, of great meaning for that community and under great scrutiny and pressure from the public opinion, as is for example the need to protect the environment and to think in terms of sustainable development, can choose to overpass the need to respect the principle of legality. Having a case-study as starting point, we analyze in our paper the role different public authorities had in adopting a local normative administrative act that does not comply with the legality principle, under the expressed wish to protect the environment. We will examine if the political factor chose the best legal solutions for pursuing environmental protection.

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EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS IN URBAN AREAS. A LEGAL VIEW

Author(s): Victor Marcusohn,Maria Fodor / Language(s): English Issue: Supliment2/2017

The main objectives of the current paper are the need to promote adaptation programs for urban areas; the need for increasing proactive actions of local authorities, in response to the extreme weather events related to climate change; the need of raising public awareness and improve citizens’ access to information on the emergency situations and measures in response to the natural events. At the global scale, the urban areas are responsible for a significant share of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions. Bucharest is under an increased exposure and vulnerability to heat waves and floods which are going to be more frequent and persistent then prior. The current analysis is based on a methodology aimed to improve the use of climate risk assessment in decision making related to disaster reduction and adaptation to climate changes in large urban agglomerations. As main result, the emergency measures in response to the storm taking place in Bucharest, on September 20, 2017 were planned and enforced in a better manner then prior. The population reacted faster in urban areas then in the rural region. It was observed a more positive attitude of the citizens. The main conclusions are: a real increase of the public awareness in taking immediate action in the case of extreme weather events; the necessity of undertaking periodic analysis for improving appropriate prevention and proactive procedures and measures for such extreme weather events; the proactive action refers to exercises with target groups potentially exposed to such events.

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Kroonika 2019

Author(s): Nelly Mäekivi,Ott Puumeister,Merit Rickberg,Karmen-Eliise Kiidron / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 17/2020

Iga-aastase looduskultuuri seminari kolmas kohtumine alapealkirjaga “Loodushoiu tulevik” toimus 2019. aasta 4. ja 5. aprillil Tallinna Loomaaias. Semiootika osakonna kõrval osalesid ettevõtmise korraldamises Tallinna Loomaaed ja TLÜ Keskkonnaajaloo Keskus ning ürituse toimumist toetas PUT1363 “Paljuliigiliste keskkondade semiootika: agentsus, tähendusloome ja kommunikatsioonikonfliktid”.

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ECOCRITICISM IS THE FLAGSHIP TO HUMANITY: REVISITING AND DECODING ABHIJNANASAKUNTALAM AND ARANYAK

Author(s): Biswajit Das / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Health is a reciprocal term that combines mutual co-existence in the environment with a considerable veneration to all forms of life. Life on earth is a result of some favourable conditions in the environment from the empirical point of view. So, the health of the environment remains the supreme, and thereby life, once created, has to keep up the conditions in order to sustain or survive itself. Thus there has always been a fascinating relation between health and environment since the dawn of creation of life on earth. Among the innumerable forms of life on earth human beings are considered the best since they are gifted with immense possibilities to comprehend, create, nourish, admonish, reject and accept. So, they have to shoulder the responsibility largely to secure the health of the environment which, in other terms, is the health of the varieties of life forms on earth. Through the ages they undertook overwhelming initiatives that surely advertise humanity; and literature, especially Eco-critical, has been the best call to humanity in order to restore health which is, as mentioned earlier, very much reciprocal. Literature upholds and worships the heavenly relation between health and environment,humanity and Nature. It celebrates the reconciliation of man and environment in the name of poetry very often.

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Methods of Approaching Natural Protected Areas from the Towns of Europe

Author(s): Cerasella Crăciun,Atena-Ioana Gârjoabă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Natural Protected Areas in the Urban Environment are increasingly subject to the pressures caused by urban phenomena - the most obvious being the expansion of the built tissue, caused by various pressures, including real estate. In the current context of climate change, Natural Protected Areas are among the main victims of this phenomenon. Those in cities are even more affected, given the weak or non-existent connection to an integrated green system network and an ecological infrastructure network. The paper presents the most important aspects of the European legislation regarding the Natural Protected Areas of the Cities, the way in which the responsible or managing authorities are established, the approach in the urban context, the type of management and the way of monitoring the biodiversity, the activities and the types of key-visitors.

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Flood susceptibility assessment in central region of Vietnam based on ensemble fuzzy logic and multivariate analysis

Author(s): Duc-Loc Nguyen,Tien-Yin Chou,Mei-Hsin Chen,Thanh-Van Hoang,Trong-Phuong Tran,Thanh-Son Ngo,Ngoc-Anh Do Thi,Thu-Huong Bui,Quoc-Huy Nguyen / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Flooding is the most damaging natural hazard in the world. A better understanding of floods is a fundamental element in guiding the development of policies for managing and reducing flood risk. The main objective of this research is to contribute to the improvement of knowledge on flood susceptibility by combining Fuzzy AHP and Multivariate Analysis. Ha Tinh province in Vietnam was selected as the case study in which many floods have occurred in recent years. To accomplish this goal, 14 factors and 1427 flood locations were used to establish the flood susceptibility model. The area under the curve (AUC) was applied to assess the model accuracy. The results showed that rainfall, NDVI, NDBI, density of river, elevation, slope and aspect are the main factors influencing the occurrence of flooding. The models are efficient in analyzing the flood susceptibility in study area with AUC=0.87. Approximately 36% of the study area was recognized as Very High and High flood susceptibility, which focused on the littoral zone and along the river. The results of this research could be used as a scientific platform for better land use planning and sustainable development in areas highly vulnerable to floods.

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TELEVİZYON HABERLERİNDE HAVA OLAYLARI VE ETKİLERİ: METİN YAPISI VE ALTDİL

Author(s): Mine Güven / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2022

This paper focuses on TV news texts about the effects of weather conditions on human life and physical environment, and presents a qualitative analysis with respect to text structure, lexical and/or grammatical means of expression, and any constraints which might have shaped them, in an attempt to determine whether or not a subject-specific sublanguage has been formed. The database consists of 27 news items from the TRT News Bulletin for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing broadcast in the period between September 2019 and February 2020 (a total of 1,845 seconds/352 units/2,987 words). It has been observed that these items consist of two parts, namely the lead-in, where an outline of the news is presented, and the package, where the answers to six questions (who, what, where, when, how and why?) are found. This text structure seems to lead to a partially deformed information structure in the lead-in, which in turn causes a relatively lower frequency of null subject pronouns, which are employed to maintain the topic. In the package, subject-specific lexical and/or grammatical structures seem to have become relatively more frequent, and various co-occurrence patterns and frozen structures have emerged. What seems to have priority is the rendition of information concerning the location, time and duration of the weather event as well as the type, intensity, and possible time-/location-bound variation of precipitation, if any. The emergence of verb-noun phrase collocations especially and the consequent use of a more limited lexicon seem to have been a result of expressing how weather events affect daily life and/or the physical environment. However, in terms of syntactic diversity, a departure from the general language or a relative simplification does not seem to have occurred. Belonging to a specific semantic field and containing a limited lexicon, the news texts in the database may be argued to involve a sublanguage influenced by the specialist language of meteorology; however, in terms of syntactic diversity, features of the general language are observed. This may be accounted for by the fact (i) that TV news are expected to be easily understood by the general audience and (ii) that such texts are produced based on a conventionalized text structure and the news discourse adopted by the institution.

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MECHANISM OF LEGAL REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN CONDITIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Hanna V. Anisimova,Volodymyr V. Shekhovtsov,Olha V. Donets / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2022

The relevance of this study is conditioned upon modern realities, when certain changes occur in the ecological system that can destructively affect biological diversity, as well as the safety and continued existence of humanity in general. Technological progress, as well as the sustainable development of all other areas of society's life at the present stage, have an opposite side that destroys ecology-they lead to an increase in the burden on the ecological situation, which in turn is fraught with environmental risks and a reduction in biological diversity. In this regard, issues of legal regulation of environmental risks for the preservation of biological diversity in conditions of sustainable development are of particular importance. The purpose of the paper is to systematise and disclose international legal instruments aimed at managing environmental risks and preserving biological diversity. In the course of this research, such methods as the identification of links between the general and the particular, the legal method of interpreting texts of various regulatory legal texts that directly relate to the subject of this study were applied. Conclusions are drawn that without coordinated interaction of all states-actors at the local, regional, national, and global levels, it is not possible to successfully implement the goals and objectives of the policy of environmental risk management, sustainable use, and conservation of biological diversity. The materials of this paper are of practical importance for specialists in the field of law whose areas of activity are environmental protection, the study of mechanisms for preventing environmental risks for the preservation of biological diversity in conditions of sustainable development.

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Artificial Intelligence – A Possible Key For Better Results On Tackling Climate Change

Author(s): Claudia Elena Marinică / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2022

The article aims to analyse the effects/influence of artificial intelligence in combating climate change, for the protection of the environment and humanity as a whole. Climate change, artificial intelligence, sustainable development are some of the concepts addressed in this research, starting from the worldwide impact that artificial intelligence demonstrates today, continuing with the two sides it can present - one of combating the effects of climate change or, and the second one being contrary, i.e. aggravating or at most neutralizing them. For this reason, the article analyses artificial intelligence as it is currently perceived, how it is implemented in the fight against climate change, the results of its application, emphasizing the positive effects, but also highlighting possible negative effects. The article also seeks to discuss the need for good practice and policies that support the global commitment of all actors involved (organizations, states, citizens) in this matter. To achieve its proposed objective, the research mainly followed the relevant doctrine, legislative measures adopted at international, regional and national level to highlight what are the immediate and future effects of climate change and how they can be influenced, especially in a positive way by artificial intelligence. Based on these aspects, we see both the proactive reaction and the moral and legal obligation of all of us to contribute by tackling the climate change crisis facing humanity, having social repercussions and a significant negative economic impact while taking into account the respect for human rights. The phenomenon of climate change, appreciated as a global, persistent problem, and also an exponential one stresses the need for a global climate policy which requires continued global cooperation in regards to tackling climate change so as to achieve visible results. If these factors are not met, we will witness an increasingly obvious deterioration of the environment resulting in endangering the wellbeing, safety and non-observance of people’s rights.

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THE STAKEHOLRDERS’ ENGAGEMENT IN IMPLEMENTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN AGRICULTURE

Author(s): Florin Aurelian Bîrchi / Language(s): English Issue: 38/2022

The challenges facing humanity have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine. In addition to the set of crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a global food crisis is on the horizon and a worsening humanitarian crisis. In this context, the active involvement of all stakeholders in promoting Sustainable Developments Goals in agriculture is imperative. The relationship between Resilience and the sustainable development of agricultural organizations is seen as a systemic one that aims to reduce the negative effects of the complex crises facing humanity.

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"Wasted world" o "sporco mondo": tradurre i testi divulgativi per ragazzi sull’ambiente

Author(s): Annalisa Sezzi / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2022

The paper focuses on the Italian translations of two English informational books for children: Wasted World (2009) and Kids Fight Climate Change (2020), which deal with environmental issues. Informational books texts result from a complex dissemination process aimed at making specialised knowledge comprehensible to young readers. To achieve this purpose, informational books rely on various discursive popularising strategies, such as an array of explanations, and various methods for eliciting readers’ engagement, such as questions and irony. Indeed, they are part of what has come to be known as “edutainment,” in which education and entertainment are intertwined to create a “hybrid genre” (Buckingham and Scanlon, 2005). As the texts examined in the paper engage with ecology and environmental issues, they have a dual purpose: to inform and to raise awareness (ecoliteracy). Despite the importance of popularising texts, the translation of such products is still an underexplored field of research. The comparative analysis of the two English texts and their respective Italian translations centres on how global warming and climate change are described in the source and target texts. It examines how the popularising strategies are translated, given their importance in knowledge dissemination for children. The findings indicate that Italian translations, though retaining the combination of education and entertainment, tend to be more precise and more complex than the source texts. This is in line with the intercultural differences identified between Low Context (LC) cultures and High Context (HC) cultures.

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The Impact of the External Public Audit on the Performance of the Administration In the Field of Environmental Policies

Author(s): Adriana Alina Spatariu / Language(s): English Issue: 9.2/2022

The article presents the contribution of the supreme audit institution, an independent entity at national level, whose external auditing role is enshrined in the Fundamental Law, in compliance with the implementation of environmental and sustainable development policies, having competences to verify efficiency, economy and effectiveness in the management of public funds in the administration system, pursuing the general public interest. This paper aims to present the efforts of involvement of the supreme audit institution, through specific mechanisms, in compliance with environmental protection regulations by the Romanian public administration, to improve the quality of living and working conditions or reducing pollution in urban areas, rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. By using qualitative methods of document analysis, the paper provides an overview of the evolution of performance auditing of public administration entities in Romania in 2011-2020 and analyses the extent to which external public auditing had a relevant impact on the performance of government in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development. The research results highlight the need to improve the performance audit system in public administration in Romania, to increase its impact on environmental policies and to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the United Nations Agenda 2030, a conclusion supported by audit reports, documents and regulations published by competent public entities and other bodies.

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ULUSLARARASI KURAKLIK, TOZ BULUTLARI ve ZEYTINLIKLER

Author(s): Ayşe Everest / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 55/2022

The 1970-2019 WMO disaster report numbers (2021) reported 71 cases for Turkey, 56 cases for Greece, 88 cases for Russia, 93 cases for Iran, 41 cases for Bulgaria and 848 cases for the USA. “Compound disaster”; sandstorm, precipitation, flood, landslide, water rise, extreme heat, drought and associated fires. These are discussed in the “integrated reason”. Awaking up local observations from ten years of sleep, susceptibility to dust and tornado complaints, planting tall and dusty trees, wind-flowing buildings and olive groves are now necessary for all of us. At this point, we tried to understand how media/media organizations capture and convey current climate details.

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CZY PERYFERIE POTRAFIĄ UPRAWIAĆ NAUKĘ?

Author(s): Jakub Barszczewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

Review of: JAKUB PIOTR BARSZCZEWSKI - Raewyn Connell, Fran Collyer, João Maia, Robert Morell, Knowledge and Global Power. Making New Sciences in the South, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Victioria 2019, stron 217.

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Political and Economic Prerequisites of Legislation and Legal Regulations in the Area of Natural Environment Protection

Author(s): Ewa Kopeć / Language(s): English Issue: 41/2021

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: Legislative processes are important due to the fact that little attention is paid by the market as well as market models of economic development to the issues resulting from the exploitation of the natural environment. Currently, the crucial actions to protect the natural environment include setting up legal regulations that would reduce the degradation of nature caused by consumer behavior. The aim of this article is to analyze and evaluate the selected legislative solutions pertaining to the protection of the natural environment in the European Union and Poland. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The analysis of legislation and legal regulations pertaining to the environmental protection in the context of the selected issues spans the timeframe of 2015–2020. The conducted study pertains mainly to legal acts including regulations as well as directives. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The function of the state in the economy was described to explain the role of the policy adopted for the environ mental protection. Further in the considerations, the analysis included selected le gal regulations observed by the EU member states. Evaluation was made in terms of incentives and other solutions in the area of economic instruments and other solutions facilitating the implementation of sustainable development premises. RESEARCH RESULTS: The sources of law of the European Union are an important constituent part of the national system of environmental protection. Domestic regulations are more and more frequently supplementary and executive in nature. The results of research show the selected suggestions and evaluate the legal solutions adopted within the analyzed timeframe. CONCLUSION, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Legislative solutions should yield benefits both to the manufacturers as well as the economy. Ecological awareness is equally important, setting social responsibility for the environment as a model conduct.

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Nostalgia w cieniu antropocenu. Jak klimat zmienił nasze spojrzenie na przeszłość

Author(s): Alicja Relidzyńska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 689/2022

Emocjonalnie i psychologicznie coraz bardziej oddalamy się od minionych dekad, do których nawiązujemy w tekstach kultury. Z niepokojem patrzymy w przyszłość i na to, co dzieje się wokół nas dzisiaj, zdając sobie sprawę, że przeważająca część problemów, z jakimi się mierzymy, ma swoje źródła w latach ubiegłych.

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EKOPEDAGOŠKE KOMPETENCIJE - UVJET USPJEŠNOG FUNKCIONIRANJA U 21. STOLJEĆU

Author(s): Marija Karačić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2022

The century we live in brings with it many changes that affect all the inhabitants of the world communities. As such, it seeks timely and adequate responses to them in order to be successful coped with unforeseen challenges and overcame them more easily and successfully. Such humanity burdened by environmental problems, health problems, migrant crises, poverty, unemployment, which leaves far-reaching consequences. The cause of all this should be sought in impaired communication between people. Overwhelmed by virtual technology denies direct, interpersonal communication, which often results in unintended consequences. Communication is the key to success and happiness of every individual, therefore, it is necessary to reaffirm interpersonal communication in all educational institutions, give it the right place at all levels of education, and train young people starting education for it, striving to develop eco-pedagogical competencies. Ecopedagogical competence implies understanding, acceptance and acting in accordance with ecopedagogical interaction, which is based on ecocommunication. Due to the ecological crisis in the world, it is necessary to strive for the development of new sensibilities, new active citizens through ecological education of young people. The main goal of this paper is to analyze and present the views of scientists and educators who have dealt with the importance, needs and ways of developing eco-pedagogical competencies in students. This paper will elaborate the need and importance, and the constituent elements of ecopedagogical competence, as well as pointing out the need to develop ecopedagogical competencies in education, all age groups, which seeks to interpret and present their importance in the successful functioning of society in the future.

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STAVOVI NASTAVNIKA O EKOLOGIJI I FUNKCIONALNOSTI SADRŽAJA EKOLOGIJE U UDŽBENICIMA OSNOVNOŠKOLSKE ISLAMSKE VJERONAUKE

Author(s): Nermin Tufekčić,Izet Pehlić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3/2022

The research aim was to examine teachers’ attitudes on ecology and to determine whether ecology contents in elementary school textbooks of Islamic religious education are in the function of developing the ecological awareness and whether teachers give an equal significance to all impact factors and activities at school in the function of developing ecological awareness of their students. The descriptive analytical survey method was used as a research method in examining the teachers’ attitudes. The following research instruments were used: a survey questionnaire on ecology contents in Islamic religious education textbooks, a questionnaire for the teachers regarding ecology and a scale of ecological values (SV-3). The research sample encompassed 100 religious education teachers of different education levels, years of service and the place where they live. According to its nature, it was a target sample. The research results showed that teachers think that the contents in the Islamic religious education textbooks were not sufficiently formed so as to be in the function of developing ecological awareness of students and that teachers give equal importance to all influence factors and activities at school in the function of developing ecological awareness of their students. Teachers think that their families, followed by their schools, mass media and peers have the highest influence on young people’s attitudes towards the environment, whereas free time has the least impact. Teachers ranged the school factors according to their influence degree on students’ upbringing and education for environmental protection in the following way: 1. Professional competence of the teacher, 2. Didactic-methodological competence of teachers, 3. Visits, trips, excursions, 4. Classes, 5. Socially useful work, 6. Textbooks, 7. Public and cultural activities of the school, 8. Class community, 9. School ambience, 10. Students’ free activities and 11. Students’ press.

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