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Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of U.S. Historical Oil Spill Incidents
Get PDFExposure to risks associated with the production and usage of products, particularly oil, poses significant threats to both ecological systems and human health. Notable examples include the Gulf War Oil Spill (1991) and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010). However, numerous smaller-scale oil spills, which collectively contribute to substantial oil releases, often remain overlooked. To fill this gap, our study first developed a detailed oil spill incidents database, covering 1967 to 2023. We quantified the released amount (RA) of oil spills recorded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Subsequently, we utilized life cycle impact indicators in ReCiPe to evaluate the environmental impacts of these spills. Our findings reveal that approximately 6 million gallons of oil have been spilled in North America, equating to the volume of three Deepwater Horizon spills. The human toxicity of the annually spilled oil is comparable to the release of hundreds of tons of dichlorobenzene (DCB), while its ecotoxicities are equivalent to tens of thousands of tons DCB. Additionally, we observed that the global warming potential and ozone formation potential of spilled oil are highly dependent on the ratio of its light fraction in the spilled oil products
The Role of Education in The Public and Its Problems: A Deweyan Perspective on Political Literacy
No full textThe assault on democratic values is not new—nor is the effort to promote the critical literacy skills necessary to understand the cultural, economic, moral, and social issues that underline these social concerns. Unfortunately, in modern society we have conflated an associated way of living with government, and government with politics, and politics with partisanship. Noticeably, this confusion has concealed our willingness or perhaps even our ability to envision the meaning of community. In this essay, I adopt a Deweyan perspective to examine how school leaders might integrate political literacy to counter obstacles to democratic education
Shaky Foundations: Cultural Classifications in Museum Collections Management Systems and the Endurance of Colonial-era Terminology
Get PDFThis article uses two musical instruments with attached ancestral remains and labeled as “Asante” from the Fowler Museum at UCLA to consider effects of style-based cultural classifications that appear in museum databases today. We highlight the sway of past classifications over our current understanding of objects that is prolonged by the problem of confirmation-bias in museum collections management systems. We then indicate how working across disciplines stimulated a more nuanced understanding about the complexities of artistic styles for musical instruments with attached human remains in the Akan-speaking region of West Africa.
Cet article étudie deux instruments de musique incorporant des restes ancestraux et étiquetés « Asante » par le Fowler Museum de UCLA, afin de considérer les conséquences des classifications culturelles fondées sur le style dans les bases de données des musées. On y souligne l’influence de ces anciennes classifications sur la compréhension actuelle des objets, prolongée par le problème du biais de confirmation dans les systèmes de gestion des collections des musées. On montre ensuite comment une approche interdisciplinaire permet une vue plus nuancée des complexités stylistiques des instruments de musique contenant des restes humains de la région de langue Akan en Afrique de l’Ouest
GREEN ROAD PROJECT FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE: STAKEHOLDERS, ALTERNATIVES AND CONFLICTS
Get PDFThe Green Road Project, viewed from an environmental justice perspective, delves into the complex interplay between tourism and the environment. Tourism heavily relies on natural resources and environmental beauty to sustain itself, yet it also inflicts significant negative impacts such as land and resource depletion, waste generation, and carbon emissions. Unfortunately, these adverse effects often go unaddressed or are deliberately disregarded in tourism policies, leading to socio-environmental conflicts globally.
This study specifically examines the socio-environmental conflict surrounding the Eastern Black Sea Green Road Project, aiming to understand the perspectives of stakeholders in the region. The Green Road Project, proposed by the Eastern Black Sea Development Agency (DOKA), seeks to address transportation challenges between plateaus by improving connectivity and infrastructure, thus facilitating tourism in the region.
However, the study covers that national tourism policies primarily prioritize economic interests over ecological concerns, neglecting issues of ecological distribution and procedural justice. Consequently, this imbalance exacerbates local-level conflicts over ecological resources and undermines efforts toward inclusive, equitable, and sustainable tourism practices
Food tourism and storytelling in the Scandinavian North
Get PDFThe relation between place, food and tourism is gaining interest from actors in both private and public sectors in the Nordic countries. Food is discussed as potential for product development and image building, based on reasoning on how value may be added through geographical food branding. However, food and drink may also be regarded as a tangible way to communicate local ways of life and as bearers of symbolism and values. The process of commercialization is therefore closely linked to aspects of control and respect, elements found in the criteria section on socio-cultural sustainability in the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) system for sustainable tourism development. The regional development organization in the Swedish region Västerbotten has developed a work methodology based on the GSTC criteria which together with initiatives of the Sámi associations can be used to illustrate how food, place-based heritage and tourism communication can be performed in virtual as well as tangible ways, to promote economic and sociocultural potential. This presentation entails a case study published in Folklore, people and place: International perspectives on tourism and tradition in storied places (Åberg and Carson in Hunter and Ironside eds., 2023, Routledge), together with an exploration of the strategic context of Västerbotten where the regional tourism organization has based its approach on the GSTC. The authors Åberg and Carson are human geographers, exploring aspects of tourism development in more peripheral areas of the Scandinavian North
Asylum Architecture: The Brick-by-Brick Development of Patient Treatment
Get PDFThe following research and analysis will investigate the intersection of architecture and treatment in asylums with a specific interest on the time period of the late 19th century to mid-20th century in the United States. Not only were specific environmental demands key to some treatment methodologies, such as rural environments to moral therapy, but the architecture of mental hospitals were integral parts of patient’s experiences. Here three specific hospital designs will be analyzed: the Kirkbride Plan, the Cottage Plan, and Kiyoshi Izumi’s Socio-Petal. The following analysis will be built on a series of blueprints, building notes, secondary histories, and articles of specific examples of these building plans. In particular, the hospitals discussed exemplify the use architectural design to enhance or follow popular treatment methodology. Overall, the investigation of treatment plans, implementation, and asylum experience through the lens of architecture allows for a more dynamic understanding of patient experience and treatment
Reflexiones sobre la construcción de espacios bilingües: los centros de escritura como puentes de diálogo académico en torno a la escritura y a la cultura
No full textThis article reflects on the creation of bilingual spaces, focusing on writing centers as facilitators of academic dialogue regarding academic writing and culture. The writing centers of Pontifical Javeriana University and Florida International University jointly explore how these centers can serve as bridges to promote effective communication and cultural exchange in educational environments where different languages coexist. The analysis addresses the significance of these spaces in fostering linguistic diversity and the impact on academic development. Este artículo reflexiona sobre la creación de espacios bilingües, centrándose en los Centros de Escritura como facilitadores del diálogo académico en torno a la escritura académica y la cultura. Los Centros de Escritura de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y de la Universidad Internacional de Florida exploran conjuntamente cómo estos centros pueden servir de puentes para promover la comunicación efectiva y el intercambio cultural en entornos educativos donde coexisten diferentes lenguas. El análisis aborda la importancia de estos espacios en el fomento de la diversidad lingüística y su impacto en el desarrollo académico
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Get PDFBack Matter for Writing Center Journal 41.3. Contains a Call for Nominations for the 2024 Muriel Harris Outstanding Service Award