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Article: Success Begins at Home
Definition of Sustainable Development: Sustainable development should take into consideration the social and economic aspect of the society before implementing environmental solutions/proposals/polices. The way to go about measuring a policy’s feasibility is by employing cost-benefit analysis of the proposals.
Solutions presented in the article: 1) Use of cost benefit analysis of significant proposals to as to be clear of the benefits and consequences or even the practicality of the project.
2) Pursue of clean technology; thinking is focused on the long run effects.
3) Explore and expand the use of the market solutions by providing the right incentives for pollution control; allow greater flexibility and lower overall cost.
4) Understand and be aware of multi stakeholders in environmental management.
5) Urgent need for societies to establish for themselves acceptable air, water and noise quality levels and to be cognizant to the fact that these baseline levels will change over time as expectations on quality of life changes.
6) Access the use of these non-market valuation techniques and apply these in project evaluation.
7) Invest in conflict-resolution methods, whether they involve compensation in money or in kind.
Feasibility of solutions presented in article:
1) Use of cost benefit analysis of significant proposals to as to be clear of the benefits and consequences or even the practicality of the project.-
The use of cost benefit analysis would be one of the more feasible solutions as it allows us to access a proposed solution before we implement it, seeing if its social benefits would out weight the social cost of the project. In this way, we are seeing if the project would be practical enough to implement it, rather than wasting resources on projects that would not benefit us. This is also a good solution as it would provide good justification to the society using resources devoted to the development of the project.
2) Pursue of clean technology; thinking is focused on the long run effects.
This solution is feasible in a sense that it makes us focus on the long term effects rather than the short term and immediate effects forgetting about the long term one. This is also one of the more useful solutions as it takes into consideration that changes take time and the time can be used for adjustments for the society or industries affected by the plan, slowly allowing them to get used to the change, rather than an immediate change that would catch everybody surprised.
3) Explore and expand the use of the market solutions by providing the right incentives for pollution control; allow greater flexibility and lower overall cost.
This solution is already used in several industries, and it is proving to be an effective way to cut down pollutions. Programs such as the pollution prevention act in the USA are one of the few examples. This allows the industries to be more willing to cut down on their emissions and at the same time, achieve the main purpose of the supposedly imposed project. Also,
4) Understand and be aware of multi stakeholders in environmental management.
Indeed one could argue an individual cannot do much. This idea is thus able to go along that line and thus focus on what multiple stakeholders can do together and the change they could bring about if they worked together as they are the main players in the specific industry, and thus should be able to monopolize the actions in the industry.
5) Urgent need for societies to establish for themselves acceptable air, water and noise quality levels and to be cognizant (knowledgeable of something especially through personal experience) to the fact that these baseline levels will change over time as expectations on quality of life changes.
This solution is portrayed by the use of an example in the article. “Where underdeveloped land, pristine forest and beaches continue to be used up over time, the remaining resources would thus be valued more and this itself provides a strong insurance for protection of the environment.” This is true. The article also mentions the need for the society, from time to time, to take stock of what’s left of its natural resources. However, doing this would be a waste of much energy and time. Also, this solution is not very feasible. For example, should country A have a lot of coal, the value of coal in that country would not be high and people would use it. This does not consider the long term effects of overusing the resource.
6) Access the use of these non-market valuation techniques and apply these in project evaluation.
The use of the 6th is to access a particular project on the various benefits it would bring. At the end of the day, it would be clear that any project we would be doing or carrying out would have a negative harm on the environment. Therefore this technique would suggest the measurement of the dollars and cents the project would bring in against the negative effects it would have on the environment, to see if the project is feasible or not.
7) Invest in conflict-resolution methods, whether they involve compensation in money or in kind.
This strategy is not very feasible for the fact it only uses compensation in forms as an incentive or benefit to forego the negative effects caused by a certain strategy/policy/plan that has been implemented. At the end of the day only one party would be able to enjoy the benefits of the plan and another suffer, therefore it’s not a feasible solution by itself.
A blog for work and play, "happy dogs and everything else" is a platform to encourage conversations and provoke discussions. Fav topics are dogs (naturally), food, movies and current hot topics. Naturally, the stars of Happy Dogs are my two lovely girls, Huey & Shiroii. To find out more, check out them out in the pictures!
A blog for work and play, "happy dogs and everything else" is a platform to encourage conversations and provoke discussions. Fav topics are dogs (naturally), food, movies and current hot topics. Naturally, the stars of Happy Dogs are my two lovely girls, Huey & Shiroii. To find out more, check out them out in the pictures!
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Article: Success Begins at Home
Definition of Sustainable Development: Sustainable development should take into consideration the social and economic aspect of the society before implementing environmental solutions/proposals/polices. The way to go about measuring a policy’s feasibility is by employing cost-benefit analysis of the proposals.
Solutions presented in the article:
1) Use of cost benefit analysis of significant proposals to as to be clear of the benefits and consequences or even the practicality of the project.
2) Pursue of clean technology; thinking is focused on the long run effects.
3) Explore and expand the use of the market solutions by providing the right incentives for pollution control; allow greater flexibility and lower overall cost.
4) Understand and be aware of multi stakeholders in environmental management.
5) Urgent need for societies to establish for themselves acceptable air, water and noise quality levels and to be cognizant to the fact that these baseline levels will change over time as expectations on quality of life changes.
6) Access the use of these non-market valuation techniques and apply these in project evaluation.
7) Invest in conflict-resolution methods, whether they involve compensation in money or in kind.
Feasibility of solutions presented in article:
1) Use of cost benefit analysis of significant proposals to as to be clear of the benefits and consequences or even the practicality of the project.-
The use of cost benefit analysis would be one of the more feasible solutions as it allows us to access a proposed solution before we implement it, seeing if its social benefits would out weight the social cost of the project. In this way, we are seeing if the project would be practical enough to implement it, rather than wasting resources on projects that would not benefit us. This is also a good solution as it would provide good justification to the society using resources devoted to the development of the project.
2) Pursue of clean technology; thinking is focused on the long run effects.
This solution is feasible in a sense that it makes us focus on the long term effects rather than the short term and immediate effects forgetting about the long term one. This is also one of the more useful solutions as it takes into consideration that changes take time and the time can be used for adjustments for the society or industries affected by the plan, slowly allowing them to get used to the change, rather than an immediate change that would catch everybody surprised.
3) Explore and expand the use of the market solutions by providing the right incentives for pollution control; allow greater flexibility and lower overall cost.
This solution is already used in several industries, and it is proving to be an effective way to cut down pollutions. Programs such as the pollution prevention act in the USA are one of the few examples. This allows the industries to be more willing to cut down on their emissions and at the same time, achieve the main purpose of the supposedly imposed project. Also,
4) Understand and be aware of multi stakeholders in environmental management.
Indeed one could argue an individual cannot do much. This idea is thus able to go along that line and thus focus on what multiple stakeholders can do together and the change they could bring about if they worked together as they are the main players in the specific industry, and thus should be able to monopolize the actions in the industry.
5) Urgent need for societies to establish for themselves acceptable air, water and noise quality levels and to be cognizant (knowledgeable of something especially through personal experience) to the fact that these baseline levels will change over time as expectations on quality of life changes.
This solution is portrayed by the use of an example in the article. “Where underdeveloped land, pristine forest and beaches continue to be used up over time, the remaining resources would thus be valued more and this itself provides a strong insurance for protection of the environment.” This is true. The article also mentions the need for the society, from time to time, to take stock of what’s left of its natural resources. However, doing this would be a waste of much energy and time. Also, this solution is not very feasible. For example, should country A have a lot of coal, the value of coal in that country would not be high and people would use it. This does not consider the long term effects of overusing the resource.
6) Access the use of these non-market valuation techniques and apply these in project evaluation.
The use of the 6th is to access a particular project on the various benefits it would bring. At the end of the day, it would be clear that any project we would be doing or carrying out would have a negative harm on the environment. Therefore this technique would suggest the measurement of the dollars and cents the project would bring in against the negative effects it would have on the environment, to see if the project is feasible or not.
7) Invest in conflict-resolution methods, whether they involve compensation in money or in kind.
This strategy is not very feasible for the fact it only uses compensation in forms as an incentive or benefit to forego the negative effects caused by a certain strategy/policy/plan that has been implemented. At the end of the day only one party would be able to enjoy the benefits of the plan and another suffer, therefore it’s not a feasible solution by itself.
Individuals do not count.
(And why my comments are censored?)
I mean individual efforts do not count and are not enough:(
I have a piece of feedback:( Can i see good pieces of work like those of Mario's and Xin Yi's?
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