Relacje firma-otoczenie w kontekście zagranicznych inwestycji w hodowlę trzody chlewnej w Polsce ... more Relacje firma-otoczenie w kontekście zagranicznych inwestycji w hodowlę trzody chlewnej w Polsce Zarys treści: W artykule omówiono gospodarcze, środowiskowe i społeczne związki pomiędzy wielkoprzemysłowymi zagranicznymi fermami trzody chlewnej a ich otoczeniem lokalnym. Przestrzenna koncentracja trzody chlewnej przynosi efekty mnożnikowe, umożliwia stworzenie lokalnego kompleksu hodowlano-produkcyjnego i budowę głębokich więzi z lokalnym otoczeniem. W przypadku ferm tuczowych miejsca pracy w samej fermie są bardzo ograniczone, w przeciwieństwie do ferm macierzystych. Deklarowane wartości (rozwój lokalny, dbanie o przyjazne środowisko czy dobre sąsiedztwo) stoją w niektórych fermach w sprzeczności z przekraczaniem nieustalonych w polskim prawie zasad ochrony środowiska. Głównym problemem środowiskowym jest uciążliwość zapachowa oraz przenawożenie gruntu. Istnieje duża rozbieżność pomiędzy oficjalną polityką wspierania społeczności lokalnych a oczekiwaniami społeczności.
Abstract While enchantment has been used productively to think through the geographies of social ... more Abstract While enchantment has been used productively to think through the geographies of social encounter, extant research – drawing largely from cases in the West – has reinforced a celebratory notion of enchantment, characterized by egalitarianism and serendipity. In this paper we draw ethnographically on encounters between Malay and Chinese users of two street football courts in Singapore, a non-Western context where principles of public interaction converge with but also exceed those in the West. In so doing we aim to advance existing debates by conceptualizing enchantment as it is negotiated and constituted, rather than asking if observed occurrences live up to dominant interpretations. We find that enchantment can be experienced through the construction, perpetuation and negotiation of boundaries; it is also a product of enduring rhythms in space that are produced and developed via the interactions of its users over time. In specifying the different ways in which enchantment is created, negotiated and lived we contribute to signalling the validity of expansive notions of publicness i.e. the different ways in which encounter in public space can be made meaningful and fulfilling.
Vegetarianism is viewed by its advocates as ethical food consumption par excellence. Yet the stea... more Vegetarianism is viewed by its advocates as ethical food consumption par excellence. Yet the steady, albeit modest, growth in vegetarians worldwide is paradoxically set against an increase in global meat consumption. This study draws on the literature of ethical consumption to illuminate the practical challenges in vegetarianism advocacy. Research on ethical food consumption focuses on three main lines of inquiry, namely how is ethical food defined; under what socio-spatial conditions do consumers choose to consume (or not consume) ethical food and what ends do consumers hope to achieve by consuming ethically. This article details the discursive framings of anti-meat advocacy and shows how such framings fall short of presenting vegetarianism as a form of ethical food consumption. The challenges in persuading consumers to stop meat consumption (as opposed to merely reducing consumption) are well known. In this paper, I highlight a less discussed challenge, relating to the lack of ‘real’ substitutes for meat, in anti-meat advocacy. Through a discussion of what I will call the problem of ‘meaningful substitution’, I address a comparatively under-explored question in ethical food consumption research: what is the relative (ethical) relationship between two products? Addressing this question sheds light on our very definition of ethical product and consumption, as well as the challenges of ethical consumption advocacy. Through a series of in-depth interviews with vegetarians (both advocates and non-advocates) in Taipei, Taiwan, I conclude that the various moral and nature-based framings of vegetarianism, as a form of ethical food consumption, are weakened by the lack of a meaningful substitute. More broadly, the study speaks to the practical politics and policies in the effective promotion of ethical consumption.
Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to... more Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to come with increasing supply coming from aquaculture. Despite its fast increasing economic importance, there is a relative paucity of research on aquaculture from the standpoint of economic geography. This paper contributes to this literature by first reviewing the socio-economics of certification of fish and the role of aquaculture in economic development-two of the more pervasive research strands in aquaculture. Following that, we show how global commodity chain perspectives can augment geographical research on aquaculture. We argue that despite some shortcomings, the global commodity chain approach is a viable approach to examine the aquaculture industry because of its ability to elucidate the uneven and contested nature of commodity and other resource flows between the production, distribution, and consumption nodes and its potential to analyze the impacts of the wider regulatory and institutional environment on the industry..
Corporate Environmental Governance and Financial Performance Relationship (S V Valentine & V ... more Corporate Environmental Governance and Financial Performance Relationship (S V Valentine & V Savage) Implementation of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System in Vietnam (D M Anh & G Ofori) Policies and Legal Frameworks of Protected Area Management in Nepal (B L Dutt et al.) Study of Parks and Nature Reserves Fiscal Management Models (C Ng & M L C Lee) Marine Invasive Dpecies and their Potential Impacts on Singapore Waters (M K Puthia et al.) Aquaculture Management in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam: Environmental Considerations (T T M Hang & L M Chou) Cost Benefit Analysis of Mining in Protected Forest: A Case Study in Indonesia (S Irawan & Y-H Chang) A Green Energy Policy and New Electricity Market of Singapore (A H F Ong & Y-H Chang) Hazardous Waste Management for Ho Chih Minh City (D T Trang & Y P Ting) Management of Electronic Waste in Singapore (Y S Chan & Y P Ting) and other papers.
Drawing on the debate over dolphin captivity in Singapore, we examine the ways in which human–ani... more Drawing on the debate over dolphin captivity in Singapore, we examine the ways in which human–animal relationships are contested. Departing from most animal geography studies which often focused on the conflictual spatial transgressions of animals into human spaces, we use the idea of ‘captivity’ as a heuristic to posit that human–animal relationships are necessarily moral, spatially enmeshed in contestations over what is (un)natural and increasingly entwined in legal geographies. While such an argument mirrors other sites of animal captivity (for example, zoos), dolphin captivity sits in a more ambiguous legal terrain than most other captive animals in zoos. Moreover, the very ‘nature’ of dolphins makes debates over their ‘authenticity’ ever more complex. The moralities of cetaceans are simultaneously underpinned by questions of the spatial (‘captive sites’ and ‘open seas’), the socio-cultural (‘charismatic animals’) and the legal (‘regulatory frameworks governing their welfare and whether they are endangered or not’). Hitherto, cetaceans are less researched (compared to terrestrial creatures) in animal geographies with even fewer studies focusing on cetacean captivity. We call for an expanded notion of ‘captivity’ that is relative, relational and non-absolute and underpinned by the notions of ‘nature’. In so doing, we align ourselves more with the anti-captivity camp.
R ecent Books on Ethics and Internati onal A f fa i rs In 2 0 01, the 1 1,0 0 0 c i ti zens of th... more R ecent Books on Ethics and Internati onal A f fa i rs In 2 0 01, the 1 1,0 0 0 c i ti zens of the arch ipel a go of Tuva lu—a small island state cons i s ting of nine islands in the Pac i f i c O ce a n — a n n o u n ced that they would begi n to em i gra te from their hom eland in 2 0 02. What was most notewort hy abo ut this a n n o u n cem ent was the claim that they would be doing so as “envi ron m en t a l ref u gee s .” Cl i m a te ch a n ge has made thei r island inhospitabl e : Mel ting gl ac i ers and the thermal ex p a n s i on of the ocean have ra i s ed sea levels causing lowland flood i n g, coastal ero s i on , and saltwater intru s i on on the islands; h i gh er su rf ace water tem peratu res have re su l ted in an increase in trop ical cycl ones du ring the last dec ade . So they wi ll leave . The case of Tuva lu is one of a small but growing nu m ber of re a l world scen a rios that ex pose several ethical qu e s ti ons rel evant to gl obal envi ron m ental govern a n ce . For ex a mp l e , can citi zens of an en ti re state be compen s a ted for the loss of t h eir terri tory, w ay of l i fe , and cultu re? Who should be re s pon s i bl e for com pen s a ting the citi zens of Tuva lu ? How do events in Tuva lu influ en ce our n o ti on of s overei gn ty and our ethical eva lua ti on of n a ti onal re s ponses to gl obal issu e s su ch as cl i m a te ch a n ge? Can ex i s ting gl ob a l i n s ti tuti ons deal with these types of qu e sti on s , or do we need new insti tuti ons or new s tru ctu res for intern a ti onal govern a n ce ? G l obal envi ron m ental govern a n ce is curren t ly a popular topic among envi ron m en t a l Governing for the Envi ro n m ent: Gl obal Probl em s ,Et h i cs and Dem o cra c y, Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low, eds. (Hampshire: Palgrave Publishers Ltd., 2001), 255 pp., $65 cloth. The boo k , h owever, does not explain how the Am erican mach i n ery for making mu l til a teral policy grew ru s ty and part ly abandon ed . One re a s on is the decline in influ en ce and re ach of the State Dep a rtm en t’s Bu re a u of In tern a ti onal Orga n i z a ti on Af f a i rs . An o t h er is that, in con trast to the diplom a tic servi ces of a ll other com p a ra ble nati on s , the U. S . Forei gn Servi ce has no formal spec i a l i z a ti on in intern a ti onal or ga n i z a ti on s and mu l ti l a teral diplom acy for its mem bers . An important part of Am erican ambiva l en ce tow a rd mu l ti l a teralism is the growing inabi li ty of the Un i ted States to make re a l i s ti c , cons i s ten t , and well con s i dered mu l ti l a tera l po l i c y. A good analysis of t h i s , and recomm en d a ti ons for its cure , would have made the book even more va lu a ble for practi ti oners and spec i a l i s t s . Even so, this book is indispen s a ble for a nyone seri o u s ly intere s ted in the dangerous and ti m ely com p l ex of probl ems and a t ti tu des it ad d re s s e s . Non Am eri c a n s s tru ggling to understand the od d i ties of U. S . mu l ti l a teral beh avi or wi ll find it espec i a lly usef u l . Those trying to find a way back to ra ti onal Am erican parti c i p a ti on in the i n tern a ti onal insti tuti ons and proce s s e s that world crises and dangers demand wi ll n eed mu ch more fact finding and analys i s of this kind and at the high standard this book has set . —John L. Washburn United Nations Association
Abstract: This paper details the construction of the pig and the pig industry in Malaysia. It arg... more Abstract: This paper details the construction of the pig and the pig industry in Malaysia. It argues that a pattern of ���animal-linked racialization��� continually polices the boundary between the dominant, elite Malay-Muslim hegemony and the comparatively less powerful Chinese pig farmers. Often subtle and implicit, such beastly racialization, drawing frequently from religious and nationalist tropes, renders visible the taboo subjects of race and racism in Malaysia. While a simplistic form of beastly racialization in relation to the pig industry is ...
This paper makes a modest comparison of regulatory interventions on climate change in India, Sout... more This paper makes a modest comparison of regulatory interventions on climate change in India, South Africa and the United Kingdom. While India and South Africa, both developing countries are not mandated under the international regulatory frameworks on emissions reduction, the United Kingdom is under obligations to reduce its emissions. It highlights the importance of emissions reduction even by countries not compelled to reduce their emissions and points out what India and South Africa have done in this respect. It identifies lessons to be learnt and concludes that it is the responsibility of everybody, located in countries, with or without obligations to reduce emissions, to tackle global warming and climate change.
Relacje firma-otoczenie w kontekście zagranicznych inwestycji w hodowlę trzody chlewnej w Polsce ... more Relacje firma-otoczenie w kontekście zagranicznych inwestycji w hodowlę trzody chlewnej w Polsce Zarys treści: W artykule omówiono gospodarcze, środowiskowe i społeczne związki pomiędzy wielkoprzemysłowymi zagranicznymi fermami trzody chlewnej a ich otoczeniem lokalnym. Przestrzenna koncentracja trzody chlewnej przynosi efekty mnożnikowe, umożliwia stworzenie lokalnego kompleksu hodowlano-produkcyjnego i budowę głębokich więzi z lokalnym otoczeniem. W przypadku ferm tuczowych miejsca pracy w samej fermie są bardzo ograniczone, w przeciwieństwie do ferm macierzystych. Deklarowane wartości (rozwój lokalny, dbanie o przyjazne środowisko czy dobre sąsiedztwo) stoją w niektórych fermach w sprzeczności z przekraczaniem nieustalonych w polskim prawie zasad ochrony środowiska. Głównym problemem środowiskowym jest uciążliwość zapachowa oraz przenawożenie gruntu. Istnieje duża rozbieżność pomiędzy oficjalną polityką wspierania społeczności lokalnych a oczekiwaniami społeczności.
Abstract While enchantment has been used productively to think through the geographies of social ... more Abstract While enchantment has been used productively to think through the geographies of social encounter, extant research – drawing largely from cases in the West – has reinforced a celebratory notion of enchantment, characterized by egalitarianism and serendipity. In this paper we draw ethnographically on encounters between Malay and Chinese users of two street football courts in Singapore, a non-Western context where principles of public interaction converge with but also exceed those in the West. In so doing we aim to advance existing debates by conceptualizing enchantment as it is negotiated and constituted, rather than asking if observed occurrences live up to dominant interpretations. We find that enchantment can be experienced through the construction, perpetuation and negotiation of boundaries; it is also a product of enduring rhythms in space that are produced and developed via the interactions of its users over time. In specifying the different ways in which enchantment is created, negotiated and lived we contribute to signalling the validity of expansive notions of publicness i.e. the different ways in which encounter in public space can be made meaningful and fulfilling.
Vegetarianism is viewed by its advocates as ethical food consumption par excellence. Yet the stea... more Vegetarianism is viewed by its advocates as ethical food consumption par excellence. Yet the steady, albeit modest, growth in vegetarians worldwide is paradoxically set against an increase in global meat consumption. This study draws on the literature of ethical consumption to illuminate the practical challenges in vegetarianism advocacy. Research on ethical food consumption focuses on three main lines of inquiry, namely how is ethical food defined; under what socio-spatial conditions do consumers choose to consume (or not consume) ethical food and what ends do consumers hope to achieve by consuming ethically. This article details the discursive framings of anti-meat advocacy and shows how such framings fall short of presenting vegetarianism as a form of ethical food consumption. The challenges in persuading consumers to stop meat consumption (as opposed to merely reducing consumption) are well known. In this paper, I highlight a less discussed challenge, relating to the lack of ‘real’ substitutes for meat, in anti-meat advocacy. Through a discussion of what I will call the problem of ‘meaningful substitution’, I address a comparatively under-explored question in ethical food consumption research: what is the relative (ethical) relationship between two products? Addressing this question sheds light on our very definition of ethical product and consumption, as well as the challenges of ethical consumption advocacy. Through a series of in-depth interviews with vegetarians (both advocates and non-advocates) in Taipei, Taiwan, I conclude that the various moral and nature-based framings of vegetarianism, as a form of ethical food consumption, are weakened by the lack of a meaningful substitute. More broadly, the study speaks to the practical politics and policies in the effective promotion of ethical consumption.
Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to... more Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to come with increasing supply coming from aquaculture. Despite its fast increasing economic importance, there is a relative paucity of research on aquaculture from the standpoint of economic geography. This paper contributes to this literature by first reviewing the socio-economics of certification of fish and the role of aquaculture in economic development-two of the more pervasive research strands in aquaculture. Following that, we show how global commodity chain perspectives can augment geographical research on aquaculture. We argue that despite some shortcomings, the global commodity chain approach is a viable approach to examine the aquaculture industry because of its ability to elucidate the uneven and contested nature of commodity and other resource flows between the production, distribution, and consumption nodes and its potential to analyze the impacts of the wider regulatory and institutional environment on the industry..
Corporate Environmental Governance and Financial Performance Relationship (S V Valentine & V ... more Corporate Environmental Governance and Financial Performance Relationship (S V Valentine & V Savage) Implementation of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System in Vietnam (D M Anh & G Ofori) Policies and Legal Frameworks of Protected Area Management in Nepal (B L Dutt et al.) Study of Parks and Nature Reserves Fiscal Management Models (C Ng & M L C Lee) Marine Invasive Dpecies and their Potential Impacts on Singapore Waters (M K Puthia et al.) Aquaculture Management in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam: Environmental Considerations (T T M Hang & L M Chou) Cost Benefit Analysis of Mining in Protected Forest: A Case Study in Indonesia (S Irawan & Y-H Chang) A Green Energy Policy and New Electricity Market of Singapore (A H F Ong & Y-H Chang) Hazardous Waste Management for Ho Chih Minh City (D T Trang & Y P Ting) Management of Electronic Waste in Singapore (Y S Chan & Y P Ting) and other papers.
Drawing on the debate over dolphin captivity in Singapore, we examine the ways in which human–ani... more Drawing on the debate over dolphin captivity in Singapore, we examine the ways in which human–animal relationships are contested. Departing from most animal geography studies which often focused on the conflictual spatial transgressions of animals into human spaces, we use the idea of ‘captivity’ as a heuristic to posit that human–animal relationships are necessarily moral, spatially enmeshed in contestations over what is (un)natural and increasingly entwined in legal geographies. While such an argument mirrors other sites of animal captivity (for example, zoos), dolphin captivity sits in a more ambiguous legal terrain than most other captive animals in zoos. Moreover, the very ‘nature’ of dolphins makes debates over their ‘authenticity’ ever more complex. The moralities of cetaceans are simultaneously underpinned by questions of the spatial (‘captive sites’ and ‘open seas’), the socio-cultural (‘charismatic animals’) and the legal (‘regulatory frameworks governing their welfare and whether they are endangered or not’). Hitherto, cetaceans are less researched (compared to terrestrial creatures) in animal geographies with even fewer studies focusing on cetacean captivity. We call for an expanded notion of ‘captivity’ that is relative, relational and non-absolute and underpinned by the notions of ‘nature’. In so doing, we align ourselves more with the anti-captivity camp.
R ecent Books on Ethics and Internati onal A f fa i rs In 2 0 01, the 1 1,0 0 0 c i ti zens of th... more R ecent Books on Ethics and Internati onal A f fa i rs In 2 0 01, the 1 1,0 0 0 c i ti zens of the arch ipel a go of Tuva lu—a small island state cons i s ting of nine islands in the Pac i f i c O ce a n — a n n o u n ced that they would begi n to em i gra te from their hom eland in 2 0 02. What was most notewort hy abo ut this a n n o u n cem ent was the claim that they would be doing so as “envi ron m en t a l ref u gee s .” Cl i m a te ch a n ge has made thei r island inhospitabl e : Mel ting gl ac i ers and the thermal ex p a n s i on of the ocean have ra i s ed sea levels causing lowland flood i n g, coastal ero s i on , and saltwater intru s i on on the islands; h i gh er su rf ace water tem peratu res have re su l ted in an increase in trop ical cycl ones du ring the last dec ade . So they wi ll leave . The case of Tuva lu is one of a small but growing nu m ber of re a l world scen a rios that ex pose several ethical qu e s ti ons rel evant to gl obal envi ron m ental govern a n ce . For ex a mp l e , can citi zens of an en ti re state be compen s a ted for the loss of t h eir terri tory, w ay of l i fe , and cultu re? Who should be re s pon s i bl e for com pen s a ting the citi zens of Tuva lu ? How do events in Tuva lu influ en ce our n o ti on of s overei gn ty and our ethical eva lua ti on of n a ti onal re s ponses to gl obal issu e s su ch as cl i m a te ch a n ge? Can ex i s ting gl ob a l i n s ti tuti ons deal with these types of qu e sti on s , or do we need new insti tuti ons or new s tru ctu res for intern a ti onal govern a n ce ? G l obal envi ron m ental govern a n ce is curren t ly a popular topic among envi ron m en t a l Governing for the Envi ro n m ent: Gl obal Probl em s ,Et h i cs and Dem o cra c y, Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low, eds. (Hampshire: Palgrave Publishers Ltd., 2001), 255 pp., $65 cloth. The boo k , h owever, does not explain how the Am erican mach i n ery for making mu l til a teral policy grew ru s ty and part ly abandon ed . One re a s on is the decline in influ en ce and re ach of the State Dep a rtm en t’s Bu re a u of In tern a ti onal Orga n i z a ti on Af f a i rs . An o t h er is that, in con trast to the diplom a tic servi ces of a ll other com p a ra ble nati on s , the U. S . Forei gn Servi ce has no formal spec i a l i z a ti on in intern a ti onal or ga n i z a ti on s and mu l ti l a teral diplom acy for its mem bers . An important part of Am erican ambiva l en ce tow a rd mu l ti l a teralism is the growing inabi li ty of the Un i ted States to make re a l i s ti c , cons i s ten t , and well con s i dered mu l ti l a tera l po l i c y. A good analysis of t h i s , and recomm en d a ti ons for its cure , would have made the book even more va lu a ble for practi ti oners and spec i a l i s t s . Even so, this book is indispen s a ble for a nyone seri o u s ly intere s ted in the dangerous and ti m ely com p l ex of probl ems and a t ti tu des it ad d re s s e s . Non Am eri c a n s s tru ggling to understand the od d i ties of U. S . mu l ti l a teral beh avi or wi ll find it espec i a lly usef u l . Those trying to find a way back to ra ti onal Am erican parti c i p a ti on in the i n tern a ti onal insti tuti ons and proce s s e s that world crises and dangers demand wi ll n eed mu ch more fact finding and analys i s of this kind and at the high standard this book has set . —John L. Washburn United Nations Association
Abstract: This paper details the construction of the pig and the pig industry in Malaysia. It arg... more Abstract: This paper details the construction of the pig and the pig industry in Malaysia. It argues that a pattern of ���animal-linked racialization��� continually polices the boundary between the dominant, elite Malay-Muslim hegemony and the comparatively less powerful Chinese pig farmers. Often subtle and implicit, such beastly racialization, drawing frequently from religious and nationalist tropes, renders visible the taboo subjects of race and racism in Malaysia. While a simplistic form of beastly racialization in relation to the pig industry is ...
This paper makes a modest comparison of regulatory interventions on climate change in India, Sout... more This paper makes a modest comparison of regulatory interventions on climate change in India, South Africa and the United Kingdom. While India and South Africa, both developing countries are not mandated under the international regulatory frameworks on emissions reduction, the United Kingdom is under obligations to reduce its emissions. It highlights the importance of emissions reduction even by countries not compelled to reduce their emissions and points out what India and South Africa have done in this respect. It identifies lessons to be learnt and concludes that it is the responsibility of everybody, located in countries, with or without obligations to reduce emissions, to tackle global warming and climate change.
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