Investigation into the Interconnected Nature of Environmental Problems and Identifying Keystone Environmental Problems
The study depicts the links between man-made environmental issues based on cause-and-effect relationships from real-world examples. For instance, man-made climate change is caused primarily by deforestation, draining of wetlands, intensive farming, and air pollution (greenhouse gas emission). Beside...
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ftusrijayewarden:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/6177 2023-05-15T17:51:35+02:00 Investigation into the Interconnected Nature of Environmental Problems and Identifying Keystone Environmental Problems S. Sivaramanan S.W. Kotagama 2022-12-31 application/pdf https://journals.sjp.ac.lk/index.php/vjs/article/view/6177 https://doi.org/10.31357/vjs.v25i02.6177 eng eng University of Sri Jayewardenepura https://journals.sjp.ac.lk/index.php/vjs/article/view/6177/4517 10.31357/vjs.v25i02.6177.g4517 https://journals.sjp.ac.lk/index.php/vjs/article/view/6177 doi:10.31357/vjs.v25i02.6177 Copyright (c) 2022 Vidyodaya Journal of Science Vidyodaya Journal of Science; Vol. 25 No. 02 (2022): Current Scientia 2792-1298 10.31357/vjs.v25i02 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2022 ftusrijayewarden https://doi.org/10.31357/vjs.v25i02.6177 https://doi.org/10.31357/vjs.v25i02 2023-01-01T19:42:58Z The study depicts the links between man-made environmental issues based on cause-and-effect relationships from real-world examples. For instance, man-made climate change is caused primarily by deforestation, draining of wetlands, intensive farming, and air pollution (greenhouse gas emission). Besides, every anthropogenic environmental problem may cause various other environmental problems, such as air pollution causes ocean acidification, ozone depletion, acid rain, disease, and visual pollution (smog). Similarly, deforestation causes biodiversity loss, land degradation, and human-animal conflict. About 255 links were examined among 40 identified environmental issues. In this web, certain causative environmental problems establish keystone links. Keystone environmental problems were identified from the concept map based on the criteria given by the following approach. When mitigating a man-made environmental problem, if it results in the permanent disappearance of one or more man-made environmental problems, then that mitigated problem can be considered a keystone environmental problem. To be specific, a complete dependency of the resulting environmental problem/s on the parent environmental problem has enabled the parent environmental problem to be considered a keystone environmental problem. This is because if the causative parent issue gets solved, then the resultingoffspring/s cannot exist. Eight man-made environmental problems were found as keystones, such as air pollution, deforestation, population explosion, overexploitation of natural resources, global energy crisis, intensive farming, water pollution-water scarcity, and urbanization (industrialization)-urban sprawlsettlements. Keywords: environment, environmental problems, manmade environmental problems, keystone environmental problems, interconnected environmental problems Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Japura Open Journals University of Sri Jayewardenepura Vidyodaya Journal of Science 25 02 |
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The study depicts the links between man-made environmental issues based on cause-and-effect relationships from real-world examples. For instance, man-made climate change is caused primarily by deforestation, draining of wetlands, intensive farming, and air pollution (greenhouse gas emission). Besides, every anthropogenic environmental problem may cause various other environmental problems, such as air pollution causes ocean acidification, ozone depletion, acid rain, disease, and visual pollution (smog). Similarly, deforestation causes biodiversity loss, land degradation, and human-animal conflict. About 255 links were examined among 40 identified environmental issues. In this web, certain causative environmental problems establish keystone links. Keystone environmental problems were identified from the concept map based on the criteria given by the following approach. When mitigating a man-made environmental problem, if it results in the permanent disappearance of one or more man-made environmental problems, then that mitigated problem can be considered a keystone environmental problem. To be specific, a complete dependency of the resulting environmental problem/s on the parent environmental problem has enabled the parent environmental problem to be considered a keystone environmental problem. This is because if the causative parent issue gets solved, then the resultingoffspring/s cannot exist. Eight man-made environmental problems were found as keystones, such as air pollution, deforestation, population explosion, overexploitation of natural resources, global energy crisis, intensive farming, water pollution-water scarcity, and urbanization (industrialization)-urban sprawlsettlements. Keywords: environment, environmental problems, manmade environmental problems, keystone environmental problems, interconnected environmental problems |
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Investigation into the Interconnected Nature of Environmental Problems and Identifying Keystone Environmental Problems |
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Investigation into the Interconnected Nature of Environmental Problems and Identifying Keystone Environmental Problems |
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Investigation into the Interconnected Nature of Environmental Problems and Identifying Keystone Environmental Problems |
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Investigation into the Interconnected Nature of Environmental Problems and Identifying Keystone Environmental Problems |
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Investigation into the Interconnected Nature of Environmental Problems and Identifying Keystone Environmental Problems |
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investigation into the interconnected nature of environmental problems and identifying keystone environmental problems |
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