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Whether and How Social Work Could Address the Long-Term Socio-environmental Risks Caused by the Mining Industry in Northern Finland
2018
Despite underlining the importance of the commitment of states and international organizations, the discourse on human security is seldom explicit about who the actors or frontline workers are that operationalize the framework. One such group of practitioners that is possibly involved, but largely unacknowledged, is social workers, especially as social work as a discipline, profession and social movement has a value base and overall goals that are very similar to the human security approach. In social work, the categories of economic, food, environmental and community security fall within the discourse of human security, particularly with the currently evolving ecosocial (ecological/environ…
Risk assessment of gypsum amendment on agricultural fields: Effects of sulfate on riverine biota
2022
Gypsum (CaSO4 ∙ 2H2 O) amendment is a promising way of decreasing the phosphorus loading of arable lands, and of thus preventing aquatic eutrophication. However, in freshwaters with low sulfate concentrations, gypsum-released sulfate may pose a threat to the biota. To assess such risks, we performed a series of sulfate toxicity tests in the laboratory and conducted field surveys. These field surveys were associated with a large-scale pilot exercise involving spreading gypsum on agricultural fields covering 18% of the Savijoki River catchment area. The gypsum amendment in such fields resulted in about fourfold increase in the mean sulfate concentration for a 2-month period, and a transient, …
Ympäristöterveys ja paikallinen riskihavainto - laadullisessa vertailussa maaseutu ja urbaani elinympäristö Nigeriassa
2002
In international development discourse more emphasis has been given to locality during recent years. Local dwellers and stakeholders should be more wholly involved in the environmental protection programmes based on the principles of sustainable development. Rising from Douglas’s theory of risks (1985) as a result of cultural and social negotiation process, the paper focuses on the process of the formulation of an environmental health risk. This is based on a community development risk cycle (ref. Clausen 1989). The qualitative data is from the fieldwork periods (1998, 1999 and 2001) to rural communities of Ile-Ife region, and an urban shantytown of Lagos, Nigeria, among the Yoruba ethnic g…
Toward sustainable environmental quality: Priority research questions for Europe
2018
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals have been established to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. Delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals will require a healthy and productive environment. An understanding of the impacts of chemicals which can negatively impact environmental health is therefore essential to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, current research on and regulation of chemicals in the environment tend to take a simplistic view and do not account for the complexity of the real world, which inhibits the way we manage chemicals. There is therefore an urgent need for a step change in the way we study and communic…
Ympäristösosiologia
2016
Esipuhe, 5 1. Luonto ja yhteiskunta – ympäristösosiologian lähtökohdat, Jarno Valkonen & Kimmo Saaristo, 7 2. Ympäristösosiologinen luonto, Jarno Valkonen, 29 3. Sosiologisia lähestymistapoja yhteiskunnan ympäristösuhteeseen, Marja Ylönen & Tapio Litmanen, 51 4.Tieto, tiede ja asiantuntijuus, Marja Ylönen, 83 5. Ympäristökonfliktit, Jarno Valkonen & Kimmo Saaristo, 101 6. Eläimet – luonnon ja yhteiskunnan rajoilla, Salla Tuomivaara, 115 7. Ympäristö, talous ja kulutus, Jarno Valkonen & Tapio Litmanen, 143 8. Riski ympäristösosiologian käsitteenä, Tapio Litmanen, 167 9. Teknologinen modernisaatio ja ympäristösosiologia, Tapio Litmanen, 183 10. Ympäristösosiologian haaste, Jarno Valkonen, 19…