Smart and Innovative Nanotechnology Applications for Water Purification

Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 87 - 120

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

India is a large country with diverse topography, climate, and geological makeup, which results in varying groundwater conditions across the nation. Groundwater purity constantly being disrupted by unsustainable resource usage indiscriminate use of pesticides, fertilizers, industrial contaminants. Shallow aquifers are typically contaminated agrochemicals garbage from homes businesses. The delivery accessible clean water for every individual 21st century's foremost concern. Rising population, changing deteriorating quality all exacerbate this. Innovation technology, such nanotechnology, crucial allowing integrated management to extend supply through non-traditional sources improve treatment efficacy. entire world endures an ongoing risk shortfall, why conservation growing more important. Not only our hands, but technology innovation also at cutting edge future. New ideas have potential completely change how we conserve this valuable providing fresh answers long-standing issues. This chapter will examine core these developments, their implications, they contribute guarantee future free scarcity. availability affordable, person greatest Climate change, population growth, aggravate By developing novel nanomaterials wastewater, groundwater, surface polluted dangerous metal ions, inorganic organic solutes, microbes, nanotechnology can increase access clean, safe drinking water. Consequently, advancement brought revolutionary problems physics, chemistry, engineering, other fields. Getting enough cheap suit human needs one biggest challenges twenty-first century. Much focus recent years has been on nanostructured materials as catalysts or adsorbents remove poisonous damaging chemicals wastewater. Since beginning decade, drawn particular interest due distinct qualities above those bulk materials. Like many nanomaterials, single- multi-metal doped oxides likewise highly sought-after unique catalytic characteristics, elevated magnetic properties, high surface-to-volume ratios.

Language: Английский

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Conceptual Foundations of Sustainability

Topics in Cognitive Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 334 - 356

Published: June 29, 2023

Threats to the health of our environment are numerous. Much research in science and engineering is devoted documenting, understanding, attempting mitigate harm itself. The root challenge for sustainability, however, human behavior. As such, changes behaviors internal processes that drive them also essential. Critical understanding sustainability-related individual's conceptualization natural world its components processes. papers this topiCS issue address these conceptualizations by drawing from anthropological, linguistic, educational, philosophical, social cognitive perspectives as well traditional psychological approaches study concepts their development children. They engage with many domains bearing on environmental sustainability including climate change, biodiversity, land water conservation, resource use, design built environment. coalesce around four broad themes: (a) What people know (or believe) about nature broadly specific aspects nature, how they acquire use knowledge; (b) knowledge expressed shared via language; (c) beliefs interact affective, social, motivational influences yield attitudes behaviors; (d) members different cultures speakers languages differ ways. point lessons advancing public policy messaging, education, conservation management,

Language: Английский

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A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning

Environmental Education Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 17

Published: Feb. 7, 2025

Language: Английский

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“The Earth is Alive”: Attributing Agency to the Earth Causes Moral Concern for the Environment and Biocentric Attitudes

Cognitive Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 49(3)

Published: March 1, 2025

Abstract Do people need to attribute agency nature morally care for it? The answer this question has significant implications our understanding of social cognitive effects on moral judgment. Despite its relevance during an environmental crisis, surprisingly little is known about the answer. Across two studies, we explored whether attributing nonhuman natural entities like Earth a causal influence concern and intrinsic valuing (biocentrism). In Study 1, used experimental design, assigning U.S. urban adults one three videos history Earth's ecosystems. Two them described as agent: either thoughtful person (psychological) or living animal (vitalist). third nonagentic object (control). Participants in agentic condition showed greater biocentrism than participants condition. 2, examined whether—absent any cues—a scientifically informative video would prompt have effect watching awe‐inspiring depictions learning irrelevant information control No differences were found. However, patterning with individuals’ tendencies mind predicted reasoning. Carefully invoked, vitalist attributions—which deviate less from scientific understandings psychological ones—can mobilize conservationist attitudes among adults. Overall, results suggest that attributions life are required engage concern.

Language: Английский

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Psychological Pathways for Sustainable Relationships: Transcendent Emotion, Animistic Belief, and Moral Reasoning Within an Embodied Ecology

Review of General Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 15, 2025

This scoping review outlines psychological pathways that foster attunement with self, others, and the planet in service of a future composed more sustainable relationships. Shifts social sustainability sciences represent relational turn, one focuses on interconnectedness human more-than-human earth. In this review, we explore how psychologists can deepen their ecological orientations by attending to interdisciplinary work has been done still needs doing, all personal, interpersonal, planetary health. Sustainable relationships maintain mutuality, balance, harmony, minimize harm, maximize equity, ways are viable persist over time. paper, framework for through lens embodied ecology—a perspective foregrounds relations instead bounded entities. Embodied ecology encompasses transcends ontology epistemology, where individual wider constant state motion: being becoming mutually interdependent. We examine three dimensions ecology: (1) transcendent moral emotions (2) animistic beliefs, (3) reasoning. provides conceptual map psychology’s role understanding

Language: Английский

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How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia

Journal of Cognition and Development, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: May 26, 2025

Language: Английский

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Innovative Strategies and Technologies in Waste Management in the Modern Era Integration of Sustainable Principles, Resource Efficiency, and Environmental Impact

International Journal of Science and Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 5(4), P. 87 - 100

Published: Sept. 1, 2023

In the context of waste management in modern era, environmental challenges are increasingly complex. Innovative strategies and sustainable technology important to answer this problem. This study aims analyze impact implementing innovative technologies provide recommendations for mitigating negative impacts. The literature method is used collect relevant data. results research illustrate positive potential but also emphasize need careful mitigation measures reduce impacts on environment. facing management, strategies, real opportunities achieve sustainability future.

Language: Английский

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Don't bug me!: The role of names, functions, and feelings in shaping children's and adults' conservation attitudes about unappealing species

Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 87, P. 101990 - 101990

Published: Feb. 28, 2023

Language: Английский

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Cultural Niche Construction as a Framework for Reorienting Human−Environment Relations

Topics in Cognitive Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 413 - 432

Published: June 23, 2023

In this paper, we argue that the theory of cultural niche construction provides a cogent and fruitful framework for studying managing human-environment relationships, including our conceptualizations them. We first review development ideas from evolutionary to social contexts. then discuss how various human cognitive affective goals are achieved through engagement interaction with environment, as construction. extend analysis built urban construction, provide two examples design which useful theoretical practical insights. also different policy initiatives related lens

Language: Английский

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Toward Just and Sustainable Futures: Human Learning and Relationality Within Socio-Ecological Systems

Review of Research in Education, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 47(1), P. 218 - 273

Published: March 1, 2023

This chapter explores how learning to be in relation is core human learning. Reductive views of cultural variation and individualized conceptualizations thriving overlook the processes through which beings learn live relationally ways that support systems transformation collective well-being. Synthesizing literature on development, we provide a conceptual model examines four interrelated dimensions relationality: (a) embodiment, mobilities, attention, place; (b) affect, awe, emotion; (c) pedagogical interactions, supports, participation; (d) reimagining disciplines. We argue attending relationality include between-persons + place more-than-human relations helps conceptualize as deeply tied ongoing forms adaptation, ethical relations, worldmaking required for socio-ecological

Language: Английский

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