Community Conservation and Ethnoecology: The Three Dimensions of Local-Level Biodiversity Maintenance

2013 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Víctor Manuel Toledo Manzur
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Community Conservation ◽  
Biodiversity Maintenance

scholarly journals More or Less Political: Findings on a Central Feature of Local Engagement for Refugees in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Schmid ◽  
Adalbert Evers ◽  
Georg Mildenberger
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Local Support ◽  
Local Engagement ◽  
The City ◽  
Political Character

The article is based on research in the region of Heidelberg—the city itself and two small municipalities nearby. It addresses three dimensions of local support movements for refugees: (1) the varying bundles of motives among those engaged, (2) the diversity of organizations concerned and (3) their interaction with the local political administration. A focal point of the study concerns features and processes that give actions and organizations a more or less political character. Our results reveal that, especially among newly engaged helpers and activists, political and apolitical motives coexist. Many people and their local organizations take positions in the country-wide controversial political debates on refugees, but for their practical action on location, moral concerns clearly prevail. Processes of politicization and depoliticization of refugee support largely depend on the ways and degrees to which nationwide political controversies and local developments intermesh. Politicization may take place due to controversies that call for more than a moral attitude, have an impact and build up at the local level. However, resistance to supportive action, be it by changing discourses or the persistence of traditional administrative routines, may also cause depoliticization, where volunteers and initiatives restrict themselves to acting as mere helpers that bring some human touch into an environment that longs to return to normality.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Shadow IT Integration Drawbacks from a Systemic Viewpoint

Systems ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Melanie Huber ◽  
Stephan Zimmermann ◽  
Christopher Rentrop ◽  
Carsten Felden
Keyword(s):  
Switching Costs ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
It Department ◽  
It Integration ◽  
Third Dimension ◽  
Shadow It

Business units are increasingly able to fuel the transformation that digitalization demands of organizations. Thereby, they can implement Shadow IT (SIT) without involving a central IT department to create flexible and innovative solutions. Self-reinforcing effects lead to an intertwinement of SIT with the organization. As a result, high complexities, redundancies, and sometimes even lock-ins occur. IT Integration suggests itself to meet these challenges. However, it can also eliminate the benefits that SIT presents. To help organizations in this area of conflict, we are conducting a literature review including a systematic search and an analysis from a systemic viewpoint using path dependency and switching costs. Our resulting conceptual framework for SIT integration drawbacks classifies the drawbacks into three dimensions. The first dimension consists of switching costs that account for the financial, procedural, and emotional drawbacks and the drawbacks from a loss of SIT benefits. The second dimension includes organizational, technical, and level-spanning criteria. The third dimension classifies the drawbacks into the global level, the local level, and the interaction between them. We contribute to the scientific discussion by introducing a systemic viewpoint to the research on shadow IT. Practitioners can use the presented criteria to collect evidence to reach an IT integration decision.

Conceptual Principles of the Civil Society Research

2017 ◽  
pp. 214-221
Author(s):  
Oleksandra Demianenko
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
State Level ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Economic Landscape

The article attempts to analyze the conceptual foundations of the study of civil society (theoretical and methodological foundations) comprehensively in order to generalize research material on this subject. Different approaches to the concept and phenomenon of civil society in the historical context of their formation are analyzed and systematized. Taking into account complex content and the form of a civil society as a subject of research, the author offers an approach to its analysis, providing three dimensions of the study: a theoretical; a historical; and a practical one. The emphasis is on the importance of the economic component in the emergence of the phenomenon of a civil society in the socio-political reality and the significance of changes in the economic realm to update goals and objectives, as well as the structure of a civil society. Contemporary investigation of civil society involves research of information technologies that affect the level of openness and mobility of any knowledge and information; globalization processes that shape the new economic landscape of the world and, therefore, become the subject of civil society due to inevitable social-economic conflicts and contradictions; migration processes that affect the value system of both migrants and settled population, which leads to the formation of completely new subjects and objects of influence of civil society; ecological problems, which do not have a pronounced nationality and directly affect humanity as a whole, which leads to the emergence of international environmental movements. A separate problem in considering the theory of civil society is the level of personal interactions in modern conditions. The emergence of planetary problems and, accordingly, the interests of people allow distinguishing three levels of social relations, which have their own characteristics and directly affect the approaches to the implementation of civil society. Such levels are local level of interrelations (within the framework of separate communities, professional or cultural communities); national level of interrelations (at the state level or interstate regional interrelations); supranational level of interrelations (environmental issues, war and peace issues, disarmament, etc.). Keywords: Civil society, capitalism, labor market, mass movements, economic inequality, justice, conflict of interests, institutionalization

The Making (and Unmaking) of a Bordered Imaginary

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-76
Author(s):  
Kristen Hill Maher ◽  
David Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Production ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Large Role ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Asymmetry ◽  
International Border ◽  
Over Time

How has the notion of a line marking San Diego and Tijuana as unequal neighbors been produced and challenged over time? This chapter examines three dimensions of regional history. The first lays out the histories of tourism and commerce that developed out of the asymmetry of the international border. These sectors thrived on a border that was fluid yet premised on inequality. The second part focuses on industrial production and trade, sectors that both reinforced and blurred borders. The final part turns to the US government’s hardening of the borderline through policing and inspections, which have played a large role in making the asymmetric border psychologically “real.” Bordering practices also appear at the local level, as do many debordering challenges to the notion of a line demarking unequal places.

scholarly journals THE DEGREE OF DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABILITY AT A LOCAL LEVEL: EVIDENCE FROM MAZOVIAN COUNTIES IN POLAND

2019 ◽  
Vol XXI (4) ◽  
pp. 421-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Siudek
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Distance Analysis ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office

he aim of this study was to determine the sustainability degree of local development for counties of the Mazowieckie (Mazovian) Voivodship in the years 2006-2015. Research was conducted on a population of 42 counties (territorial units at NUTS 4 level), including 5 town counties (towns possessing county status) and 37 land counties. Basing on data from the Local Data Bank of the Central Statistical Office, three dimensions of development were investigated: economic, social and ecological (environmental). The author’s conceptual approach, incorporating dimensional indexes of development and Euclidean distance analysis, was applied to capture the interactions between and balance across the three pillars of sustainability. Through the results of the study, it is observed that the highest degree of local development sustainability was achieved by counties located up to 50 kilometres from Poland’s capital city Warsaw (i.e. grodziski, grójecki, nowodworski, otwocki, sochaczewski, wołomiński and żyrardowski), while the lowest by towns with a county status (Ostrołęka, Płock and Warsaw) and by peripheral counties of the east and south part of the Mazovian Voivodship (siedlecki, przysuski, lipski and zwoleński). In the 2015 ranking, according to the sustainability degree of counties, the first three spots were taken by ciechanowski, przasnyski and sochaczewski counties. The following town counties took the last three positions: Ostrołęka, Płock and Warsaw.

Connecting the First Mile

2008 ◽  
pp. 513-533
Author(s):  
Surmaya Talyarkhan ◽  
David J. Grimshaw ◽  
Lucky Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Practice Framework ◽  
Share Information

This chapter characterises the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) to share information with people at grassroots as connecting the first mile. It examines the literature about connecting the first mile and identifies the key debates: whether solutions should be participatory or top-down, technological or social, whether they should focus on global or local information, and the overall potential of ICTs for development. The chapter synthesises the lessons from a range of practical studies to identify the factors that contribute to the success of a project. A framework of best practice is offered, divided into three dimensions: the environment, the project level, and the local level. Whilst recognising that initiatives will vary according to the local context, the authors offer the best practice framework to support practitioners in addressing the challenges of connecting the first mile and empowering marginal communities to participate effectively in the information society.

A Three-Dimensional Approach to Multistream Migration Modelling: Local-Level Flows in Hereford and Worcester

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1279-1293 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Population Migration ◽  
Parameter Estimates ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
Migration System

Population migration occurs for many reasons, or combinations of reasons. Subsequently, it is often useful to distinguish streams of migrants, within a given migration system, which are likely to exhibit similar characteristics in their pattern of search and choice of residential destination. This has often been achieved by using distance cutoffs to delimit the various flows into categories. In this paper, an approach is suggested which does not disaggregate migrant flows by distance criteria alone, but incorporates measures relating to the nature of the origins and of the destinations. Relatively homogeneous groups of migrants are therefore distinguished within the county of Hereford and Worcester with information from three dimensions rather than one. In comparison with a standard single-stream regression model this method improves the fit substantially, and the variability in the resulting parameter estimates for each of the eight streams supports the need for identification of distinct migrant streams. In particular, flows over short distances between wards with high population densities are estimated more effectively.

Spatial dynamics of cultural diversity in the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1142-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Arribas-Bel ◽  
Jessie Bakens
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Population Diversity ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Clear Trend ◽  
Neighbourhood Level

In this paper, we analyse the spatial dimension of changing ethnic diversity at the neighbourhood level. Drawing from recent work on income convergence, we characterise the evolution of population diversity in the Netherlands over space. Our analysis is structured over three dimensions, which allow us to find clear spatial patterns in how cultural diversity changes at the neighbourhood level. Globally, we use directional statistics to visualise techniques of exploratory data analysis, finding a clear trend towards ‘spatially integrated change’: a situation where the trajectory of ethnic change in a neighbourhood is closely related to that in adjacent neighbourhoods. When we zoom into the local level, a visualisation of recent measures of local concordance allows us to document a high degree of spatial heterogeneity in how the overall change is distributed over space. Finally, to further explore the nature and characteristics of neighbourhoods that experience the largest amount of change, we develop a spatial, multilevel model. Our results show that the largest cities, as well as those at the boundaries with Belgium and Germany, with the most diverse neighbourhoods, have large clusters of stable neighbourhood diversity over time, while concentrations of high dynamic areas are nearby these largest cities. The analysis shows that neighbourhood diversity spatially ‘spills over’, gradually expanding outside traditionally diverse areas.

scholarly journals Qualitative Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibolya Török
Keyword(s):  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Flood Hazards ◽  
Social Vulnerability Index ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Wide Range

This paper investigates local-scale social vulnerability to flood hazards in Romania, aiming to identify the most vulnerable social and demographic groups across a wide range of geographical locations by considering three dimensions: demographic, socioeconomic, and the built environment. The purpose of the paper is threefold: first, it strives to improve the Social Vulnerability model (SoVI®) by applying a different weighting method adapted to the Romanian context, taking into consideration the municipalities exposed to flood movements. Second, it aims to develop an assessment model for the most vulnerable communities by measuring the heterogeneity according to local indicators related to disaster risks. Third, it aims to facilitate emergency managers to identify community sub-groups that are more susceptible to loss and to increase the resilience of local communities. To perform local-level vulnerability mapping, 28 variables were selected and three aggregated indexes were constructed with the help of the ArcGIS software. Moreover, a model of Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) between communities directly affected by floods and localities with high- and very high values of the Local Social Vulnerability Index (LoSoVI) was used to explore the spatial relationship among them and to compare the appropriateness of Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and GWR for such modelling. The established GWR model has revealed that the negative effects of flood hazards are often associated with communities with a high degree of social vulnerability. Thus, the analysis is able to provide a more comprehensive picture on communities in desperate need of financial resources in order to have the ability to diminish the negative impacts of flood hazards and to provide a more sustainable society.

Connecting the First Mile

2006 ◽  
pp. 227-257
Author(s):  
Surmaya Talyarkhan ◽  
David J. Grimshaw ◽  
Lucky Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Practice Framework ◽  
Share Information

This chapter characterises the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) to share information with people at grassroots as connecting the first mile. It examines the literature about connecting the first mile and identifies the key debates: whether solutions should be participatory or top-down, technological or social, whether they should focus on global or local information, and the overall potential of ICTs for development. The chapter synthesises the lessons from a range of practical studies to identify the factors that contribute to the success of a project. A framework of best practice is offered, divided into three dimensions: the environment, the project level, and the local level. Whilst recognising that initiatives will vary according to the local context, the authors offer the best practice framework to support practitioners in addressing the challenges of connecting the first mile and empowering marginal communities to participate effectively in the information society.

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