A new narrative for sustainability: Exploring biogas plants as ‘first movers’ in raising energy awareness

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Energy Awareness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Biogas Plants ◽  
Education Process

Abstract It is not only worth talking about the chances of survival in the fight against emerging environmental and socio-economic threats, but it is necessary to use all possible means to influence public awareness. It is awareness that shapes our attitudes and literacy. The core of these tools is cross-sectoral place-based education. This raises the question of the role of new energy actors in the education process. As ‘first movers’, they have enormous power in the local community. Are they therefore merely energy producers, or perhaps, using their position, are they actively involved in creating local energy behaviours? A combination of social research methods including qualitative studies helped respond to this question. As the study shows, an opportunity for effective education is contextualisation, embedding educators in the local social structure and including first movers – energy producers – in this process. Biogas entrepreneurs transpose the knowledge of renewable energy – a globally known issue – to the local level. The provision of comprehensive education requires institutional support focused on building partnerships between policy makers, teachers and practitioners, enabling not only trans-sectoral contact but also the exchange of experience.

Community rebuilding processes in a disaster-damaged area through community currency

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Nakazato ◽  
Seunghoo Lim
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Community Currency ◽  
Community Rebuilding ◽  
Potential Tool

Purpose Community currency (CC) is used as a tool for reviving local communities by promoting economic growth and facilitating the formation of social capital. Although the Japanese CC movement has stagnated since mid-2005, a new experiment, Fukkou Ouen Chiiki Tsuka (CC for supporting disaster recovery), was introduced across disaster-damaged areas after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Previous studies assessing the role of CC in these earthquake-damaged areas are rare; the purpose of this paper is to examine the micro processes of community rebuilding that underlie the transactional networks mediated by one of the experiments, Domo, in Kamaishi. Design/methodology/approach Using transactional records capturing residents’ CC activities during the five-month pilot period before actual implementation of Domo simultaneous investigation for empirical network analysis techniques identify the network configuration dynamics representing the multiple observed forms of social capital in this disaster-affected local community. Findings This study of the five-month pilot for the Domo system revealed: intensive dependence on the coordinating role of core members (i.e. the creation of weak ties), a lack of balanced support among members and the resulting uni-directional transactions (i.e. the avoidance of generalized exchanges), and the reinforcement of previous transactional ties via reciprocation or transitive triads (i.e. the formation of strong ties). Originality/value This study provides guidance for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers on how community residents’ engagement in CC activities could function as a potential tool for generating positive socio-economic effects for local communities in disaster areas.

scholarly journals Women and Batik Conservation on Muria Slopes: A Study of Female Batik Crafters in Kudus

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Zaimatus Sa’diyah
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Youth Community ◽  
And Training

The worsening condition of nature calls the critical attention of human beings to look for primary keys to deal with. Struggling with the same issue, the local government of Kudus promotes community-based development programs that concern with introducing environmental conservation and education, besides cultural understanding programs, which emphasizes local community awareness in environmentally friendly tourism hosting and management. The youth community is invited to join workshops and training to enrich the skills in some handy craft production, networking and society management, particularly related to batik. “Komunitas Batik Manjing Werni” (KBMW) is one of the community-based development centers that concerns in promoting a unique batik motif. This article aims to describe the role of female crafters of natural motif batik in batik conservation on Muria slope. The main objective is to identify how these female crafters in KBMW contribute to build public awareness around Muria slope conservation through religious teachings and education. The data in this descriptive-qualitative research were obtained through observation, documentation and interviews with key persons in KBMW, people living around KBMW and Kudus regency tourism office.

scholarly journals The Perception of Overtourism from the Perspective of Different Generations

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. Szromek ◽  
Beata Hysa ◽  
Aneta Karasek
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Intergenerational Differences ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact

The problem of overtourism, i.e., tourist congestion in visited places, and the negative impacts of tourists on the environment and residents, are increasingly noticeable with the increase in popularity of tourism. In addition, human impact on the environment is often negative in relation to the assumptions of the concept of sustainable development. However, the attitude of tourists to the problem of overtourism may vary depending on their ages, because, as in every aspect of life, there are intergenerational differences arising from the political, economic or technological development of the times in which a given generation grew up. The main purpose of the article is to examine the public awareness of the phenomenon of overtourism in the context of intergenerational differences, as well as to determine the impact of tourists on the places visited and the local community. The study was conducted on a sample of 386 respondents representing the X, Y, and Z generations. The study results showed that there is awareness among all generations of respondents about the problem of overtourism, although indifference to this phenomenon was demonstrated by the youngest respondents (Z generation). The respondents also agreed on individual elements of their own impact on the environment and residents, but with different determinations. The article ends with recommendations on the introduction of various management practices that should be implemented in order to make tourism more responsible and sustainable in the future. It is proposed that a road map should be compiled at the local level for sustainable tourism development.

Current Trends and Future Tendencies: Developing Sustainable Assessment Cultures

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-373
Author(s):  
Stephen Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Insight Into

Schools and their development as sustainable assessment cultures requires insight into the interests and role of different stakeholders: school policy makers, teachers and their teaching teams, principals, parents, pupils and the local community. Researchers are not immediately included in this list, but as external advisers they can play a pivotal role as catalysts or as the advocate for the actions or informed reflections of stakeholders. A stakeholder approach can easily draw support from rational choice theory or the perhaps more fashionable systems approach. In the opening article to this special issue, the authors are less interested in adopting and defending a single theoretical perspective and seek, instead, to highlight and provide an overview of a number of debates and approaches that seek to understand the study and practice of developing sustainable assessment cultures in schools. In the course of this article, the contributions of this special issue will be positioned in what is, in many respects, a global dialogue, where different researchers are keen to draw upon the experience and conceptual resources of colleagues located around the world.

scholarly journals School Principals’ Standards and Expectations in Three Educational Contexts

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Murakami ◽  
Monika Tornsen ◽  
Katina Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy Borrowing ◽  
Academic Improvement ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Widespread Access ◽  
Goals And Objectives

Principals play a key role in schools influencing academic improvement through a campus vision, goals, and objectives. They are also charged with the task of supervising and supporting students, teachers, and families in the community, with the intent of guiding students toward their future. The principals are guided in their efforts by standards and expectations designed by states, provinces, or governments. Current policy-makers and officials in charge of re-designing these standards and practices for principals are known for observing other countries, in efforts to improve local schooling, using information technology’s widespread access and international exchanges. These standards and expectations are meant to address the need of the local community, but may updated or borrowed from school systems in other countries. The purpose of this cross-country comparative study is to explore standards and expectations for school principals and the role of educational leadership observing global contexts of attraction for policy borrowing in three sites—Ontario, Canada; Texas, USA; and Sweden. We explore, “To what extent policy borrowing philosophies and ideologies influence standards and expectations for principals?”

scholarly journals An incubator model based on the territorial value chain

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Contò ◽  
Felice Adinolfi ◽  
Mariantonietta Fiore ◽  
Piermichele La Sala
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Local Foods ◽  
Comprehensive Strategy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
A Value

Policies to promote and encourage local foods may take many different shapes depending on both the specific targets and strategies. Some policies, especially at a local level, promote supply-chain vertical and horizontal integration as a comprehensive strategy which aims to help firms pursue several of the promoting policies. A business model that focuses its attention on the consumer of the product and territory can be a crucial driver in generating a ‘land fecundation’ as a response to globalization. The aim of the paper is to investigate the link between rural development and territorialisation, exploring the role of Local Action Groups Integrated Projects of Food Chain and Rural Development Programmes from 2007-2013 in a region in Southern Italy. The article makes use of a value chain approach, starting with Porter’s value chain model and five forces model of competition; it proposes a methodological framework for the development of an organisational model that includes and builds networks between the several stakeholders and local programmes, creating a shared strategy to revitalising the area and the food choices of its residents. This revitalising process takes place through the implementation of a multi-purpose incubator establishing strong partnerships that are able to foster complementarities among all rural stakeholders. Conclusions and implications for policy makers are drawn: a model of territorial organisation could link territorial capital and local stakeholders, and therefore the programming carried out under the entire RDP.

scholarly journals Climate Resilience with Traditional Wisdom in Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Pallavi Tiwari ◽  
Archana Kushwaha ◽  
Yogesh Kumar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Fast Rate ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The climate is changing at a fast rate and the impact of the same can now be felt across all the world. The worst hit is the Asian countries which are the most vulnerable when it comes to extreme events. To cope with same, local level actions are the most effective if originated from local community and local context. Traditional wisdom originates from deep cultural and environmental considerations along with generations transformation that transcends these traditional practices to a much-suited action with respect to resiliency. The paper establishes the role of such traditional practices in the achievement of climate resilience in communities. The authors draw insights from the existing indigenous practices from various Asian countries and try to analyze the various challenges and potential in adoption of such practices on larger scale. The paper concludes with recommendations to overcome such challenges.

scholarly journals Institutional Support for Biogas Enterprises – The Local Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Chodkowska-Miszczuk
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
External Funding ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Biogas Plants ◽  
The One

Abstract Institutional support, reflected not only in legislative solutions, but also in external funding as a means of financial support, is of strategic importance for the success of new power investments, the guarantee of energy security of individual areas, and the socio-economic development of the region where new energy enterprises are located. The present study aims to follow the external funding of biogas investments carried out in Poland, both in the aspect of legal regulations, and the offered co-financing of biogas projects. Considering that biogas enterprises are located and operate in specific places and local systems, the present research problem is tackled from the perspective of the functioning of biogas plants in the local environment. The success of biogas projects and the entire energy transformation process depends, on the one hand, on the harmonisation of activities at the central, national level and, on the other hand, on taking into account the specific socio-economic features that characterise the location of the biogas plant. Therefore, providing comprehensive institutional support for investment for biogas enterprises requires equipping local institutions, including local authorities, with appropriate instruments to shape and monitor the agricultural biogas market at the local level.

Community forestry in Ontario

1994 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 725-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Harvey ◽  
Brian Hillier
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Forestry Project

Policy-makers and resource managers are attempting to define more-effective mechanisms for involving the local community in forest land management for many years. In the past five years, renewed attention has been given to the opportunity for empowering local communities with decision-making and program delivery responsibilities. The community forestry project in Ontario is one example of policy-makers, resource managers and local communities trying to bridge the gap between community development and resource management. With the assistance of four pilot projects, a research project and public discussion, a community forestry strategy is under development in Ontario. While it may take years to produce indisputable results through trials at the local level, three years of work have already enriched our understanding of the interface between human settlements and natural resources and of alternative means for successful stewardship. Key words: community forestry, community forest, Ontario

scholarly journals From Social Research to Education and Training - Campaigns to Raising Public Awareness of Hazards

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Barbara Szykula Piec ◽  
Izabella Grabowska Lepczak ◽  
Monika Wojakowska
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
And Training ◽  
Education Process

The education of society regarding safety is in fact the cheapest, smartest and most effective form of preventing danger. It constitutes a fundamental way of building the population’s safety. It also has a great influence upon the attitudes, values, knowledge and skills required for proper behaviour in case of danger.The article describes the education process consisting in the transfer of knowledge and teaching skills in order to take specific actions, as well as forms and tools to raise the level of social awareness, especially in terms of perceiving actions, and a list of references showing the flow of social research, its purpose, and the tools used. Most of the elements, however, are shown in the list of possibilities to use tools on a very large scale, in the form of social campaigns. An example is given of a practical approach to all departments and goals for raising the level of social opinion in Transcarpathia and of hazadrs occurring in that area and ways to counteract them.

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