Considering Social Aspects of Geothermal Project: The Case of Social Mapping of Geothermal Project on Mount Ungaran

The development of renewable energy is an important step to reduce dependence on fossil energy. Geothermal energy is one source of renewable energy in Indonesia. However, when a geothermal project is not managed properly, the social political and cultural conditions of the community can be a failure factor in geothermal development. Through mix methods, this research undertakes social mapping in the project of Mount Ungaran as one of the geothermal development sites. Socially the people in the project area typically are rural communities where the role of informal leaders is very influential. There are a number of communities and non-governmental organizations that disagree with the development plan due to environmental, cultural and economic damage concerns. Yet, political support was obtained from the regional government and village government.

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Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Communities

Cases on the Diffusion and Adoption of Sustainable Development Practices ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2842-7.ch010 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 253-286 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Inna Platonova

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Social Services ◽

Energy Services ◽

Practical Action ◽

Renewable Energy Technologies ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Energy Technologies ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

Local Actors

Worldwide, over 1.3 billion people lack access to energy. Lack of electricity undermines the provision of basic social services, including education and health, and impedes development of income generating opportunities. Renewable energy technologies provide a viable option to rural electrification and are increasingly recognized for their contribution to rural development, energy security, and climate change mitigation. International non-governmental organizations (NGOs), working in partnerships with local actors, play an important role in the diffusion of renewable energy technologies in developing countries. Based on the exploratory case study of the international NGO Practical Action, this chapter explores the nature and effectiveness of development partnerships for the provision of sustainable energy services in remote off-grid rural communities in Cajamarca, Peru. It emphasizes the importance of building effective partnerships with communities and local government; facilitating community participation and ownership; building capacities for sustainable provision of energy services; and providing affordable and appropriate technological solutions that meet people’s needs.

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Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Communities

Sustainable Practices ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4852-4.ch058 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1047-1071

Author(s):

Inna Platonova

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Social Services ◽

Energy Services ◽

Practical Action ◽

Renewable Energy Technologies ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Energy Technologies ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

Local Actors

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Governance challenges for commercial exploitation of a non-timber forest product by marginalized rural communities

Environmental Conservation ◽

10.1017/s0376892916000072 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 208-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

ALAINE A. BALL ◽

PEDRO H.S. BRANCALION

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Forest Products ◽

Fruit Pulp ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

Poor Access ◽

Governance Challenges ◽

Non Timber Forest Products ◽

Conservation Governance ◽

Conservation And Development Projects

SUMMARYWhile conservation and development projects focusing on non-timber forest products (NTFPs) remain popular approaches to address complex issues of livelihood improvement and conservation, governance of NTFPs is still poorly understood. In the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot of Brazil, non-governmental organizations, researchers and community leaders are encouraging the commercialization of fruit pulp-based products from the endangered palm Euterpe edulis, known as juçara, to replace income from illegal heart of palm extraction. In order to assess the governance of development of juçara pulp as an NTFP and the potential to increase conservation of juçara through management on smallholder properties, we conducted qualitative research in São Paulo State from October 2012 to October 2013. Major challenges include policy barriers, difficulties integrating production and commercialization, problematic assumptions about poverty alleviation and the inability of the most disadvantaged members of communities to benefit. These governance challenges are a function of poor access, or the ‘bundle of powers’ that enables the ability to benefit. However, engagement with juçara fruit pulp production links farmers and former poachers with sustainable agricultural concepts and with networks, changing their perceptions of conservation and enhancing ability to benefit from improved policy.

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Cactus Nurseries and Conservation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico

Ethnobiology Letters ◽

10.14237/ebl.4.2013.58 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 96-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

María T. Pulido ◽

Consuelo Cuevas-Cardona

Keyword(s):

Ex Situ Conservation ◽

Biosphere Reserve ◽

Forest Products ◽

Ex Situ ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The People ◽

Probability Of Success ◽

Non Timber Forest Products ◽

Knowledge And Practice

Documenting how socio-ecosystem conservation knowledge and practice arise and are modified are issues of ethnobiological interest. In the Barranca de Metztitlán Biosphere Reserve (RBBM), plant nurseries, some of which were created as Environmental Management Units (UMAs), have been established to grow and conserve cacti. This paper describes these nurseries, their role in cactus conservation, and the benefits and limitations for the people managing them. The nurseries have helped decrease illegal traffic in cacti and have enabled ex situ conservation of 22 cacti species. Cactus management has changed from extraction to cultivation, as a result of the knowledge and actions of multiple actors. The main limitation is marketing, a recurring problem for non-timber forest products (NTFP). Greater coordination among stakeholders is recommended, such as involvement by non-governmental organizations to improve their probability of success, as well as learning from the experience of other cactus UMAs. Improving the market for cacti is an issue that needs an immediate solution; otherwise conservation efforts could relapse.

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European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation as the instrument of cross border cooperation

National Technical University of Ukraine Journal Political science Sociology Law ◽

10.20535/2308-5053.2021.1(49).232981 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 60-64

Author(s):

Yu. Lemko

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽

Political Support ◽

Regional Government ◽

The European Union ◽

Low Level ◽

Cross Border ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The Common ◽

Cross Border Cooperation

The article considers one of the most common and most effective forms of cross-border cooperation between the countries of the European Union, namely the European groupings of territorial cooperation. The role of territorial cooperation in the European Union is constantly growing as it is the basis of political, economic and social cohesion, which is an integral part of Ukrainian society. The development of territorial cooperation is due to the change and development of national, regional or local participants in this process. The Schengen Agreement, the common internal market and the common currency, as well as the emergence of numerous new cross-border projects and the development of cross-border territories, are integral parts of this process. The article examines the EGTC Tisza, which was established in October 2015 in the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine together with the Hungarian region of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and the municipality of Kisvárd. It is noted that the union has received broad social and political support from both sides at the regional and local levels. This event was decisive for both Ukraine and the EU, as for the first time such an association was created with the participation of a non-EU country. This was a long-awaited step, as the participating regions have long been cooperating together in various fields, including the implementation of grant projects. Many issues need to be addressed together, including flood protection, the rehabilitation of wastewater treatment plants, transport and the development of economic ties. We can say that today Euroregions are the most developed form of cross-border cooperation in Ukraine, but their activities also show a range of problems that hinder their effective functioning. This includes a large number of participants with different cultural and economic characteristics, disparities in the legislation and administration of the country, the low level of business structures and non-governmental organizations. Issues such as the lack of a systematic approach to the organization of Euroregional cooperation, the low level of regional government and the lack of financial support are also worth mentioning.

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Bibliomining for Library Decision-Making

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch058 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 341-345

Author(s):

Scott Nicholson ◽

Jeffrey Stanton

Keyword(s):

Data Mining ◽

Digital Libraries ◽

Large Data ◽

Data Sets ◽

Data Mining Techniques ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The People ◽

The World ◽

Use Of The Internet

Most people think of a library as the little brick building in the heart of their community or the big brick building in the center of a campus. These notions greatly oversimplify the world of libraries, however. Most large commercial organizations have dedicated in-house library operations, as do schools, non-governmental organizations, as well as local, state, and federal governments. With the increasing use of the Internet and the World Wide Web, digital libraries have burgeoned, and these serve a huge variety of different user audiences. With this expanded view of libraries, two key insights arise. First, libraries are typically embedded within larger institutions. Corporate libraries serve their corporations, academic libraries serve their universities, and public libraries serve taxpaying communities who elect overseeing representatives. Second, libraries play a pivotal role within their institutions as repositories and providers of information resources. In the provider role, libraries represent in microcosm the intellectual and learning activities of the people who comprise the institution. This fact provides the basis for the strategic importance of library data mining: By ascertaining what users are seeking, bibliomining can reveal insights that have meaning in the context of the library’s host institution. Use of data mining to examine library data might be aptly termed bibliomining. With widespread adoption of computerized catalogs and search facilities over the past quarter century, library and information scientists have often used bibliometric methods (e.g., the discovery of patterns in authorship and citation within a field) to explore patterns in bibliographic information. During the same period, various researchers have developed and tested data mining techniques—advanced statistical and visualization methods to locate non-trivial patterns in large data sets. Bibliomining refers to the use of these bibliometric and data mining techniques to explore the enormous quantities of data generated by the typical automated library.

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Regional development in Amazonas, Peru: science-society interactions for sustainability

The Anthropocene Review ◽

10.1177/2053019620951210 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 205301962095121

Author(s):

Carola Mick ◽

María E. Fernández ◽

Cástula Alvarado Chuqui ◽

Carlos A. Amasifuen Guerra ◽

Mina Kleiche-Dray ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

Regional Government ◽

Local Stakeholder ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

Mediated Discourse ◽

Power Pattern ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

Nature And Society ◽

Technological Constraints

Scientific-technological knowledge maintains the anthropocentric power-pattern and exploitive attitude with regard to nature, but sustainability science asks for an integration of territorial and decontextualized knowledge systems. Visual participatory methodologies involving diverse local stakeholder facilitate dialogue on environmental and sustainability issues. Inspired by visual ethnography and mediated discourse analysis, the present article uses semiological analysis to reconstruct the depicted narratives on the nature-society system in drawings representing “regional development”. The drawings were elaborated in a series of participatory workshops involving university faculty and students, regional government and non-governmental organizations and farmers from local communities in the northern Amazonian region of Peru. The analysis reveals a prevailing anthropo and technology centered, “colonial” conception of the nature-society system, and a marginalization of alternative narratives. Beyond confirming the potential for visual participatory methods to enhance multi-stakeholder dialogue, it demonstrates how semiological analysis can be used to deepen an understanding of the cultural, organizational and technological constraints facing critical, trans-disciplinary efforts to decolonize the technology-centered, anthropocentric mainstream worldview of nature and society.

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Assessing the Civil Society’s Role in Refugee Integration in Turkey: NGO-R as a New Typology

Journal of Refugee Studies ◽

10.1093/jrs/fey047 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 683-703 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ulaş Sunata ◽

Salіh Tosun

Keyword(s):

Local Level ◽

Community Organizations ◽

Humanitarian Aid ◽

Active Citizenship ◽

Refugee Crisis ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Refugee Community ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The People ◽

Main Factors

Abstract After the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey, the aspect of civil society in integration needs further clarification and categorization. Therefore, in this study, we aim to develop a general typology of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that are active in immigration and immigration-related areas (NGO-R; non-governmental organizations—refugees). Our findings show that NGO-Rs play crucial roles in helping the refugees to access the rights provided by state, in integrating them into society at the local level by creating new social spaces and in sending humanitarian aid to the people of concern in Syria. Additionally, we claim that the refugee crisis facilitated the opportunities both for active citizenship as demanded and for new mobilization to manage the humanitarian and integration assistance towards the Syrians. Lastly, our fieldwork shows that religious and belief motives are the main factors playing a large part in the creation and maintenance of the NGO-R activities and refugee community organizations (RCOs) can have a distinctive integrative function by preferring to stay outside the mainstream channels.

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Menilai Dampak BUMDES Bersama Danar terhadap Masyarakat di Kecamatan Leles Kabupaten Garut

ETHOS (Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengabdian) ◽

10.29313/ethos.v8i2.5888 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Tarlani Tarlani

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Social Economy ◽

Positive Contribution ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Purposive Sampling ◽

The People ◽

Village Communities ◽

The Government ◽

Village Government ◽

The Village

Abstract. After Village Law was published in 2014, formation of BUMDes enforcement in each village became one of the strategic solutions for welfare of the village community. The issue of poverty and underdevelopment of villages is a priority that needs to be addressed by the government. However, not all problems can be solved in one village, but they need village collaboration to make institutions so that their role is more massive, effective, and efficient in encouraging the growth of the village economy. BUMDES Danar Garut is a form of cooperation between villages so that the resolution of a problem can be done at the village government level. since 2014, BUMDes has been established many business activities. This paper aims to assess the level of contribution of the Danar BUMDes to the economic activities of rural communities. This research was conducted by means of semi-structured in-depth interviews with key stakeholders from both the village government, the director of the Joint BUMDes and the community as beneficiaries of the BUMDes by selecting purposive sampling. The results of the analysis show that BUMDes Danar has made a positive contribution to the village government, socio-economic village communities and the ability and expertise of the people in Leles District both the direct impact of reducing unemployment, increasing the welfare of the village apparatus and indirectly for the Villages or the scope of Leles District.Keywords: Joint-BUMDes, Social-economy, Village SocietyAbstrak. Setelah terbitnya Undang-Undang Desa tahun 2014,dorongan terbentuknya BUMDes di setiap desa menjadi salah satu solusi strategis dalam menyejahterakan masyarakat desa. Isu kemiskinan dan ketertinggalan desa menjadi prioritas yang perlu ditangani oleh pemerintah. Namun tidak semua masalah dapat diselesaikan dalam satu desa, melainkan perlu adanya kolaborasi antar lembaga desa sehingga perannya lebih masif , efektif dan efisien dalam mendorong bertumbuhnya ekonomi desa. BUMDES Danar Garut merupakan perwujudan kerjasama antar desa agar penyelesaiaan suatu masalah bisa dilakukan pada tingkat pemerintahan desa. sejak 2014 BUMDes ini berdiri sudah banyak kegiatan usaha yang dilakukan. Paper ini bertujuan menilai tingkat kontribusi BUMDes Danar terhadap kegiatan ekonomi masyarakat desa. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan cara wawancara mendalam semi terstruktur kepada para stakeholder kunci baik dari kalangan pemerintah desa, direktur BUMDes Bersama maupun dari masyarakat sebagai penerima manfaat dari adanya BUMDes dengan pemilihan purposive sampling. Dari hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa BUMDes Danar telah memberikan kontribusi positif bagi pemerintah desa, sosial-ekonomi masyarakat desa dan kemampuan serta keahlian masyarakat yang ada di Kecamatan Leles baik dampak secara langsung yaitu berkurangnya pengangguran, meningkatkan kesejahteraan aparatur desa maupun secara tidak langsung bagi Desa-Desa ataupun lingkup Kecamatan Leles.Kata Kunci: BUMDes Bersama, Sosial-ekonomi, Masyarakat Desa

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AID FOR AFRICA AS ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY POLISH NGOs: LEGAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH

MEST Journal ◽

10.12709/mest.10.10.01.09 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 72-81

Author(s):

Marek Stych ◽

Beata Pawlica ◽

Malgorzata Kmak

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Legal System ◽

Humanitarian Aid ◽

International Aid ◽

African Countries ◽

Sociological Approach ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The People

This article tackles the issue of aid for African states. Africa is one of the poorest continents, with many people living on the verge of poverty and suffering from malnutrition or famine. Hence, the humanitarian aid provided to the people of this continent is of particular importance. In Poland, such aid activities undertake entities defined in the Polish legal system as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs also conduct many other kinds of activities. The Act on public benefit and volunteer work is an example of creating legal mechanisms for the functioning of civil society in the legal system to provide international aid to those it needs. Assisting other societies is important for modern civil society the same as political or economic cooperations are. The role of NGOs operating in health protection, education, or entrepreneurship areas is crucially important. The authors of this paper discuss the issue of the said aid provided by selected Polish NGOs. The article aims to determine the extent and scope of the assistance to African countries provided by the NGOs, based on the respondents' experiences, whether such assistance is necessary, and what form it should take.

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