scholarly journals The role in agricultural decision making in the upper Citarum watershed, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 892 (1) ◽  
pp. 012077
Author(s):  
H Tarigan ◽  
Erwidodo ◽  
H W Perkasa ◽  
S H Susilowati
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Men 2 ◽  
Input Use ◽  
Soil Sensitivity ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Almost All

Abstract Women as a labor force share a significant role in farming, included in the most degraded Citarum watershed, Steep slopes, soil sensitivity to landslides, erosion, and relatively high rainfall are the limiting factors that are dangerous for farmers, especially for female workers participating in farming activities to support the family economy. However, the role and remuneration system for women in farming, in general, has not received serious attention. This paper aims to analyze the role of women and the factors influencing decision-making in farming activities. The research was conducted in the upstream area of the Citarum watershed in 2 districts, namely Bandung and West Bandung, in 2019. A total of 499 sample farm households were randomly selected. The data were analyzed statistically and descriptively. The results show (1) women participate in almost all agricultural activities except irrigation, but at the same activity and working time get lower wages than men; (2) there are differences of opinion between women and men regarding the roles in the decision-making process of farming activities. According to men, they play a more dominant role, while women prioritize joint roles without being dominant. The results also show that age, education, and experience of women in farming do not directly affect decision-making as long as not impacted to income, but affect women’s role and decision-making process in input use. Increasing women’s knowledge and skills are the keys to accelerate their participation and role in family decision-making in the agricultural sector.

scholarly journals Renewables—To Build or Not? Czech Approach to Impact Assessment of Renewable Energy Sources with an Emphasis on Municipality Perspective

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 497
Author(s):  
Jan Macháč ◽  
Lenka Zaňková
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Almost All ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Municipal Level

The process of decarbonization and increasing the share of renewable sources of energy (RES) arising not only from European Union targets leads to development, expansion, and construction of new RES. Municipalities thus face a decision whether to support/accept RES projects or not. Although energy managers are part of the municipality management in almost all bigger cities, mayors of smaller municipalities have to go through the decision-making process on their own. The aim of the paper is to present a newly developed approach for mayors and state representatives that helps them implement the process in a user-friendly way. The paper brings a description of an approach to RES impact assessment at a municipal level based on multicriteria analysis. The RES impacts are divided into four categories: economic, social, environmental, and innovation effects. The procedure is demonstrated on an example of assessment of four sources in Czechia.

scholarly journals How Does COVID-19 Pandemic Influence the Sense of Belonging and Decision-Making Process of Nursing Students: The Study of Nursing Students’ Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Miguel Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Personal Sacrifice ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Financial Consideration

Financial consideration, internal and external influence, personal goal, and educational achievement always influence the decision-making process and behavior of individuals. Using nursing students as the population, the researcher employed the Social Cognitive Career Theory as the theoretical framework to examine the nursing human resources shortages and how would the COVID-19 pandemic influence the experiences, sense of belonging, and career decision-making process of 58 nursing students in South Korea. The researcher categorized the sharing into two groups, which were before the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicated that financial consideration was the significant reason why South Korean nursing students decided to study nursing regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic. More importantly, almost all participants decided to leave the nursing profession due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the consideration between financial factor and personal sacrifice. The outcomes of this study provided a blueprint for human resources professionals, government leaders, policymakers, school leaders, and hospital managers to reform their current curriculum and human resources planning to overcome the potential human resources gaps in the soon future due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals The decision-making process of synthetic pesticide use in agricultural communities in Colombia: a grounded theory approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ysabel Polanco Lopez de Mesa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Objective: to explore the decision-making process of agricultural workers associated with pesticide use and exposure; and to discover if these processes differ between pesticide users and non users. and the characteristics of these differences Methods: his study used a grounded theory approach to understand the decision-making process for pesticide use/non-use among agricultural workers in San Cristobal, Colombia. This study involved participantobservation, individual interviews, and focus groups. Results: the theory developed to explain the decision making process of pesticide use showed several categories including: the prospect of having a good harvest, efficient pest control, habituation to use pesticides, feeling obligated to do use them, poor knowledge about pesticides, believing that pesticide increased the quality of the products, positive attitudes towards pesticide use, family support towards pesticide use, community pressure and acceptance, economic fear, and market pressure. In the non pesticide users group categories included: having better health, pesticides considered harmful for human health, pesticides being deleterious for  the environment, being used to work without pesticides, family and economic support, and negative attitude towards pesticide use . The decision making process for personal protective equipment (PPE) use encompassed categories such as: powerless feelings, economic difficulties, and belief that equipment is not necessary. Discussion: The decision-making process for pesticide use in agricultural communities is complex and varies between pesticide users and non-users. Conclusions: It is important to consider the intricate process of pesticide use in order to orient interventions in the agricultural sector.

scholarly journals Origins of Risk Assessment in Food Safety Decision Making

1988 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph V. Rodricks
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Commercially Important ◽  
Exposure Levels ◽  
Almost All

FDA's efforts during the early 1970s to establish acceptable food exposure levels for carcinogenic animal drugs such as diethylstilbestrol (DES) led the agency to incorporate quantitative risk assessment into its decision-making process. During the nearly two decades since FDA first introduced risk assessment as a regulatory tool, its uses have been expanded to almost all areas of chemical regulation. The major driving forces behind this expansion have been (1) the need to deal systematically with the large number of commercially important chemicals that have been identified as animal carcinogens and that have been found to occur widely in the environment and (2) the large number of laws that now require regulatory agencies to establish limits on human exposure to these substances.

scholarly journals GENERALIZED CARTOGRAPHIC AND SIMULTANEOUS REPRESENTATION OF UTILITY NETWORKS FOR DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

2015 ◽  
Vol II-2/W2 ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Becker ◽  
G. König
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Spatial Memories ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Simultaneous Representation

Cartographic visualizations of crises are used to create a Common Operational Picture (COP) and enforce Situational Awareness by presenting relevant information to the involved actors. As nearly all crises affect geospatial entities, geo-data representations have to support location-specific analysis throughout the decision-making process. Meaningful cartographic presentation is needed for coordinating the activities of crisis manager in a highly dynamic situation, since operators’ attention span and their spatial memories are limiting factors during the perception and interpretation process. Situational Awareness of operators in conjunction with a COP are key aspects in decision-making process and essential for making well thought-out and appropriate decisions. Considering utility networks as one of the most complex and particularly frequent required systems in urban environment, meaningful cartographic presentation of multiple utility networks with respect to disaster management do not exist. Therefore, an optimized visualization of utility infrastructure for emergency response procedures is proposed. The article will describe a conceptual approach on how to simplify, aggregate, and visualize multiple utility networks and their components to meet the requirements of the decision-making process and to support Situational Awareness.

scholarly journals Perceived Constraints on Participation of Rural Women in Decision-Making Process: Insights from Dairy Farming in Surguja District of Chhattisgarh

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Ankur Gupta ◽  
Anindita Saha ◽  
Ravi Kumar Gupta ◽  
Digvijay Singh Dhakre
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Resource Ownership ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Perceived Constraints ◽  
Knowledge Constraint

The women folk are considered the backbone of the nation and better half of the men in almost all spheres of community development. Rural women constitute about 50% of the total rural population. The present study was conducted in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh to know the extent of participation of rural women in the decision-making process of dairy farming. Data were collected from 120 rural women using a structured interview schedule. 30 women farmers were chosen from each selected village thus constituting a sample size of 120 by simple random method. The study showed that the five components have greater than one Eigenvalues which was named constraint on social perception toward women, constraint on backwardness related, constraint of knowledge, Constraint on Resource Ownership and constraint on attitude. Dairy farming in the study area holds a very good future because certain dairy farming related operations and taking decisions farm women have better than male farmers. But due to many constraints and obstacles in the participation of rural women in the decision making process of dairy farming, which undermined the efficiency of rural women.

Classification of Economic Risk in Agriculture

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Barayeva ◽  
◽  
N.A. Kabanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Management Issues

The state and development of agriculture determines the level of food security of the country. The problems associated with the agricultural industry in Russia are systemic. In the context of multifactorial development of the agricultural sector, it is important to constantly analyze the conditions that affect the occurrence of risks in the economic activity of the industry. For a comprehensive accounting of risk factors in agriculture, it is necessary to rely on the industry classification of risks. In a modern economy, risks are present in any economic activity. In the decision-making process in risk management issues, it is necessary to understand the characteristic features of the occurrence of risk factors, to analyze and systematize the most significant risks of the agricultural industry.

scholarly journals Decision-making processes in Sylhet City Corporation: who plays the dominant role?

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Muhammad Mustofa Kamal ◽  
Anwara Begum ◽  
Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Hossienie
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Service Oriented

A rational decision-making process is essential for municipal governments, as it promotes progressive development and makes them more democratic and service-oriented. This study explores the decision-making process in Bangladesh’s Sylhet City Corporation (SCC). Both primary data via a survey of relevant respondents and secondary data were collected. The study found that, although both the mayor and councillors participate in making decisions at the SCC, it is the mayor who plays the dominant and vital role, exercising power by convincing councillors of his leadership qualities. For these reasons, the decision-making process of the SCC is not fully democratic. If councillors were able to play a greater role, the decisions of the SCC would be more collective. KeywordsDecision-making; urban local government; city corporation; mayor; councillor  

Understanding the Fertility Behavior of Bengali-speaking Hindu and Hindi-speaking Hindu Populations Occupying Similar Urban Locale of Kolkata, West Bengal: A Snapshot Regarding Family Planning Decision-making Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 0972558X2199468
Author(s):  
Deepa Routh ◽  
Suvendu Maji
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Fertility Behavior ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Contraception Use ◽  
Sociodemographic Profile ◽  
Planning Decision

This study was conducted to understand the fertility behavior between the two population groups speaking different languages: Bengali-speaking Hindus and Hindi-speaking Hindus. The study further attempts to study the perception and practice regarding contraception use and their decision-making ability. The present study was conducted in Kolkata, West Bengal. A total of 64 women (Bengali-speaking Hindus: 34 and Hindi-speaking Hindus: 30) ranging between 15 years and 44 years were chosen by convenience sampling method. Semi-structured interview schedule was employed to record the response of the participants. Sociodemographic profile of the participants and of their husbands and fertility history were collected using structured interview. Open-ended questions were asked to the participants to understand their perception about family planning. Case studies were also taken from each participant to know about their decision-making process of family planning. Descriptive statistic was carried out to analyze quantitative data, and for qualitative data, thematic analysis was carried out manually. Mean age of the participants was 33.1 years and that of their husbands was 40.2 years. Age at marriage was low in both the groups. Source of knowledge on contraceptives was mostly husband in both the populations. The husband (100%) played a dominant role in decision-making in both the groups. The role of in-laws played a dominant role in decision-making among the Hindi-speaking population. Withdrawal method was a common method of contraceptives in both the groups.

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