Scally, Dr Gabriel John, (born 24 Sept. 1954), Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, University of the West of England, 2012–14

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environments ◽  
The West

Tradition, Innovation, and Authentication: Replicating the "Ahl as-Sunna wa Jamaat" in Britain

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ron Geaves
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Face ◽  
British Experience

The article will argue that the normative definition referring to Sunni Muslims, “Ahl as-Sunna wa Jamaat” has become highly contested since used as a strategy for legitimization by South Asian Sufi tariqas. Critiquing arguments that link scripturalist reform movements within Islam to urbanization, the author demonstrates that contemporary Sufi resistance to the reformers in Britain has welded together both rural ‘folk’ practice and ‘high’ Sufism into a potentially politically mobilized union. Rather than a separation of ulama and saints as proposed by Gellner, the South Asian Muslims met the Reform critique with a powerful and erudite opposition consisting of both pirs and maulvis which defended their cultic beliefs and practices as normative. The article concludes that the British experience demonstrates not so much the demise of traditional Sufism in the face of Wahhabi or Salafi scripturalism, but rather that the former are learning the lessons of the revivalists and creating innovative ways that authenticate tradition in the new urban environments of the West.

scholarly journals Synanthropic spiders’ diversity (Arachnida, Araneae) in the urban zone of Morelia citiy, Michoacan, Mexico. How much does the time of construction of the houses influence?

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (04) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Juan MALDONADO-CARRIZALES ◽  
Javier PONCE-SAAVEDRA ◽  
Alejandro VALDEZ-MONDRAGÓN
Keyword(s):  
Alpha Diversity ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Construction Time ◽  
The West ◽  
Direct Capture ◽  
Urban Zone ◽  
Spider Community

Spiders have been used to evaluate changes in systems by anthropization effect, some species showing sensitivity to gradual and drastic changes such as urbanization, and other species have been documented as tolerant to this effect. The goal of this work was to describe the change in the spider community in relation to the age of buildings. at the west of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Three categories of construction time and the neighboring vegetation as the pre-urbanization environment were used for comparison. Using direct capture, pit-fall traps and beating nets, 3,619 spiders were collected, and 3,219 (315 males, 630 females and 2,274 immatures) were used for the analysis after removal juveniles that was not possible to identify. A total of 28 families, 93 genera, 47 species and 55 morphospecies were identified. This represents the greatest richness and abundance recorded in urban environments of the country. It describes changes in alpha diversity from colonization in recent constructions to those built 17 years ago. I t was observed that abundance, richness, and diversity decrease with the age of a building, but with high equitability in every age of construction. The age of a building is an important factor for the process of succession in urban environments.

METHODOLOGY FOR SIMULATIONS IN OIL AND GAS PIPELINES

1997 ◽  
Vol 1997 (1) ◽  
pp. 1021-1022
Author(s):  
Aníbal José Constantino Alves
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Gas Pipelines ◽  
The West ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
West Central ◽  
Oil And Gas Pipelines

ABSTRACT This paper presents the methodology used by DTCS (Pipelines and Terminals of the West Central Region and São Paulo State), part of PETROBRÁS’ Department of Transport, in simulated emergency situation exercises as applied to its pipeline installations. This is the result of experience acquired through various simulated emergencies already carried out in both rural and densely populated urban environments.

scholarly journals A destruição da natureza em ambientes rurais e urbanos no Brasil – uma tragédia que ainda pode ser revista

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Cláudio Jorge Moura de Castilho ◽  
Bruno Bruno Augusto Nogueira Monteiro Pontes ◽  
Robson José Alves Brandão
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environments ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
The West ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Brazilian Northeast

This article aims to denounce the permanent process of the nature’s destruction as a tragedy in the time-space, which is based on research carried out in rural and urban environments located in the Brazilian Northeast, in the current context of the acceleration in terms of generating values as a major goal of capitalism. The methodology of this work was based on a relational approach with regard to the process of geographical space’s production, considering, mainly, the dialectical interrelationship between its material and immaterial dimensions, shaping a complex totality in permanent movement in the history of men and women. The elaboration of maps and representative figures of the object being treated were technical procedures used to reinforce the argument, which had as main result the defense of the idea that it is still possible to change the current process of nature’s destruction, through the analysis of the cases occurred in two microregions located in the West of Bahia and in a coastal area of the Metropolitan Region of Recife.

Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Mudroch ◽  
J. R. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Research Work ◽  
List Type ◽  
The West ◽  
Asbestos Fibre ◽  
Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

The fight to save Uganda’s White Rhino

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
West Nile ◽  
White Rhino

In the West Nile District of Uganda lives a population of white rhino—those relies of a past age, cumbrous, gentle creatures despite their huge bulk—which estimates only 10 years ago, put at 500. But poachers live in the area, too, and official counts showed that white rhino were being reduced alarmingly. By 1959, they were believed to be diminished to 300.

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