scholarly journals Evaluation of sustainability of agricultural systems of indigenous people in Hidalgo, Mexico

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Leyva ◽  
Mayra Martinez De la Torre ◽  
Yaxkin U Kan Coronado
Keyword(s):  
Critical Factor ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Small Producers ◽  
Quantitative Indexes

Agricultural sustainability depends on complex relationships between environmental, economic and social aspects, in particular with the small farmholders from indigenous communities. This work was centred in two municipalities of Hidalgo State in Mexico, Ixmiquilpan (mainly irrigated systems) and El Cardonal (rainfed systems). Our objective was to understand the relationships between the small farm-holders and their agricultural systems, evaluating their sustainability and design strategies and pathways for the sustainable development for indigenous communities. For this, we applied the Framework for the Evaluation of Management Systems using Indicators (MESMIS, Spanish acronym). Thirty one indicators were identified and quantitative indexes were established to be used to assess sustainability. The results showed that adaptability was a critical factor for both systems, and the main problem identified was youth migration. Additionally, the access to water and economic resources, as well as management of environmental resources, are imperious needs to increase the yield of agriculture crops. Therefore, integral strategies need to take into account the organization of small producers and the combination of indigenous and modern technologies, to design technologies for the territorial development of the communities.

scholarly journals THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF NAVELLI (ITALY) IN THE RECONSTRUCTION PLAN: HYPOTHESIS OF ADAPTIVE REUSE

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-M-1-2020 ◽  
pp. 929-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Trizio ◽  
M. De Vita ◽  
A. Ruggieri ◽  
A. Giannangeli
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Adaptive Design ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
The Village

Abstract. This study is aimed at identifying adaptive design strategies applied to the particular contexts of the Abruzzo Region during the post-earthquake reconstruction. The area affected by the calamitous event present material and immaterial issues to be interpreted and managed according to integrated and interdisciplinary intervention methods. In this context, the Reconstruction Plans (PdR) provide the guidelines for a coherent territorial development, proposing design solutions that call for sustainability and resilience. The village of Navelli, which 10 years after the earthquake is still in a serious state of damage and abandonment, is identified in the 2013 PdR as an area to be converted into an archaeological park. The Plan prescribes by specifications on the basis of identifying values of the area whilst inspections carried out reveal a stratified, vast and remarkably heterogeneous building fabric both as regards to the level of damage and the values to be protected. From the analyzes carried out, the case study provides the opportunity for an ad hoc design methodology, identified by specific interventions that are at the same time inter-dependent and included in a complex project. The work highlights how the overall design of a public space can find an easier resolution in the integration of adaptive and reversible technologies, coherent with the sustainable development suggested by the PdR.

scholarly journals The Productive Landscape in the Desert Margin for the Sustainable Development of Rural Settlements: An Innovative Greenbelt for Maranjab Desert in Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2077
Author(s):  
Mahnaz Sarlak ◽  
Laura Valeria Ferretti ◽  
Rita Biasi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Green Belt ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
New Form ◽  
Low Levels

About two billion rural individuals depend on agricultural systems associated with a high amount of risk and low levels of yield in the drylands of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Human activities, climate change and natural extreme events are the most important drivers of desertification. This phenomenon has occurred in many regions of Iran, particularly in the villages in the periphery of the central desert of Iran, and has made living in the oases so difficult that the number of abandoned villages is increasing every year. Land abandonment and land-use change increase the risk of desertification. This study aims to respond to the research questions: (i) does the planning of green infrastructures on the desert margin affect the distribution and balance of the population? (ii) how should the green belt be designed to have the greatest impact on counteracting desertification?, and (iii) does the design of productive landscape provide the solution? Through a wide-ranging and comprehensive approach, this study develops different scenarios for designing a new form of green belt in order to sustainably manage the issues of environmental protection, agricultural tradition preservation and desertification counteraction. This study proposes a new-traditional greenbelt including small low-cost and low-tech projects adapted to rural scale.

scholarly journals Teaching the Whitefella—The Role of Cultural Tourism in Opening Remote Indigenous Art Centres to Non-Indigenous Visitors

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Chrischona Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Indigenous Art ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
Territory Government

This article explores how a remote Aboriginal-owned and -run art centre, Ikuntji Artists in Haasts Bluff, has developed grassroots-level cultural tourism. While not many remote Indigenous art centres engage with the tourism industry, Aboriginal tourism engagement has only recently been identified by the Northern Territory Government as a major business development area. Steered by the member artists and the board, the art centre has been able to create a range of workshops and activities that can be offered to small-scale tour operators. Over the past five years, an arts festival and various workshops for university field students and other small tour operators have been hosted. Member artists, staff and the board as well as the community see cultural tourism as an opportunity to share their culture by way of teaching visitors about the Luritja language, culture and country. Thus, this article argues that art centres can engage meaningfully in cultural tourism and support remote Indigenous communities in the sustainable development of cultural tourism.

Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Management

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan M. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Humanitarian Operations ◽  
Recent Developments

The need for humanitarian assistance is documented in the news on a daily basis. Functioning supply chains are a critical factor in providing disaster relief and humanitarian aid to people in need. Therefore, the humanitarian sector has developed organizations, processes, procedures, and tools that support the specific situation facing this sector, which is in several ways different from a commercial setting. This chapter discusses some challenges of humanitarian operations and supply chain management (HumOSCM) for humanitarian assistance, provides an overview, and lays out some good practices and recent developments of HumOSCM. Better scholarship and practice of HumOSCM will contribute to solving grand challenges as conveyed in the Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals The Territorial Policy of Rural Development in Brazil: Questions and Reflections about the Reconnection between production and Consumption of Food

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (84) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanise Dias Freitas ◽  
Anelise Graciele Rambo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Short Circuits ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
Rural Development Policies

Short marketing circuits and territorial rural development policies emphasize the importance of the reconnection between food production and consumption, with repercussions on the food security and sovereignty of local populations. For this, we analyzed official documents of the Program for the Sustainable Development of Rural Territories, the Citizenship Territories Program, the Territorial Development Plans, as well as field research on projects carried out in three rural territories and citizenship in the South of Brazil. From this analysis, it is possible to think of the strengthening of short circuits as the mechanism to promote rural territorial development.

The Research on the Sustainable Development of Chinese Rural Cultural Architecture

2011 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
Shu Ting Li ◽  
Kun Zhou ◽  
Jia Ping Liu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Rural Teaching ◽  
Regional Design

In the new rural construction of our country, the key jobs are to increase the cultural facilities at rural and to improve the cultural level of rural residents. But with the accelerating process of urbanization and the start of rural primary schools "closing and merging schools”, the rural settlement is showing a rapid declining trend. This article profits from the regional design concept and method in Taiwan rural education construction and summarizes the successful experiences on the functional constitution ways, campus openness, ecology design strategies as well as regional design methods. With the present development situation of our rural areas, the author makes an integrated design of rural teaching rooms and other cultural and educational facilities. And then proposed a concept of "Rural Cultural Center" to support the heritage of local traditional culture, and thus to promote the comprehensive development of rural areas.

scholarly journals Characterisation of smallholders’ goat production systems in the Fatick area, Senegal

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fafa Sow ◽  
Younouss Camara ◽  
El Hadji Traore ◽  
Jean-François Cabaraux ◽  
Ayao Missohou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Pastoral System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Considerations ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Goat Farming

AbstractSenegal, like the other Sahelian countries, remains an important livestock area, particularly for ruminants, with almost 36% of its livestock population was goat in 2016. The national herd increased from 2010 to 2016, from 3.32 to 3.54 million head of cattle, 5.6 to 6.68 million sheep and 4.8 to 5.7 million goats, i.e. annual growth rates of 1.1%, 3.2% and 3.13% respectively. Thus, due to diversification of local agricultural resources and the strengthening of goat breeding techniques in the Fatick area, a programme aiming to develop the local goat sector was set up in 2010. The programme focused on improving animal husbandry, providing new added values to goat products and structuring the goat sector. This study’s aim is to better understand goat rearing systems in the area, in order to propose, together with the herders, ways of improving these systems, taking into account family and socio-cultural considerations. To better evaluate the diversity in different production systems, a survey of animal rearing practices was carried out. The survey involved 45 farmers in four localities. It revealed that the farmers were all agro-pastoralists practising a mixed farming system. The majority (93%) supplemented their animals with agricultural by-products, agro-forestry and kitchen leftovers. A multiple correspondence analysis identified three groups: cluster 1 (milk producers and processors into traditional curdled milk, selling animals for household needs), cluster 2 (milk processors into yoghurt and cheese) and cluster 3 (goat vendors in pastoral and the agro-pastoral system).The study of the objectives and contexts of goat farming in the Fatick will enable policy-makers to design strategies for the sustainable development of family goat farming in the area.

scholarly journals LEGISLATIVE AND NORMATIVE METHODS OF ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
I. Azarova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Ecological Assessment ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Development Concept

Sustainable development is quite popular scientific concept in a recent time, which formed the basis of the Ukrainian regional development strategic planning and regulation of urban development activities. However, the meth-odological basis for assessing the sustainability of the territorial development is still not developed and formalized enough. Methods for assessing the sustainability of territorial systems development in the economic, environmental and social spheres are still uncertain.Therefore, selected purpose of the study is an analysis of the existing methods of environmental assessment of the territorial development set forth in the legislative and regulatory documents, with further determination of the their suitability for conducting an assessment of the territorial development based on the sustainable development concept, which will form the scientific novelty of this study. To achieve this goal, the legislative and regulatory framework analysis was carried out in the field of territorial development, the main regulatory documents were identified. Subsequently, the definition of ecological assessment and its purpose for each of these basic documents was analyzed, environmental assessment methods and their application suitability for the environmental assessment of the territorial development based of the sustainable development concept were considered. It is concluded, that the environmental assessment methods proposed in these documents have numerous signifi-cant shortcomings when used for ecological assessment of the territorial development sustainability. There is no any formalized methodology for determining the sustainability of the relevant systems development in considered legisla-tive and regulatory documents. There is also an intersection of proposed environmental assessment methods with social and economic assessments. The optimality justifies of the adopted project decisions set issuing exclusively from the environmental and sanitary legislation requirements is incorrect in terms of sustainable development. The conclusion based on the obtained results was made about the need to improve the environmental assessment methods in their abil-ity of sustainable development concept implementation. The assessment of the current territorial state in the economic, social and environmental spheres must be carried out separately from each other while regional development strategies forms on the basis of sustainable development. It will pro-vide further assess of each sphere development balance and form a strategy direction for additional needed measures.Carrying environmental assessment, the strategy analysis for compliance with legislative and regulatory con-straints is insufficient in terms of the sustainable development concept. The assessment of environmental impacts should be carried out both for negative aspects and for positive, where the last are not normalized. Conclusions based on the negative environmental impacts absence are insufficient to consider strategies for developing such territories, as national parks or nature reserves. Therefore, the existing indicators system of environmental pollution levels by human activity as a basis for ecological assessment needs to be finalized, since it does not allow measuring the positive effects of some nature-recovery projects on the environment. Finally, it is necessary to formalize in legislative and regulatory documents the methods for the integrated sustainabil-ity assessment as a basis for consideration of alternative concepts for the territorial development. Formation and implementa-tion of appropriate methods can be selected as a direction for further research by the author on the chosen topic.

scholarly journals Management of sustainable development of territories through the reproduction structure of large investment construction projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 08022
Author(s):  
Elena Stupnikova ◽  
Tatyana Sukhadolets
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Reproductive Structure ◽  
Investment Planning ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Infrastructure Project ◽  
Large Investment

The infrastructure spatial planning is at the heart of modern sustainable development issues. The methods for selecting an infrastructure project for construction are an important conceptual basis for sustainable development, which provide effective assistance to the development of territories. The study is aimed at finding and analyzing existing approaches and tools for assessing territorial development in the reproductive structure of the economy, as well as developing a methodological and procedural assessment of large infrastructure projects to solve socio-economic problems. The methods of analysis of causes and effects, as well as methods of investment planning are used. At the same time, according to the authors, the main conceptual and methodological prerequisite that distinguishes the proposed approach should take into account the effects of intersectoral interaction. It is necessary to assess the contribution to the sustainable development of territories “with a project” and “without a project”.

scholarly journals Agrobiodiversity and Natural Resource Management in Traditional Agricultural Systems of Northeast India

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Wishfully Mylliemngap
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Himalayan Region ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East

North-East India, which falls under the Indian Eastern Himalayan region and forms part of two global biodiversity hotspots, is well-known for its rich diversity of flora, fauna, cultures and traditional knowledge systems. Agriculture is the main occupation of the communities living in this region supplemented by utilization of wild useful species from the nearby forests. Traditional agriculture in North-East India follows mixed cropping pattern through multi-cropping, crop rotation, use of multipurpose nitrogen (N)-fixing trees, along with protection of semi-domesticated and wild biodiversity, including medicinal plants, wild edible fruits and vegetables, fodder plants and other useful species. Presently, there has been a gradual shifting from subsistence cultivation to commercial agriculture driven by market forces and modernization, leading to transition from traditional to intensive agriculture and monoculture of cash crops. This has resulted in reduced cultivation of local crop varieties and disappearance of the associated traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Therefore, the present study attempts to review the contribution of traditional agricultural practices to agrobiodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management. Relevant traditional practices such as shifting (Jhum) cultivation systems, bamboo-drip irrigation, paddy-cum-fish cultivation, traditional agroforestry systems of different Indigenous communities residing in different states of North-East India were mentioned in this review. It is undeniable that TEK was developed by communities through many centuries by trial-and-error methods to conform to the local climate, topography, ecology and socio-cultural relevance to the concerned Indigenous communities. This knowledge, therefore, has a great scope for improvement by integration with scientific knowledge for transforming into sustainable agricultural systems in the face of climate change adaptation and mitigation of the vulnerable mountain communities of the Himalayan region.

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