Spatio-temporal differentials in street begging: the case of Ibadan municipality, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 944-955
Author(s):  
Amos Oluwole Taiwo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the relationship that exists between land use activities and street begging in Ibadan municipality, Nigeria, following the observed influence of urban land use activities on begging incidence.Design/methodology/approachPrimary data were obtained through the method of direct enumeration of beggars and cursory observation of the physical and environmental compositions of the identified beggars’ locations in the study area.FindingsThe results showed that begging is a function of urban land use activities and it also conforms to the concentric, sector and multiple nuclei models of urban land use.Research limitations/implicationsStudies are still less noticeable on the spatial implications of begging in Nigerian urban centres. In view of this, it is very much suggested that more studies be carried out on issues relating to begging, particularly, on the spatial implications of begging in other municipalities for effective comparative analysis.Originality/valueThe study fills a gap in the literature as there is limited research on street begging in relation to spatial dimension.

scholarly journals Land-Use Change and Health Risks in the Process of Urbanization: A Spatiotemporal Interpretation of a Typical Case in Changzhou, China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 820
Author(s):  
Dongyang Yang ◽  
Chao Ye ◽  
Jianhua Xu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Urban Land Expansion ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
The Relationship

China has undergone rapid urban expansion in recent decades. At the same time, environmental pollution and its risk to public health have increased. However, the relationship between urban land-use changes and health is ambiguous and insufficiently understood. Based on a typical city-scale case—namely, Changzhou, China—this research aimed to interpret the evolution of health risks alongside land-use change during the process of urbanization. We gathered data from multiple sources, including population mortality data, socioeconomic data, remote-sensing images, data for the points of interest of enterprises, and relevant information on environmental health events and cancers. The results showed that Changzhou’s urbanization was typical insofar as it was characterized by massive growth in industry, a rapid increase in the urban population, and urban land expansion. Health risks related to environmental pollution increased considerably with urban land expansion over time, and they increased with proximity to the pollution. The results from a generalized linear model confirmed that Changzhou’s urbanization triggered increasing health risks. Our study interpreted the relationship between urban land expansion and health risks from a spatiotemporal perspective. It can be used as a reference for urban planning and policymaking with regard to urban environmental health.

Urban land use intensity assessment: The potential of spatio-temporal spectral traits with remote sensing

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 190-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thilo Wellmann ◽  
Dagmar Haase ◽  
Sonja Knapp ◽  
Christoph Salbach ◽  
Peter Selsam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Use Intensity ◽  
Intensity Assessment ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Mattering in digital labor

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-324
Author(s):  
Eliane Bucher ◽  
Christian Fieseler ◽  
Christoph Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose Online gig labor platforms bring together a global and fast-growing workforce to complete highly granular, remote and decontextualized tasks. While these environments might be empowering to some workers, many others feel disenfranchised and removed from the final product of their labor. To better understand the antecedents of continued participation in forms of crowdsourced digital labor, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between worker’s ability to create a narrative of their work mattering regardless, and their continued work engagement (WE) in these work setups. Design/methodology/approach The authors approach the relationship between individual mattering and digital WE through a longitudinal study among workers on the crowdworking platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. The authors further provide qualitative insight into individual perceptions of mattering based on essay data. Findings The authors develop a measure of mattering in crowdworking with four dimensions: reliance, social recognition, importance and interaction. Reliance is the most pronounced dimension, followed by interaction, importance and social recognition. In the final longitudinal model, only importance affects WE positively, while the other three mattering dimensions do not have a significant effect. Originality/value The findings indicate that individuals who feel that they themselves and their work “count” and “make a difference” will be more engaged in their digital labor. By clarifying the dimensionality of mattering in crowdwork and studying its differentiated effect on WE, the paper makes a contribution to research on crowdwork and the future of work. Beyond the theoretical contributions, the finding that perceived importance fosters WE has important implications for task and platform design.

The use of accounting in managing the institutional complexities of a festival organisation pursuing financial and social objectives

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ståle Knardal ◽  
John Burns
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Institutional Complexity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Community ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of accounting when managing the institutional complexities of a festival organisation pursuing financial and social objectives. Specifically, it focuses on how accounting can be implicated in handling a festival’s multiple and potentially conflicting logics. Also, through mobilising the concept of institutional work, the following builds on our knowledge of the importance of what people do, in managing an organisation’s institutional complexity. Design/methodology/approach This paper is grounded in a qualitative case study, for which the primary data derives from interviews, plus examination of internal documents and information in the public domain. Findings The festival studied is commercially successful, though ultimately one of its main organisational goals is to maximise donations to charitable causes. Other goals include: offering an alternative community through music, particularly to the young; fostering new and innovative artistry; and nurturing a festival family that is rooted to a large extent in its army of volunteers. The paper reveals how seeking such goals simultaneously requires the handling of logics that potentially can pull in opposite directions. Moreover, it highlights the efforts of festival organisers to maintain coexistence between the different logics, including the utilisation of accounting, accounts and accountability to facilitate this. Originality/value There are three main contributions of the paper. First, it offers new insight into how accounting can be purposefully used to mediate between potentially opposing logics in a complex organisational setting. Second, the paper extends our knowledge of the use of accounting specifically within a popular culture context. Third, the following adds to recent use of the concept of institutional work to understand why and how people mobilise accounting to handle institutional complexity in organisational settings.

Team goal-setting involves more than only goal-setting

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco António Arraya ◽  
René Pellissier ◽  
Isabel Preto
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Task Orientation ◽  
Personal Goal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to research factors like task-orientation and collectivism and to examine the relationship between them and goal-setting as research construct. This research investigates the phenomena of team goal-setting in a selected sports organisation. Therefore 49 players from three Portuguese elite male handball team were selected for the study. Design/methodology/approach – Three well-known questionnaires were employed to determine the relationships between the above factors in a case setting. Task- and ego-orientation in Sport Questionnaire, the Jackson Psychological Collectivism Measure and the Goal-setting in Sport Questionnaire. Findings – The results reveal that the team and players are task-oriented, collectivist and possessing professional and personal goal habits. The correlations between questionnaire outcomes indicate that, when the team wants to set goals, it should consider the players’ orientation and the team’s collectivism. Thus team goal-setting is more than only goal-setting, because of the need for task-orientation and collectivism. Research limitations/implications – The research was conducted using three teams in a specific sports and thus cannot be generalised to the general sports environment. Yet, certainly the strength of the findings indicate that the results and conclusions may be used in a wider sports or business setting. Practical implications – This research paper should provide managers and coaches with insight into the complexity of team goal-setting. It also should provide insight into the chosen process related to human resources. Originality/value – The paper adds and demonstrates to the literature on team goal-setting the importance of task-orientation and collectivism as goal-setting mediators.

Mediating effect of stream geometry on the relationship between urban land use and biological index

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (S1) ◽  
pp. 157-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinah Kim ◽  
Kyung-Jin An ◽  
Soon-Jin Hwang ◽  
Gilson Hwang ◽  
Dong-Oug Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Biological Index ◽  
The Relationship

Rough Set-Based Research on the Relationship between Traffic Road and Urban Land Use Expansion

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 791-796
Author(s):  
Feng CAO ◽  
Hairong SONG ◽  
Yong GE ◽  
Deyu LI
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rough Set ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
The Relationship

Trip-Generation Forecasting Model Based on Entropy of Land-Use Mixing

2015 ◽  
Vol 738-739 ◽  
pp. 479-482
Author(s):  
Ying Wang ◽  
Kuan Min Chen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Simple Calculation ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Generation Model ◽  
Trip Generation ◽  
Model Based ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Full Consideration

This study aimed to modify the traditional method of trip-generation by investigating the relation between trip generation and land use. Based on the interaction between urban land-use sorts and trip generation, the trip generation weights among different urban land-use sorts are determined by multiple regression analysis. Given full consideration of the land-use mixing degree, the entropy of traffic-zone-land-use mixing was calculated. An improved trip-generation model based on the entropy of land-use mixing was proposed by analyzing the relationship between trip-generation weight and land-use mixing degree. This method was tested through applying it to Xi’an urban trip generation forecasting. The result of the test shows that this method effectively illustrates the correlation between trip-generation demand and land-use mix sort, and has a better application prospect due to simple calculation, high reliability and feasibility.

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