Extreme Storm Xavier in 2013: A European Disaster with a Focus on Poland

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150002
Author(s):  
Dorota Rucińska ◽  
Rodrigo Rudge Ramos Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Winter Storms ◽  
Hazard Management ◽  
Professional Managers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Safety Improvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Management Issues

This paper shows occurrence of extra-tropical storms and damages (1990–2019), and the social and economic effects of Storm Xavier in 2013 in four countries of Europe: Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Poland. The focus of the analysis is on Poland, in order to indicate some major lessons for the future. This study shows long experiences and solutions of countries with winter storms with regards to Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR&M). The methodology is based on secondary data analyzing collected by international institution, Polish institutions, media information, review of reports and research articles which brings together the results of numerous case studies over the years and highlights the winter storm management issues that were key across them. Examples of activities that minimize the impact of this kind of hazard are suggested. The paper is intended to provide support for professional managers and officials who are tasked with reducing losses from winter storms. This paper aims to emphasize on winter storms in Poland because it is expected of society safety improvement with the Sendai Framework for DRR (2015–2030) and implements the multi-hazard management of DRR in Poland also using experiences of winter storms.

scholarly journals The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic and sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueli Wei ◽  
Lijing Li ◽  
Fan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
The Impact

Pumping elephantThe COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the lives of people around the world in millions of ways . Due to this severe epidemic, all countries in the world have been affected by all aspects, mainly economic. It is widely discussed that the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the world economy. When considering this dimension, this study aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, socio-economics, and sustainability. In addition, the research focuses on multiple aspects of social well-being during the pandemic, such as employment, poverty, the status of women, food security, and global trade. To this end, the study used time series and cross-sectional analysis of the data. The second-hand data used in this study comes from the websites of major international organizations. From the analysis of secondary data, the conclusion of this article is that the impact of the pandemic is huge. The main finding of the thesis is that the social economy is affected by the pandemic, causing huge losses in terms of economic well-being and social capital.

scholarly journals Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nando Sigona ◽  
Jotaro Kato ◽  
Irina Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Legal Violence ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Access And Quality ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe article examines the migration infrastructures and pathways through which migrants move into, through and out of irregular status in Japan and the UK and how these infrastructures uniquely shape their migrant experiences of irregularity at key stages of their migration projects.Our analysis brings together two bodies of migration scholarship, namely critical work on the social and legal production of illegality and the impact of legal violence on the lives of immigrants with precarious legal status, and on the role of migration infrastructures in shaping mobility pathways.Drawing upon in-depth qualitative interviews with irregular and precarious migrants in Japan and the UK collected over a ten-year period, this article develops a three-pronged analysis of the infrastructures of irregularity, focusing on infrastructures of entry, settlement and exit, casting a comparative light on the mechanisms that produce precarious and expendable migrant lives in relation to access to labour and labour conditions, access and quality of housing and law enforcement, and how migrants adapt, cope, resist or eventually are overpowered by them.

scholarly journals POLITIK DAN PERDAGANGAN KOLONIAL BELANDA DI PONTIANAK

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Hasanuddin Hasanuddin
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Links ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dutch Colonial

AbstrakPontianak mendapat perhatian kolonial Belanda setelah Inggris melakukan perdagangan di Kalimantan Barat. Persaingan dagang antara Belanda dan Inggris membawa pengaruh bagi perdagangan di Pontianak. Kemajuan perdagangan menarik perhatian kolonial Belanda untuk menguasai Pontianak. Kolonial Belanda membatasi kekuasaan Sultan Pontianak melalui perjanjian-perjanjian membawa dampak sosial, politik, ekonomi, dan budaya. Eksploitasi kolonial Belanda melahirkan perubahan-perubahan baru dalam hubungan kekuasaan kongsi-kongsi Cina dan monopoli perdagangan di Pontianak. Kolonial Belanda semakin mempertegas kekuasaannya di Pontianak setelah Inggris mengesahkan James Brooke sebagai wakil pemerintahannya di Kalimantan Utara. Terdapat interelasi yang dinamis antara perubahan struktur politik dan ekonomi terhadap perubahan sosial masyarakat di Pontianak. Hubungan komunikasi melalui jaringan perdagangan antarpulau telah mendorong para pedagang sebagai komunitas baru membentuk dan mendirikan perkampungan suku bangsa di Pontianak. Hubungan yang dinamis antara Pontianak dengan daerah-daerah di Kalimantan Barat terutama Sambas, Mempawah, Landak, Sanggau, Sintang, Matan, dan Sukadana telah membawa kemajuan politik dan ekonomi Pontianak sebagai pusat perdagangan dan pemerintahan Residen Kalimantan Barat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode sejarah yaitu studi pustaka dengan mengumpulkan data-data sejarah, dengan menguraikan suatu peristiwa ke dalam bagian-bagiannya dalam rangka memahami kebijakan politik dan perdagangan kolonial Belanda di Pontianak. Abstract Pontianak had an attention of Dutch colonial after British trade in West Kalimantan. Trade competition between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom had an impact on trade in Pontianak. The pprogress attract the attention of Dutch colonial to master Pontianak. The Dutch Colonial control the power of the Sultan of Pontianak through agreements and bring the impact in the social, political, economic, and cultural. Dutch colonial exploitation brought changes in the power relations of chinesse allied and the monopoly of trade in Pontianak. The Dutch colonial emphasized rule in Pontianak after United Kingdom endorses James Brooke as a representative government in North Kalimantan.There is a dynamic interrelation changes in political and economic that brought change social structures in Pontianak. The communication links through a network of inter-island trade has prompted traders as new communities formed and founded the settlement of ethnic groups in Pontianak. The dynamic relationship between Pontianak and West Kalimantan areas such as Sambas, Mempawah, Landak, Sanggau, Sintang, Matan, and Sukadana has brought political and economic progress.And declared Pontianak as a center of commerce and government Resident West Kalimantan. This study uses the history of the literature by collecting historical data, describing an event into its parts in order to understand the political and trade policies of the colonial Dutch in Pontianak.

Dampak Program CSR Binaan PT Pertamina RU II Sungai Pakning: Analisis Social Return on Investment (SROI) dan Sensitivitas

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Nurhazana Nurhazana ◽  
Muhammad Luthfi iznillah ◽  
Sahat Roy Pianto
Keyword(s):  
Program Implementation ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Social Return On Investment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Program Costs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Calculation Analysis

The purpose of this study is to see the impact of the CSR program of PT Pertamina RU II Sei Pakning through the analysis of Social Return on Investment and sensitivity. This research is descriptive quantitative by utilizing primary and secondary data. Primary data consists of data obtained from processing observational data and secondary data obtained from various literature sources. Based on the results of the SROI calculations for the four programs, it can be concluded that the social investment made for each program is feasible because all programs have a positive SROI score (more than 1) during the program implementation plan. In accordance with the results of the SROI calculation analysis, four programs from PT Pertamina RU II Sungai Pakning have generated benefits that are greater than the program costs. However, there are still opportunities to increase and expand the scope of benefits from the four programs.

Mind the gaps: Universal Credit and self-employment in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-217
Author(s):  
Kevin Caraher ◽  
Enrico Reuter
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Roll Out

Self-employment in the United Kingdom rose steadily until 2017, as part of wider changes in labour markets towards more flexible and potentially more vulnerable forms of employment. At the same time, welfare reform has continued under the current and previous governments, with a further expansion of conditionality with respect to benefit recipients. The incremental introduction of Universal Credit is likely to intensify the subjection of vulnerable categories of the self-employed to welfare conditionalities and to thus accentuate the ambivalent nature of self-employment. This article analyses the impact of Universal Credit on the self-employed by first discussing elements of precarity faced by the self-employed, and, second, by exploring the consequences of the roll-out of Universal Credit for those self-employed people who are reliant on the social protection system.

ESTIMATING THE HEALTH AND SOCIOECONOMIC EFFECTS OF COUSIN MARRIAGE IN SOUTH ASIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mushfiq Mobarak ◽  
Theresa Chaudhry ◽  
Julia Brown ◽  
Tetyana Zelenska ◽  
M. Nizam Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marital Quality ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cousin Marriage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Independent Effects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Natal Family ◽  
Opposite Gender ◽  
Genetic Illness

AbstractThe effects of marriage between biological relatives on the incidence of childhood genetic illness and mortality are of major policy significance, as rates of consanguinity exceed 50% in various countries. Empirical research on this question is complicated by the fact that consanguinity is often correlated with poverty and other unobserved characteristics of households, which may have independent effects on mortality. This study has developed an instrumental variables empirical strategy to re-examine this question, based on the concept that the availability of unmarried cousins of the opposite gender at the time of marriage creates quasi-random variation in the propensity to marry consanguineously. Using primary data collected in Bangladesh in 2006–07 and Pakistan in 2009–10, the study found that previous estimates of the impact of consanguinity on child health were biased and falsely precise. The study also empirically investigated the social and economic causes of consanguinity (including marital quality) and concludes that marrying a cousin can have positive economic effects for one’s natal family, by allowing deferral of dowry payments until after marriage.

scholarly journals Global Financial Crisis of Islamic and Conventional Banking in Middle East – A Case Study in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Ayman Abdal-Majeed Ahmad Al-Smadi ◽  
Mahmoud Khalid Almsafir ◽  
Muzamri Bin Mukthar
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

The financial tools all over the world become extremely decisive in these days. The main goal of this paper is to measure then to discuss the impact of performance of conventional and Islamic banking in Turkey during the financial crisis. some variables such as profitability, liquidity, operational efficiency and business growth are used as a measuring factor to determine the performance for both financial models. The period of study is taken during the financial crisis in 1997 and during the global financial crisis in 2007. The comparison in this study is made between the performances of Islamic banking  and conventional banking in Turkey.Some secondary data had examines in this study which was drown from the annual report from one of Turkey bank since 2002 until 2013. SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) “18.0” has been used to compare between Islamic finance model and other model. The findings of this paper shows that Islamic financial system is performing superior than conventional financial system for the period of this study. Hence, it can be concluded that the system of Islamic banking is able to sustain and compete with the conventional banking system especially during any financial crisis.

scholarly journals Unreasonable rage, disobedient dissent

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Impact

This article explores the limits of student engagement in higher education in the United Kingdom through the social construction of student activists within media discourses. It scrutinises the impact of dominant neoliberal discourses on the notion of student engagement, constructing certain students as legitimately engaged whilst infantilising and criminalising those who participate in protest. Exploring media coverage of and commentary on students engaged in activism, from the 2010 protests against university fee increases and from more recent activism in 2016, the article draws upon Sara Ahmed’s (2014) Willful Subjects and Imogen Tyler’s (2013) Revolting Subjects to examine critically the ways in which some powerful discourses control and limit which activities, practices and voices can be recognised as legitimate forms of student engagement.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War on Portuguese and Spanish Africa

1985 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gervase Clarence-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
The Impact

In the present stage of research, it is easiest to discern the economic effects of war on the Iberian colonies. These were diverse in chronological, regional and sectoral terms, but the overall results were to tie the economies of the Portuguese and Spanish colonies more firmly to those of the metropoles. This did not exclude two processes pulling in other directions. Firstly, the foreign trade of the colonies persisted but was reoriented away from Europe and towards North America. Secondly, shortages and insecurity of transport led to a significant degree of import substitution and regional African trade in the colonies, in the fields of both industry and agriculture. The social impact of war resembled that in much of the rest of Africa, great hardships and labour pressures on the mass of the population, but windfall profits for a few, both black and white. The political consequences of the two conflicts remain most shadowy at present, but they appear to have heightened the covert struggle between pro-fascist and anti-fascist groups in a situation of strong repression, flaring up into open strife only in the Spanish territories in 1936.

scholarly journals THE ISSUES OF TRACK MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT IN INDONESIA (BASED ON STUDY OF THE BRITISH RAILWAYS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Tetria Yunik Dewi Pamungkas
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Track Maintenance ◽  
Finance Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Track Monitoring ◽  
Management Issues

It is believed that there is merit in researching how the management of track maintenance is organized in the United Kingdom, in particular by Network Rail, and then evaluating how this can be applied to the benefit of Indonesian Railways. The purpose of this research was expected to provide recommendations for management improvement of track maintenance by researching the track maintenance management system in Network Rail. This research study is based on secondary data. The analysis was conducted by using comparison method which compares the British Railways management and Indonesia railway management related to track maintenance management. The track maintenance management system was studied by using Network Rail. The results were compared with track maintenance management system in Indonesia. The comparison will provide the data differences that evaluated so the problem can be identified. The final result of this analysis was the identification of problems and improvisation that can be done for the development of track maintenance management in Indonesia. Several management issues have been mapped to several groups: finance management, structure organization, and asset management. From the problems that have been mapped, some improvements are recommended as monopolist authority restriction, maintenance system contract extension, re-structuring organization hierarchy, business plan consideration, track monitoring strategy arrangement, and condition based maintenance strategy adoption.

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