scholarly journals Constructing resilience through security and surveillance: The politics, practices and tensions of security-driven resilience

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Coaffee ◽  
Pete Fussey
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
Local Areas

This article illuminates how, since 9/11, security policy has gradually become more central to a range of resilience discourses and practices. As this process draws a wider range of security infrastructures, organizations and approaches into the enactment of resilience, security practices are enabled through more palatable and legitimizing discourses of resilience. This article charts the emergence and proliferation of security-driven resilience logics, deployed at different spatial scales, which exist in tension with each other. We exemplify such tensions in practice through a detailed case study from Birmingham, UK: ‘Project Champion’ an attempt to install over 200 high-resolution surveillance cameras, often invisibly, around neighbourhoods with a predominantly Muslim population. Here, practices of security-driven resilience came into conflict with other policy priorities focused upon community-centred social cohesion, posing a series of questions about social control, surveillance and the ability of national agencies to construct community resilience in local areas amidst state attempts to label the same spaces as ‘dangerous’. It is argued that security-driven logics of resilience generate conflicts in how resilience is operationalized, and produce and reproduce new hierarchical arrangements which, in turn, may work to subvert some of the founding aspirations and principles of resilience logic itself.

Exploring the Effect of Knowledge Transfer Practices on User Compliance to IS Security Practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca ◽  
Benjamin Schooley ◽  
Janine L. Spears
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
End User ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
Is Security ◽  
User Knowledge ◽  
And Training ◽  
User Compliance

Institutions of higher education capture, store and disseminate information that is protected by state and federal regulations. As a result, IS security policies are developed and implemented to ensure end user compliance. This case study investigates end user knowledge of their university's IS security policy and proposes a new approach to improve end user compliance. The results of this study suggest that users may be contributors to the transfer of IS security policies when provided with an opportunity to participate in the development of an IS security awareness and training program.

Local actions: Out of the cellar and into the landscape park Challenges around relocalization of a mosque in Roubaix

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-238
Author(s):  
Omero Marongiu-Perria
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Muslim Population

The objective of the initiative launched in Roubaix within theframework of the network entitled “Faiths and Social cohesion”,aims to study the way in which the local governments manage religious diversity and in particular their links with the Muslim presence and its mosques. The method adopted, in agreement with the coordination of the network supported by the European Union, was to have only one case study, i.e. a municipality with a significant Muslim population and the presence of one or several mosques, to study transactions of various types between religious communities and local institutions, as well as to experiment with a role of facilitation in the framework of these relations.

scholarly journals Object Oriented Classification for Mapping Mixed and Pure Forest Stands Using Very-High Resolution Imagery

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2508
Author(s):  
Loredana Oreti ◽  
Diego Giuliarelli ◽  
Antonio Tomao ◽  
Anna Barbati
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Mixed Forest ◽  
Mixed Stands ◽  
Mapping Unit ◽  
Mixed Forests ◽  
High Resolution Imagery ◽  
Very High Resolution Imagery ◽  
Very High

The importance of mixed forests is increasingly recognized on a scientific level, due to their greater productivity and efficiency in resource use, compared to pure stands. However, a reliable quantification of the actual spatial extent of mixed stands on a fine spatial scale is still lacking. Indeed, classification and mapping of mixed populations, especially with semi-automatic procedures, has been a challenging issue up to date. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the potential of Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) and Very-High-Resolution imagery (VHR) to detect and map mixed forests of broadleaves and coniferous trees with a Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) of 500 m2. This study evaluates segmentation-based classification paired with non-parametric method K- nearest-neighbors (K-NN), trained with a dataset independent from the validation one. The forest area mapped as mixed forest canopies in the study area amounts to 11%, with an overall accuracy being equal to 85% and K of 0.78. Better levels of user and producer accuracies (85–93%) are reached in conifer and broadleaved dominated stands. The study findings demonstrate that the very high resolution images (0.20 m of spatial resolutions) can be reliably used to detect the fine-grained pattern of rare mixed forests, thus supporting the monitoring and management of forest resources also on fine spatial scales.

scholarly journals e-Navigating in highly-constrained waters: a case study of the Vistula Lagoon

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Adam Weintrit ◽  
Jacek Pietraszkiewicz ◽  
Wiesław Piotrzkowski ◽  
Wojciech Tycholiz
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Global Solution ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Vistula Lagoon ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
High Resolution Bathymetry ◽  
Marine Navigation ◽  
The Vistula Lagoon

Abstract In recent years the transition of marine navigation to the digital era has been gaining momentum. Implementation of e-Navigation solutions varies from country to country in terms of their priorities, goals, levels and effects. Maritime authorities in Poland have been setting the pace in this transition process, not only in Poland but also in general as a global solution. The most recent example is the planned deployment of a variety of e-Navigation tools in the Vistula Lagoon: from GNSS-RTK Ground-Based Augmentation System, to virtual and synthetic aids to navigation, high-resolution bathymetry and advanced navigational software for piloting. The major objectives of this paper are, first, to summarise recent dynamics in the e-Navigation field, and second, to present a practical implementation of the e-Navigation concept in the Vistula Lagoon area.

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