scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE TECTONICS AND HYDROGEOLOGY AT THE TSAKONA (ARKADIA, PELOPONNESE, GREECE ) LANDSLIDE

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1872
Author(s):  
I. Φουντούλης ◽  
I. Λαδάς ◽  
E. Σπυρίδωνος ◽  
Η. Μαριολάκος
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Tectonic Deformation ◽  
Contour Map ◽  
The People ◽  
Neotectonic Deformation ◽  
Highway Network ◽  
Tectonically Active ◽  
Tectonic Contact ◽  
A Site

The present paper aims to the understanding of the causes of the large-scale landslide that occurred at Tsakona area (SW Arcadia, Peloponnesus) during February 2003. This is the largest landslide that have ever effected the Greek National highway network as it entirely rubed out the new Megalopolis-Kalamata highway at a length of 200m. It took place at the western slopes of Drosovouni Mt., which exhibits an elogated shape of NE-SW direction. At the broader area of the slide three alpine formations of the Pindos unit occur which from lower to upper are: (i) the Jurassic radiolarites, (ii) the so called 1s t flysch and (iii) the Upper-Cretaceous pelagic limestones. The initial sliding took place inside the first two formations and the landslide moved more than 1,000 meters downward along the mountain slope at an E-W direction while its headscarp was near the tectonic contact between these formations and the upperlying pelagic limestones.In order to understand the causes of the landslide we carried out a detailed geological, morphotectonic, microtectonic and neotectonic study of the broader area. Additionally we constructed the structural contour map between the limestones nappe and the underlying formations. From all the aforementioned we suggested that the landslide occurred in a tectonically active area where the neotectonic deformation. Based on the above-mentioned studies, we have to mention the followings: The landslides occur in a site that the tectonic deformation is very intense. There were old landslides before the activation of the last one and before the study and construction of the highway. The constructors as well as the people that studied the area did not take into account the already existed landslides. It has to be mentioned that hydrogeological regime of the area is of great importance, as to the opposite slopes of the landslide in which occur the same formations like in the landslide area there is no landslide activity at least the last 100 years as indicated by the existing railway, due to the no occurrence of limestones above the radiolarites. From all the above mentioned it is clear that the tectonics - neotectonics affected the major area are the main factors involved to the initiation of the landslide, and the crossing of the landslide by the highway contributed to the reactivation together with the rains.

The People

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Pines
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The People ◽  
Chinese Political Culture

This chapter explores the reasons for the recurrence of large-scale popular uprisings throughout imperial history. It considers how the idea of rebellion correlates with fundamental principles of Chinese political culture, such as monarchism and intellectual elitism. Moreover, the chapter looks at why the rebellions serve to support rather than disrupt the empire's longevity. These issues are then related to the broader issue of the political role of the “people,” here referring primarily, although not exclusively, to the lower strata, in the Chinese imperial enterprise. In answering these questions, this chapter focuses on ideological and social factors that both legitimated rebellions and also enabled their accommodation within the imperial enterprise.

scholarly journals The Role of Moral Outrage on the Impeachment of Garut Regent in 2012-2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayat Sardini
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
National Level ◽  
Community Action ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Short Message ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The People ◽  
State Actors

Moral and political are two things that cannot be separated. The marriage of a regent in Garut regency, Indonesia, with an underage girl eventually leads to community action, where people demand the regent to resign from his position as a regional head. It was not even four days of marriage the regent had divorced his young wife via a short message from his own mobile phone. Therefore, the people of Garut suddenly expressed their wrath through a large-scale demonstration which pushedthe Local House of Representative immediately to process the regent’s removal. This research utilized a qualitative approach with a case-study method, the data in this research relied on the practice of in-depth interviews, observations, and documentaries. This research succeeded to observe that the general factor which underlying the action of demonstration in Garut which demanded the resignation of the regent was caused by the political climate change of democratization in the national level which also impacted Garut Regency. The national politicalclimate change increased the unconventional public participation in Garut and provided political sphere for non-state actors to establish political-involvement balance between state actors and non-state actors themselves. In other hand, the specific underlying factor on this case is the regent’s behavior which was judged as the act of dishonorable humiliation on women’s dignity, especially his speech in some national television channels. The power of this study lies on its novelty, filling in lubrication and study originality, towards the moral and ethical behavior as the new object on Social Movement.   

Role of Entrepreneurship in Boosting Economic Growth and Employment in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj Kumar ◽  
Tilak Raj
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The People ◽  
Employment Generation

Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic growth of a country. It increases the economic activities in every sphere of economic life of the people. The main objective of the present study is to examine the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth of a country. An attempt has also been made to provide an overview of employment and unemployment in India. The present study concludes that entrepreneurship in India is a key contributor in the area of employment generation, innovations and product improvement. Not only does it create self-employment but it has also built a structure for large-scale employment opportunities. It contributes to the economic growth of a country by promoting capital formation, increasing per capita income, improving the standard of living and balanced growth by removing regional disparities.

Crystal River and the Archaeology of Early Village Societies in the American Southeast (and Beyond)

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Pluckhahn ◽  
Victor D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
The People ◽  
Hunting And Gathering ◽  
The World ◽  
American Southeast ◽  
Crystal River ◽  
Village Societies

In the archaeology of the American Southeast, the Woodland period (from around 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1050) is not conventionally understood as an interval marked by significant “firsts.” But it was marked by a dramatic change in the way people related to one another, as indicated by the earliest widespread appearance of sedentary villages, often associated with large-scale public works like mounds of earth and shell. Crystal River and Roberts Island are examples of these “early villages,” a term archaeologists have used to describe similar societies around the world, typically in reference to societies making a transition from hunting and gathering to farming. However, the people of Crystal River and Roberts Island faced many of the same social and ecological pressures. Early villages are important for what they can tell us about the role of cooperation, collective action, and conflict in the historical process and development of larger and more complex societies.

‘Never so at home’: Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina M. Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Site ◽  
The People ◽  
As Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Scientific Environment ◽  
Long Term Studies

Focusing on the history of an ecological site northwest of Oxford, UK, this essay explores the people, research and values behind the development of Wytham Woods as a scientific environment. A small patch of woodland, Wytham has long been identified by ecologists as a site of great scientific value. In addition to traditional sources of scientific value, such as species diversity, this article examines the role of emotional connection and aesthetics in how scientific sites are formed and maintained over long periods of time. As such, this history of Wytham Woods sheds light on the multiple factors that nurture the relationships formed when researchers dedicate decades to long-term studies conducted in specific scientific environments.

Tricking memory, remaking the city: Trompe l’oeil and the visual transformation of a historic city in China: Chengdu

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Yanshuo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Trompe L'oeil ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The People ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

This article discusses how Chinese cities are transforming in visually radical ways to reconfigure their historic memories. In the midst of ‘creative city campaigns’ sweeping over China, which emphasize the discovery and exploitation of the creative-historic-cultural elements of urban pasts, Chengdu, one of China’s ‘New First-tier Cities’, epitomizes the pivotal role that visual culture plays in facilitating urban change. Grounded in critical analysis of both indigenous urban-making strategies within China and Chinese cities’ borrowing of western visual practices, this article investigates how Chengdu, as an emerging metropolis in globalizing China, introduces trompe l’oeil-style photographic installations on the site of its famous Kuanzhai Alleys (Kuanzhai xiangzi) transformation project. Urban planners in Chengdu take advantage of trompe l’oeil (‘trick-the-eye’), a post-Renaissance Western artistic innovation, to blur the boundaries between memory and reality. By transforming a vernacular architectural heritage site in Chengdu into a modern interactive cultural Disneyland, urban planners create embodied interactivity on the current tourist site of the Kuanzhai Alleys. While tourists indulge in the enchanting pleasure of a bygone urban past revived through visual tricks on the site, the people of Chengdu criticize the transformed district for failing to represent the authentic memories of the city. By revealing how the Kuanzhai Alleys becomes a site of contested urban experiences, the article probes the role of artistic creations in mediating memory and reality, the past and the present in fast-changing Chinese cities.

scholarly journals PERAN FATWA MUI DALAM PENANGGULANGAN WABAH COVID-19 DAN DAMPAKNYA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Moh. Dliya’ul Chaq
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

Abstract: The Covid-19 that emerged since December 2019 in Wuhan China has subsequently spread throughout the world and is determined to be a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 by WHO. One of the efforts to break the chain of the spread of Covid-19 in Indonesia was carried out with Large-Scale Social Restrictions on March 31, 2020. This had an impact on the economic conditions of the community at large. This condition encourages MUI to issue legal fatwas related to handling Covid-19 and its impact through the implementation of zakat. By looking at the role of the fatwa, several conclusions can be formulated, first that the MUI fatwa Number 23 of 2020 is a quick-responsive and effective effort that plays a clear role in overcoming the danger of difficulties in fulfilling the necessities of life that are being experienced by the people of the Covid-19 pandemic era so that life humans and the continuity of religion is maintained. This fatwa is in accordance with the logic of the theory of closing the opportunity for danger (sadd al-dzari'ah) which aims to save human life (hifdz al-nafs) and the continuity of religion (hifdz al-din). Second, that the MUI fatwa Number 23 of 2020 acts as a medium for social change needed during the Covid-19 pandemic era.

scholarly journals Asymmetric development of drainage networks as a factor for the recognition of neotectonic block rotation. The case of Stournarorema and Belesitsas basins (Fokida prefecture, Greece)

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Ι. ΦΟΥΝΤΟΥΛΗΣ ◽  
Μ. ΦΟΥΜΕΛΗΣ
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Asymmetry Factor ◽  
Drainage Network ◽  
Block Rotation ◽  
Tectonic Structure ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
Contour Map ◽  
Drainage Networks ◽  
Neotectonic Deformation ◽  
Planation Surfaces

The aim of the present study is to ditect large scale neotectonic deformation in the wider area of Eratini (South Sterea region), by examining its drainage network, the planation surfaces and the structural contour map of the contact between Bardousia and Pindos geotectonic units. In particular we examined the asymmetry of Stournarorema and Belesitsas (tributary of Mornos river) basins. The main interest of this attempt was to reveal systematic orientation of the Tranverse Topographic Symmetry Vector 'T' as will as its geographic distribution. Thus we estimated the above asymmetry factor for the 3rd order streams of both basins and taking in consideration the influence of the tectonic structure and the lithology of the area to the estimated asymmetry values, we suggest a possible counterbalancing rotation of these basins along a horizontal axis of NE-SW direction

scholarly journals To Act or not to Act . Białowieża. Forest under Conflicting Ecological Paradigms

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Klaus Von Gadow ◽  
Chris J. Cieszewski ◽  
John A. Kershaw Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Healthy Tree ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Białowieża Forest ◽  
The People ◽  
Tree Communities ◽  
Adaptive Action ◽  
A Site

Białowieża, a national treasure to the people of Poland and a unique ecosystem of historical significance, has become a site of an intense international debate, following a large scale Bark Beetle outbreak. The controversy centers around two opposing ecological paradigms: 1). Ecosystems without human interference would eventually reach a climax state that is self-regulating and in equilibrium (The No Action paradigm); 2). Trees infected by Ips typographus should be salvaged in order to reduce CO2 emissions, lower the fire risk, and prevent the collapse of healthy tree communities (The Adaptive Action paradigm). This contribution analyzes historical evidence and recent issues related to the management of Poland’s Białowieża Forest and presents a proposal towards a negotiated landscape design that allows for small-scale spatial mixing of different land-uses. Białowieża can become a unique example of a continuously evolving forest landscape that is resilient to fluctuating environmental conditions, human values and societal demands.

scholarly journals Multiple Meanings: The Role of Black Gospel in an Interracial and Multi-Ethnic Edmonton Church

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Angela Taranger
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The People ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
A Site ◽  
Black Gospel Music

This paper examines the process by which Black gospel music (performed according to aesthetic standards determined by African Americans) has become a site of meaning for both Black and White congregants at Edmonton Community Worship Hour, a church with an interracial and multi-ethnic ministry. Certain "transformations" (or "inversions") are at play in the conceptual systems of the people who attend; each individual has disparate, though intersecting, webs of meaning which become operational in a cross-cultural setting, relating to: the music itself, the method of worship, and the interpersonal relationships of the church's Black majority and White minority.

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