Landscape Political Ecology: Rural-Urban Pattern of COVID-19 in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cletus Famous Nwankwo ◽  
Romanus U. Ayadiuno
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Demographic Dynamics ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Pattern ◽  
Demographic Attributes ◽  
Ecological Landscape ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Future Outbreak

Abstract The socio-ecological and political properties of rural and urban landscapes have been argued to produce the differentials in rural-urban health. However, the mechanism of the COVID-19 pattern in this socio-political-ecological perspective has not been understood in Africa. The study used spatial techniques to explore the pattern of urbanization-COVID-19 nexus in Nigeria. It has been argued that three elements (demographic dynamics, infrastructure or governance) typify the socio-political-ecological landscape of urban places. They shape the spread of infectious diseases. We explored the extent to which these factors predict the COVID-19 pattern in Nigeria. The study used data from Nigeria’s Centre for Diseases Control and the National Bureau of Statistics. The results indicate that more urban states in Nigeria tend to have higher COVID-19 cases than rural states. The COVID-19 pattern is best predicted by population dynamics more than other elements. The result indicates demographic attributes are more critical to surges in COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. Places with higher populations and densities will tend to have more spread of the virus than places with lesser populations and densities. Therefore, in a future outbreak, places of high densities should be given more attention to prevent further spread.

scholarly journals Comparison of relative radiometric normalization methods using pseudo-invariant features for change detection studies in rural and urban landscapes

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 063578-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha Bao ◽  
Alex M. Lechner ◽  
Andrew Fletcher ◽  
Andrew Mellor ◽  
David Mulligan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Change Detection ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Invariant Features ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Normalization Methods

The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
Stella Deen
Keyword(s):  
Major Elements ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Between The Acts ◽  
The Right ◽  
Rural England

A middle-aged spinster presides over the rural and urban landscapes of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman (1926), E. H. Young’s Miss Mole (1930), and Winifred Holtby’s South Riding (1936). Each novel surveys a postwar community’s recovery from the war and ties its resiliency to a represented continuity between urban and rural England. In this chapter, Stella Deen finds in the three novels a progression from a libertarian to a communal notion of civilization. While Lolly Willowes’s representation of rural modernity is a manifesto for the right ‘to have a life of one’s own’ (243), Holtby’s protagonist arrives at the insight that ‘we are members of one another’ (490). Major elements of the ‘spinster in Eden’ pattern are repeated in novels such as F. M. Mayor’s The Rector’s Daughter (1924), Lettice Cooper’s National Provincial (1938), and Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts (1941).

Differences in the implementation of kids save lives programme between students coming from rural and urban places of Thessaly region, Greece

Resuscitation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. e56
Author(s):  
Charalambos Parisis ◽  
Achilleas Bouletis ◽  
Dimitra-Dionysia Palla ◽  
Maria Ntaliani ◽  
Eirini Papa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Places

scholarly journals Characterization and productivity profiles of Aedes aegypti (L.) breeding habitats across rural and urban landscapes in western and coastal Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harun N. Ngugi ◽  
Francis M. Mutuku ◽  
Bryson A. Ndenga ◽  
Peter S. Musunzaji ◽  
Joel O. Mbakaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Coastal Kenya ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Breeding Habitats

scholarly journals Beasts in the Garden: Human-Wildlife Coexistence in India's Past and Present

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meera Anna Oommen
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Protracted Conflict ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Key Species ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Global Arena

Human-wildlife encounters are characterized by a diverse array of engagements located on the continuum between the negative and the positive. In India, protracted conflict with wildlife is reflected in violence across a range of rural and urban ecologies, but is only one aspect of the multiple facets of ongoing human-non-human encounter. Within these shared spaces, there are often equally significant elements of acceptance, tolerance and reverence. Together, these are dependent on context, and can be explored via lived experiences and worldviews, and a moral economy of human-wildlife and human-human relationships. Historically, though hardly static, such relationships have been mediated by the ontological positioning of traditional societies and their embedded rules and practises. In recent years, these tenuous equilibria have been disrupted by top-down catalysts, including universalist conservation agendas percolating from the state and the global arena. This study aims to explore the changing nature of coexistence by using several historical and contemporary vignettes in relation to key species that routinely “transgress” from their primary natural habitats into the “garden” spaces of human cultivation and habitation. The study will argue that insights at the intersection of environmental history, political ecology and anthropology can improve our understanding of human-wildlife coexistence in India as well as across the world.

scholarly journals Tree tilt monitoring in rural and urban landscapes of Hong Kong using smart sensing technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 100030
Author(s):  
Sawaid Abbas ◽  
Coco Yin Tung Kwok ◽  
Karena Ka Wai Hui ◽  
Hon Li ◽  
David C.W. Chin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Sensing Technology ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Smart Sensing

scholarly journals Place-based Inequality in “Energetic” Pain: The Price of Residence in Rural America

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311880303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazarus Adua ◽  
Ashley Beaird
Keyword(s):  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Residential Energy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Lower Educational Attainment

Despite the tendency for some to view rural life or living close to nature with nostalgia, the unpalatable truth is that rural America is beset with many problems, including lower incomes, higher poverty rates, limited access to well-paying jobs, higher morbidity and mortality rates, inadequate access to health care, and lower educational attainment. In this study, we question whether this palpable rural disadvantage extends to residential energy costs, a subject with serious implications for the well-being of households. Analyses of data spanning two decades show that rural households consistently spend more on residential energy than urban households, although they generally use less. This finding, which indicates the existence of energy cost inequality between rural and urban places, represents a kind of rural tax. Any sustained spikes in costs, which has happened in the past and would likely happen in the future, could portend significant access risks to rural households.

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