scholarly journals Modeling Social Inclusion Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Nauras Akhras
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Solution Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender

Research on sustainability science has been concerned with pointing the way towards a sustainable society. On a global scale, sustainability is seen as depending on three systems: the global system, the human system and the social system. In the social system, the need to address issues of social sustainability, including literacy, education, malnutrition, child mortality, and gender empowerment, as well as its connections with human and global sustainability, has given rise to the eight Millennium Development Goals, which break down into twenty one quantifiable targets that are measured by sixty indicators. Therefore, it is clear that the problems and issues associated with the achievement of these goals are very complex to be addressed by a single discipline and that community informatics (CI) may have an important role to play in interdisciplinary efforts to address these goals. Against this backdrop, one of the first challenges is to put the notion of a social inclusion system (a system to promote social sustainability) in more precise terms. In this direction, the purpose of this paper is to discuss and present an initial ontology to describe social inclusion systems. While ontological development in sustainability science has emphasized a problem-solution approach, we believe that the issues of social inclusion will be more naturally addressed by a situation-transformation approach, which is the focus of our ontology.

scholarly journals Contribution of Recycling of Municipal Solid Waste to the Social Inclusion in Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. M. Lino ◽  
K. A. R. Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Selective Collection

This paper proposes the selective collection and recycling as alternative ways to promote the social inclusion in Brazil and help the country to eradicate extreme poverty and misery and achieve the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG1) of the UN. This work is based on the data from a Brazilian metropolitan city of Campinas and is extended to Brazil. The results show that the municipality of Campinas collects monthly 8000 tons of recyclables which if recycled can avail jobs to nearly 13,000 waste collectors with a minimum national salary of R$ 622/month or alternatively can create 40,280 Family Grants of R$ 200/month. In Brazil, the collected recyclables potential is about 2.4 million tons per month which can avail jobs to 2,350945 waste collectors or alternatively create about 7.3 millions Family Grants.

scholarly journals A strategic approach to social sustainability – Part 1: exploring the social system

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 32-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlina Missimer ◽  
Karl-Henrik Robèrt ◽  
Göran Broman
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF AN AGGREGATED SOCIAL INCLUSION INDICATOR. DISPARITIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ON INCLUSION/EXCLUSION SOCIAL DETERMINED WITH SOCIAL INCLUSION INDEX

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Dorel-Mihai Paraschiv ◽  
Daniela-Ioana Manea ◽  
Emilia Țițan ◽  
Mihaela Mihai
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

When we mention social inclusion, most of us think of political participation, social rights, civil liberties, equal access to race, ethnicity and gender, access to social services and the labour market, basically to a broader concept than social development. Social inclusion is a concept that can actually be defined, which means it can probably be measured. On this basis, a continuous effort is being made to measure the social inclusion elements, so the results can be used to build new indicators that help measure the multiple dimensions of social inclusion: The Social Inclusion Index, the Human Opportunity Index. This paper presents the development, based on multivariate data analysis techniques and methods, of an aggregated indicator of social inclusion for the member countries of the European Union which, besides the traditional variables (GDP), also measures the factors related to civil and political rights, women’s rights or perception of the LGBT community.

ISLAMIC FINANCE AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: PARAMETERS FOR DEVELOPING A MODEL FOR SOCIAL IMPACT MEASUREMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Saadiah Mohamad ◽  
Nur Amirah Borhan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Impact Measurement ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
The Social

To be true to the spirit of Islamic finance, embodied in the principles of maqasid al-shariah, developments in Islamic finance should contribute towards promoting social inclusion and reducing poverty. However, Islamic finance is criticised for the minimal social impact that it has created and its contribution towards promoting social sustainability. Thus, this paper aims to develop a comparative analysis of literature on the meaning, conceptualization and measurement models of social impact. Then, the paper uses maqasid al-shariah as a theoretical framework to conceptualise social impact and to propose a set of parameters that can be used to measure the social impact of IFIs. 

Sin, Gender, and Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Croasmun
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Roman Republic ◽  
Social System ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

This chapter places Paul’s discourse of the “Body of Hamartia” within the context of various ancient discourses regarding the social body. These discourses are shown to be oriented around a central ideology of self-mastery that frames ancient Greco-Roman ideas about both gender and empire. It engages especially with the Roma cult in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire as an instance of an ancient collective “person” emergent from a complex social system. (The case of “Legion” in Mark 5 is considered as well.) This comparison allows for a discussion of Hamartia in Paul in terms of ancient political and gender ideology.

scholarly journals Freedom of Religious Belief and People with Disabilities: Evidence from India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Thompson ◽  
Brigitte Rohwerder ◽  
Clement Arockiasamy
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
And Gender

Around the world, people with disabilities can be the most marginalised in society. Having a disability and being a member of a religious minority or an excluded social group can compound the reasons why some people find themselves on the outskirts of social systems which normally provide financial and moral support and a sense of identity and belonging. A recent study from India found that identity markers such as religion, caste and gender can exacerbate the exclusion already experienced by people with disabilities. Taking deliberate steps to strengthen the social inclusion of people with disabilities who also come from minority religious groups and socioeconomically marginalised backgrounds can help them fulfil their potential to fully and effectively participle in society on an equal basis with others, and strengthen community ties, making the society in which they live more inclusive.

scholarly journals Roots and Wings: Indonesia´s way to improvements of women´s health care

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Hans-Gerd Meerpohl
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Live Births ◽  
The People ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender

Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous nation and the largest economy in Southeast Asia. The World Bank recently classified Indonesia as an emerging middle-income country. Enormous gains have been made in poverty reduction, cutting the poverty rate to more than half since 1999, to 9.8% in 2018.(1) However, based on March 2017 data, approximately 20 % of the entire population remain vulnerable of falling into poverty, as their income hover marginally above the national poverty line.(2) Unique challenges for Indonesia´s health care system reflects the fact that approximately 250 million inhabitants from more than 300 ethnic groups spread over 17.000 islands. Indonesia has set itself an ambitious goal of establishing universal health care by 2019, a move commended by the United Nations as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.(SDGs)  Women´s health care, including women’s empowerment and gender equality, is concerned as an especially important issue because - on a global scale- it is one area in which performance has been seen by many to be slow. (3) While Indonesia has experienced greater success in its efforts to reduce the under five mortality rate (27 per 1.000 live births in 2015), efforts to tackle maternal mortality has been less effective as rates have continued to persist above 125 per 100.000 live births over the past decade (6) Having some of those facts in my mind I started my visit to Indonesia and to Surabaya in October 2018 with the desire to understand in the end the country, the people and their health system challenges a bit better.

scholarly journals Coastal management – working towards the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030)

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (9/10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Taljaard ◽  
Janine Adams
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Coastal Management ◽  
Social System ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Scientific Support ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Promising Development

The UN declared 2021-2030 as the Decade of Ocean Science and identified research and technology priority areas to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. We reviewed the current status of scientific support for coastal management in South Africa within the context of these priorities and found promising development. However, challenges for the next decade remain, such as rolling out pilot projects into sustainable, national-scale programmes, facilitating greater collaboration and coordination among scientific role players, and achieving long-term commitment and political will for dedicated financial support. Through our lens as natural scientists we focused on the ecological system and coupling with the social system; however scientific support on better characterisation and understanding of the dynamics within the social system is also critical as sustainable development relies heavily on the willingness of the social system to embrace and execute related policies.

scholarly journals Indigenous Social Policy and Social Inclusion in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiun-Hao Wang ◽  
Szu-Yung Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mainstream Society

Social exclusion problems are inevitable in achieving social sustainability. Minorities or indigenous people encounter social exclusion from mainstream society in many countries. However, relatively little is known about the multiple disadvantages in different social welfare domains experienced by these indigenes. The objective of this study is to address indigenous social exclusion by focusing on their access to social welfare benefits. Data used in this study were drawn from the Social Change and Policy of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples Survey, which included 2040 respondents. Logistic regression results revealed that, compared with their counterparts, the likelihood of being excluded from social welfare payments is higher for those who are plains indigenes, live outside of designated indigenous areas and participate less in local organizations. Besides varying the effects of ordinary explanatory variables on social exclusion across different exclusion models, this study further provides empirical evidence of the multidimensional disadvantages of indigenous peoples in receiving needed social welfare benefits.

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