scholarly journals Evaluation of Flood Management Policies in the City of Yagoua (Far-North Region, Cameroon)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baugard Ovono Nogo Edongo ◽  
Pr. Najem Dhaher ◽  
Pr. Natali Kossoumna Liba’a
Keyword(s):  
Flood Management ◽  
Far North ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Levantamento de informações socioambientais na comunidade da praia de Macapá - Luís Correia - Piauí - Brasil: contribuições ao gerenciamento costeiro participativo / Socioenvironmental Information gathering in the communitie of Macapá beach

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Glairton Cardoso Rocha ◽  
Antonio Carlos Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Socioeconomic Profile ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The City ◽  
Environmental Functions ◽  
Quality Of The Population

<p class="CorpoA">Os ambientes costeiros são considerados espaços estratégicos devido à diversidade de funções econômicas, sociais e ambientais.  Nesses espaços se desenvolvem múltiplos usos, por agentes que possuem os mais variados interesses, levando muitas vezes a conflitos de ordem socioambiental. Estratégias de gestão podem ser usadas para enfrentar tais problemas, especialmente através do envolvimento popular. A inserção das comunidades deve ocorrer desde o levantamento de informações até o processo de tomada de decisão. O presente trabalho objetiva coletar informações  socioambientais por meio do uso de questionários semi-estruturados, na comunidade de Macapá, município de Luis Correia, estado do Piauí. Os questionários foram aplicados nas residências da comunidade e respondidos por um representante familiar, perfazendo um total de 78 participantes. A partir das informações levantadas foi possível traçar o perfil socioeconômico da comunidade, avaliar a estrutura higiênico-sanitária e identificar potencialidades e limitações de uso. Assim, verificaram-se o baixo nível de escolaridade e renda média das famílias e as deficiências relacionadas ao abastecimento de água, esgotamento sanitário e coleta de resíduos. Além disso, foi possível identificar potencialidades que podem ser exploradas por atividades de ecoturismo, por exemplo, e limitações relacionadas à implantação de estruturas rígidas. As informações apuradas são úteis para o delineamento de políticas de gestão que compatibilizem o desenvolvimento econômico, a melhoria na qualidade de vida da população e a manutenção da qualidade das funções ambientais.</p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Palavras–</strong><strong>chave</strong>: gestão costeira, políticas públicas, potencialidades e limitações de uso.</p><p class="CorpoA" align="center"> </p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Abstract</strong><strong></strong></p><p class="CorpoA">Costal environments are considered strategic spaces due to the diversity of economic, social and environmental functions. Agents that have the most varied interests develop several uses in those spaces, many times leading to socioenvironmental conflicts. Management strategies can be used to face such problems, particularly through popular engagement. The inclusion of communities should happen since the information gathering to the process of decision taking. The present issue aims to collect socioenvironmental information with semi-structured questionnaires in the communitie of Macapá, in the city of Luis Corrêa, State of Piauí. The questionnaires were applied in the cities residences, answered by a family’s representative, making up 63 attendees. From the information gathered, it was possible to draw the socioeconomic profile of the community, to evaluate the hygienic and sanitary structure and identify potentialities and limitations of use. Thus, a low level of schooling and average income of families were verified, deficiencies in relation to water supply, sanitary sewage and waste collection.  Besides that, it was possible to identify potentialities that can be explored by ecotourism activities, for instance, besides the limitations related the implantation of rigid structures. The collected information are useful for the drawing of management policies that reconcile the economic development, the improvement of the life quality of the population and the quality keeping of the environmental functions.</p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Keywords</strong>: coastal management, public policies, potentialities and limitation of use.</p>

Amarna: Urban Manufacture of Luxury Items

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K. Hodgkinson
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Capital City ◽  
North West ◽  
Far North ◽  
The Core ◽  
The North ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Royal Road ◽  
The City

Little is necessary in terms of an introduction, since Amarna is one of the best-known settlements of ancient Egypt. The city was founded by pharaoh Amenhotep IV, known from his fifth regal year as Akhenaten, on his move away from Thebes and Memphis to found a new religious and administrative capital city. Akhenaten reigned approximately between 1348 and 1331 BC, and his principal wife was Nefertiti. Akhenaten’s direct successor appears to have been a figure named Smenkhare (or Ankhkheperure) who was married to Akhenaten’s daughter Meritaten. Like Nefertiti, Smenkhare/Ankhkheperure held the throne name Nefernefruaten. For this reason it is uncertain whether this individual was Nefertiti, who may have reigned for some years after the death of Akhenaten, possibly even with a brief co-regency, or whether this was a son or younger brother of the latter. The rule of Smenkhare/Ankhkheperure was short, and he or she was eventually succeeded by Tutankhamun. The core city of Amarna was erected on a relatively flat desert plain surrounded by cliffs on the east bank of the Nile, in Middle Egypt, approximately 60km south of the modern city of Minia, surrounded by the villages et- Till to the north and el-Hagg Qandil to the south. The site was defined by at least sixteen boundary stelae, three of which actually stand on the western bank, past the edge of the modern cultivation. In total, the city measures 12.5km north–south on the east bank between stelae X and J, and c.8.2km west–east between the projected line between stelae X and J and stela S to the far east, which also indicates approximately the longitude of the royal tomb. The distance between stelae J and F, to the far south-west, measures c.20km, and between stelae X and A, to the far north-west 19.2km. The core city, which is the part of the settlement examined in this section, was erected along the Nile, on the east bank, and it is defined by the ‘Royal Road’, a major thoroughfare running through the entire core city north–south.

scholarly journals Implementasi Kebijakan Pengelolaan Pertamanan di Kota Palangka Raya Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Reza Pahlawan ◽  
Edy Andrean
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Primary Data Source ◽  
The People ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The City

This study aims to find out and describe the implementation of garden management policies in the City of Palangka Raya through Regional Regulation No. 03 of 2006 in order to create useful gardening conditions. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. In this case, the researcher wants to describe and also explain the phenomena that occur related to gardening problems that are still lacking in management. The primary data source of this research is the people of the City of Palangka Raya and the Office of Cipta Karya, Spatial Planning and Housing. The results of this study address this shows that there is still low awareness and willingness of the community to participate together in maintaining and managing parks. In addition, the communication, supervision and human resources factors that are owned by the related Office as the implementation of the policy to the public is felt to have not run optimally

scholarly journals Simulation modeling of integrated heat and cooling supply systems in the Far North to assess efficiency

2021 ◽  
Vol 289 ◽  
pp. 04004
Author(s):  
Semen Vasilev
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Modeling ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Far North ◽  
Absorption Chillers ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Supply Systems ◽  
The City ◽  
Integrated Power System

This paper proposes the creation of an integrated heat and cooling system in the city of Yakutsk. A classic version of district cooling (DC) with the use of absorption chillers is considered. The operation of the integrated power system was simulated for 3 months in the summer of 2019. The simulation results showed the presence of a sufficient amount of waste heat for the entire time of the DC operation, even for the maximum possible cooling demand. Calculations showed the possibility of reducing electricity consumption in the city from 0.8 to 20.0%. Primary economic indicators showed the possible economic success of such a project, if there is sufficient demand for cold.

scholarly journals Construcción social del desastre detonado por el sismo 19S en las alcaldías Tláhuac y Xochimilco, Ciudad de México / / / \ \ \ Social Construction of Disaster Triggered by the 19S Earthquake in the Municipalities of Tláhuac y Xochimilco, Mexico City

2021 ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Alejandra Toscana Aparicio ◽  
Alma Villaseñor Franco
Keyword(s):  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Ecological Conservation ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Risk Vulnerability ◽  
The City ◽  
Social Causes ◽  
Land Changes

Resumen: El Sismo 19S detonó un desastre en la CDMX; miles de viviendas en las alcaldías Tláhuac y Xochimilco presentaron daños. El objetivo de este texto es comprender las causas antrópicas del desastre mediante el análisis de estudios académicos, informes oficiales, variables espaciales y observación en campo. La investigación permitió vislumbrar la incidencia de causas sociales en el desastre: la expansión urbana de la Ciudad sobre el suelo de conservación ecológica, los cambios de uso de suelo de agrícola y forestal a urbano, el crecimiento de asentamientos irregulares y vivienda precaria, el incumplimiento de reglamentos de construcción y la sobreexplotación de agua subterránea en el sureste de la cuenca de México; todo esto derivado de políticas habitacionales, de gestión del agua y suelo. La importancia del estudio radica en que pone de manifiesto la necesidad de impulsar una política de mitigación y prevención de desastres vinculada al modelo de desarrollo.   Palabras clave: riesgo, vulnerabilidad, amenaza, desarrollo, vivienda.   Abstract: The 19S earthquake triggered a disaster in the CDMX; thousands of homes in the Tláhuac and Xochimilco municipalities were damaged. The objective of this text is to understand the anthropogenic causes of the disaster through the analysis of academic studies, official reports, spatial variables and field observation. The research provided a glimpse of the incidence of social causes in the disaster: the urban expansion of the city on ecological conservation land, changes in land use from agricultural and forestry to urban, the growth of irregular settlements and precarious housing, non-compliance with building regulations and overexploitation of groundwater in the southeast of the Mexico basin. All this derived from housing, water, and land management policies. The importance of the study lies in the fact that it highlights the need to promote a disaster mitigation and prevention policy linked to the development model.   Key words: risk, vulnerability, hazard, development, housing.

What do long term field surveys tell us about the economic impacts of flooding on agricultural activities?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Bremond ◽  
Pierre Balzergue ◽  
Pauline Garcia ◽  
Loïc Kechichian ◽  
Nicolas Perret ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flood Management ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Extreme Flood ◽  
Market Gardening ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Term Field

&lt;p&gt;Estimating damage is crucial to evaluate flood management policies and to choose between different alternatives. In Cost-Benefit Analysis, the benefits of the policies are most of the time evaluated by avoided damage. One of the underlying assumptions of damage estimation is that the impacted assets come back quickly to their initial state, which justifies the assumption to focus on short term damage. So far, little research has questioned this assumption. However, recent work (Nortes Martinez, 2019) showed that flooding can critically disrupt farming systems in the long term. The vulnerability of agricultural activities to flooding has received so far less attention because they represent less damage proportionally compared to other economic sectors. However, better characterizing impacts on such assets is key to evaluating the efficiency and sustainability of flood management policies which relies on increasing exposure on agriculture. In this article, we propose to address the issue of long term field surveys to improve the assessment of flood-related damage to agricultural activities. To do so, we carried out interviews in 2015 with farmers impacted in 2014 by a flood, and which was repeated in 2019 and 2020. The case study is the &amp;#8220;&amp;#201;tang de l&amp;#8217;Or&amp;#8221; watershed, located in the South of France in the Occitanie Region. It was impacted by an extreme flood in September 2014. 70 impacted farms were identified representing a total area of 3 044 ha of which 340 ha were affected. The main specialization of these farms were viticulture (27 farms) and market gardening and horticulture (27 farms). In 2015, a first round of surveys was carried out. A questionnaire aimed at having a global vision of the impacts on farms was used. 41 farms responded to the interviews (14 in viticulture and 16 in marketing gardening horticulture), which were carried out face-to-face. In 2019 and 2020, a second round of surveys was carried out with the farms specialised in viticulture and in market gardening and horticulture. A questionnaire was designed to investigate impacts that have occurred since 2014 as well as the potential adaptions implemented. 10 farms specialised in viticulture and 11 specialised in market gardening participated to the second round respectively 4 and 5 years after the first interviews. Long term surveys revealed that few biophysical impacts have persisted after the 2014 flood, for example long term loss of yield or impact on quality of the products. However, financial impacts were still present 5 years after: repayment of loans, replenishment of the cash fund. Although a full correlation cannot be established, some farms have gone bankrupt. In conclusion, we present methodological recommendations for the implementation of a long-term observation framework for flood impacts.&lt;/p&gt;

scholarly journals Historical assessment of Chinese and Japanese flood management policies and implications for managing future floods

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 265-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pingping Luo ◽  
Bin He ◽  
Kaoru Takara ◽  
Yin E. Xiong ◽  
Daniel Nover ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flood Management ◽  
Management Policies
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