scholarly journals Results of the 2015 Mugger Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) count at Vadodara, Gujarat, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Raju Vyas
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Gradual Increase ◽  
The State ◽  
Ongoing Study ◽  
Total Length ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
The City

This report documents the Mugger Crocodile census conducted on 20–21 January 2015 at Vadodara City, Gujarat. This is a periodic procedure and part of an ongoing study designed to monitor this urban population with the help of public participation. The results show gradual increase in the Mugger populaion within the demarcated stretch of the River Vishwamitri. The night-count numbers indicated the presence of 250 individuals of various sizes (<1 m to > 4 m in total length). Mugger Crocodiles are wild, aquatic, carnivorous animals that have been flourishing in close proximity to humans, allowing for a noteworthy case study of the human-Mugger relationship. However, direct and indirect conflict data from the year 2014 are alarming – 24 documented Mugger attacks (12 of which were fatal) within the state, seven (three fatal) within the city limits, and 48 Muggers of various sizes rescued from the area. These numbers are indicative of a unique, complicated, and delicate relationship between humans and crocodiles as a balance is sought between Mugger conservation and a steadily rising urban population.  

Analysis of geodetic and legal documentation in the process of expropriation for roads. Krakow case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Anna Trembecka
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The State ◽  
Property Value ◽  
Real Property ◽  
Construction Design ◽  
Special Rules ◽  
The City

Abstract Amendment to the Act on special rules of preparation and implementation of investment in public roads resulted in an accelerated mode of acquisition of land for the development of roads. The decision to authorize the execution of road investment issued on its basis has several effects, i.e. determines the location of a road, approves surveying division, approves construction design and also results in acquisition of a real property by virtue of law by the State Treasury or local government unit, among others. The conducted study revealed that over 3 years, in this mode, the city of Krakow has acquired 31 hectares of land intended for the implementation of road investments. Compensation is determined in separate proceedings based on an appraisal study estimating property value, often at a distant time after the loss of land by the owner. One reason for the lengthy compensation proceedings is challenging the proposed amount of compensation, unregulated legal status of the property as well as imprecise legislation. It is important to properly develop geodetic and legal documentation which accompanies the application for issuance of the decision and is also used in compensation proceedings.

scholarly journals Determinants of Flooding and Strategies for Mitigation: Two-Year Case Study of Benin City

Geosciences ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Cirella ◽  
Felix Iyalomhe ◽  
Paul Adekola
Keyword(s):  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
High Water ◽  
Benin City ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Risk Reduction Measures ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Transportation Routes ◽  
The City

Recent flood disasters in Benin City, Nigeria have claimed a number of lives, damaged property, and threatened the overall livelihood of residents. The economic burden of such events has forced a vast reallocation of monetary resources for clean-up and recovery, as well as forcibly altered and suspended internal trade via devastated transportation routes. Secondary trends include inflation and migration concerns. As a result, the aim has been to prioritize mitigation by examining easily read, rapidly accessible flood hazard maps, as well as assess and identify areas within the city prone to flooding. We used a number of data sources and conducted a questionnaire surveying three of the local government areas of Benin City over a two-year period. Findings indicate excessive unsustainable land use and land cover change and a flat and high water table area with close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean make the city susceptible to flood risk. Heavy rainfall and drainage system blockage are leading causes of flooding which have destroyed property and houses—two major side effects. A number of mitigation and disaster risk reduction measures were, hereafter, recommended to reduce flooding occurrence in Benin City or lessen its effects on inhabitants.

scholarly journals A CHRONICLE OF CALCUTTA JEWRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (15) ◽  
pp. 1462-1469
Author(s):  
Sayan Lodh
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
The State ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Relief Fund ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
The City ◽  
State Of Israel

Studies conducted into minorities like the Jews serves the purpose of sensitizing one about the existence of communities other than one’s own one, thereby promoting harmony and better understanding of other cultures. The Paper is titled ‘A Chronicle of Calcutta Jewry’. It lays stress on the beginning of the Jewish community in Calcutta with reference to the prominent Jewish families from the city. Most of the Jews in Calcutta were from the middle-east and came to be called as Baghdadi Jews. Initially they were influenced by Arabic culture, language and customs, but later they became Anglicized with English replacing Judeo-Arabic (Arabic written in Hebrew script) as their language. A few social evils residing among the Jews briefly discussed. Although, the Jews of our city never experienced direct consequences of the Holocaust, they contributed wholeheartedly to the Jewish Relief Fund that was set up by the Jewish Relief Association (JRA) to help the victims of the Shoah. The experience of a Jewish girl amidst the violence during the partition of India has been briefly touched upon. The reason for the exodus of Jews from Calcutta after Independence of India and the establishment of the State of Israel has also been discussed. The contribution of the Jews to the lifestyle of the city is described with case study on ‘Nahoums’, the famous Jewish bakery of the city. A brief discussion on an eminent Jew from Calcutta who distinguished himself in service to the nation – J.F.R. Jacob, popularly known as Jack by his fellow soldiers has been given. The amicable relations between the Jews and Muslims in Calcutta have also been briefly portrayed. The research concludes with the prospect of the Jews becoming a part of the City’s history, peacefully resting in their cemeteries. Keywords: Jews, Calcutta, India, Baghdadi, Holocaust

scholarly journals A Visualization Tool for 1790s Charleston: Locating an Enslaved Population Using GIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422110485
Author(s):  
Sarah Collins
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The City ◽  
Case Study Data

This article promotes the value of GIS methodologies to integrate and analyze a range of historic sources dating to the eighteenth century, utilizing Charleston, South Carolina as a case study. Data compiled from the 1790 Federal Census, the 1790 Charleston trade directory, and Ichnography of Charleston 1788 provide vital and complementary evidence that allows the population of the city to be located, which in turn provides a means of assessing late eighteenth-century residency patterns and the enslaved urban population. The value of data visualization is explored, underscoring the need for historians to engage with visual representations of data to communicate research results.

Diagnosis of degradation state of the historic building facade through qualitative and quantitative indicators: case study of the Former School of Agronomy Eliseu Maciel

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitória Silveira da Costa ◽  
Ariela da Silva Torres
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
The State ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Photographic Survey ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
The City ◽  
Damage Map ◽  
Degradation Measurement

PurposeIn Brazil, the city of Pelotas experienced an economic apex between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, reflecting in the construction of several buildings. The aim of this article is to evaluate the state of degradation of the facades of the Old School of Agronomy Eliseu Maciel, using qualitative and quantitative indicators.Design/methodology/approachThe study was divided into visual and photographic survey, damage map and subsequent application of the Degradation Measurement Method (MMD) and the Element Performance Index (Ip). Taking into consideration the evaluation of the building: through historical research and survey of damages. Finally, the building was framed at a level of degradation.FindingsBy calculating the average damage between the methods – damage map, MMD and Ip – a more faithful representation of the damage was obtained, since the values become balanced. The results show the potential of the use of the methods in the analysis of pathological manifestations in facades.Originality/valueThe originality of this article refers to the use of methods for evaluation of historical buildings. The authors believe that the methods described applied jointly provide the results about the state of degradation through nondestructive and low-cost analyses. The methods of surveying damage to Brazilian heritage are a little researched area. This work will hopefully be engaged by academics and professionals to help establish and promote broad government interest and investments.

Planning and its discontents: contradictions and continuities in remaking China's great cities, 1950–2010

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMUEL Y. LIANG
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
State Governance ◽  
City Plan ◽  
The City ◽  
Theoretical Overview

ABSTRACT:This article offers a theoretical overview of the urbanization legacy of China's great cities since 1949. It shows a persistent contradiction between ideology/planning and urban sprawl/cellular urbanism. The symbolic function of city planning reflects official ideology giving the city a unified formal structure, but the implementation of the city plan is compromised in the process of urban development. The state governance fragments Chinese urban society into emplaced groups. This social division takes effect through the spatial division of various compounds that negotiate with rather than conform to city planning. Using a case-study of Guangzhou's urban development, the article shows how the state-led spatial practices continue in the post-socialist era and how a new kind of developmental ideology informs urban developments.

Urban Contingency and the Problem of Representation in Second Empire Paris

1995 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mead
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
State Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Paris Opera ◽  
Napoleon Iii ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The City

Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra (1861-75) and Baron Haussmann's contemporary replanning of Paris (1853-70) supposedly represent the Second Empire of Napoléon III. But this case study of the Opéra within the context of its quarter of Paris contradicts the usual assumptions that the monument and the city were either the inevitable products or the characteristic political expressions of the state. First, a chain of events dating back to the seventeenth century is reconstructed in order to demonstrate that the decision reached in 1860 to site the Opéra on the Grands Boulevards at the end of a projected new avenue was less the consequence of an imperial plan than the pragmatic result of the often contingent urban history of Paris. Second, the parallel and equally pragmatic evolution of the characteristic Parisian façade of a giant order on an arcuated base is traced from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in order to explain why Garnier's Opéra and Haussmann's surrounding buildings came to have the same form of elevation. Interpreted in light of both the Opéra's own ambiguous status as a state institution and the ambiguous nature of nineteenth-century bourgeois civil society, this evidence suggests that neither urban nor architectural forms are fixed in their meaning, but tend rather to adjust their meaning to the changing circumstances of their use. This article concludes that a city and its monuments find their meaning in the continuous process by which a city's inhabitants shape and experience their surroundings, rather than in the episodic political programs of the state.

scholarly journals EDUCAÇÃO GEOGRÁFICA E ARTE EM COMUNIDADES POBRES NO MUNICÍPIO DE PORTO NACIONAL, TOCANTINS, BRASIL

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Carolina Machado Rocha Busch Pereira ◽  
Denis Ricardo Carloto
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Geographic Education ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The North ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Bolsa Familia ◽  
The City ◽  
Poor Communities

GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION AND ART IN POOR COMMUNITIES IN THE CITY OF PORTO NACIONAL, TOCANTINS, BRAZILEDUCACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA Y ARTE EN COMUNIDADES POBRES EN EL MUNICIPIO DE PORTO NACIONAL, TOCANTINS, BRASILO presente trabalho tem o objetivo de apresentar os resultados obtidos com o projeto de extensão “Educação geográfica pela arte” desenvolvido na cidade de Porto Nacional, estado do Tocantins situado na região norte do Brasil. O projeto foi desenvolvido na Universidade Federal do Tocantins e foi destinado aos jovens pobres de de 11 a 17 anos, preferencialmente beneficiários do Programa Bolsa Família. Foram realizadas atividades didáticas pedagógicas sobre o ensino de Geografia com foco no estudo sobre a cidade em estreita aproximação com a arte.Palavras-chave: Extensão Universitária; Oficinas; Geografia; Metodologias.ABSTRACTThis paper aims to present the results obtained through the research project Geographic Education and Art developed in the city of Porto Nacional in the state of Tocantins located in the north of Brazil. The project was developed at the Federal University of Tocantins and destined to youngsters from 11 to 17 years old, preferably beneficiaries of “Bolsa Família” – a Brazilian cash transference program destined to the poorest portion of the population. We accomplished didactic activities about the teaching of Geography focusing the study of the city in close proximity to the art.Keywords: Outreach university activities; Workshops; Geography; Methodologies.RESUMENEste estudio tiene como objetivo presentar los resultados obtenidos con el proyecto de extensión “Educación Geográfica para el arte”, desarrollado en la ciudad de Porto Nacional, el estado de Tocantins ubicado en la región norte de Brasil. El proyecto fue desarrollado en la Universidad Federal de Tocantins y está destinado a jóvenes de 11 a 17 años, preferiblemente beneficiarios del Programa Bolsa Familia. Actividades educativas pedagógicas se llevaron a cabo en la geografía de enseñanza con enfoque en el estudio de la ciudad en las proximidades con el arte.Palabras clave: Extensión de la Universidad; Talleres; Geografía; Metodologías.

scholarly journals Participación social en la gestión ambiental: estudio de caso en una unidad de conservación urbana en el municipio de Sno Paulo, Brasil / Social Participation in Environmental Management: Case Study in an Urban Conservation Unit in the Municipality of São

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Maria Cerati ◽  
Aline Queiroz de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Conservation Unit ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Urban Conservation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Case Study ◽  
The City ◽  
Estudio De Caso

El presente artículo trata de una inmersión en la realidad social de la comunidad del entorno del Parque Estatal de las Fuentes de Ipiranga, una unidad de conservación urbana de la ciudad de Sno Paulo, el tercer remanente más importante de la Mata Atlántica del municipio. El estudio de caso aquí presentado describe el proceso de gestión participativa que incluyó a los grupos interesados en la acción: el poder público del municipio (prefectura de la ciudad de Diadema), el poder estatal (Instituto de Botánica) y la comunidad local. En el campo de la investigación y la acción se utilizaron técnicas de grupo focal para detectar los principales conflictos ambientales del área; se realizaron entrevistas con los moradores para entender su percepción sobre los problemas ambientales, y se hicieron reuniones periódicas para planear las acciones a seguir. Los resultados nos proporcionaron elementos para afirmar que hubo un proceso de capacitación de los ciudadanos en relación con la organización de las acciones colectivas; éstas arrojaron resultados significativos que mejoraron la calidad social y ambiental del área. AbstractThis article describes an immersion in the social reality of the community of the State Park of Fuentes de Ipiranga, an urban conservation unit in the city of São Paulo, the third largest remnant of the Atlantic Forest in the municipality. The case study presented here describes the participatory management process that included the groups interested in the action: the municipal authorities (prefecture of the city of Diadema), the state authorities (Institute of Botany) and the local community. In the field of research and action, focus group techniques were used to identify the main environmental conflicts in the area; interviews were conducted with residents to understand their perception of environmental issues, and regular meetings were held to plan the actions to be taken. The results indicate that there was a process of training citizens with regard to the organization of collective action, which yielded significant results that improved the social and environmental quality of the area.

scholarly journals Ways to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of environmental safety of cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-232
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Ecological Safety ◽  
Main Indicator ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
The City

The analysis of the state of the main indicator of ecological safety of the city - environmental protection and the incidence of urban population. The reasons for the low degree of capture and disposal of pollutants have been identified. Appropriate measures are proposed to reduce emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere and ensure the environmental safety of cities.

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