Football Globalization, Fans of European Leagues and the Spatiality of Viewing Centers in a Nigerian City

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Udemeue Onyebueke
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The World ◽  
Transportation Corridors ◽  
Spatial Coordinates ◽  
Current Article

Football is arguably the world’s most globalized sport, and is implicated in the continuing efforts of social scientists to understand current globalization processes. In cities across the world, transnational broadcast of live matches of European leagues, involving elite clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona and other elite teams/players, is engendering ritualized television spectating, which in turn is leading to the proliferation of ‘football bars’ or football viewing centres (FVCs). Globalization-induced telemediation of urban social life and subculture formation is specialized in these ‘virtual stadiums’, entertainment/socializing centres, and ‘windows’ to the outside world, where fan-ship behaviours are both formed and reinforced. The current article attempts to fill the yawning spatiality gap in contemporary literature on football globalization and media transnationalism by exploring FVCs as ‘spatial coordinates’ of globalization, and unpacking its geospatial, socio-demographic and land use change attributes in a typical Nigerian city. The explorative results revealed significant clustering around the central areas with orientation in the direction of the major transportation corridors.

scholarly journals Estimating historical land use patterns in Amazonia for hydrological studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Christiane Cavalcante Leite ◽  
Marcos Heil Costa ◽  
Ranieri Carlos Ferreira de Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Land Use ◽  
Past Land Use

The evaluation of the impacts of land-use change on the water resources has been, many times, limited by the knowledge of past land use conditions. Most publications on this field present only a vague description of the past land use, which is usually insufficient for more comprehensive studies. This study presents the first reconstruction of the historical land use patterns in Amazonia, that includes both croplands and pasturelands, for the period 1940-1995. During this period, Amazonia experienced the fastest rates of land use change in the world, growing 4-fold from 193,269 km2 in 1940 to 724,899 km2 in 1995. This reconstruction is based on a merging of satellite imagery and census data, and provides a 5'x5' yearly dataset of land use in three different categories (cropland, natural pastureland and planted pastureland) for Amazonia. This dataset will be an important step towards understanding the impacts of changes in land use on the water resources in Amazonia.

A Remote Sensing and GIS Integrated Study on Assessment of Change in Land Use and Loss of Agricultural Land due to Urbanization – A Case Study of Nashik City

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 3055-3063
Author(s):  
Dipti Bakare
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Remote Sensing And Gis ◽  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
The World

Abstract: Urbanization may be a process having a serious impact ashore use characteristics. Basically, as an impression of urbanization, the world is observed with rapid change within the land use character of agricultural land. Generally, the agricultural land is employed for various development activities like industrial establishments, residential colonies and other urban infrastructure during the method of urbanization. it's necessary to possess a periodical assessment of land use change for the developing populated area , which helps to make a decision the longer term expansion strategies for the world. Nashik city is located in the state of Maharashtra in the western part of India. It is one of the most dynamic cities of India with a rapid growth rate due to migration from various parts of Maharashtra. The Nashik city is presently spread over an area of 264.15 sq. km. with a periodical increase in municipal corporation boundary during the last few decades. As a result of urbanization and expansion of municipal corporation limits, the city has undergone drastic changes in land use character. In this study, land-use change is quantified for the existing six zones of Nashik city during the last 30 years using remote sensing and GIS. The study has analysed the relationship between urban expansion and the loss of agricultural land because of an increase in a built-up area and other land use. The study present excellent scenario for land use change during the year 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2020. This can surely guide the development strategies for the study area of Nashik. Also the study can be extended for conducting a suitability analysis to assess future change of land use based on various criteria. Keywords: Land use, Remote sensing, GIS, Supervised classification, Urbanization, Agricultural land loss

scholarly journals Comment on “On History and Policy: Time in the Age of Neoliberalism”

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Streeck
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Systematic Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Development And Evolution

It is not only economics that needs to regain a sense of history but also much of social science. Like economists social scientists need to liberate themselves from a Newtonian clockwork view of the world, and from a view of social reality as an emanation and arbitrary illustration of universal laws governing social life in general. Social science needs a renewed awareness of its origins in a systematic theory of historical social development and evolution, of endogenous social dynamics, and of directionality of social and institutional change, especially in contemporary capitalism, free from historical teleology and economic determinism.

scholarly journals Decadal-scale relationship between measurements of aerosols, land-use change, and fire over Southeast Asia

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (19) ◽  
pp. 26895-26957 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Cohen ◽  
E. Lecoeur
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Source Region ◽  
Anthropogenic Sources ◽  
Fire Season ◽  
Decadal Scale ◽  
Simple Regression Model ◽  
The World

Abstract. A simultaneous analysis of 13 years of remotely sensed data of land cover, fires, precipitation, and aerosols from the MODIS, TRMM, and MISR satellites and the AERONET network over Southeast Asia is performed, leading to a set of robust relationships between land-use change and fire being found on inter-annual and intra-annual scales over Southeast Asia, reflecting the heavy amounts of anthropogenic influence over land use change and fires in this region of the world. First, we find that fires occur annually, but with a considerable amount of variance in their onset, duration, and intensity from year to year, and from two separate regions within Southeast Asia from each other. This variability is already partially understood from previous works, including the impacts of both inter-annually and intra-annually occurring influences such as the Monsoon and El-Nino events, but yet there are other as of yet unknown influences that also are found to strongly influence the results. Second, we show that a simple regression-model of the land-cover, fire, and precipitation data can be used to recreate a robust representation of the timing and magnitude of measured AOD from multiple measurements sources of this region using either 8-day (better for onset and duration) or monthly based (better for magnitude) measurements, but not daily measurements. We find that the reconstructed AOD matches the timing and intensity from AERONET measurements to within 70 to 90 % and the timing and intensity of MISR measurements from to within 50 to 95 %. This is a unique finding in this part of the world, since could-covered regions are large, yet the robustness of the model is still capable of holding over many of these regions, where otherwise no fires are observed and hence no emissions source contribution to AOD would otherwise be thought to occur. Third, we determine that while Southeast Asia is a source region of such intense smoke emissions, that it is also impacted by transport of smoke from other regions as well. There are regions in northern Southeast Asia which have two annual AOD peaks, one during the local fire season, and the second smaller peak corresponding to a combination of some local smoke sources as well as transport of aerosols from fires in southern Southeast Asia, and possibly even from anthropogenic sources in South Asia. Conversely, we show that southern Southeast Asia is affected exclusively by its own local fire sources during its own local fire season. Overall, this study highlights the importance of taking into account a simultaneous use of land-use, fire, and precipitation for understanding the impacts of fires on the atmospheric loading and distribution of aerosols in Southeast Asia over both space and time.

scholarly journals Decadal-scale relationship between measurements of aerosols, land-use change, and fire over Southeast Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 721-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Blake Cohen ◽  
Eve Lecoeur ◽  
Daniel Hui Loong Ng
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Source Region ◽  
Anthropogenic Sources ◽  
Fire Season ◽  
Decadal Scale ◽  
Simple Regression Model ◽  
The World

Abstract. A simultaneous analysis of 13 years of remotely sensed data of land cover, fires, precipitation, and aerosols from the MODIS, TRMM, and MISR satellites and the AERONET network over Southeast Asia is performed, leading to a set of robust relationships between land-use change and fire being found on inter-annual and intra-annual scales over Southeast Asia, reflecting the heavy amounts of anthropogenic influence over land-use change and fires in this region of the world. First, we find that fires occur annually, but with a considerable amount of variance in their onset, duration, and intensity from year to year, and from two separate regions within Southeast Asia. Second, we show that a simple regression model of the land-cover, fire, and precipitation data can be used to recreate a robust representation of the timing and magnitude of measured aerosol optical depth (AOD) from multiple measurements sources of this region using either 8-day (better for onset and duration) or monthly (better for magnitude) measurements, but not daily measurements. We find that the reconstructed AOD matches the timing and intensity from AERONET measurements to within 70 to 90 % and the timing and intensity of MISR measurements to within 50 to 95 %. This is a unique finding in this part of the world since cloud-covered regions are large, yet the model is still robustly capable, including over regions where no fires are observed and hence no emissions would be expected to contribute to AOD. Third, we determine that while Southeast Asia is a source region of such intense smoke emissions, portions of it are also impacted by smoke transported from other regions. There are regions in northern Southeast Asia which have two annual AOD peaks, one during the local fire season and the other, smaller peak corresponding to a combination of some local smoke sources as well as transport of aerosols from fires in southern Southeast Asia and possibly even from anthropogenic sources in South Asia. Overall, this study highlights the importance of taking into account a simultaneous use of land-use, fire, and precipitation for understanding the impacts of fires on the atmospheric loading and distribution of aerosols in Southeast Asia over both space and time. Furthermore, it highlights that there are significant advantages of using 8-day and monthly average values (instead of daily data) in order to better quantify the magnitude and timing of Southeast Asia fires.

scholarly journals Restoration-as-development? Contesting Aspirational Politics Regarding the Restoration of Wildlife Corridors in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Matejcek ◽  
Julia Verne
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
Wildlife Corridors ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
Kilombero Valley ◽  
Wildlife Migration

AbstractDue to recent land-use change, wildlife migration through the Kilombero Valley has almost come to a standstill. In line with global restoration efforts, the African Wildlife Foundation has thus been given the task of implementing the Restoration Opportunity Assessment Methodology (ROAM), recently developed by IUCN and the World Resources Institute to foster the restoration of wildlife corridors in the area. Designed as a collaborative endeavour, it is in processes such as these that the aspirations of global restoration policies are confronted with specific local contexts. By focusing on specific situations and encounters, especially regarding the participatory aspects of the project, we illustrate how global policy aspirations are appropriated, partly contested and partly played along with, before finally turning into something of an illusion. This way, this article not only questions the more optimistic claims made for ‘conservation-as-development’, it also argues that a better understanding of the plurality of local aspirations and the ways in which they interact with the project’s goals is needed if global policy aspirations are to be realized more successfully.

Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change in the Management of a Transboundary Basin- Case Study of Mono River catchment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rholan Houngue ◽  
Mariele Evers ◽  
Adrian Almoradie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
River Catchment ◽  
The World ◽  
Transboundary Management

<p>There are evidences that climate change as a result of both natural and anthropogenic processes has exacerbated the frequency and the severity of flood hazards over past decades across the world. Moreover, changes in the pattern of precipitation and temperature during the 21<sup>st</sup> century are expected to induce region-specific impacts on floods, especially increase in local floods in some catchments. However, the future is hard to predict as there are strong discrepancies in how climate change is expected to affect runoff and river discharge at different places. Many studies have proven that not only climate, socio-economic and physical factors such as elevation and soil type are determinant for flood risk characterisation. Anthropogenic activities and impacts through land use and land cover degradation have substantial implication for hydrological processes. Moreover, catchment management play an important role in sustainable flood management which is generally based on technical knowledge. But it must also be socially and politically meaningful. This is especially relevant for transboundary catchments where riparian countries might offer different economic, social and political environment, and hence have distinct approaches of flood risk reduction and management. An effective cooperation between states sharing transboundary water resources must include a continuum comprised of data exchange, information sharing, collaboration and joint action. It is a search for cooperative management while respecting the sovereignty of each state. There is a variety of methods used for assessing transboundary management and identifying cooperative strategies. Among others, the following ones can be mentioned: the Water Cooperation Quotient, the multiobjective analysis, hydropolicy simulation models, the Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) and a combination of the two later. Hence this study aims at exploring various approaches of transboundary management and analyses experienced over the world. Lessons will afterward be drawn in the context of climate and land use change in the transboundary Mono River catchment shared by the Republics of Benin and Togo.</p>

Estimation of wind and solar energy potential considering future land use change in the world

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. I_183-I_189
Author(s):  
Yuto KUWABA ◽  
Tomoko HASEGAWA ◽  
Shinichiro FUJIMORI ◽  
Diego SILVA HERRAN
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Analisis Perubahan Penggunaan Lahan Kelapa Sawit Dari 2012 – 2016 di Kecamatan Langsa Lama

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-884
Author(s):  
Muhammad Husyaini Iqbal ◽  
Helmi Helmi ◽  
Muhammad Rusdi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Agricultural Commodity ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Survey Technique ◽  
The World ◽  
Descriptive Method

Abstrak. Kelapa sawit adalah komoditas pertanian yang populer saat ini. Indonesia sebagai negara pengekspor minyak sawit terbesar di dunia dengan Malaysia. Kondisi daerah yang relatief datar menjadikan Kecamatan Langsa Lama sebagai tempat yang cocok untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit. Kajian perubahan penggunaan lahan berkembang sangat cepat dan menghasilkan banyak pendekatan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghitung laju perubahan luas lahan kelapa sawit dari tahun 2012- 2016 di Kecamatan Langsa Lama. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ada lah metode deskriptif dengan teknik survai. Sedangkan analisis perubahan gunakan rumus/formula untuk menghitung laju perubahan kelapa sawit.  Hasil  perhitungan  analisis  di  dapat  bahwasannya  perubahan penggunaan  lahan  kelapa sawit di Kecamatan Langsa Lama 2012-2016 sebesar 81 Hektar.Analysis Of Changes In Palm Oil Land Use From 2012 to 2016 In Langsa Lama District Abstract. Palm oil is a popular agricultural commodity today. Indonesia is the largest palm oil exporter in the world with Malaysia. Regional conditions that are relatively flat make Langsa Lama District a suitable place for oil palm plantations. The study of land use change developed very quickly and produced many approaches. This study aims to calculate the rate of change in the area of oil palm from 2012-2016 in the District of Langsa Lama. The method used in this study is descriptive method with survey technique. While the change analysis uses a formula / formula to calculate the rate of change of oil palm. The results of the calculation of the analysis can be explained that changes in the use of oil palm in the District of Langsa Lama 2012-2016 amounted to 81 hectares.

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