Energization as a Determinant of Life Quality in the Dispersed Rural Areas in Colombia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés F. León ◽  
Isaac G. Rincón ◽  
Viatcheslav Kafarov ◽  
Alexandra Cortés-Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Life Quality

scholarly journals Cost–Benefit Evaluation of Decentralized Greywater Reuse Systems in Rural Public Schools in Chile

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3468
Author(s):  
Carolina Rodríguez ◽  
Rafael Sánchez ◽  
Natalia Rebolledo ◽  
Nicolás Schneider ◽  
Jennyfer Serrano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Network ◽  
The North ◽  
Benefit Evaluation ◽  
Negative Effect

Water scarcity is one of the most important climatic threats in recent times. In Chile, the north and north-central areas, with predominantly arid or semi-arid climates, have been strongly affected by the low availability of water, as well as by overexploitation of water resources derived from the negative effect caused by some sectors of the economy such as agriculture and mining. Only 53% of households in rural areas in Chile have access to drinking water from a public network. To date, some pilot greywater treatment systems have been implemented in rural public schools. This paper presents an economic analysis of pilot systems for greywater treatment from three case studies. The results showed that the implementation of these systems would not be economically feasible, since the initial investment costs can exceed USD 5200, which is not offset by the water savings. However, other benefits, such as thermal regulation, better life quality, and the feeling of well-being and satisfaction of students and teachers should be considered to be paramount for the evaluation of treatment systems. In addition, current levels of treated greywater could allow irrigation of 6.24, 5.68, and 3.56 m2/person in the Alejandro Chelén, El Guindo, and Pedro de Valdivia schools, respectively. These results contribute to a better understanding of the social role that should be applied to the evaluation of ecological systems that save water and improve the well-being of the population.

SOCIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF A CURRENT STATE OF THE VILLAGE

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bokenchina
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Social Characteristic ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Long Time

The author researchers the social sphere consisting of the branches’ set creating various products in the form of non-material and material services which finally provide inquiries of the society in Kazakhstan that comes to be very important and authentic for the current matter of fact for this country. Transformations associated with the transition to the market economy caused a sharp decline in the rural population of life quality. In the context of transformational recession social services in the rural areas for a long time operated on prevailing conditions in the planned economy assets, resulting in the quality of its services significantly decreased.At the same time, the social sphere of urban economy is largely felt the benefits of the economic growth and participation in the reconstruction of this sector and took the largest system of corporation, especially in the status of city-companies within the social responsibility of business and regional agreements of social partnership.

scholarly journals Strategic advantages and disadvantages for rural tourism development in Dinaric Alps: Case Tropolje

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 701-712
Author(s):  
Suzana Đorđević-Milošević ◽  
Gordana Dražić ◽  
Jelena Milovanović ◽  
Slađana Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Ahp Method ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

The improvement of life quality in rural areas is an overall goal of all development strategies in the Western Balkans countries. Rural tourism represents the quality option for diversification of income and employment opportunities in Tropolje region (Canton 10 in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Therefore, the goal of this study is to identify strategic advantages and disadvantages for tourism development in Tropolje region of Dinaric Alps and provide guidelines for its development. The SWOT analysis combined with AHP method was used. In seven domains, 29 strengths, 31 weakness, 25 opportunities and 24 threats were determined, with total intensity 154, 202, 140 and 144 and average rating of influence intensity 5.3, 6.5, 5.6, 5.8, respectively. A significant advantage for tourism development were linked to short supply chains based on natural and cultural heritage of the region.

scholarly journals Sytuacja mieszkaniowa gospodarstw domowych na wsi w Polsce w 2016 r. w świetle badań budżetów gospodarstw domowych = Housing status of rural areas’ households in Poland in the light of household budget survey of 2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Krystyna Hanusik ◽  
Urszula Łangowska-Szczęśniak
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Housing Status ◽  
Household Budget ◽  
Material Conditions

The article concerns the issue of disparity in the level of meeting the housing needs in the rural areas of Poland. This may be regarded as a basic determinant of households’ standard of living. The goal of conducted research was an attempt to identify the level of diversification in housing status, as well as subjective assessment of life quality in rural areas and comparing these with selected unbiased characteristics of material conditions of examined entities. The number of people per 1 room in a flat, average number of square meters per capita in a flat or living in a separate dwelling were assumed as representative indicators of a household’s housing status. Selected characteristics of housing quality were also examined. A comparative analysis of the relationship between the self-assessment of housing situation, its objective characteristics and selected characteristics of households included in particular socio-economic groups was carried out. The analysis has proven a strong correlation between satisfying the households’ needs and the level of income. It is also worth to emphasise the significant impact of the reference group (the socio-economic group of households was adopted) on the self-assessment of housing status. Statistical analysis methods were implemented. The study employed data derived from the panel survey on household budget in Poland in 2016 conducted by the Central Statistical Office.

Influence of the Climate Changes on the Human Life Quality,in Rural Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1392-1396
Author(s):  
Dorina Nicoleta Mocuta
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Global Climate Changes ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Moment

Humanity is currently facing global climate changes and their disastrous effects, such as: increasing air and oceans water temperature, increased flood risk, drought, lack of drinking water, increased risk of fire and reducing natural vegetal resources, changes in ecosystems and degradation of natural resources, increased risk of diseases. The changes at climate and ecosystems level are endangering even the foundations of the human health (the access to adequate food resources, clean air, drinking water and safe housing) and represent at the moment the greatest challenge of the 21st century, with regard to public health [1].

scholarly journals Scenario Analysis for Incremental Community Planning in an African Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8133
Author(s):  
Santiago Restrepo Arias ◽  
Sara Torabi Moghadam ◽  
Patrizia Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Preference Ranking ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Urban Scenario ◽  
African Context ◽  
Evaluation Stage ◽  
Identification Stage

Urban areas are gradually becoming more viable places in terms of life quality than most rural areas. This phenomenon generates human movements, both at a local and at an international scale, the latter usually being labeled as irregular migration. This study aims at analyzing urban scenario proposals that part from incremental urbanism principles to create opportunities for youth and women in the area of Pikine Est (Senegal), a neighborhood with a high vocation toward migration. An integrated planning approach is proposed, where an initial project identification stage reveals through documentary analysis and discussion the adequate project strategies to apply and shines a light on proper life quality indicators (LQIs). In the successive stage, project formulation, future-oriented scenarios are proposed. Finally, at the evaluation stage, each urban scenario is assessed to determine which one contains a more suitable set of strategies in function of the community’s needs, employing multi-criteria analysis (MCA) and preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) methods. As a result, this study proves through measurable data that assessing incremental urban interventions makes sense in developing communities, not only as a study of their response to scarce financial resources, but also as means to overcome and avoid environmental issues that cities face at a global scale today.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE MULTITEMPORAL DO CLIMA URBANO EM PALMAS, ESTADO DO TOCANTINS –BRASIL

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-14
Author(s):  
Felipe David Georges Gomes ◽  
Isabela Marega Rigolin Fuzeto ◽  
Renata Pereira Prates
Keyword(s):  
Water Balance ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Urban Heat Islands ◽  
Small Surface ◽  
Heat Islands ◽  
Temporal Space

The urban climate changes, caused by intense urban densities, result in loss life quality. Therefore, it becomes increasingly necessary to know the dynamics climatic of a given region in search of strategies to promote socio-environmental quality. The present work aimed to analyze the temporal space variations of the urban climate and the implications of water availability and NDVI in urban heat islands. For this purpose, we adopt as case study the municipality of Palmas - Tocantins. In a first moment, the climatological characterization of the study area through the climatological water balance proposed by Thornthwaite and Mather (1955) was carried out. Then the terrestrial surface temperature (LST) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) were calculated by means of multispectral images of the LANDSAT7 and LANDSAT8 satellites and GIS software. From the climatic water balance, it was possible to verify indices characteristic of the tropical climate as well as the climatic dynamics of the region. We observed small surface heat islands diagnosed by means of satellite imagery in the urban environment with a magnitude of up to 15 ° Celsius in relation to the nearby rural areas, especially in the drier periods. We also confirmed the importance of green areas in the mitigation of land temperatures.

scholarly journals Methodological Basis of Forming Spatial Poles of the Economic Growth in the Rural Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3851-3861
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Active Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Social Area ◽  
Advanced Development

The current socio-economic development of the Siberian village and its arrearage from the standards of the population’s life quality require rural territories to change over to the sustainable development. This change assumes the depth and consistency of the innovative structural, organizational and economic, and legal transformations that are forthcoming in the economy and social area of rural territories. It is impossible to carry out such modernization simultaneously and everywhere. The authors of the study substantiate the methodology of a phased approach based on the theory of “poles” or growth “areas”. The methodology has been offered to form rural growth poles. It has been developed by using the cartographic method based on the principles of identifying growth centers and developing adjacent areas as economic satellites whose socio-economic development is related to the “poles” development. During the study, the authors have offered to single out seven rural poles of the social and economic growth in the Novosibirsk Region as promising centers of development, concentration of economically active population where it is possible to form territories of advanced development.

scholarly journals Podstawowe determinanty jakości życia mieszkańców wsi i miast po akcesji Polski do Unii Europejskiej = Basic determinants of rural and urban inhabitants’ life quality after Poland’s accession to the European Union

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Barbara Chmielewska ◽  
Józef Stanisław Zegar
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Subjective Evaluation ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Main Determinants

The purpose of the study is to assess changes concerning main determinants of rural and urban inhabitants’ life quality in the period after Poland’s accession to the European Union (years 2006–2017). The study was conducted basing on results of the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and household budgets of the Central Statistical Office of Poland. Assessment of rural population’s life quality was based on indicators characterizing the unbiased living conditions (income, expenses, infrastructure, environment, housing and furnishings) as well as subjective evaluation. However, in assessing the life quality, environmental and climatic advantages of rural areas were not taken into account. Basic indicators relate to individuals or households. Life quality in rural areas is lower than in urban ones, which is primarily due to inferior income of rural residents. Furthermore, the level of expenditure is lower, mainly regarding high rank needs. Rural areas are characterized by lower equipment in basic technical infrastructure and durable – especially modern goods – in comparison to urban areas. Inhabitants of rural areas subjectively assess their life quality to be worse than the urban population. They also believe that possibility of satisfying their needs is lower than in cities.

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