scholarly journals Integrated Watershed Management Framework and Groundwater Resources in Africa- A Review of West Africa Sub-region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Adekunle Adesina ◽  
Jiang Jiang ◽  
Tang Xiaolan
Keyword(s):  
Watershed Management ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Water Users ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Integrated Watershed Management

Human activities mostly impact the trend and direction of surface water, groundwater, and other river basin resources in the watershed in Africa. Human activities influence river flows and the water quality at both highlands and lowlands. A watershed is indeed a conserved area of land that collects rain and snow and empties or penetrates into ground water sources. The act of managing the activities around the watershed is the Integrated Watershed Management while considering the social, economic, and environmental issues, as well as community interests to manage water resources sustainably. These watersheds, river basins, and groundwater resources provide important services for communities and biodiversity. This paper reveals that the best way to protect groundwater resources is on a watershed basis using IWM. This technique enables us to handle a variety of concerns and objectives while also allowing us to plan in a complicated and uncertain environment. IWM involves cooperation and participation from a wide range of community interests and water users, including municipalities, companies, people, agencies, and landowners, for stakeholders' input to be successful. All of the strategies and plans are produced concerning one another, as well as the overall conditions of the watershed, local land uses, and specific issues.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic and Environmental Issues in the Context of the Sustainable Development Theory of Russian Regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 01040
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Vasilchikov ◽  
Oksana S. Chechina ◽  
Svetlana A. Nikonorova ◽  
Maria V. Rakhova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Climate Factors ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Factors

Unevenness is a feature of sustainable development of Russian territories. It arises due to the impressive difference in the provision of natural resources, residents’ mentality, natural and climate factors, the infrastructure that has formed over the years of territory’s existence, and other various conditions. The purpose of the issue is the research of the main factors reflecting the sustainability of development of Russia and proposes directions for improving the social, economic and environmental policy of the country.

scholarly journals Índice de Vulnerabilidade Socioambiental na Área da Gleba “C” da Universidade Federal do Pará, no Município de Belém

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 2322-2337
Author(s):  
Maria Carolina Chaves de Sousa ◽  
Peter Mann de Toledo ◽  
Filipe Gomes Dias
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Vulnerability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Right

At the beginning of the 20th century, urbanization and occupation of privileged spaces at the expense of “lowland” spaces and close to a floodplain. The “lowlands” were occupied by a population, mostly with socioeconomic needs, forming housing groups susceptible to flooding and flooding. To bring the recognition of rights to these occupants, a land regularization work was carried out by the Federal University of Pará - UFPA, together with public entities from the State and the Union. The article aims to present and compare the degree of socio-environmental vulnerability in the area of land C of UFPA in the municipality of Belém, object of land regularization activity, applying indicators and indices related to social, economic, legal and environmental issues. The results show that the degree of vulnerability is high in the years surveyed, concluding that the legal regularization work carried out in the area was only patrimonial, in order to transfer responsibilities for land use to the beneficiary residents and the recognition of the right of that title by law. . Effective land regularization work should involve a set of bodies responsible for the social, environmental, urban and land areas so that, in a concatenated and long-term manner, the work carried out is carried out so that the results are captured by the indicators and that the data decrease the degree of socio-environmental vulnerability in the studied area.

scholarly journals The Pragmatic Meanings of Car Stickers in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Bilal A. Al-Adaileh ◽  
Lana J. Kreishan
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Protective Measure ◽  
The South ◽  
Brand Protection ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Evil Eye ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Authentic Data ◽  
Vehicle Size

This study is aimed at investigating the illocutionary forces of car stickers in Jordan as an under-researched area of Arabic pragmatics. The study is based on authentic data collected over a year as found displayed on cars in the south, mid and north of Jordan. The data collected were found to display a wide range of social, romantic and economic functions including displaying vehicle size and brand, protection against envy, disappointment and betrayal, giving advice, displaying love and romantic challenges, crises and car stickers aimed at attracting others’ attention. Stickers used as a protective measure against evil eye were found to be the most frequently used stickers in our data (32.65%). Though car stickers are equated with amusement and humor, they are used nowadays as a tool to indirectly criticize social, economic and political crises, and this could reflect the social and economic challenges of life. The overwhelmingly rhythmic car stickers examined in the study were found to be instances of decodable expressions whose overall meanings could be recovered by sticker readers.

scholarly journals Covering the environmental issues and global warming in Delta land: A study of three newspapers

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jahnnabi Das ◽  
Wendy Bacon ◽  
Akhteruz Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The Social

This article explores the coverage of environmental issues in the daily newspapers of Bangladesh, a South-Asian country facing the onslaught of global warming because of its low-lying deltaic plains and overpopulation. The results are based on an examination of the content of environmental coverage in three national daily newspapers (two Bangla and one English-language) during June 2007. Drawing on field theory and analytical frames from journalism studies, this study examines the principles of journalistic practices as revealed by the content of these publications. The findings indicate that environmental journalism is a strong subfield in Bangladesh’s media, which constructs its own veracity in ways that reflect the social, economic and political contexts of each publication. Based on this small study, the authors conclude that environmental journalists in Bangladesh adopt approaches to sourcing and causation which enable them, in alliance with non-government organisations, to pursue their aim of actively intervening in the field of government policy of Bangladesh, both in international and local spheres.

scholarly journals Climate change in Vietnam: Relations between the government and the media in the period 2000-2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binh Duong Pham ◽  
Chris Nash
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
News Media ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Moment

Vietnam is fifth in the hierarchy of countries likely to be severely impacted by climate change.  Since 2007 there has been a major expansion of reporting and discussion of this issue in Vietnamese news media.  This article reports on a research study of climate change coverage from 2000 to 2013 in four major news outlets: Vietnam Television (VTV), Tuoi Tre newspaper, Nhan Dan newspaper and VnExpress.  It found considerable variation on the content and temporal spread of coverage, but also some interesting commonalities, in particular an unusually prominent role for NGOs as sources.  There is currently a unity of purpose in the Vietnamese government’s approach to this issue at the moment. In other environmental issues, the major factor affecting government latitude for independent reporting has been the unity or conflict within government on the matter.  Where there has been no conflict there has been considerable latitude for journalists to take initiatives in independent reporting, expand the field of media independence and in the process develop their own capital and professional capacities.  Thus far in climate change reporting journalists have not taken advantage of this opportunity, but if the scientific predictions of catastrophic impacts are valid, the social, economic and political effects will be major, posing strong challenges to Vietnamese journalists.

Research Policy and Review 14. Environmental Issues and the Social Sciences

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
E J Tait
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range

The important contribution of the social sciences to research on a wide range of environmental issues is increasingly being recognised, and a major programme of the Economic and Social Research Council is focusing particularly on aspects of risk, rural land use, environmental economics, and energy conservation. The programme emphasises a cross-disciplinary approach to research and some of the reasons for this are discussed in this paper, and also the difficulties of putting it into practice.

scholarly journals Jakarta Bay reclamation policy: an analysis of political ecology

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 00014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elok Faiqotul Mutia ◽  
Donna Asteria
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reclamation Project ◽  
Environmental Interests ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Jakarta Bay reclamation policy is an issue that is currently a public debate. This debate is strengthened by environmental issues, the marginalization of certain groups, the regulation of authority and also corruption in the Jakarta Bay Reclamation project. Some central and provincial government institutions take different stances on the issue. The first objective of this research is to analyse environmental policy in reclamation of Jakarta Bay with the approach of political ecology. This research uses a qualitative approach. The data were obtained from in-depth interviews with stakeholders involved in the policy making of the Jakarta Bay reclamation environment and the literature study. This study concludes that the Jakarta Bay reclamation policy creates a conflict between the central and provincial governments. This is due to the overlapping regulation of Jakarta Bay reclamation authority as well as differences in attitude and interests among stakeholders. In the approach of political ecology, the Jakarta Bay reclamation policy has failed to accommodate the three interests, are social, economic and environmental interests. The conflicts that occur also cause an omission that not only harms the economy, but worsens the social and economic impact.

Hindu Traditions and Nature: Survey Article

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Van Horn
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Survey Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range

AbstractThe scholarly investigation of the convergences between Hindu traditions and the natural world is a relatively recent endeavor, having arisen in the wake of similar projects seeking to identify the intersections between religion, culture, and nature. Partly a response to present and looming environmental threats, this effort has resulted in a wide range of material, from a more general "environmental assessment" of the tradition(s) in question to specific inquiries about the social, economic, and demographic factors that impinge upon contemporary Indians' understandings of nature. This literature review provides an overview of these materials and should offer readers a sense of the topics that have received the most attention from scholars to date.

War Matters

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships throughout history, and the Civil War generation is no exception. Before, during, and after the war, Americans from all walks of life created, used, revered, exploited, discarded, mocked, and destroyed objects for countless reasons. These objects had symbolic significance for millions of people. The essays in this volume consider a wide range of material objects, including weapons, Revolutionary artifacts, landscapes, books, vaccine matter, human bodies, houses, clothing, and documents. Together, the contributors argue that material objects can shed new light on the social, economic, and cultural history of the conflict. This book will fundamentally reshape our understanding of the war.

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