scholarly journals Socioeconomic Patterns for Global Mangrove Cover Changes with Multivariate Analyses

Author(s):  
Ruihan Lin ◽  
Shen Yu ◽  
Bing Hong

Abstract Socioeconomic patterns beyond the land conversions of global mangrove cover changes were few discussed. This study integrated databases of global mangrove covers, i.e., a multi-database in 1980-2016 with a combination of FAO country-survey and the global mangrove watch, and a mangrove biome cover database in 2000-2012. Annual mangrove cover change (%) of each mangrove holding country or territory was incorporated with its socioeconomic indicators in the two periods to testify possible socioeconomic patterns beyond the mangrove deforestation. The socioeconomic indicators consisted of GDP per capita and urban population percentile, and aquacultural indicators (production per capita, sales value per capita, contribution to the national GDP, and product price). Results indicated that annual mangrove cover change was interactively driven by multi-factors of national economy measures, urbanization, and aquaculture, instead of aquacultural dominance or GDP per capita alone. The multi-factor driven patterns of annual mangrove changes differed geographically among the continents. Temporal change of aquacultural product price was significantly and positively correlated to annual mangrove cover change (increase), especially in Asia and Oceania for both the periods, suggesting positive feedbacks of mangrove conservation and restoration in the two continents although the price was used to a motivator of mangrove deforestation, such as currently in Africa. These findings preliminarily bridge the knowledge gap between land conversion losses and socioeconomics of global mangrove cover changes.

GeoTextos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvio Bandeira de Mello e Silva ◽  
Barbara-Christine Nentwig Silva ◽  
Maina Pirajá Silva

Este trabalho analisa, com base em dados de 2010, a organização social no Brasil, medida pela distribuição das Fundações Privadas e Associações sem Fins Lucrativos (FASFIL), comparando-as com os principais indicadores socioeconômicos. Para tanto, é adotado o conceito, apoiado na noção de capital social (PUTNAM, 1996), de capital socioterritorial, que valoriza o enredamento territorial, os laços de coesão e de cooperação e o enraizamento territorial. Inicialmente, é feita uma análise da relação Pessoas por FASFIL com o PIB per capita para as Grandes Regiões e para as Unidades da Federação. Os resultados confirmam os desequilíbrios regionais e os desequilíbrios interestaduais, isto é, onde a relação Pessoas/ FASFIL é mais favorável, a renda per capita é maior. Em seguida, a análise é feita para as principais regiões metropolitanas e para as metrópoles, envolvendo, além do PIB per capita, sete indicadores socioeconômicos (IDH, Índice de Gini, Esperança de vida ao nascer, Mortalidade infantil, Pessoas com nível superior completo, Porcentagem de vulneráveis à pobreza e Formalização dos ocupados). Os resultados são mais expressivos do que na escala das Unidades da Federação, especialmente no nível das metrópoles, ou seja, expressam mais destacadamente a relação entre FASFIL e capital socioterritorial. Abstract SOCIO-TERRITORIAL CAPITAL AND DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN BRAZIL This paper analyzes, based on data from 2010, the social organization in Brazil, measured by the distribution of Private Foundations and Non-Profit Associations (FASFIL), comparing them with the main socioeconomic indicators. The concept of socio-territorial capital is adopted, based on the notion of social capital (PUTNAM, 1996). This concept values the territorial networking, the bonds of cohesion and cooperation and the territorial rooting, that is, the interaction in different sectors and scales. An analysis is made for the relation between by FASFIL and GDP per capita for the Major Regions and for the Federation Units. The results confirm regional imbalances and interstate imbalances, that is, where there is more FASFIL income is higher. The analysis is also done for the main metropolitan regions and for the metropolises, now involving, in addition to GDP per capita, seven socioeconomic indicators (HDI, Gini index, Life expectancy at birth, Infant mortality, Persons with complete upper level, Percentage of vulnerable to poverty and Formalization of the employed). The results are more expressive than in the scale of the Federation Units, especially at the level of the metropolises, that is, they express more prominently the relation between FASFIL and socio territorial capital.


2021 ◽  

The aim of this study was to investigate and compare gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, the number of physicians per one million inhabitants, the number of cardiovascular disease (CVD) publications, standardized death rate (SDR) from ischemic heart disease (IHD) and CVD per 100 000 inhabitants per year between European countries. GDP per capita from the Eurostat database served as the socioeconomic indicator, whereas human resources in medicine were reported as the number of physicians per million inhabitants. PubMed was searched for CVD publications published between 2005 and 2014 for each country. The rate per million inhabitants and proportions of CVD publications in the MEDLINE database were calculated. Results showed that although Croatia was the only country with stagnation in GDP per capita and with a lower rate of physicians than Austria (P = 0.007) and the Czech Republic (P = 0.005), Croatia had a lower SDR from IHD and CVD than the European region (P = 0.05, P = 0.021; respectively), and had a continuous decrease in the average annual growth rate of IHD and CVD (-2.36%, -3.81%; respectively). In conclusion our study showed that Croatia, despite being the only country with the stagnation of GDP per capita and a relatively low rate of physicians, had a SDR from IHD and CVD that was lower than in the European region which continuously decreased during the study period.


2015 ◽  
pp. 30-53
Author(s):  
V. Popov

This paper examines the trajectory of growth in the Global South. Before the 1500s all countries were roughly at the same level of development, but from the 1500s Western countries started to grow faster than the rest of the world and PPP GDP per capita by 1950 in the US, the richest Western nation, was nearly 5 times higher than the world average and 2 times higher than in Western Europe. Since 1950 this ratio stabilized - not only Western Europe and Japan improved their relative standing in per capita income versus the US, but also East Asia, South Asia and some developing countries in other regions started to bridge the gap with the West. After nearly half of the millennium of growing economic divergence, the world seems to have entered the era of convergence. The factors behind these trends are analyzed; implications for the future and possible scenarios are considered.


2018 ◽  
pp. 71-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. L. Lyubimov ◽  
M. V. Lysyuk ◽  
M. A. Gvozdeva

Well-established results indicate that export diversification might be a better growth strategy for an emerging economy as long as its GDP per capita level is smaller than an empirically defined threshold. As average incomes in Russian regions are likely to be far below the threshold, it might be important to estimate their diversification potential. The paper discusses the Atlas of economic complexity for Russian regions created to visualize regional export baskets, to estimate their complexity and evaluate regional export potential. The paper’s results are consistent with previous findings: the complexity of export is substantially higher and diversification potential is larger in western and central regions of Russia. Their export potential might become larger if western and central regions, first, try to join global value added chains and second, cooperate and develop joint diversification strategies. Northern and eastern regions are by contrast much less complex and their diversification potential is small.


2008 ◽  
pp. 94-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sorokin

The problem of the Russian economy’s growth rates is considered in the article in the context of Russia’s backwardness regarding GDP per capita in comparison with the developed countries. The author stresses the urgency of modernization of the real sector of the economy and the recovery of the country’s human capital. For reaching these goals short- or mid-term programs are not sufficient. Economic policy needs a long-term (15-20 years) strategy, otherwise Russia will be condemned to economic inertia and multiplying structural disproportions.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joses Kirigia ◽  
Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri

<div>A variant of human capital (or net output) analytical framework was applied to monetarily value DALYs lost from 166 diseases and injuries. The monetary value of each of the 166 diseases (or injuries) was obtained through multiplication of the net 2019 GDP per capita for Kenya by the number of DALYs lost from each specific cause. Where net GDP per capita was calculated by subtracting current health expenditure from the GDP per capita. </div><div> </div><p>The DALYs data for the 166 causes were from IHME (Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network, 2018), GDP per capita data from the International Monetary Fund world economic outlook database (International Monetary Fund, 2019), and the current health expenditure per person data from the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database (World Health Organization, 2019b). A model consisting of fourteen equations was calculated with Excel Software developed by Microsoft (New York).</p><p> </p>


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