scholarly journals Understanding Tourists’ Motivations: The Case of Al Baha Montainous Region in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Ali Bokhari
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Destination Choice ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Cost

Motivations are critical factors in understanding tourists’ behaviors in relation to destination choice; they relateto needs, goals, and preferences. Extensive research on this topic has been documented in the literature. However, there are few empirical studies on ecotourist cities in mountainous regions that are facing an increasing number of challenges due to the cost of infrastructure development. Attention to tourists’ motivational factors in ecotourist cities is critical for specifying their needs and preferences when drawing up future urban policies to develop ecotourist areas. In this study, the variables that influence tourists’ motivations, and their likelihood of revisiting those areas, were analyzed. The principal results show the significant role of accommodation locations and marketing in attracting visitors to ecotourist areas. These findings suggest that private and public sectors should invest in tourists’ residential development with a high level of accessibility and views. Moreover, tourist advertisements should be given more attention, especially on social media platforms.

Changing Role of Agriculture in Income and Employment, and Trends of Agricultural Worker Productivity in Indian States

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-189
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Agricultural Worker ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Changing Role

The productivity of land has been often discussed and deliberated by the academia and policymakers to understand agriculture, however, very few studies have focused on the agriculture worker productivity to analyze this sector. This study concentrates on the productivity of agricultural workers from across the states taking two-time points into consideration. The agriculture worker productivity needs to be dealt with seriously and on a time series basis so that the marginal productivity of worker can be ascertained but also the dependency of worker on agriculture gets revealed. There is still disguised unemployment in all the states and high level of labour migration, yet most of the states showed the dependency has gone down. Although a state like Madhya Pradesh is doing very well in terms of income earned but that is at the cost of increased worker power in agriculture as a result of which, the productivity of worker has gone down. States like Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura, though small in size showed remarkable growth in productivity and all these states showed a positive trend in terms of worker shifting away from agriculture. The traditional states which gained the most from Green Revolution of the sixties are performing decently well, but they need to have the next major policy push so that they move to the next orbit of growth.

What about WhatsApp? A systematic review of WhatsApp and its role in civic and political engagement

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Pang ◽  
Yue Ting Woo
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The use of instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp for civic and political purposes has been observed and reported to be growing faster than other social media platforms especially in recent years. Using empirical research on WhatsApp studies published from 2009 to 2019 as its corpus of data, this article systematically reviews them to provide more robust conclusions about WhatsApp and its relationship with political and/or civic engagement. This paper seeks to answer three central questions related to WhatsApp and engagement: 1) What are the motivations in using WhatsApp and how do they manifest in the use of WhatsApp as a communication tool? 2) What is the role of WhatsApp in civic and political engagement? 3) How do researchers study the use of WhatsApp in civic and political engagement? The review finds that across empirical studies, while WhatsApp is used by activists and organisational networks for mobilisation and coordinating actions, it is also used by users who draw on the affordances of the medium for informal and ‘de-politicised’ conversations. The findings contribute to the theorising of social media-mediated movements and activism and highlight methodological gaps of ongoing research on WhatsApp.

scholarly journals ROLE OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AND URBAN SECTOR OF INDIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Krishna Somani ◽  
Dr. Ankita Singh Rao
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Urban Sector ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Private And Public

Infrastructure is the basic requirement for development of any business or any city or country. The development of any civilization takes place when the infrastructure develops. In this paper the development in few sectors like finance, land acquisition and planning related to technologies, water, telecommunication, and energy are covered with the upcoming planning and strategies to solve the issues. If infra develops every sector of society will develop in every aspect. Government Infrastructure Projects (PPP), Government Infrastructure Projects (Traditional Procurement) and Private Sector Projects are serving in development in infrastructure. KEY WORDS: Infrastructure, private and public investors, India, technologies, water, telecommunication, and energy.

scholarly journals Alluvial lands of Vasilyevsky Island at the start of the urbanization of the third millennium

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
L. P. Lavrov ◽  
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F. V. Perov ◽  
E. G. Molotkova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
City Center ◽  
Negative Factor ◽  
Transport Connectivity ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Further Development

The article analyzes some variants of assimilation of new territories and development of unbuilt sites on the example of alluvial lands of Vasilyevsky Island.The data on the functional load, architectural and artistic features and principles of investment are regarded. The exclusive role of transport connectivity and framework is emphasized. The authors are of the opinion that the idea of laying a high-speed highway through the city center on Vasilyevsky Island is really a breakthrough significantly increasing St. Petersburg urban development potential. It is underlined that the sale of economy-class apartments, which had been conceived as the main source of financing the work according to the plans of 2017, has failed to become a sufficient basis for the cost of land reclamation and creation of a representative coastal multifunctional complex. According to the authors, the negative factor in this aspect was the inertia of the design and construction system, which has developed in St. Petersburg for many decades and is focused on the mass residential development of vast peripheral territories, and does not envisage the development of a highly urbanized environment. Considerations about the prospects for further development of building on the alluvial lands of Vasilyevsky Island are offered.

scholarly journals The Role of Journalism on YouTube: Audience Engagement with ‘Superbug’ Reporting

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Djerf-Pierre ◽  
Mia Lindgren ◽  
Mikayla Alexis Budinski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
High Level ◽  
Political Economic

Journalism has gradually become ‘normalized into social media’, and most journalists use social media platforms to publish their work (Bruns, 2018). YouTube is an influential social media platform, reaching over a billion users worldwide. Its extensive reach attracts professional and amateur video producers who turn to YouTube to inform, entertain and engage global publics. Focusing on YouTube, this study explores the place for journalism within this media ecology. This study uses a mixed-method approach to examine forms of audience engagement to YouTube videos about antimicrobial resistance (AMR), or so called “superbugs”, caused by overuse and misuse of antibiotics. The analysis focuses on the most viewed YouTube videos about AMR between 2016 and 2018, and compares engagement themes expressed in comments to journalistic videos with popular science videos. The most viewed videos about AMR on YouTube are professionally produced educational popular science videos. The qualitative analysis of 3,049 comments identifies seven main forms of high-level engagement, including expressions of emotions, blame and calls for action. This study shows that journalism plays an important role on YouTube by generating audience discussions about social and political accountability. Our findings demonstrate that journalism videos were associated with propositions for political, economic and social/lifestyle actions, while popular science videos were associated with medicines, scientific or pseudo-scientific, and medical practice changes.

scholarly journals Applying social infrastructure development programs at the integrated development of territories in the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-223
Author(s):  
M. S. Egorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Construction Market ◽  
The Russian Federation

This article discusses the role of social infrastructure in the framework of integrated development of territories. Analytical data is provided on the volume of the construction market, both in the Russian Federation and within the limits of St. Petersburg. In addition, methods for solving the problem of the need to increase residential development in the context of a shortage of territories for the integrated construction of residential premises are considered. Examples are given illustrating the implementation of various programs for the construction of social infrastructure in various regions of the Russian Federation, and possible ways of interaction between developers and state authorities are outlined.

scholarly journals Features of engineering support of the territory

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-138
Author(s):  
David Maisuradze ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
Difficult Terrain ◽  
Military Engineering ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

The article discusses the necessity of the development of military-engineering science in the context of the existence of high-tech weapons in the world. It demonstrates the role of modern remote mining systems in the protection of territories, especially in mountainous regions, in difficult terrain, under the conditions of poor infrastructure development and harsh climate. At the same time, it's mentioned the need of use of salvage fire systems in case of an invasion by excess enemy forces in order to deter the enemy, destroy its live forces and equipment. Peculiarities of the use of remote mining are discussed: the arrangement of explosive fences, the mining and disposal of maritime space, as well as the development of the art of military engineering. In the sense of preparation of the theater of war, the development of military engineering science is the country's top priority and organized system.

scholarly journals THE IMPACTS OF URBANISATION ON AVIAN COMMUNITIES OF LAHORE

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Muhammad Saad Khan ◽  
Fatima Javeed ◽  
Shama Anbrine
Keyword(s):  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Avian Species ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Avian Communities ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Lahore Canal

This paper aims to study the impact of infrastructure development on the indigenous avian ecology of a geographic location and focuses on critically observing the role of human interventions in influencing biodiversity within a region. Objectively this research is to identify existing biodiversity of bird species and impacts of urbanisation on the diversity of avian communities in the study areas. For this purpose, this study has examined native avian communities along two Canal areas of Lahore, one being the heavily urbanized Lahore branch of the Upper Bari Doab Canal (popularly known as the Lahore Canal) and the other relatively less populated Ichhogil Canal (popularly known as Bambawali- Ravi-Bedian or in short BRB Canal). The primary objectives are to study the ecological biodiversity of avian communities in the selected study areas along BRB Canal and Lahore Canal and to highlight the effect of urbanization on the biodiversity of avian species along the selected study areas. Through the above objectives, the study focuses on establishing grounds that bird species which are more adaptable towards an urbanized environment are thriving at the cost of once indigenous and successful bird species. Further, the research also highlights the fact that an insensitive approach towards infrastructure development can destroy the ecology of a region and reduce the variety of avian species that otherwise may thrive in natural habitat. Keywords: Birds, Lahore Canal, biodiversity, bird communities, urbanisation, Avian communities.

scholarly journals THE COST PERFORMANCE AND CAUSES OF OVERRUNS IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN ASIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena M. Andrić ◽  
Abdul-Majeed Mahamadu ◽  
Jiayuan Wang ◽  
Patrick X. W. Zou ◽  
Ruoyu Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Influential Factors ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Cost Overrun ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
Cost Overruns ◽  
Implementation Period ◽  
Project Data ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Political Economic

Infrastructure plays a major role in the economic development of countries, especially in Asia which has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. The procurement of infrastructure continues to be characterized by cost overruns resulting in significant academic interest and theoretical propositions on the influential factors. This study contributes to this issue through adoption of pragmatic research methodology involving deterministic statistical analysis of real project data from reports as well as a qualitative analysis of these reports to unearth underlying issues from a thematic analysis. Furthermore, the study design takes a multi-country view towards establishing the role of contextual and geographical influences on cost overrun. An evaluation of 102 major infrastructure projects was performed covering railways, roadways and energy sectors in different regions in Asia. Findings reveal that differences in the propensity for cost overrun are mostly dependent on a type of infrastructure with rail projects being the most likely to overrun budget. Theoretically, propositions on the influence of project contextual factors are tested highlighting the influence of project size, project type, geographical locations, and the length of implementation period of a project as well as factors related to political, economic, strategic, and competence in infrastructure delivery which vary across countries.

scholarly journals THE PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIALLY RELEVANT PROMOTION OF WORK WELL-BEING – A FINNISH PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Guy Ahonen
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cost Structures ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Cost

Despite abundant research indicating that promotion of work well-being is basically profitable for the corporations, the management in many organizations fails to see the financial potential of improving the working conditions of their personnel. The purpose of this paper is to present recent findings on the financial effects of work well-being activity mainly in Finland, and extract five success principles in this context. This study is based on a number of empirical studies in which the author of this article has participated during the past decade and similar studies in Finland and other countries. The main focus is on the relationship between activities which promote work well-being and their financial consequences for the employers. Particularly the findings generated by the decadelong Finnish strategic well-being-project are exploited. Survey data from more than 2000 randomized Finish private and public organizations were collected and analyzed. Finnish cases indicate that companies can benefit up to 20 % of their profits by investing in their personnel. Comprehensive Finnish surveys indicate that the management of work well-being is far from optimal and that companies that take well care of their people do financially well. It is maintained that companies have a limited view of the scope and possibilities of work well-being activity and therefore fail to see its financial potential. The main limitation of this study is that it is based on mainly Finnish and Nordic data and research. This means that some of the cost structures of the companies studied may vary from those of companies in other countries. The magnitude of the financial effects is, however, so large that the findings should be indicative for other countries as well. The practical value of the principles generated and presented in this paper is in that they demonstrate the mechanisms of how promotion of safety and well-being at work is transformed into financial value. That may help public and private policymakers in developing national and company-level human resource strategies. The findings add to the literature of the economic feasibility of occupational safety and health by introducing new explanations to how the economic effects emerge.

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