Comparative Analysis for the Assessment of Urban Agriculture by Urban Residents : Shanghai City and Harbin City of China as Research Targets

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1027-1040
Author(s):  
Meihua ZHU ◽  
Lily KIMINAMI
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Harbin City ◽  
Shanghai City

Insecurity as confinement: The entrenched politics of staying put in Delhi and Mumbai

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis

A growing literature on contested urban politics has revealed the political agency of seemingly marginal urban residents, including those experiencing the threat of eviction. Yet with much of this work highlighting single instances of successful resistance, the agency of informal urbanites can be overstated and much of what is understood as resistance may actually be confinement. This article addresses this issue by situating an ethnographic analysis of residential evictions in Delhi and Mumbai in historical perspective. Analyzing the character of insecurity since the 1950s, it demonstrates that historically rooted antagonisms and mobilized responses to insecurity have produced political stalemate. The comparative analysis reveals that while evictions in Delhi and Mumbai today occur in places with different histories and characters of insecurity, ongoing contestations between residents, activists, and local government in both cities have produced similar conditions of confinement.

scholarly journals Sustainability of Urban Agriculture : A Comparative Analysis of Tokyo and Shanghai

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 585-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Y. KIMINAMI ◽  
Akira KIMINAMI
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Agriculture

scholarly journals A Survey on the Perception of Companion Plants for Eco-Friendly Urban Agriculture among Urban Residents

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
In-Kyoung Hong ◽  
Hyung Kwon Yun ◽  
Young-Bin Jung ◽  
Sang-Mi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Companion Plants

scholarly journals Dynamics of survival of patients with prostate cancer at the population level, taking into account the stage of the disease and place of residence

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
R. D. Andreeva ◽  
R. S. Nizamova ◽  
A. A. Andreev
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Malignant Tumors ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Relative Survival ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
The Russian Federation

Background. Prostate cancer (PCa) is rapidly gaining a leading position in the incidence of malignant tumors among men. With a general decrease in mortality from all oncological diseases, mortality from PCa in the Russian Federation is increasing: in 2005 there were 8192 deaths, in 2015 - 11987.Objective of the study. Calculation and assessment of survival rates for patients with PCa in the Samara region for the period from 2010 to 2016, taking into account the stage of the disease, the place of residence of patients, a comparative analysis of the observed, adjusted and relative 5-year survival for this disease in a number of regions of Russia and in the world.Materials and methods. The object of the study was all registered patients for the period 2010-2016, with the first established PCa.The calculation and analysis of the observed (OS), adjusted (AS) and relative (OS) survival of 7670 patients with PCa taking into account the stage of the disease and place of residence (urban residents — 6408people, rural — 1262), registered in the database of the population cancer registry of Samara Region Clinical Oncology Clinic. The start date of the study is January 1, 2010, the end date is December 31, 2019. The calculation of survival was carried out by the dynamic (actuarial) method.Results. When assessing the survival of patients with PCa, lower rates of observed survival were observed than adjusted, which indicates the presence of intercurrent causes of death.During the study period, an inverse dependence of survival on the prevalence of the tumor process was revealed. The level of observed survival and adjusted survival of all patients is associated in the survival range at stages II—III: 1-year-old observed survival — 89.1 % (adjusted survival — 92.3 %), 5-year-old observed survival — 62.6 % (adjusted survival — 76.6 %).The adjusted and relative survival rate for the urban population is higher than for the rural population, which may indicate an insufficient level of access to cancer care for patients with PCa in rural areas: the indicators of 1-year adjusted survival of urban residents are higher — 3.3 % (relative survival — 2.4 %), 5-year-old adjusted survival—7.4 % (relative survival — 10.3 %) than in patients registered in rural hospitals.Conclusion. A comparative analysis of indicators of 1- and 5-year survival of patients with PCa in the Samara region and a number of regions of the Russian Federation for 2006—2010 revealed that domestic indicators of 1-year and 5-year relative survival are slightly lower than the European average for 2000—2007. The range of indicators of the 5-year relative survivalfor 2010—2013 in the Samara region amounted to 82.2—93.1 %.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Viability of Urban Agriculture—A Comparative Analysis of Success Factors in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Krikser ◽  
Ingo Zasada ◽  
Annette Piorr
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
Self Reliance

Socio-economic viability of urban agriculture (UA) is, especially regarding non-commercially oriented initiatives, at most a generically treated issue in scientific literature. Given a lack of data on yields, labor input, or saved expenditures, only a few studies have described it either from a cost-avoidance or a specific benefit generation perspective. Our hypothesis is that hybrid roles of consumers and producers in urban agriculture challenge the appraisal of socio-economic viability. This paper presents an empirical study from three prevalent urban agriculture models: self-harvesting gardens, intercultural gardens, and community gardens, combining qualitative and quantitative survey data. A multi-value qualitative comparative analysis was applied to grasp the perception of socio-economic viability and its success factors. This allowed us to identify necessary and sufficient conditions for economic and social success. Results give an indication of the existence of different value systems and cost–benefit considerations in different urban agriculture models. A service-focused business relationship between farmers and consumers ensuring self-reliance is important for success for self-harvesting gardens, while self-reliance and sharing components are relevant for intercultural gardens. Community gardening builds upon self-governance ambitions and a rather individually determined success and failure factor pattern beyond explicit production output orientation. It is shown here for the first time with a quantitative approach that participants of urban agriculture models seem to go beyond traditional trade-off considerations and rather adopt a post-productive perception, focusing more on benefits than costs.

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