scholarly journals Examining the Xayabouly dam: Impacts of hydropower dam construction on downstream communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Yia Yang
Keyword(s):  
Dam Construction ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Hydropower Dam ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Downstream Communities

<p>Hydropower power dam development is a booming industry in Laos and it has the potential to tackle poverty in an environmentally sustainable way. However, currently there is a lack of research that thoroughly analyses the negative impacts of a hydropower dam’s construction phase. This research explores some of these negative impacts of hydropower dam construction on downstream villagers by using the Xayabouly hydropower dam on the Mekong River as a case study. Understanding the impacts of the construction phase is vital in forming policy and developing effective strategies to mitigate future negative impacts from dam construction.   This thesis employs a qualitative approach and semi-structured interviews were conducted with downstream villagers about these negative impacts. This research is based on a pragmatist epistemology and employs the matrix conceptual framework to guide this thesis. The results from this study show that the Xayabouly hydropower dam’s construction phase has many negative impacts on downstream villagers’ daily lives. For example, the construction phase has caused irregular flooding, which has destroyed downstream villagers’ agricultural gardens and riverbank erosion has also occurred. Moreover, the results from this thesis show that the construction phase of this dam significantly reduced villagers’ income and nutrition consumption. The construction phase also created significant problems with regards to daily commuting and damaged fishing gear. These results offer important recommendations and implications, which have the potential to inform government policy in the future and to help develop strategies to mitigate the social and economic impacts from future hydropower dam construction in Laos.</p>

scholarly journals Examining the Xayabouly dam: Impacts of hydropower dam construction on downstream communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Yia Yang
Keyword(s):  
Dam Construction ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Hydropower Dam ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Downstream Communities

<p>Hydropower power dam development is a booming industry in Laos and it has the potential to tackle poverty in an environmentally sustainable way. However, currently there is a lack of research that thoroughly analyses the negative impacts of a hydropower dam’s construction phase. This research explores some of these negative impacts of hydropower dam construction on downstream villagers by using the Xayabouly hydropower dam on the Mekong River as a case study. Understanding the impacts of the construction phase is vital in forming policy and developing effective strategies to mitigate future negative impacts from dam construction.   This thesis employs a qualitative approach and semi-structured interviews were conducted with downstream villagers about these negative impacts. This research is based on a pragmatist epistemology and employs the matrix conceptual framework to guide this thesis. The results from this study show that the Xayabouly hydropower dam’s construction phase has many negative impacts on downstream villagers’ daily lives. For example, the construction phase has caused irregular flooding, which has destroyed downstream villagers’ agricultural gardens and riverbank erosion has also occurred. Moreover, the results from this thesis show that the construction phase of this dam significantly reduced villagers’ income and nutrition consumption. The construction phase also created significant problems with regards to daily commuting and damaged fishing gear. These results offer important recommendations and implications, which have the potential to inform government policy in the future and to help develop strategies to mitigate the social and economic impacts from future hydropower dam construction in Laos.</p>

scholarly journals Barriers and facilitators to extended working life: a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Clare Ellen Edge ◽  
Margaret Coffey ◽  
Penny A. Cook ◽  
Ashley Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Gender Profile ◽  
Predominately Female ◽  
Purposive Sample

Abstract Many countries are reforming their pension systems so people stay in work for longer to improve the long-term sustainability of public finances to support an increasing older population. This research aimed to explore the factors that enable or inhibit people to extend working life (EWL) in a large United Kingdom-based retail organisation. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with a purposive sample (N = 30): 15 employees aged ⩾60 and 15 supervisors supporting these employees. Older workers were predominately female, reflecting the gender profile of the older workers in the organisation. Older workers and supervisors reported that key facilitators to EWL were good health, the perception that older workers are of value, flexibility and choice, the need for an ongoing conversation across the lifecourse, the social and community aspect of work as a facilitator to EWL and the financial necessity to EWL. Perceived barriers to EWL included poor health, negative impacts of work on health, and a lack of respect and support.

scholarly journals OS SEGMENTOS EXCLUÍDOS E OS MOVIMENTOS SOCIAIS: A PERSPECTIVA DOS BENEFICIÁRIOS DO PROGRAMA BOLSA FAMÍLIA

Revista LEVS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Cristina Cintra NOBREGA ◽  
Daniela Emilena Santiago Dias OLIVEIRA ◽  
Carolina Cristina do Rosário RUIZ ◽  
Gabriela Flavia Pereira da Sil SIQUEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bolsa Familia

Resumo: No Brasil tivemos um reavivamento dos movimentos sociais no ano de 2013, que teriam surgido em virtude do reajuste no valor das passagens de ônibus circular. Esse movimento mobilizou diversos segmentos e rapidamente, se espraiou para reivindicações de toda natureza. O que nos interessou, diante de todo esse contexto, foi entender como a população excluída, ou seja, população que não tem acesso a todos os serviços sociais dos quais necessitaria para sobreviver e ter uma vida de qualidade, percebe e compreende esse tipo de organização e mais, como se apropria dessas expressões. Para apreender essa realidade realizamos entrevistas semi-estruturadas com cinco representantes de famílias beneficiárias do Programa Bolsa Família a fim de identificar qual a perspectiva possuída por essas famílias a respeito dos movimentos sociais e dessa maneira identificar ainda de que maneira essas organizações populares teriam colaborado para a alteração de sua vivência cotidiana. Constatamos assim que os segmentos excluídos de referência para essa pesquisa, também são excluídos a tais formas de expressão, uma vez que grande maioria dos entrevistados mostrou-se alheia aos movimentos sociais organizados no Brasil.Palavras-chave: Movimentos Sociais; Exclusão; Bolsa Família; Política Nacional de Assistência Social. Abstract: In Brazil we had a revival of the social movements in the year 2013, which would have arisen because of the adjustment in the value of the circular passages. This movement mobilized several segments and quickly spread to demands of all kinds. What interested us in this context was to understand how the excluded population, that is, population that does not have access to all the social services that it would need to survive and have a quality life, perceives and understands this type of organization And more, how to appropriate those expressions. In order to understand this reality, we conducted semi-structured interviews with five representatives of beneficiary families of the Bolsa Família Program in order to identify the perspective of these families on social movements and thus to identify in what way these popular organizations would have collaborated for the Change in their daily lives. Thus, we find that excluded segments of reference for this research are also excluded from such forms of expression, since a large majority of respondents have shown themselves to be alien to organized social movements in Brazil.Keywords: Social Movements. Exclusion. Bolsa Família. National Policy on Social Assistance.

scholarly journals Rewilding – the farmers perspective. Perceptions of rewilding impacts among English farmers using a socio-ecological wellbeing and values approach.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Mikołajczak ◽  
Nikoleta Jones ◽  
Christopher J. Sandom ◽  
Sophie Wynne-Jones ◽  
Antonia Beardsall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Value Orientations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Farming Community ◽  
Intervention Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Farm Scale ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Uk

1. Minimal intervention, process-oriented ecological restoration, popularly called rewilding, is rapidly gaining traction in the UK as a forward-looking, optimistic agenda for ecological recovery and reversing biodiversity losses. However, proposals for projects of this nature have also created polarisation between people with differing views on the future of the countryside. 2.To increase the social equitability of rewilding, reduce conflict and improve the success of such programs, it is necessary to ensure that stakeholder views are deeply understood. The farming community is a key stakeholder group in the debate about how restoration and rewilding should be done. However, the way farmers perceive rewilding to affect them is not well documented. 3.We combined an integrative social-ecological wellbeing perspective with farming values to examine the perceived linkages between rewilding, farmers’ wellbeing, and factors affecting support for different rewilding scenarios (beaver release, a farm restoration, and landscape restoration). We conducted semi-structured interviews (n = 36) with farmers, land managers and farming association representatives. 4.Using thematic analysis, we identified the perceived wellbeing impacts of different rewilding scenarios, farming values, factors affecting the extent of support or opposition, and mitigation options available to lessen the negative impacts. 5. Our results detail the range of rewilding impacts perceived by farmers, including little-explored issues regarding autonomy and agency in farm management; food security and ethics of food production; and conservation of existing wildlife. We show that farm-scale enclosed projects are perceived to retain greater control of potential impacts and to be more compatible with farming than landscape-scale rewilding or unenclosed species reintroductions. However, our findings demonstrate a variety of positions towards rewilding among the farmers, underpinned by different value orientations. Our results can usefully inform rewilding policy and practice to account for the needs of different stakeholders and navigate conflicts between them.

In their own words: Analyzing the extents and origins of absolute pitch

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 808-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth West Marvin ◽  
Joseph VanderStel ◽  
Joseph Chi-Sing Siu
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Learning ◽  
Absolute Pitch ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Performance

Although tests of absolute pitch (AP) possessors’ abilities have been studied extensively in the laboratory, few researchers have focused their study on the experiences of AP possessors engaging in musical and nonmusical activities in their daily lives. We recorded semi-structured interviews with 30 AP musicians to investigate three research questions: what is it like to experience AP, how does AP impact musicianship and performance, and how do first-hand accounts correspond with published findings on AP types and acquisition? Recorded interviews were transcribed and coded by two independent researchers; after coding, we determined themes and connections that emerged from the data. These fall into three areas: AP associations (cross-modal); AP strength (including limitations); and AP applications (to music-making). These themes are described, illustrated with quotations, and related to current research. We document the positive and negative impacts of AP on musicianship and performance. Finally, AP possessors’ accounts lead us to endorse theories of distinct AP types and to posit an important role for implicit learning (daily updating or reinforcement of AP).

scholarly journals How Transgender Adolescents Experience Expressing Their Gender Identity Around New People: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110438
Author(s):  
Hannah Wilson ◽  
Aiysha Malik ◽  
Sam Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Gender Expression ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Impacts

The literature suggests gender expression to be a key experience of transgender young people that may impact upon the development of their gender identity and psychological well-being. The present study aimed to explore participants’ experiences of expressing their gender identity around others, with a focus on interactions with new people (with whom they do not have an existing relationship). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight young people aged 16 to 17 who identified as male and were assigned female at birth. Three superordinate themes were identified: (a) using gender expression to shape identity; (b) experiencing and making sense of others’ responses; (c) a changing relationship with gender expression. The process of gender expression enabled participants to explore, develop, and strengthen social and self-identity, and had both positive and negative impacts upon their well-being. Initially gender expression seemed to be an effortful process in which participants felt pressured to conform to social expectations to be viewed as male, yet over time they navigated a way to express themselves in a manner that felt more comfortable and authentic. Findings highlight the need to facilitate young people to express and be affirmed in their gender identity, and to provide adequate support with the social experiences surrounding it.

scholarly journals Corporate Social and Environmental Strategy and Reporting in Indonesian Plantation Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan Belinda Lestari ◽  
Noradiva Hamzah ◽  
Ruhanita Maelah
Keyword(s):  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Environmental Strategy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Social And Environmental Reporting ◽  
Corporate Social

This study aims to investigate how corporate social and environmental strategy can contribute to corporate social and environmental reporting (CSER) in the plantation industry in Indonesia. This study employed a case study approach by using semi–structured interviews to collect data from Indonesian plantation companies listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) and state–owned plantation companies that included CSER in their annual report. The motivation of CSER implementation in Indonesian plantation companies was influenced by proactive and reactive strategies. The corporate social and environmental strategy of proactive principles would publish CSER due to the social discretion beyond the regulatory requirements or pressure of certain stakeholders, and prior to any negative information being received by the public. Moreover, the corporate social and environmental strategy of reactive principles would also publish CSER to meet stakeholders’ needs and demands, obtain good corporate image and reputation, and avoid negative impacts (e.g., harm, hazards, mishap, complaints, etc.). Therefore, corporate social and environmental strategy can contribute to CSER depending on whether the company has proactive or reactive principles. This research contributes to the knowledge of social accounting literature in which CSER practices can be influenced by corporate social and environmental strategy.

scholarly journals SOIL USE AND OCCUPATION OF WIND FARM AGRICULTURAL AREAS

Mercator ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2020) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Manoel Fortunato Sobrinho Júnior ◽  
Elis Regina Costa de Morais ◽  
Paulo César Moura da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wind Activity ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Agricultural Areas

Wind energy, despite being considered clean and renewable, has negative impacts in the social and environmental scope, significantly altering coastal areas and the interior of Northeast Brazil, this is mainly due to the new land uses arising from the installation of wind towers. Thus, the objective of this research was to analyze changes in land use and occupation of agricultural areas exploited by wind energy, to identify the potential of these agricultural areas for the construction of wind farms and to verify the reconciliation between wind and agricultural activity. Primary and secondary data collection was used, covering semi-structured interviews and analysis of satellite images. The study area was the municipality of Serra do Mel, located in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The results obtained were processed in the geographic information system QGIS and demonstrated through thematic maps and graphs. It was possible to conclude that the installation of wind farms caused few changes in the classes of use and occupation of the land, it was found that the agricultural areas of Serra do Mel have great potential for wind energy due to the speed of the winds and the condition of the land and identified there is also the possibility of reconciling agricultural and wind activity.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

WORK-BASED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE AND CHALLENGES OF LEARNERS, WORKPLACES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Roosipõld ◽  
Krista Loogma ◽  
Mare Kurvits ◽  
Kristina Murtazin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Restaurant Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Constructivist Learning

In recent years, providing higher education in the form of work-based learning has become more important in the higher education (HE) policy and practice almost in all EU countries. Work-based learning (WBL) in HE should support the development of competences of self-guided learners and adjust the university education better to the needs of the workplace. The study is based on two pilot projects of WBL in HE in Estonia: Tourism and Restaurant Management professional HE programme and the master’s programme in Business Information Technology. The model of integrative pedagogy, based on the social-constructivist learning theory, is taken as a theoretical foundation for the study. A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with the target groups. The data analysis used a horizontal analysis to find cross-cutting themes and identify patterns of actions and connections. It appears, that the challenge for HE is to create better cooperation among stakeholders; the challenge for workplaces is connected with better involvement of students; the challenge for students is to take more initiative and responsibility in communication with workplaces.

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