scholarly journals Maahanmuuttajataustaisten nuorten luontosuhde ja luonnon virkistyskäyttö

Terra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-187
Author(s):  
Riikka Puhakka ◽  
Kati Pitkänen ◽  
Iikka Oinonen
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Well Being

Successful integration of immigrants has been identified as the key for future social and economic well-being in EU. Nature can be used to support integration. Based on survey data collected from students in 7–9th grades in the city of Lahti (n=1,121), we explore immigrants’ and native Finns’ participation in outdoor recreation and their well-being experiences of and relationships with nature. The study applies the framework of integration to discuss how nature supports the integration of immigrant youth in Finland. The results show that nature is an important part of immigrant adolescents’ everyday lives and can support their structural, cultural, interactive and identificational integration. However, there are also some differences between the immigrant and native adolescents. The study results highlight the better inclusion of the youth and multi-cultural nature-relationships in the governance of natural areas and development of nature-based solutions for integration.

scholarly journals Community Food Growing in Parks? Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility in Sheffield, UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinvo Nam ◽  
Nicola Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
Local Authority ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

Urbanisation brings with it increased pressure on land and land uses, particularly green spaces. There has been considerable interest in community food growing in green spaces as part of a wide trend for gardening in the UK, which has been found to bring social, health, and well-being benefits. Such activity tends to take place in community-managed gardens and allotments. In light of the context of austerity within which local authority parks departments currently operate, this study tested the acceptability and feasibility of parks as a potential urban setting for Community Food Growing (CFG) in Sheffield, UK. Employing a combination of resident questionnaires and interviews with community groups and professionals, the study results showed localised differences in the acceptability and feasibility of CFG. Residents’ propensity to want to get involved in CFG differed by age and household composition, which, if acted on across the city, could significantly change the demographic make-up of parks-based community groups in the city. Barriers to CFG in parks were described by community groups and park managers as security and vandalism, need for resources, and undue pressure on the local authority as land-owner. We discuss the emergent questions around who is best placed to manage urban parks, particularly when the public sector is subject to stringent austerity budget measures. The paper concludes with commentary and recommendations about the importance of governance arrangements if CFG is to be included as part of the activities supported and managed in urban parks.

scholarly journals The Lebanese in Sydney

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Monsour ◽  
Paul Convy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Well Being

Since their arrival in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Lebanese in Sydney have made the city their home and have endeavoured to contribute positively to their new society as full and active citizens, despite their status as ‘undesirable immigrants’ and the extensive legislative discrimination they faced as non-Europeans. Through enterprise and hard work, they have sought to achieve economic well-being for their families and better prospects for their children. The Lebanese community in Sydney is heterogeneous, although Arabic-speaking, and for over 100 years has contributed to the city’s cultural and religious diversity.

Socio-economic Well-being—Impact of Wider Highways on the Rural Poor Living in Proximity

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-264
Author(s):  
Ramprasad Sengupta ◽  
Dipankor Coondoo ◽  
Bhisma Rout
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Parametric Regression ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Approach Distance ◽  
Matching Technique ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Economic Well Being

This article investigates the effect that a highway and its widening would have on the socio-economic lives of the poorer people living in its proximity. Such impact is positive at the micro-level because closer a household is to the highway, greater would be its connectivity. Increased mobility provides access to various economic opportunities and amenities of life. One would expect these positive welfare effects to decline as the approach distance of the highway from the household increases and ultimately to disappear beyond a threshold distance. This premise has been empirically verified here using a household-level baseline survey data pertaining to the project of widening of a stretch of the National Highway 2 (NH2), one of India’s oldest national highways. The article further examines how the widening of the highway enhances the benefit of proximity to the highway by comparing the baseline survey data and the resurvey data, the latter pertaining to a period after the completion of the project. It estimates the partial effect of widening of the highway on the socio-economic well-being of the household of the economies through which it passes using the methodology of non-parametric regression analysis (NRA) and propensity score matching technique (PSMT) cum single/double differencing technique.

scholarly journals Ações de responsabilidade social nas academias de ginástica de uma cidade no Norte do Brasil

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafaela Cristina Araújo-Gomes ◽  
Gabriel dos Santos Gonçalves ◽  
Claúdio Joaquim Borba-Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Fitness Centers ◽  
Fitness Center ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The City

Introdução: As academias de ginástica são empresas voltadas para a prática de atividade física. Ações de responsabilidade social empresarial estão relacionadas a posturas, comportamentos e ações voltadas à promoção da qualidade de vida e bem-estar do público interno e externo da empresa.Objetivo: Examinar as ações de responsabilidade social que são realizadas pelas academias, na cidade de Tucuruí-PA.Métodos: Estudo transversal do qual participaram seis academias da cidade de Tucuruí-PA. A coleta de dados foi feita através de um questionário semiestruturado com questões fechadas, abrangendo cinco áreas de responsabilidade social: 1) Bom relacionamento com os clientes; 2) Ações para a comunidade; 3) Tratamento adequado com os funcionários; 4) Legalização; e 5) Responsabilidade com o meio ambiente, realizado em forma de entrevista com os proprietários das academias.Resultados: Observou-se que a área do relacionamento com os clientes é a mais importante para as academias avaliadas. Todavia, de modo geral, há, também, uma preocupação com as outras áreas abordadas.Conclusão: As academias analisadas buscavam realizar ações de responsabilidade social dentro das cinco áreas abordadas neste estudo. Os resultados foram discutidos.Social Responsibility actions in a Fitness Center of a North Brazilian CityIntroduction: The fitness centers are companies dedicated to the practice of physical activity. Actions of corporate social responsibility are related to postures, behaviors and actions aimed at promoting the quality of life and well-being of the internal and external public of the company.Objective: To examine the actions of social responsibility that are carried out by the fitness centers on the city of Tucuruí-PA.Methods: Cross-sectional study involving six fitness centers from the city of Tucuruí-PA. Data collection was done through a semi-structured questionnaire with closed questions, covering five areas of social responsibility: 1) Clients relationship; 2) Actions for the community; 3) Appropriate treatment with employees; 4) Legalization; and 5) Environment responsibility. It was applied as interview to the fitness centers’ owners.Results: Relationship with the clients was the most important area observed for the fitness center. However, in general, there is also a concern with the other addressed areas.Conclusion: The fitness centers evaluated sought to carry out social responsibility actions within the five areas addressed in this study. Results were discussed.

Through the prism of Spain. Socio-economic causes of different outcomes of Russian and Spanish civil wars

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
I. Rozinskiy ◽  
N. Rozinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Economic Well Being

The article examines the socio-economic causes of the outcome of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1936), which, as opposed to the Russian Civil War, resulted in the victory of the “Whites”. Choice of Spain as the object of comparison with Russia is justified not only by similarity of civil wars occurred in the two countries in the XX century, but also by a large number of common features in their history. Based on statistical data on the changes in economic well-being of different strata of Spanish population during several decades before the civil war, the authors formulate the hypothesis according to which the increase of real incomes of Spaniards engaged in agriculture is “responsible” for their conservative political sympathies. As a result, contrary to the situation in Russia, where the peasantry did not support the Whites, in Spain the peasants’ position predetermined the outcome of the confrontation resulting in the victory of the Spanish analogue of the Whites. According to the authors, the possibility of stable increase of Spanish peasants’ incomes was caused by the nation’s non-involvement in World War I and also by more limited, compared to Russia and some other countries, spending on creation of heavy (primarily military-related) industry in Spain.

Review of Commitment Theories and Models: Application to an Emerging Profession

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Dr. Lynn Spellman White
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Professional Commitment ◽  
Accounting Profession ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Practical Implications

The purpose of this research project is to explore if traditional explanations of organizational and professional commitment and conflict, which have been developed through research of older and more established professions such as the Accounting profession, also apply to the Human Resource profession. Survey data gathered from HR practitioners are used to examine the correlates of organizational and professional commitment and conflict. Study results indicate the models explain a significant portion of the variation in both organizational and professional commitment, and that the two types of commitment have different antecedent factors. Results also indicate that organizational and professional conflict is lowest when both levels of organizational and professional commitment are high. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Strategic threats to energy security as risks of quality of people's life

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 730-744
Author(s):  
V.I. Loktionov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Economic Well Being ◽  
The Way

Subject. The article reviews the way strategic threats to energy security influence the quality of people's life. Objectives. The study unfolds the theory of analyzing strategic threats to energy security by covering the matter of quality of people's life. Methods. To analyze the way strategic threats to energy security spread across cross-sectoral commodity and production chains and influences quality of people's living, I applied the factor analysis and general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. Results. I suggest interpreting strategic threats to energy security as risks of people's quality of life due to a reduction in the volume of energy supply. I identified mechanisms reflecting how the fuel and energy complex and its development influence the quality of people's life. The article sets out the method to assess such quality-of-life risks arising from strategic threats to energy security. Conclusions and Relevance. In the current geopolitical situation, strategic threats to energy security cause long-standing adverse consequences for the quality of people's life. If strategic threats to energy security are further construed as risk of quality of people's life, this will facilitate the preparation and performance of a more effective governmental policy on energy, which will subsequently raise the economic well-being of people.

Work Life Balance and Job Satisfaction - A Structural Equation Modeling

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 156-162
Author(s):  
Dr. D. Shoba ◽  
Dr. G. Suganthi
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Study Results

Work-Life balance has its importance from ancient days and the concept is very old, from the day the world has been created. There was a drastic change that has occurred in the market of teachers and their personal profiles. There are tremendous changes in various families which have bartered from the ‘breadwinner’ role of traditional men to single parent families and dual earning couples. This study furnishes an insight into work life balance and job satisfaction of teachers working in School of Villupuram District. The sample comprises of 75 school teachers from Government and private schools in Villupuram District. The Study results that there is increasing mediating evidence in Work-life balance as well as Job satisfaction of teachers are not affected by the type of school in which they are working. Job satisfaction or Pleasure of life will be affected as a whole by Work life balance of an individual which is the main which can be calculated by construct of subjective well being.

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