scholarly journals Environmental perceptions of students, farmers, and other economically active members of the local population near the protected area of Axios, Loudias and Aliakmonas estuaries, in Greece

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-299
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Stress ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Perceptions ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Primary Sector

This study concerns a protected area in northern Greece and examines how local people’s occupation influences their perception of environmental impacts and their views and information about the area. The target groups were local residents that (a) were employed in the primary sector, (b) were employed in other economic sectors, and (c) were students or high-school seniors. Use of pesticides and fertilizers and industrial waste disposal were identified as sources of environmental impacts by the large majority of the total sample (>80%). Much lower (30-62%) was the perception of impacts from the other, more local stress sources. Primary-sector respondents (mostly farmers) scored lower in their environmental perceptivity; nevertheless, they were highly aware that some of their practices have negative impacts on the environment. Students outperformed the other groups in having visited the local information centre and in having attended an environmental information/ awareness event about the protected area; despite this, they also had the highest proportions of ‘don’t-know’ answers. Small differences (even less than 5 km) in the distance of respondents’ residence from the protected area led to significant differences in environmental perceptivity. There is both a need for and interest from the local people to get better informed. As sufficient knowledge of the area and of the threats to its integrity is a requirement for the adoption and acceptance of measures aiming to moderate such threats, environmental information/ awareness events should be organized by the managing authorities. These should focus on issues specific to the area rather than of general environmental nature and target primarily people employed in the primary sector that live close to the protected area and students.

scholarly journals Συμμετοχική και προσαρμοζόμενη διαχείριση

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Βασιλική Κλεφτογιάννη
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local People ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Primary Sector ◽  
Management Policies

The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of successful participatory and adaptive management in the protected area of Axios-Loudias-Aliakmonas estuaries, based on local people‟s perceptions in relation to protection, as well as on main elements considered to be critical for successful participatory processes. Participatory and adaptive management of protected areas includes involvement of stakeholders in decision making and the ability to adjust management policies to emerging needs, associated with complex and dynamic socio-natural systems. The area of the Axios-Loudias-Aliakmonas estuaries is protected under national, European and international environmental legislation. Simultaneously, the area is one of the most dynamic agro-ecosystems of Greece. Agriculture and fishing/mussel culture are well-developed activities of the primary sector of economy resulting in a number of environmental pressures on the protected area. Until recently, there was no substantial institutional protection of the area. The Common Ministerial Decision designating the area protected, pending for several years, was finally published in 2009. This delay was considered associated with reactions of the local people to potential restrictions imposed on their professional activities. The first part of this study attempts to record perceptions of the local population regarding important issues related with the protected area and explore how they are influenced by age and education of respondents, their economic dependence on it and distance of their residence from its borders. Using a questionnaire, the survey was conducted to a total sample of 822 respondents. The first part reveals a strong spatial variation in the views of local people, which requires special management policies. In general, a positive attitude towards protection was recorded, although there was a part of respondents that expressed negative attitude to protection, associated exclusively with economic interests. This study coincided with a pilot application of adaptive management in the area by the Managing Authority of Axios-Loudias-Aliakmonas estuaries. The Managing Authority applied an evaluating method of the main environmental threats to the area by a group of experts. Given the absence of stakeholders of the primary sector from this process, we decided to explore their views regarding threats by applying a similar approach. To this aim, ten focus groups were formed, seven representing agricultural cooperatives and three representing fishing cooperatives. The results of the second part show that stakeholders of the primary sector tend to underestimate specific threats related to their professional activities. However, most groups recognized the wetland‟s value; also, in a number of cases, their assessment of threats approached the experts‟ assessment. It appears that the conditions for implementing participatory and adaptive management in the region are generally favorable, provided the effective tackling of issues which incite conflict or impede management efforts. Important among them are the disparity between different regions and the association of professional activity and financial interests with the attitude to protection. Active and effective involvement of major stakeholders in early decision making stages, that is the process of participatory and adaptive management itself, can help in addressing these issues.

Cultura organizacional y desempeño innovador en cuatro sectores productivos

Oikos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (31) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Rafael G. Ricardo Bray ◽  
Ignacio Gómez Roldán
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Other Hand

RESUMENPara un conjunto de ciento cuarenta y una organizaciones colombianas (95% bogotanas) clasificadas bajo la nomenclatura CIIU pertenecientes a 4 sectores económicos, se estimó el perfil de cultura organizacional de cada una a partir de la aplicación del Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS) de Daniel Denison y asociados. Las organizaciones bogotanas del estudio presentan unos perfiles culturales muy similares, no obstante pertenecer a diferentes sectores económicos. Por otro lado, las relaciones existentes entre las diferentes variables de cultura organizacional y el desempeño innovador difieren entre sectores económicos.Palabras clave: perfil de cultura organizacional, encuesta Denison de cultura organizacional, sector Económico, desempeño organizacional, innovación. Organizational culture and innovation performance in four different sectorsABSTRACTFor a sample of one hundred forty one Colombian organizations (95% located in Bogotá) classified under the CIIU ranking, the organizational culture profile of each one was estimated using the Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS) of Daniel Denison and associates. The organizations studied show very similar cultural profiles, although they belong to different economic sectors. On the other hand, the relationships existing between the different variables of organizational culture and innovation performance differ among economic sectors.Keywords: organizational culture profile, Denison organizational culture survey (DOCS), economic sector, organizational performance, innovation.

scholarly journals A Public Safety Compliance Model of Safety Behaviors in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 004695802110313
Author(s):  
Mohammad Al-Bsheish ◽  
Mu’taman Jarrar ◽  
Amanda Scarbrough
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
The Other ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
Compliance Model ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The One

The outbreak of COVID-19 has placed a heavy burden on society, threatening the future of the entire world as the pandemic has hit health systems and economic sectors hard. Where time moves fast, continuing curfews and lockdown is impossible. This paper assembles three main safety behaviors, social distancing, wearing a facemask, and hygiene in one model (PSC Triangle) to be practiced by the public. Integrating public safety compliance with these behaviors is the main recommendation to slow the spread of COVID-19. Although some concerns and challenges face these practices, the shifting of public behaviors to be more safety-centered is appropriate and available as an urgent desire exists to return to normal life on the one hand and the medical effort to find effective cure or vaccine that has not yet succeeded on the other hand. Recommendations to enhance public safety compliance are provided.

scholarly journals A Study of the Effects of Rain, Snow and Hail on the Atmospheric Electric Field near Ground

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 996
Author(s):  
Athanasios Karagioras ◽  
Konstantinos Kourtidis
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Potential Gradient ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fair Weather ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Rain Events ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bounce Back

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of rain, snow and hail on potential gradient (PG), as observed in a period of ten years in Xanthi, northern Greece. An anticorrelation between PG and rainfall was observed for rain events that lasted several hours. When the precipitation rate was up to 2 mm/h, the decrease in PG was between 200 and 1300 V/m, in most cases being around 500 V/m. An event with rainfall rates up to 11 mm/h produced the largest drop in PG, of 2 kV/m. Shortly after rain, PG appeared to bounce back to somewhat higher values than the ones of fair-weather conditions. A decrease in mean hourly PG was observed, which was around 2–4 kV/m during the hail events which occurred concurrently with rain and from 0 to 3.5 kV/m for hail events with no rain. In the case of no drop, no concurrent drop in temperature was observed, while, for the other cases, it appeared that, for each degree drop in temperature, the drop in hourly mean PG was 1000 V/m; hence, we assume that the intensity of the hail event regulates the drop in PG. The frequency distribution of 1-minute PG exhibits a complex structure during hail events and extend from −18 to 11 kV/m, with most of the values in the negative range. During snow events, 1-minute PG exhibited rapid fluctuations between high positive and high negative values, its frequency distribution extending from −10 to 18 kV/m, with peaks at −10 and 3 kV/m.

Protected Areas: offering security to whom, when and where?

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALICE B. KELLY ◽  
A. CLARE GUPTA
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Term Management ◽  
Over Time

SUMMARYThis study considers the issue of security in the context of protected areas in Cameroon and Botswana. Though the literature on issues of security and well-being in relation to protected areas is extensive, there has been less discussion of how and in what ways these impacts and relationships can change over time, vary with space and differ across spatial scales. Looking at two very different historical trajectories, this study considers the heterogeneity of the security landscapes created by Waza and Chobe protected areas over time and space. This study finds that conservation measures that various subsets of the local population once considered to be ‘bad’ (e.g. violent, exclusionary protected area creation) may be construed as ‘good’ at different historical moments and geographical areas. Similarly, complacency or resignation to the presence of a park can be reversed by changing environmental conditions. Changes in the ways security (material and otherwise) has fluctuated within these two protected areas has implications for the long-term management and funding strategies of newly created and already existing protected areas today. This study suggests that parks must be adaptively managed not only for changing ecological conditions, but also for shifts in a protected area's social, political and economic context.

scholarly journals Socio-political-environmental perceptions of participants in the public hearings of the Brazilian Representative House on Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Teixeira de Barros
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Environmental Perceptions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Abstract The article analyzes the perceptions of the citizens who participated in the public hearings promoted by the Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (CMADS) of the Chamber of Deputies during the year 2018. The methodology consisted in the use of a questionnaire with open and closed questions applied to a sample of 71.22% of the public that was present at these events. For the study of perceptions, open questions are particularly relevant, since they consist of arguments, analyzes and justifications presented by citizens, based on the experience of participating. The conclusions show that a diversity of citizens’ perceptions of the CMADS agenda, the topics under debate and the participation of technicians and representatives of entities from the environmental field. On the other hand, there are critical opinions in relation to the performance of parliamentarians, representatives of government agencies and the dynamics of debates.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Continuity and Change: Shifts in Labour Relations in the Potosí Mines (1680–1812)

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (S24) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossana Barragán Romano
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The One

AbstractLabour relations in the silver mines of Potosí are almost synonymous with the mita, a system of unfree work that lasted from the end of the sixteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century. However, behind this continuity there were important changes, but also other forms of work, both free and self-employed. The analysis here is focused on how the “polity” contributed to shape labour relations, especially from the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. This article scrutinizes the labour policies of the Spanish monarchy on the one hand, which favoured certain economic sectors and regions to ensure revenue, and on the other the initiatives both of mine entrepreneurs and workers – unfree, free, and self-employed – who all contributed to changing the system of labour.

Handling Foreign Fighters

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-172
Author(s):  
Vera Mironova
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Armed Group ◽  
Local Language ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
International War ◽  
Foreign Fighters

There are several major benefits foreign fighters, and only foreign fighters, can offer armed groups. They have knowledge and experience that the local population does not have and have connections in the international war industry. Usually they are more dedicated to their goals. Foreigners are better at raising funds in their home communities and thus provide armed groups with additional source of income. Finally, they can be successfully used by armed groups for propaganda purposes. On the other hand, it is much harder for the leaders of an armed group to manage foreigners versus locals. First, foreign fighters often do not speak the local language and are not familiar with the terrain. Second, they could have problems with the locals. Third, their presence in the group could decrease overall group cohesion. Fourth, they could be recruited as spies by foreign intelligence agencies more easily than locals. And finally, foreign fighters often joined the conflict with different motives than those of local fighters, which could lead to differences in combat strategy and tactics.

scholarly journals Composición e invarianza factorial de la versión en español del Cuestionario de Clima en el Deporte (S-SCQ) en universitarios deportistas de Chihuahua, México

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-228
Author(s):  
Humberto Blanco Vega ◽  
Ana Citlalli Díaz Leal ◽  
Santiago Guijarro Romero ◽  
Luis Humberto Blanco Ornelas ◽  
Susana Ivonne Aguirre Vásquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Perception Of Support ◽  
The One ◽  
University Athletes

El presente estudio analiza las propiedades psicométricas propuestas por Balaguer, Castillo, Duda y Tomás (2009) para la versión en español del Cuestionario de Clima en el Deporte (S-SCQ) en hombres y mujeres deportistas universitarios. La muestra total fue de 432 universitarios deportistas de Chihuahua, México, 169 mujeres y 263 hombres, con edades comprendidas entre 18-26 años (M = 20.40; DE = 1.89). La estructura factorial del cuestionario se analizó mediante análisis factoriales confirmatorios. Los análisis, muestran que una estructura unifactorial es viable y adecuada tanto para la muestra total como para las poblaciones de hombres y mujeres. La estructura de un solo factor, atendiendo a criterios estadísticos y sustantivos, ha mostrado adecuados indicadores de ajuste de fiabilidad y validez. Además, la estructura factorial, las cargas factoriales y los interceptos se consideran invariantes de acuerdo al género; sin embargo, se encontraron diferencias a favor de los hombres deportistas en cuanto a su percepción sobre el apoyo a su autonomía por parte de su entrenador o entrenadora. The aim of this research was to analyze the psychometric properties proposed by Balaguer et al. (2009) for the spanish version of Sport Climate Questionnaire (S-SCQ) in university athletes mens and women. The total sample has been composed by 432 university athletes, 169 women and 263 mens from Chihuahua, Mexico, with ages from 18-26 years (M = 20.40, SD = 1.89). The factor structure of questionnaire has been analized through the confirmatory factor analysis. This analysis shows that a onefactorial structure is viable and adequate for the total sample and the populations of mens and woman. The one factor structure, according to statistical and substantive criteria, has shown adequate indicators of reliability and validity adjustment. On the other hand, the factorial structure, the factorial loads and the intercepts are considered invariant according to the variable gender; however, differences were found in favor of male athletes in terms of their perception of support for their autonomy on the part of their coaches. O presente estudo analisa as propiedades psicométricas propostas por Balaguer et al. (2009) para a versão espanhola do Sports Climate Questionnaire (S-SCQ). Amostra total foi de 432 universitários atletas de Chihuahua, México, 169 mulheres e 263 homens com idades entre 18-26 anos (M = 20.40; DE = 1.89). A estrutura fatorial foi analisado com anàlises fatorial confirmatòrias. Os analises mostran que uma estrutura unifatorial  e factível e adequado para a mostra total e para ambas as populações, homens e mulheres. A estrutura unifatorial, em resposta a criterios estatísticos e materiais tem mostrado indicadores de ajuste adequados de confiabilidade e validade. Além disso a estrutura de fatores, cargas fatoriais e intercepto são considerados invariantes de acordó com o gênero; porém, se encontraram diferenças no grupo de homens atletas em seu percepção de apoiar a seu aotonomia respeito a seu treinador.

scholarly journals Evaluating financial performance in local government: A study in South Sulawesi Province (Indonesia)

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Ramadhan Pirade ◽  
H. Abdul Rahman Mus ◽  
Hj. Masdar Mas’ud ◽  
Hj. Andi Nirwana Nur
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Capital Expenditure ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Observation Time ◽  
Growth Effect ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
South Sulawesi

This study investigates the financial performance measurement (fiscal decentralization, allocation of capital expenditure, economic growth effect on the regional own revenue) in South Sulawesi Province (Indonesia) local government. The database used is sourced from the Central Statistics Agency and the financial statements 24 County and City on 2012-2016, in order to obtain a total sample of 120 units of the sample. The results of the panel regression analysis using Eviews program 9 shows that increasing fiscal decentralization, capital expenditure and hence economic growth increasingly important role in increasing on the regional own revenue.  Recommendations of these studies to the parties concerned to be pursued acceleration of economic growth quality and useful for the improvement of the regional own revenue (PAD) and creating equitable economic growth, especially in economic sectors that are closely related to the acceptance of the PAD. This study is very important that further research is necessary to perform additional variables with a longer observation time. Later research can also be done in other provinces in the entire territory of the Republic of Indonesia even more wide-ranging.

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