scholarly journals The Role of Community Cooperative Institutions in Building Rural–Urban Linkages Under Urbanization of Pastoral Regions in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gongbuzeren ◽  
Li Wenjun ◽  
Lai Yupei

In contrast to agricultural settings, the process of urbanization in the pastoral regions of China are largely driven by long-term influences of ecological conservation and the provision of social services. Consequently, many of the herders who have migrated into nearby secondary urban centers depend on resources from pastoral regions to support their livelihoods, forming complex patterns of rural–urban linkages. While current literature has discussed the processes of herder out-migration and their implications on rural and urban livelihood development, few studies have examined the linkages between the herders living in the pastoral regions and those who have out-migrated to urban regions and their importance in rural livelihood transformation. Based on past studies, we argue that, in a changing pastoral social–ecological system, herders living in both rural and urban regions depend on each other to support their livelihoods through three types of mobility: (1) livestock mobility, (2) herder mobility, and (3) resource mobility. However, what innovative institutions in rangeland resource management and herder economic cooperation can do to help maintain these three types of mobility to sustain rural livelihood development, becomes a critical challenge. Innovative community cooperative institutions developed by pastoral communities from the Tibetan Plateau and Inner Mongolia may be able to offer new perspective and insight on how to better maintain rural–urban linkages in the processes of urbanization in pastoral regions. In this current study will present the two cases of innovative institutions and the roles they play in facilitating the three types of mobility to address livelihood challenges. While current studies recommend an increase of government subsidies, provision of vocational training, and social insurance that help herders better adapt to urban livelihood, we argue that rangeland management and community economic cooperation in innovative institutions are needed to facilitate the mobility of livestock, resources, and the herder population, and maybe only then the livelihood challenges that migrated herders are facing will be addressed effectively.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 462-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Ikegami

Long-term care (LTC) must be carefully delineated when expenditures are compared across countries because how LTC services are defined and delivered differ in each country. LTC’s objectives are to compensate for functional decline and mitigate the care burden of the family. Governments have tended to focus on the poor but Germany opted to make LTC universally available in 1995/1996. The applicant’s level of dependence is assessed by the medical team of the social insurance plan. Japan basically followed this model but, unlike Germany where those eligible may opt for cash benefits, they are limited to services. Benefits are set more generously in Japan because, prior to its implementation in 2000, health insurance had covered long-stays in hospitals and there had been major expansions of social services. These service levels had to be maintained and be made universally available for all those meeting the eligibility criteria. As a result, efforts to contain costs after the implementation of the LTC Insurance have had only marginal effects. This indicates it would be more efficient and equitable to introduce public LTC Insurance at an early stage before benefits have expanded as a result of ad hoc policy decisions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 398-401
Author(s):  
A.Yu. Gusev

The subject of this article was the issues related to the protection of the rights of citizens in the field of compulsory social insurance in the conditions of digitalization. It is shown that in order to ensure effective and safe conditions for the use of digital technologies, it is necessary to include universal basic approaches in the legal regulation. Specific examples of how the tasks of digitalization of social services in the field of social security are currently actively implemented by the social insurance Fund of the Russian Federation are given. English version of the article is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/digitalization-and-protection-of-citizens-rights-in-compulsory-social-insurance/71242.html


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Kanecki ◽  
Paweł Goryński ◽  
Patryk Tarka ◽  
Waldemar Wierzba ◽  
Piotr Tyszko

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 102736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Chichester ◽  
Grant Drawve ◽  
Alejandro Giménez-Santana ◽  
Michelle Sisson ◽  
Brandi McCleskey ◽  
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Popular Music ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Charles A. Perrone

With its blends of Amerindian, African and European sources, Brazil has one of the richest and most diverse musical cultures in the world. Primitive tribal musics flourish in the Amazon, rural and urban regions practise many folk/traditional forms, and cosmopolitan art music has been produced since before the time of Villa-Lobos. Various musics that can be considered popular reflect both this wide national spectrum and the impact of international mass media pop music. Here, a description of the major tendencies in contemporary urban popular music of Brazil will be followed by bibliographical and discographic indications for further study or research.


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