Practices and Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Variability in Family Farming. An Analysis of Cases of Rural Communities in the Andes Mountains of Colombia and Chile

Climate variability imposes greater challenges on family farming and especially on rural communities in vulnerable mountainous regions such as the Andes in Latin America. Changes in rainfall patterns and fluctuations in temperatures cause a greater frequency of extreme events, increased pests, and crop diseases, which even lead to food insecurity in communities that depend on self-production for survival. This is why strategies need to be developed to face this new scenario. Two cases of adaptation experiences to the effects of climate variability in rural communities in Chile (Araucanía Region) and Colombia (Cauca Department) were analyzed on this paper. For this, a mixed methodological approach was adopted that included the analysis of climate data, socioeconomic, and productive characterization of the communities, and a characterization of adaptation practices for both cases. The results show various ways of adapting mainly to changes in the availability and access of water for the development of agriculture and for domestic use. Likewise, it is shown that in order to be successful, the measures for facing climate variability must be part of coordinated strategies under a community-based adaptation approach and not developed in isolation.

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Framing the Archaeological Data in Islamic Sicily. An Outlook from the Trapani Mountains

Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies ◽

10.1515/jtms-2016-0006 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1-2) ◽

Author(s):

Antonio Rotolo

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Historical Interpretation ◽

Archaeological Data ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

Definition Of ◽

Islamic Society ◽

Mode Of Production

AbstractThis paper aims to show how a renewed theoretical and methodological approach to Islamic Sicily can provide new insights into the organization of the rural communities in the Trapani Mountains between the ninth and twelfth centuries. The first part is dedicated to the definition of ‘Islamic social formation’ and ‘tributary mode of production’, and to the integration of both concepts in the debate on al-Andalus, for the characterization of a medieval Islamic society. This theoretical background is indispensable for advocating the relevance of establishing comparisons between Islamic Sicily and al-Andalus. Finally, the last three sections will show how these new methodological approaches and their theoretical background can provide a historical interpretation of the archaeological record.

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Characterization of a satellite-based passive microwave sea ice concentration climate data record

2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS ◽

10.1109/igarss.2013.6721134 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ge Peng ◽

Walter N. Meier

Keyword(s):

Sea Ice ◽

Passive Microwave ◽

Climate Data ◽

Sea Ice Concentration ◽

Ice Concentration ◽

Data Record ◽

Climate Data Record

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Working with community researchers to enhance rural community engagement around Private Water Supplies: an exploration of the benefits and challenges

Qualitative Research ◽

10.1177/1468794120978883 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 146879412097888

Author(s):

Rachel Creaney ◽

Mags Currie ◽

Paul Teedon ◽

Karin Helwig

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Community Engagement ◽

Rural Community ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Good Practice ◽

Duty Of Care ◽

Community Members ◽

Water Supplies ◽

Employment Opportunities

This project employed community researchers as a means of improving community engagement around their Private Water Supplies (PWS) in rural Scotland. In this paper, we reflect on working with community researchers in terms of the benefits and challenges of the approach for future rural research that seeks to improve community engagement. The paper (1) critiques the involvement of community researchers for rural community engagement, drawing on the experiences in this project and (2) provides suggestions for good practice for working with community researchers in rural communities’ research. We offer some context in terms of the role of community members in research, the importance of PWS, our approach to community researchers, followed by the methodological approach and findings and our conclusions to highlight that community researchers can be beneficial for enhancing community engagement, employability, and social capital. Future community researcher approaches need to be fully funded to ensure core researchers can fulfil their duty of care, which should not stop when data collection is finished. Community researchers need to be supported in two main ways: as continuing faces of the project after the official project end date and to transfer their newly acquired skills to future employment opportunities.

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Aridity indices to assess desertification susceptibility: a methodological approach using gridded climate data and cartographic modeling

Natural Hazards ◽

10.1007/s11069-021-05147-0 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Janaína Cassiano dos Santos ◽

Gustavo Bastos Lyra ◽

Marcel Carvalho Abreu ◽

José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior ◽

Leonardo Bohn ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Methodological Approach ◽

Climate Data ◽

Cartographic Modeling ◽

Gridded Climate Data ◽

Aridity Indices

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Remote sensing and climate data as a key for understanding fasciolosis transmission in the Andes: review and update of an ongoing interdisciplinary project

Geospatial health ◽

10.4081/gh.2006.281 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 59 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Màrius V. Fuentes

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Climate Data ◽

The Andes ◽

Interdisciplinary Project

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Sexual violence as a limiting factor on the perception and management of the risk of HIV in women married to migrants

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/1518-8345.1141.2782 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Yesica Yolanda Rangel Flores

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Sexual Practices ◽

Limiting Factor ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Perceptions Of Risk ◽

Methodological Triangulation ◽

Migration Experiences

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the influence of sexual violence on the perception and management of the risk of HIV in women married to migrants. Methods: study with an ethnographic approach carried out in urban and rural communities. Data were obtained by methodological triangulation, with participant and non-participant observation, as well as interviews. The informants were 21 women married to international migrants. The interviews were transcribed and discourse analysis was applied to them. Results: three categories emerged from the speeches to problematize the influence of sexual violence in the perception and management of the risk of HIV: "Characterization of sexual practices in the context of migration", "Experiences of sexual violence" and "Construction of the risk of HIV-AIDS". Conclusion: women have difficulty to recognize the acts of sexual violence in their daily lives, and their perceptions of risk are not decisive in the management of the threat to which they are exposed. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly urgent that nursing problematizes the sexual violence within "steady couples", as a challenge to the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

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Topophilia, Placemaking, and Boundary Work

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ◽

10.1145/3492843 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 6 (GROUP) ◽

pp. 1-33

Author(s):

Janghee Cho ◽

Samuel Beck ◽

Stephen Voida

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Work Practice ◽

Small Scale ◽

Work From Home ◽

Humanistic Geography ◽

Working From Home ◽

Long Term Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the nature of work by shifting most in-person work to a predominantly remote modality as a way to limit the spread of the coronavirus. In the process, the shift to working-from-home rapidly forced the large-scale adoption of groupware technologies. Although prior empirical research examined the experience of working-from-home within small-scale groups and for targeted kinds of work, the pandemic provides HCI and CSCW researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to understand the psycho-social impacts of a universally mandated work-from-home experience rather than an autonomously chosen one. Drawing on boundary theory and a methodological approach grounded in humanistic geography, we conducted a qualitative analysis of Reddit data drawn from two work-from-home-related subreddits between March 2020 and January 2021. In this paper, we present a characterization of the challenges and solutions discussed within these online communities for adapting work to a hybrid or fully remote modality, managing reconfigured work-life boundaries, and reconstructing the home's sense of place to serve multiple, sometimes conflicting roles. We discuss how these findings suggest an emergent interplay among adapted work practice, reimagined physical (and virtual) spaces, and the establishment and continual re-negotiation of boundaries as a means for anticipating the long-term impact of COVID on future conceptualizations of productivity and work.

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Simultaneous EEG and fMRI: towards the characterization of structure and dynamics of brain networks

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience ◽

10.31887/dcns.2013.15.3/cmulert ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 381-386 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Spatial Resolution ◽

Brain Function ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Brain Networks ◽

Indirect Measurement ◽

Synaptic Activity ◽

High Temporal Resolution ◽

Neural Mass ◽

The Brain

Progress in the understanding of normal and disturbed brain function is critically dependent on the methodological approach that is applied. Both electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are extremely efficient methods for the assessment of human brain function. The specific appeal of the combination is related to the fact that both methods are complementary in terms of basic aspects: EEG is a direct measurement of neural mass activity and provides high temporal resolution. FMRI is an indirect measurement of neural activity and based on hemodynamic changes, and offers high spatial resolution. Both methods are very sensitive to changes of synaptic activity, suggesting that with simultaneous EEG and fMRI the same neural events can be characterized with both high temporal and spatial resolution. Since neural oscillations that can be assessed with EEG are a key mechanism for multi-site communication in the brain, EEG-fMRI can offer new insights into the connectivity mechanisms of brain networks.

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Práticas e saberes no ensino público superior no Recôncavo baiano

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo ◽

10.20873/uft.rbec.e12486 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Francisca Helena Marques ◽

Jorge Luiz Ribeiro de Vasconcelos ◽

Solon de Albuquerque Mendes

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Rural Environment ◽

Public Higher Education ◽

Teaching Research

In this article we will present three excerpts of the activities related to the Centro de Cultura, Linguagens e Tecnologias Aplicadas (CECULT/UFRB), through the performance of three professors of this Center (Francisca Helena Marques, Jorge Luiz Ribeiro de Vasconcelos and Solon de Albuquerque Mendes). All the activities have in common the concern for the process of bringing public higher education to the interior of the country and the insertion of knowledge from the rural environment, articulated through teaching, research and extension. It is noteworthy that CECULT has many students from rural communities in the municipalities of Recôncavo Baiano, and it is appropriate to deepen these practices and exchanges of knowledge that occur in the process of internalization of public higher education. We adopt a mixed methodological approach, involving aspects of experimental, bibliographical, phenomenological, qualitative, quantitative research. Regarding the results, we can observe more closely the profile of four students, and through this, build a more dialogic relationship between educators and students.

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