scholarly journals work all the time- He just waits for the animals to come back” Social impacts of climate changes: A Greenlandic case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roanne Van Voorst
Keyword(s):  
Climate Changes ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender

Understanding human adaptation to climate changes is one of the most important research issues within the area of global environmental change, accounting for the fact that people worldwide are currently adapting to their changing environment (Adger and Kelly 2000: 253; Smit et al. 2008). The Greenlandic case study as presented in this paper is mainly based on a literature analysis and ethnographic data obtained during the Greenlandic winter of 2008, with emphasis on the latter. Participant observation and interviews were combined with a discursive analysis of climate change-related policies. The empirical findings as presented in this paper suggest that an exclusive and gender-neutral focus of policy makers on economic aspects of adaptation to climate changes may increase socio-economic inequality as well as male domestic violence over women. Social research can help to identify such chains of reactions resulting from climate changes and related policies, by focusing on individual adaptation strategies of male and female actors in vulnerable societies.

scholarly journals Challenges Faced by Devolved Governance in Quality Service Delivery: A Case Study of Turkana Central Sub-county, Turkana County, Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
James K. Sirite ◽  
Henry Ongori ◽  
Darius Bosire
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
County Governments ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
To Come

The purpose of this study was to identify the challenges faced in quality service delivery to Turkana Central Sub-county citizens of Turkana County. The study used cross-sectional survey design. The sample size selected for the study was 261.  Data was collected using questionnaires and interview guides. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and presented in tables and figures for ease interpretation. The major findings of the study show that devolved governance faces some challenges. For instance the devolved governance is faced with corruption, lack of transparency and accountability and inadequate funds. This adversely   affects quality service delivery to its citizens. The findings of the study would inspire policy makers at the county and national government level to come up with appropriate strategies to mitigate the challenges identified in order to improve the quality of services offered by the county governments.

scholarly journals Out-migrants and Local Institutions: Case Study of a Depopulated Mountain Village in Japan

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Okubo ◽  
Abrar Juhar Mohammed ◽  
Makoto Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Rural Depopulation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Village

<p class="1Body">Rural depopulation is now well acknowledged to be one of the salient challenges faced by Japan (Ohno, 2005; Odagiri, 2006). However, out-migrants that left their village of origin still maintain their bond with the villages through local institutions and natural resources. By taking Mogura village in Hayakawa town, Yamanashi prefecture as a case study, this article discusses relationships between out-migrants and their depopulated village of origin by focusing on local institutions and natural resource management. Data was collected using open ended interview and participant observation methods. The result shows that, although the style of observing has changed, out-migrants play important role in local institutions and assisting resource management of their depopulated village of origin. The institutions still have meaning for out-migrants to keep relationships with their village of origin. Several customs, such as collaborative labor, <em>obon</em>, New Year vacation, and the anniversary of ancestors’ death ceremony, provide scheduled opportunities for out-migrants and residents to get together and good reasons to come to the place of the village of origin. We argue that local institutions and natural resources, although in the process of transformation, can be helpful tools to link out-migrants with villages. We, however, take precaution on whether such role will be transferred to next generation of the out-migrants that are born and are living outside the village of origin of the out-migrants.</p>

scholarly journals Mountains as a Global Heritage: Arguments for Conserving the Natural Diversity of Mountain Regions

Heritage ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhik Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Mountain Area ◽  
Mountain Environments ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Natural Diversity ◽  
To Come

This concise review posits the urgent need for conserving the natural diversity of mountain environments by envisioning mountains as a global natural heritage. Mountains are recognized as cradles of biodiversity and for their important ecosystem services. Mountains also constitute the second most popular outdoor destination category at the global level after islands and beaches. However, in the current age of accelerating global environmental change, mountain systems face unprecedented change in their ecological characteristics, and consequent effects will extend to the millions who depend directly on ecosystem services from mountains. Moreover, growing tourism is putting fragile mountain ecosystems under increasing stress. This situation requires scientists and mountain area management stakeholders to come together in order to protect mountains as a global heritage. By underlining the salient natural diversity characteristics of mountains and their relevance for understanding global environmental change, this critical review argues that it is important to appreciate both biotic and abiotic diversity features of mountains in order to create a notion of mountains as a shared heritage for humanity. Accordingly, the development of soft infrastructure that can communicate the essence of mountain destinations and a committed network of scientists and tourism scholars working together at the global level are required for safeguarding this shared heritage.

Water governance, resilience and global environmental change – a reassessment of integrated water resources management (IWRM)

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Galaz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Complex Behaviour ◽  
Global Environmental

Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) is gaining increased acceptance among water policy makers and researchers as a way to create more effective governance institutions, leading towards integrated water development solutions for poverty alleviation, while addressing social, economic and environmental aspects of water challenges. However, global environmental change poses fundamental challenges to water policy makers as it implies vast scientific, and hence, policy uncertainty; its implications for international water governance initiatives remain unspecified, effectively hindering dialogue on how current IWRM initiatives should be modified. This paper addresses the lag between our growing understanding of resilient interconnected freshwater resources (and their governance) and the reforms being promoted by policy makers. In particular, there is a need to rethink some of IWRM's key components to better tackle the challenges posed by the complex behaviour of interconnected social-ecological systems and global environmental change.

Resurrecting Prostitutes and Overturning Treaties: Gender Politics in the “Anti-American” Movement in South Korea

2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine H. S. Moon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Internal Competition ◽  
And Gender

Although recent expressions of “anti-Americanism” in South Korea have alarmed policy makers in Seoul and Washington and aroused fears about declining popular support for the bilateral alliance, they are understandable manifestations of civil society activism, which has grown since democratization began during the late 1980s. This paper analyzes anti-Americanism as a dynamic coalition movement accompanied by the all of internal competition, conflicts, and contradictions that characterize such movements. In the process, some actors and issues have become high priorities, whereas others have been marginalized or silenced. Professor Moon examineskijich'on(camptown) prostitution around U.S. military bases in Korea as a case study of how power conflicts within the coalition movement, which are focused on nationalism and gender, have exploited and shut out the very people who served as its initiators and early leaders.

scholarly journals Volumetric extrusive rates of silicic supereruptions from the Afro-Arabian large igneous province

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Thines ◽  
Ingrid A. Ukstins ◽  
Corey Wall ◽  
Mark Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Large Igneous Province ◽  
Silicic Volcanism ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Igneous Province ◽  
Geomagnetic Polarity

AbstractThe main phase of silicic volcanism from the Afro-Arabian large igneous province preserves some of the largest volcanic eruptions on Earth, with six units totaling >8,600 km3 dense rock equivalent (DRE). The large volumes of rapidly emplaced individual eruptions present a case study for examining the tempo of voluminous silicic magma generation and emplacement. Here were report high-precision 206Pb/238U zircon ages and show that the largest sequentially dated eruptions occurred within 48 ± 34 kyr (29.755 ± 0.023 Ma to 29.707 ± 0.025 Ma), yielding the highest known long-term volumetric extrusive rate of silicic volcanism on Earth. While these are the largest known sequential silicic supereruptions, they did not cause major global environmental change. We also provide a robust tie-point for calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale by integrating 40Ar/39Ar data with our 206Pb/238U ages to yield new constraints on the duration of the C11n.1r Subchron.

scholarly journals Telluric Recollection: On the Disappearance of History in Deep Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Daniel Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Human History ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
To Come ◽  
Warming World

Since the turn of the millennium, the humanities have been progressively forced to come to terms with the materiality of a warming world, in particular the entanglement of natural environments with technical infrastructures that lies at the heart of anthropgenic environmental change, and its implications for the hithertofore seemingly impentetrable ontological wall of separation between natural and human history. In an effort to address the concomitant insufficiency of remaning solely at the discursive level, one such attempt has been to reorient the interpretative concerns of the humanities by submerging the modern subject into geological registers of deep time. This paper cautions that along with such a reorientation, however, any sense of a limit – such as a hermeneutical horizon belonging to human history – thereby disappears into the fundamental depthlessness of deep time, and the subject suddenly vanishes from the center of the global environmental drama. Ironically so, since the purported novelty of the globalization of technology is precisely the manner in which it highlights the anthropogenic dimension of global environmental change, and thus the deep time consequences of human action.

scholarly journals Public involvement in research about environmental change and health: A case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kath Maguire ◽  
Ruth Garside ◽  
Jo Poland ◽  
Lora E Fleming ◽  
Ian Alcock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
The Public

Involving and engaging the public are crucial for effective prioritisation, dissemination and implementation of research about the complex interactions between environments and health. Involvement is also important to funders and policy makers who often see it as vital for building trust and justifying the investment of public money. In public health research, ‘the public’ can seem an amorphous target for researchers to engage with, and the short-term nature of research projects can be a challenge. Technocratic and pedagogical approaches have frequently met with resistance, so public involvement needs to be seen in the context of a history which includes contested truths, power inequalities and political activism. It is therefore vital for researchers and policy makers, as well as public contributors, to share best practice and to explore the challenges encountered in public involvement and engagement. This article presents a theoretically informed case study of the contributions made by the Health and Environment Public Engagement Group to the work of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health (HPRU-ECH). We describe how Health and Environment Public Engagement Group has provided researchers in the HPRU-ECH with a vehicle to support access to public views on multiple aspects of the research work across three workshops, discussion of ongoing research issues at meetings and supporting dissemination to local government partners, as well as public representation on the HPRU-ECH Advisory Board. We conclude that institutional support for standing public involvement groups can provide conduits for connecting public with policy makers and academic institutions. This can enable public involvement and engagement, which would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve in individual short-term and unconnected research projects.

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