scholarly journals OECD Principles on Water Governance in practice: an assessment of existing frameworks in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South America

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-89
Author(s):  
Susana Neto ◽  
Jeff Camkin ◽  
Andrew Fenemor ◽  
Poh-Ling Tan ◽  
Jaime Melo Baptista ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Oecd Principles

scholarly journals OECD Principles on Water Governance in practice: an assessment of existing frameworks in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South America

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Neto ◽  
Jeff Camkin ◽  
Andrew Fenemor ◽  
Poh-Ling Tan ◽  
Jaime Melo Baptista ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Oecd Principles

scholarly journals A new Plasmodium vivax reference sequence with improved assembly of the subtelomeres reveals an abundance of pir genes

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Auburn ◽  
Ulrike Böhme ◽  
Sascha Steinbiss ◽  
Hidayat Trimarsanto ◽  
Jessica Hostetler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Plasmodium Vivax ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Reference Sequence ◽  
Manual Curation ◽  
Illumina Sequence

Plasmodium vivax is now the predominant cause of malaria in the Asia-Pacific, South America and Horn of Africa. Laboratory studies of this species are constrained by the inability to maintain the parasite in continuous ex vivo culture, but genomic approaches provide an alternative and complementary avenue to investigate the parasite’s biology and epidemiology. To date, molecular studies of P. vivax have relied on the Salvador-I reference genome sequence, derived from a monkey-adapted strain from South America. However, the Salvador-I reference remains highly fragmented with over 2500 unassembled scaffolds.  Using high-depth Illumina sequence data, we assembled and annotated a new reference sequence, PvP01, sourced directly from a patient from Papua Indonesia. Draft assemblies of isolates from China (PvC01) and Thailand (PvT01) were also prepared for comparative purposes. The quality of the PvP01 assembly is improved greatly over Salvador-I, with fragmentation reduced to 226 scaffolds. Detailed manual curation has ensured highly comprehensive annotation, with functions attributed to 58% core genes in PvP01 versus 38% in Salvador-I. The assemblies of PvP01, PvC01 and PvT01 are larger than that of Salvador-I (28-30 versus 27 Mb), owing to improved assembly of the subtelomeres.  An extensive repertoire of over 1200 Plasmodium interspersed repeat (pir) genes were identified in PvP01 compared to 346 in Salvador-I, suggesting a vital role in parasite survival or development. The manually curated PvP01 reference and PvC01 and PvT01 draft assemblies are important new resources to study vivax malaria. PvP01 is maintained at GeneDB and ongoing curation will ensure continual improvements in assembly and annotation quality.

scholarly journals Water governance assessment at different scales: a reservoir case study in the Brazilian semiarid region

RBRH ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Pessoa Bezerra ◽  
Zédna Mara de Castro Lucena Vieira ◽  
Márcia Maria Rios Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Semiarid Region ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
National Agency ◽  
Brazilian Semiarid ◽  
Oecd Principles ◽  
Policy Alignment

ABSTRACT This article analyses the application of OECD water governance principles to the semiarid region of Brazil. Between 2012 and 2017, the Paraíba River basin (macroscale) and its Epitácio Pessoa reservoir – EPR (microscale) suffered a severe drought. The reservoir came close to collapse in 2017, which led to water use conflicts that were aggravated due to water mismanagement. Four evaluation criteria were considered: policy alignment to the OECD principles, its implementation, on-ground results, and policy impacts. The outcomes indicate water management fragilities, even after 24 years of the Brazilian National Water Resources Policy enactment, and the need for a better water management integration at different scales: National, State, and River Basin. By considering a smaller scale (a basin and its main reservoir), it was possible to observe water governance failures that lead to water crises since the best practices performed by the national agency, at the national scale, have not been verified at the local scale.

scholarly journals An International Comparison of Corporate Social Responsibility

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Victoria E. Fisher ◽  
Lois S. Mahoney ◽  
Joseph A. Scazzero
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
International Comparison ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Globalized Economy ◽  
Corporate Social

As globalization has increased, so have the increased pressures and expectations for companies to participate in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using a new database, SustainalyticsGlobal Platform (SGP), we examined how a globalized economy affects CSR rankings,including the categories of environmental, social, and governance for 4,643 companies in thesix international regions of Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America andSouth America.  We found that the regions of Africa, Europe and South America hadconsistently higher CSR scores for Total CSR and all categories, followed by North America,while the regions of Latin America and Asia-Pacific had the lowest CSR scores.  Additionally,we found that the CSR category of governance had the highest CSR scores while theenvironmental category has the lowest.

Recontextualization

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Linette Ann Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
South America ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Community Solidarity

The concept of recontextualization has received minimal attention in social work literature. Exploring the practical and political ways in which social work has been re-constructed in contexts different to mainstream human services is the focus of this chapter. By linking recontextualization with social work, the authors are extending its meaning beyond what it had come to mean to date. Reflecting upon the authors' lived praxis experience provides insights into how their wish to explore recontextualization in social work features at different stages in their own journeys. Contributions from social workers in Africa, Asia-Pacific, South America, and Australia provide a kaleidoscope of ways in which social work is being recontextualized. Some of the ways they achieve this is by reframing social work within the post-human space and integrating Ubuntu philosophy, which highlights Indigenous knowledge, wisdom, and relationships encompassing all people and their environments, enabling interconnectedness and community solidarity for collective power in professional practice and political activism.

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