Participatory Mapping and SWOT in the context of the Water-Food-Energy Nexus for attaining SDGs in Eastern Amazonia

Abstract. The nexus concept is applied to many global contexts to generate understanding of the relations among the water, food and energy sectors and to guide investigations that seek to improve living conditions of marginalized communities. This work analyses the nexus by means of qualitative and participative methodologies at a community scale with the objective of understanding how residents of traditional communities perceive the interconnections among water, food, and energy. SWOT and participatory mapping methodologies were utilized complementarily to map the water, food, and energy contexts of Ponta do Urumajó community, located in Pará state, Brazil. Participatory mapping and SWOT create quali-quantitative data, enabling the participation of individuals in the production of participatory maps of their territories and the material and symbolic appropriation of spaces, constituting a political and social strategy for empowerment and autonomy. These methods provided the basis for learning and reflecting on the social, environmental, territorial, and political reality in terms of the water, food, and energy nexus, making it possible to use the data for achieving the SDGs, creating future public policies or more rational community management adjusted to the local reality.

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Reflections on Lawrence Freedman’s ‘Deterrence’

10.1093/oso/9780190851163.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Patrick M. Morgan

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Social Cohesion ◽

Social Relationship ◽

International Security ◽

First Century ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Social Strategy ◽

The Social ◽

The One

This chapter focuses on the social aspects of strategy, arguing for the importance of relationships in strategy and, in particular, in understanding of deterrence. Deterrence, in its essence, is predicated upon a social relationship – the one deterring and the one to be deterred. Alliance and cooperation are important in generating the means for actively managing international security. Following Freedman’s work on deterrence in the post-Cold War context, ever greater interaction and interdependence might instill a stronger sense of international community, in which more traditional and ‘relatively primitive’ notions of deterrence can be developed. However, this strategic aspiration relies on international, especially transatlantic, social cohesion, a property that weakened in the twenty-first century, triggering new threats from new kinds of opponent. The need for a sophisticated and social strategy for managing international security is made all the more necessary.

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Subaltern Debris: Archaeology and Marginalized Communities

Cambridge Archaeological Journal ◽

10.1017/s0959774321000068 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Beatriz Marín-Aguilera

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

Social Sciences And Humanities ◽

The Social ◽

Patricia Hill Collins ◽

Definition Of

Archaeologists, like many other scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, are particularly concerned with the study of past and present subalterns. Yet the very concept of ‘the subaltern’ is elusive and rarely theorized in archaeological literature, or it is only mentioned in passing. This article engages with the work of Gramsci and Patricia Hill Collins to map a more comprehensive definition of subalternity, and to develop a methodology to chart the different ways in which subalternity is manifested and reproduced.

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Disrupting Cultures of Harassment in Archaeology: Social-Environmental and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Disciplinary Transformation

American Antiquity ◽

10.1017/aaq.2021.19 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Barbara L. Voss

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Disciplinary Culture ◽

Environmental Model ◽

Exclusionary Practices ◽

Archaeological Practice ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Quantitative Studies ◽

The Social ◽

Trauma Informed ◽

Social Environmental

This article is the second in a two-part series that analyzes current research on harassment in archaeology. Both qualitative and quantitative studies, along with activist narratives and survivor testimonials, have established that harassment is occurring in archaeology at epidemic rates. These studies have also identified key patterns in harassment in archaeology that point to potential interventions that may prevent harassment, support survivors, and hold perpetrators accountable. This article reviews five key obstacles to change in the disciplinary culture of archaeology: normalization, exclusionary practices, fraternization, gatekeeping, and obstacles to reporting. Two public health paradigms—the social-environmental model and trauma-informed approaches—are used to identify interventions that can be taken at all levels of archaeological practice: individual, relational, organizational, community, and societal.

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Enhancing the Marginalized Youth Media Participation Through Formation of a Nation Building Action Plan with Intervention Study Design

Asia Pacific Media Educator ◽

10.1177/1326365x211009645 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1326365X2110096

Author(s):

Norshuhada Shiratuddin ◽

Shahizan Hassan ◽

Zainatul Shuhaida Abdul Rahman ◽

Mohd. Khairie Ahmad ◽

Kartini Aboo Talib ◽

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Keyword(s):

Intervention Study ◽

Action Plan ◽

Nation Building ◽

Marginalized Youth ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

The Social ◽

Building Action ◽

Youth Media ◽

Youth Council ◽

Use Of Social Media

Malaysian marginalized youth participation in nation building through various media platforms is low. Therefore, an action plan was developed to enhance the social, political and economic participation of youth in marginalized communities through media utilization. The action plan consists of target items and approaches to conduct activities. Eight media-participation-related modules were also tested in an intervention study. The modules were targeted at increasing the level of youth media, social and political participation. Various agencies such as the Malaysian Youth Council, were involved to help realize the plan aims. Results from the stakeholders’ reviews indicated that more efforts have to be carried out to expose these youth to good practices in the use of social media for participation purposes. The findings also concluded that this action plan is well-formed, can serve as a guide, allows integration of cultural harmony and offers empowerment to the youth.

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Body Mass Index Trends Among Adult U.S. Special Olympians, 2005–2010

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly ◽

10.1123/apaq.30.4.373 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 373-386 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

John T. Foley ◽

Meghann Lloyd ◽

Viviene A. Temple

Keyword(s):

Body Mass Index ◽

Body Mass ◽

Temporal Trends ◽

Overweight And Obesity ◽

Special Olympics ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

The Social ◽

Prevalence Of Obesity ◽

Biological Determinants ◽

Social Environmental

This study examined temporal trends in body mass index (BMI) among United States adults with intellectual disability (ID) participating in Special Olympics from 2005 to 2010. In addition, the prevalence of obesity was compared with published National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) statistics. After data cleaning, 6,004 height and weight records (male = 57%) were available from the Special Olympics International Healthy Athletes Health Promotion database for the calculation of BMI. Rates of overweight and obesity were very high but generally stable over time. Compared with NHANES statistics, the prevalence of obesity was significantly higher for Special Olympics female participants in each data collection cycle. Integrated efforts to understand the social, environmental, behavioral, and biological determinants of obesity and among Special Olympics participants are needed.

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Dialogues between social and natural sciences: contribution to the debate on socio-environmental conflicts

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências ◽

10.1590/0001-3765201520140724 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 87 (4) ◽

pp. 2335-2348 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bruno Milanez

Keyword(s):

Environmental Impact ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

Environmental Conflicts ◽

Environmental Impact Assessments ◽

The Social ◽

Mining Projects ◽

Negative Impacts ◽

Strong Candidate ◽

Social Environmental

ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that attempting to solve real problems is a possible approach to bring social and natural sciences together, and suggest that - as Environmental Impact Assessment necessarily brings together social and environmental issues - this debate is a strong candidate for such a task. The argument is based on a general discussion about the possibilities and limitations of Environmental Impact Assessments, the social-environmental impacts of mining activities and three case studies. The analysis of the cases indicates possibilities and limitations of the dialogue between scientists from various areas - and of the collaboration with social movements and affected communities - in avoiding negative impacts of mining projects and, eventually, increasing their sustainability.

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A Typological Classification for Assessing Farm Sustainability in the Italian Bovine Dairy Sector

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13137097 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (13) ◽

pp. 7097

Author(s):

Margherita Masi ◽

Yari Vecchio ◽

Gregorio Pauselli ◽

Jorgelina Di Pasquale ◽

Felice Adinolfi

Keyword(s):

Structural Characteristics ◽

Dairy Farms ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Structural Relationships ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

The Social ◽

European Policies ◽

Farm Sustainability ◽

Social Environmental ◽

Cluster Analysis Technique

Italy is among the most important countries in Europe for milk production. The new European policies encourage a transition towards sustainability and are leading European dairy farms to follow new trajectories to increase their economic efficiency, reduce their environmental impact, and ensure social sustainability. Few studies have attempted to classify dairy farms by analyzing the relationships between the structural profiles of farms and the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainability. This work intends to pursue this aim through an exploratory analysis in the Italian production context. The cluster analysis technique made it possible to identify three types of dairy farms, which were characterized on the basis of indicators that represented the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic sustainability) and the emerging structural relationships based on the structural characteristics of the dairy farms. The classification made it possible to describe the state of the art of the Italian dairy sector in terms of sustainability and to understand how different types of farms can respond to the new European trajectories.

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REVIEW OF SOCIAL RESEARCH IN POLAND ON THE SARS-CoV-2 PANDEMIC IN THE LIGHT OF THE FUZZY REASONING PARADIGM

Polityka Społeczna ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0015.0281 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 563 (2) ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Małgorzata Stochmal ◽

Jan Maciejewski ◽

Andrzej Jarynowski

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

Social Research ◽

Secondary Analysis ◽

Fuzzy Reasoning ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Research Projects ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

The Social ◽

Theoretical Assumptions

The article presents the results of the secondary analysis of qualitative and quantitative data in relation to social research conducted in Poland during the pandemic. The research results were introduced on the basis of analyzes of 180 projects carried out by scientific and commercial institutions in the period from January to May 2020. The aim of the project is to present a standard way of conducting empirical research for social researchers who undertake the challenge of identifying the phenomena accompanying the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We are interested in the possibility of drawing conclusions that go beyond individual research projects carried out in the social field. The conclusions recommended by us concern the following issues: mitigating the polarization of social attitudes dynamically changing during a pandemic, practical solving – and not only diagnosing – problems revealed in COVID reality and supplementing the deficiencies of theoretical assumptions accompanying research works.

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Democratic Decentralizaton and Socio-Political Inclusion of Marginalized Communities: A Study of Musahar Community in Madhubani District of Bihar, India

Contemporary Voice of Dalit ◽

10.1177/2455328x211042499 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 2455328X2110424

Author(s):

Ashish Jha

Keyword(s):

Social Inclusion ◽

Constitutional Amendment ◽

Primary Data ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

The Social ◽

Democratic Decentralization ◽

Political Inclusion ◽

Bihar State ◽

Panchayati Raj

Democratic decentralization is the process of devolving the state’s roles and resources from the centre to the lower-level elected officials to encourage greater direct participation of people in governance. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act (1993), which gave the constitutional mandate to the Panchayati Raj Institutions in India, is considered as an opportunity for historically marginalized groups like women, Dalits (Scheduled Caste) and others to actively engage in the grassroot governance as members of local government institutions. Further, gram panchayats have been mandated for formulating their own annual development plan for economic development and social justice in their area. Although in these 25 years, since the enactment of the Act, various measures have been introduced through Panchayati Raj Institutions for increasing people’s participation and effective implementation of developmental programmes, but there is a little or no evidences—either the theoretical or the empirical, which can give a hint on its performance on social and political inclusion of marginalized communities. Against this backdrop, this empirical research paper attempts to explore the linkages between the democratic decentralization and socio-political inclusion of marginalized, by focussing on the Musahar community in Bihar state of India, using primary data collected from the field. The researchers argue that decentralization has ameliorated the social inclusion to some extent but shows very dismal rate of political inclusion of the Musahar Community.

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