An Unexpected Rise in Outside Intervention

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Department Of Labor ◽  
The North ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Office Of Economic Opportunity

This chapter discusses the increased intervention from the Office of Economic Opportunity and the North Carolina Fund in Craven Operation Progress matters. Federal officials within both the OEO and the Department of Labor had begun to conclude, similarly to Fund staff, that local control of community action would never allow the types of social and institutional change they believed were necessary to meet the needs of the poor. From their perspective in Washington, D.C., too many businessmen, elected officials, and other power-structure types served on local boards. Moreover, these men and women were either incapable of making or unwilling to make the kinds of decisions likely to enhance the poor’s political influence or economic standing. Eventually, save for the rare instances in which the poor made up a majority of a Community Action Agency board, local community action experiments began to be seen as a roadblock to the War on Poverty’s goals of improving opportunities and justice for indigent populations (especially in the South, where many of the long-term poor were black). The executive director ultimately resigns following pressure from both groups to step down.

scholarly journals Mass mortality of Northern Map Turtles (Graptemys geographica)

2015 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Catrysse ◽  
Emily Slavik ◽  
Jonathan Choquette ◽  
Ashley E. Leifso ◽  
Christina M. Davy
Keyword(s):  
Lake Erie ◽  
Mass Mortality ◽  
Species At Risk ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
North Shore ◽  
The North ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Map Turtles ◽  
Graptemys Geographica

We report a mass mortality of Northern Map Turtles (Graptemys geographica [LeSueur, 1817]) on the north shore of Lake Erie, Ontario, Canada. Thirty-five dead adult females were recovered from a nesting area over a period of four weeks. Predation and boat strikes were both excluded as potential cause of death, but the actual cause could not be determined because of the poor condition of the carcasses. Other possible explanations for the mortality include poisoning, drowning, and infection with an unidentified pathogen. Mass mortality in long-lived species, such as turtles, can have long-term effects on population growth and is a cause for concern in a species at risk.

In alliance with a nocturnal landscape: memory and water law in the north Baikal, Siberia

Polar Record ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-420
Author(s):  
Veronika V. Simonova
Keyword(s):  
Lake Baikal ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Water Law ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Human Landscape

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the ethnography of nocturnal fishery and relationships with water, relevant for Evenkis occupying the northern coastal area of Lake Baikal, Siberia. The material arises from Evenkis of Kumora village who live near Lake Irkana and from archival sources. Although the nocturnal fishery is declared illegal in official legislation, local residents invoke memories to mark that practice as traditional and important for the local community since it is not merely a subsistence activity but also an emotional experience and long-term relationships with the landscape. This paper argues that local social memory devoted to this practice serves as a kind of fishing tool and a tool for supporting local ideas of how fishing should be governed. The collision between memory and water law is not discussed in terms of antagonism between local groups and authorities but as ignorance between memory-gifted people and the landscape, and memory-disabled official approaches to nocturnal fishing and its histories. Finally, memory-gifted human landscape relationships termed as ‘alliance’ are approached as a powerful conglomerate that ‘consumes’ authorised visions of fishing patterns in their own way.

Going Rogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-116
Author(s):  
Brad Edmondson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Private Land ◽  
The North ◽  
State Official ◽  
State Commission ◽  
The Future

This chapter focuses on Harold Jerry, a state official who was recruiting staff for a new state commission on the future of the Adirondack Park, and New York governor Nelson Rockefeller. The chapter details the governor's agenda to draft a long-term plan for the Adirondacks. The management of one state park might have seemed trivial to a man like Rockefeller, but the Adirondacks is not just any park. It is an internationally famous nature reserve that is as big as Vermont. The chapter also addresses the concerns of the full-time residents of the Adirondacks who did not think of their home as an occasional vacation spot. Most of the Park is private land, and it is an important source of timber, minerals, and water. Their problem was not overdevelopment, but a lack of economic opportunity. After Rockefeller saw another chance to build his presidential resume, or at least burnish his legacy, by “saving” the Adirondacks, the chapter discusses the recommendations made by Jerry and a group of commissioners that were so uncompromising that Rockefeller was reluctant to endorse. It highlights the commissioners' use of political brinksmanship at least twice, making threats that forced the powerful governor to capitulate. Ultimately, the chapter examines how the recommendations of Harold Jerry and his team led to the success of the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks (TSC), giving the “forever wilders” power over the North Country.

scholarly journals IMMERSIVE AUDIO EXPOSITION AND ITS VISUAL CONTENT AS ACTUALIZATION OF MUSEUM DESIGN PRINCIPLES

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Elena V. SHLIENKOVA ◽  
Khristina V. KAYGORODOVA
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Local History ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The North ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Museum Design

The article is devoted to the experimental practice of new local history and museum design, the study of collective identity, the actualization of “gene memory” and the representation of the Finno-Ugric ethnic group of the North of Udmurtia, Russia. The project continues to develop a long-term partnership of an inter-regional consortium consisting of specialists in the fi eld of cultural anthropology and authentic geography, local history, music and stage art, folklore, design, architecture and modern art practices, and the local community. The article deals with the study of the principles of organizing a traditional a local history museum, its tactile and spatial reconfi guration based on immersive interaction with the visitor, his active participation, polylogue, post-empathy and total involvement (psychophysiological “linkage” with reality). It covers a wide range of topics from technological to meta-immersion, creation spaces of holistic experience, space-event, space-situations, where the viewer becomes a key subject.

Helping Gasiza have a bridge for generations to come

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Dean
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The North ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Safe Access

<p>Gasiza Bridge provides safe access for approximately 6,000 people who live in communities adjacent to the new footbridge, over the River Cyacika in the north of Rwanda. Previously, the nearest safe crossing was 3.5km away. The new footbridge is owned by the local government and will be maintained by the local community.</p><p>As with all development work, the long term success of the bridge is dependent on local community taking ownership of it. Through various methods, the UK Team of Bridges equipped the local community with the necessary knowledge and skills.</p><p>The team conveyed safety, quality and maintenance best practices from the UK experience to the local community with the intention that the community will take ownership of the bridge, thus ensuring that this safe access will be maintained for many years to come.</p>

scholarly journals Poverty upsurge in 2015 and the rising trend in regional and age inequality among the poor in Brazil

Nova Economia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Sustained Improvement ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The North ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Regional Aspect ◽  
Age Inequality ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Poverty Indicators ◽  
The Impact

Summary The aim of this article is threefold. Firstly, to present income-based poverty and extreme poverty indicators for 2015, when the macroeconomic crisis led to a generalized deterioration affecting all areas and regions. The second aim is to discuss long-term evolution, emphasizing the period since 2004, when sustained improvement of income indicators as well as convergence of regional and area results began. Considering the period from 2004 to 2014/2015, the third aim is to show that the reduction in poverty and extreme poverty was parallel to increased inequality in poverty regarding two critical aspects: the regional aspect, since inequality among the five regions became higher, thus reinforcing the dichotomy between the North/Northeast versus the Centre-South; the age aspect, because the recent improvements since 2004 have not sufficiently benefited children as to reverse their disadvantaged position, so much so that in 2015 children still had a share in poverty that was twice their share in the total population. The last section concerns policy measures that may reduce the impact of the crisis on the poor.

Triumphs of Moderation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Local People ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Office Of Economic Opportunity

This chapter introduces Craven Operation Progress’s new executive director who desired to ensure more poor people were reached, especially the white poor who were participating in very low numbers. A moderate compared to the previous director, he also sought to cooperate more with the local people and move COP in a less controversial direction. North Carolina Fund and Office of Economic Opportunity leaders generally distrusted the new director and believed he was too accommodating to the local power structure at the expense of those being served by COP. Yet despite such criticisms, some of COP’s greatest successes begin to show during Monte’s tenure, particularly within the Manpower training program. This chapter also details how black and whites on the COP board generally see the need to cooperate and work together for the sake of the community.

Long-term Cyclic Variations of Prominences, Green and Red Coronae over Solar Cycles

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Vojtech Rušin ◽  
Milan Minarovjech ◽  
Milan Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Emission Lines ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Green Line ◽  
Solar Cycles ◽  
The South ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Local Maxima ◽  
The North ◽  
Cyclic Variations

AbstractLong-term cyclic variations in the distribution of prominences and intensities of green (530.3 nm) and red (637.4 nm) coronal emission lines over solar cycles 18–23 are presented. Polar prominence branches will reach the poles at different epochs in cycle 23: the north branch at the beginning in 2002 and the south branch a year later (2003), respectively. The local maxima of intensities in the green line show both poleward- and equatorward-migrating branches. The poleward branches will reach the poles around cycle maxima like prominences, while the equatorward branches show a duration of 18 years and will end in cycle minima (2007). The red corona shows mostly equatorward branches. The possibility that these branches begin to develop at high latitudes in the preceding cycles cannot be excluded.

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