Decisions on Building Stock Survival and Conservation in a Multi-Hazard Environment: Cultural and Functional Identity vs. Safety and Environment Values in Protected Areas

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
CRISTINA OLGA GOCIMAN ◽  
TIBERIU FLORESCU ◽  
CRISTIAN IOSIF MOSCU ◽  
EMIL SEVER GEORGESCU
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Science ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
National Education ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Safety And Environment

Romania’s capital city, Bucharest, was struck by multi-hazards in its historybut has also suffered a huge trauma by demolition of 450 hectares, to build publicinstitutions in the 1980s, during the past regime. This zone is now a protectedarea, under the threats of climate and social changes. This research projectfinanced by the Romanian Ministry of National Education aimed to identifythe patterns of building blocks, in a balanced relationship between cultural,functional values, as an identity dimension, and the nature of safety, stabilityas state values (vulnerability), under earthquakes and other hazards. Functionalvalues were evaluated with respect to the Code significance categories, functionalzoning of the General Urban Plan and Law of quality in construction. Analysis ofcultural value observed the Law of Monuments, associated to 13 criteria suggestedby authors, resulting in six evaluation stages. The intervention works includedcurrent maintenance; conservative maintenance, using also strengthening;conservative works; restoration and strengthening; partial or global restricting,with possible demolition and reconstruction works; demolition; new building.New knowledge is represented by a methodology of evaluation and decisionmakingfor multi-levelinterventioncategories, to preserveurban memoryandpresentsa case study of Bucharest,Romania(Europe).Keywords: Environmental Science, multi-hazard environment, urban heritage,conservation and intervention approaches, evaluation of cultural identity andvulnerability value, disaster risk reduction, Romania

scholarly journals Hydroinformatics in multi-colours—part red: urban flood and disaster management

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 166-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur E. Mynett ◽  
Zoran Vojinovic
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Urban Flooding ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Niagara Falls ◽  
The Past ◽  
Development Goals

Hydroinformatics found its origin in the advancement of computational hydraulics in the early 1990s but has expanded considerably, both in scope and in application areas. It is now not only being applied in the fields of hydraulics and hydrology (often indicated by the colour blue), but also in environmental science and technology (green) as well as in knowledge systems and knowledge management (yellow). This paper focuses on urban (red) applications of hydroinformatics, taking urban flood and disaster management as an example. It is part of a sequence of papers, each focusing on a particular field (colour) of hydroinformatics, which together constitute a multi-coloured rainbow of application areas that hydroinformatics has expanded into over the past two decades or so. The combined papers on “Hydroinformatics in multi-colours” were presented as the opening keynote of the Workshop on Advances in Hydroinformatics held in Niagara Falls, in June 2007. In this paper—part red of the sequence—the role of urban hydroinformatics in assessing effects of climate change on urban flooding and health risk is addressed in relation to the UN Millennium Development Goals and illustrated on a case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Autoridad y escuela. Un análisis histórico desde las experiencias del Instituto Nacional 1973-2010

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Paula Subiabre
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The Past ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Cultura Escolar ◽  
Estudio De Caso

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">El presente artículo busca analizar las transformaciones que ha sufrido la autoridad del profesor en la escuela chilena a través de un estudio de caso. Para ello se analizará la noción de autoridad desde una perspectiva histórica en la cultura escolar del Instituto Nacional a través de 4 periodos: 1973-1977, 1982-1986, 1990-1994, 2006-2010. A partir de entrevistas realizadas a ex alumnos del Instituto Nacional se observarán las maneras en que se ha concebido la autoridad en las distintas épocas y las transformaciones que se han producido en los periodos señalados. Durante las últimas décadas se han producido cambios sociales caracterizados por una nueva manera de entender la autoridad, caracterizada por el dialogo, el consenso, la comprensión etc. Esto ha favorecido la democratización de las relaciones sociales y por tanto ha influido en las formas en que se ejerce la autoridad.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Palabras clave: cultura escolar, transformaciones, Instituto Nacional</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><em>Authority and school. A historical analysis from the experiences of the National Institute, 1973-2010 </em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><em>This article seeks to analyze the transformations that has experienced </em><em>the teacher’s authority in chilean schools through a case study. In order to do </em><em>this, the notion of authority will be analyzed from a historic perspective in the</em><br /><em>school culture of the Instituto Nacional through four periods: 1973-1977, 1982-1986, 1990-1994, 2006-2010. Starting from interviews performed to Instituto Nacional’s former students, ways in which authority has been conceived in different times will be observed, and the transformations that have been produced during the indicated periods. Over the past decades there have been social changes characterized by a new understanding of the authority, characterized by dialogue, consensus, understanding etc. This has encouraged the democratization of social relations and, therefore, has influenced the ways in which authority is exercised.</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><em>Keywords: authority, school culture, transformations, Instituto </em><em>Nacional</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;" align="JUSTIFY"><em> </em></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"> </p>

scholarly journals Functions of Social Traditions in Tendency of Polytheists of the Arabian Peninsula to Islam (Case Study: Ethnic and Tribal Relations)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Khadija Alemi
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
The Past ◽  
Class A ◽  
Positive Functions

<p class="a">There have been traditions and customs among all peoples in the past so far. What is important is Functions of social traditions that it can be assessed as such how it would be used. Societies that do not tend to social changes use the traditions on the regressive path; but it does not mean that the traditions always so resist stubbornly against the reform and modernization. But if the functions of tradition replaced in the direction of reform and social changes, its positive functions will be used. Hence, the Prophet of Islam in the ad of Islam not only did not take action to remove the prevailing traditions but also used its positive functions. In this article it is argued that: How Functions of social traditions have been in tendency of polytheists of Arabian Peninsula to Islam? In response to this question, the main claim is as follows: positive and negative Functions of social traditions in the form of content and quantity, have had significant effect in individual and quite a few cases group tendency of polytheists of Arabian Peninsula to Islam.</p><p class="a">Access to this entry that the customs and traditions prevalent among nations and peoples are not only constitutive of the past but in line with reform and social changes can also be used form their positive functions; including the achievements of research.</p>

Archaeology without -isms

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Baines ◽  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Contemporary Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two Sides

This paper examines the division that has grown up in contemporary archaeology between practical and theoretical branches of the discipline. It argues that the two sides of this schism are archaeological versions of objectivism and subjectivism, and that they really represent a single dualism. To break out of this, what is needed is an approach to thinking and doing archaeology that recognizes the embodied nature of archaeological engagements with material culture, together with an understanding of the emergent, relational character of archaeological data. In the light of this discussion, we attempt to redefine the building blocks of archaeology (material culture and the past), and to show with a case study how such an archaeology might generate new insights in practice.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CHANGE AND FRAGMENTED COHESION (Case Study of Muslim Family Relations in Bogor City, West Java)

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 364
Author(s):  
JM Muslimin ◽  
Laila Setyawati Arifin ◽  
Wildan Munawar ◽  
Mahmoud Mohamed Hosny Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact

Entering the era of industrialization, humans live runs more pragmatically and individually. A significant impact can be seen from the estrangement that occurs in family relations. Family ties are felt to be increasingly loose because each person is required to have specific duties and professions to meet their needs. As a result, transformation and social change make it increasingly difficult to create intimacy like the past. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of social transformation on proposed divorce (cerai gugat) by wife, which is more common than divorce and social changes in family relations. The results of this study indicate that the causes of social transformation in divorce are:  increased lawsuit divorce due to nushuz: wife disobedience to husband or lack of wife in carrying out their rights and obligations. Thus, increased divorce due to syiqaq: husband and wife’s quarreling. The research is done by combining empirical approach and normative one. The empirical data gathered from several sources and referred to strengthen normative postulate. Where as the normative postulate is drafted to be starting point of the research.

scholarly journals The implementation of an urban plan - monitoring and evaluation in the case study of the detailed regulation plan for the reconstruction of four urban blocks in Vracar

Spatium ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Svetlana Dimitrijevic-Markovic ◽  
Natasa Danilovic-Hristic ◽  
Ana Graovac
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
The Past

Regulation plans have been implemented in Serbia over the past twenty years as the main operational instrument of planning. However, a general, systemic investigation of the effects of their implementation has failed. Because the elements of regulation and the rules for development and construction applied significantly affect the character of an urban space, the intention is to point out the need to establish procedures and criteria for regular evaluation of the built environment and the need to continuously re-examine planning attitudes. The input data for redefining the scope and shape of regulation can be obtained by analyzing the planning process and evaluating its results. The chosen case study encompasses the plan for four urban blocks in Vracar and includes the 15-year period since its adoption. The extent to which the Plan has met the set objectives from the point of view of urban planning and conservation will be investigated through an analysis of the results obtained in practice, while failures and possible improvements will be pointed out.

scholarly journals Libros Para Pueblos: An Exploratory Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cate Carlyle ◽  
DeNel D Rehberg Sedo ◽  
Kerstin Rydbeck
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
The State ◽  
Capital City ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Community Libraries ◽  
Local Representative ◽  
Executive Level

This article is the result of an introductory two-year case study project that investigated community libraries supported by the not-for-profit organization Libros Para Pueblos (LPP) in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Libros Para Pueblos (LPP) is a largely volunteer-run library organization based in the capital city of Oaxaca de Juarez. In order to analyse the work of LPP we used Mostert & Vermeulen's (1998) nine areas for evaluation of community libraries. Over the past 20 years, the number of libraries the organization supports has grown from two to more than 70 throughout the state. The work that has facilitated this growth is carried out by a small Mexican staff, along with an Executive Committee and a Board of Directors made up of Americans and Canadians living in Mexico. The work is both time consuming and demanding, but it is fuelled by a positive reading ideology that is a result of memories of childhood reading. This motivation is shared by a network of 11 Mexican Regional Volunteer Coordinators who train and support local library workers. The local workers are often doing their tequio, which is a social requirement of working for one or two years in public service. We argue that the success of LPP libraries is influenced by: 1) an organizational structure that mandates Mexican leadership at the Executive level and in paid staff positions; 2) initiation from local representative; 3) the unique and complex socialist community configurations of the Oaxacan region; 4) a community of retirees who volunteer at many levels; and 5) national and international donations.

scholarly journals Cultural Identity and Social Interaction of Indigenous Peoples in the Middle of Modernization (Case Study of Indigenous Peoples of Kasepuhan Banten Kidul)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Abdul Malik
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indigenous Institutions ◽  
The Social

<p>The indigenous community of Kasepuhan Banten Kidul is society entity that still maintains the past Sundanese traditions strictly, but is quite open and adaptive to the development of the age. The condition is reflected in their accommodative attitude towards all social changes that occur due to modernization. However, this condition does not make them lose their cultural identity as kasepuhan community. In the social interaction, the cultural identity is always inherent in them, both in the way of acting or reacting, and symbolized through the clothes and accessories worn. This condition can not be separated from the existence of indigenous institutions that have central role in upholding indigenous rules, so that all members of kasepuhan community have so strong ties to their cultural identity. Therefore, although in always changing social situation, they are able to adapt and even adopt the changes by not losing their cultural identity.</p>

From hard to soft: theory and Neolithic studies in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
The Past

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.

THE URBAN MIGRANT FUTURE DESIRE: A STUDY OF REVERSE MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain ◽  
Hugh Byrd ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Oil Crisis

Globalisation combined with resources of oil and gas has led to an industrial society in Malaysia.  For the past 30 years, rapid urban growth has shifted from 73% rural to 73% urban population. However, the peak oil crisis and economic issues are threatening the growth of urbanisation and influencing the trends of population mobility. This paper documents the beginnings of a reverse migration (urban-to-rural) in Malaysia.  The method adopted case study that involves questionnaires with the urban migrants to establish the desires, definite intentions and reasons for future migration. Based on this data, it predicts a trend and rate of reverse migration in Malaysia. 

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