Developing an index of community competence in flood response for flood‐affected rural parishes on the Somerset Levels and Moors using composite and spatial datasets

Area ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-352
Author(s):  
Ruth Elizabeth Cole Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Community Competence ◽  
Rural Parishes ◽  
Spatial Datasets ◽  
Flood Response

scholarly journals Faith as a Mechanism for Health Promotion among Rural African American Prostate Cancer Survivors: A Qualitative Examination

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3134
Author(s):  
Raymond D. Adams ◽  
Waldo E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
African American ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
African American Male ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Prostate Cancer Survivors ◽  
Rural Parishes

Conceptualized using critical race theory as a theoretical underpinning, this study analyzed the lived experiences of older, rural, African American male prostate cancer (hereafter referenced as PrCA) survivors’ faith and health promotion practices within Northeast Louisiana. Qualitative data from journaling, observations, and semi-structured interviews were obtained from ten older, African American male PrCA survivors residing in four rural parishes of Louisiana. The data analysis employed a two-stage approach known as Polkinghorne’s analysis of narratives and narrative analysis using an art-based methodological approach. Framed as composite character counterstories, survivors’ narratives revealed how survivors made sense of and gave meaning to their PrCA diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and survivorship. Specifically, their counterstories indicate that centering and honoring the unique and often taken-for-granted perspectives of older, rural, African American male PrCA survivors offered a deeper understanding of the multiple factors influencing their quality of life, as well as the sociostructural mechanisms impacting their survivorship care. Faith was examined as both a secular and sacred source of support that these men viewed as central to the acceptance of their diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and survivorship.

scholarly journals How much cattle can brazil pastures support? An analysis based on “YIELD GAP”

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 162-169
Author(s):  
Christiane Cavalcante Leite ◽  
Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho ◽  
Marcos Heil Costa ◽  
Ranieri Carlos Ferreira de Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Yield Gap ◽  
Potential Yield ◽  
Biophysical Factors ◽  
Spatial Datasets ◽  
Degraded Pasture ◽  
Different Climates

The degradation of pastures is one of Brazil's biggest problems today and directly affects the sustainability of livestock. The animal production in a degraded pasture can be six times smaller than a grazing or recovered in good maintenance state. So we can consider that productivity could be increased in pasture areas, and analyze how productivity is limited by biophysical factors (climate, for example) versus management. Using spatial datasets, we compare yield patterns for the pasturelands within regions of similar climate. We use this comparison to evaluate the potential yield obtainable for pasturelands in different climates around the Brazil using the limits of Brazilian biomes. We then compare the actual yields currently being achieved with their ‘potential yield’ to estimate the ‘yield gap’, present spatial datasets of both the potential yields and yield gap patterns for pasturelands around the year 1995 and 2006. This study is intended to be an important new resource for scientists and policymakers alike, helping to more accurately understand spatial variation of yield and agricultural intensification potential, as well as employing these data to better utilize existing infrastructure and optimize the distribution of development and aid capital.

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