scholarly journals A district framework for managing psychosocial aspects of disaster

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 176-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
The Many

Natural disasters occur infrequently in Europe, but the spate of transportation, crowd and other disasters in the late 1980s challenged our collective denial of potential catastrophe. Greater attention is now given also to the frequent small-scale traumatic events which are just as devastating to the many people affected by them, such as violent assaults and road accidents.

Conclusion: An Alternative Agriculture for Our Time

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connor J. Fitzmaurice ◽  
Brian J. Gareau
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Consumer Involvement ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Local Agriculture ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Alternative Markets ◽  
Small Scale Farmers ◽  
Full Force ◽  
The Many

Without abandoning the practical idea of farming as a business, the small-scale farmers in this book foster connections between consumer experiences and expectations and farming practices that support their visions of organic. They try to build new, alternative markets to challenge the watering down of “organic” that the full-force entrance of corporate market logics ushered in. However, there are limitations to how sustainable such farming operations can be without further changing the relationships the modern food system is based upon. This chapter begins by recognizing the many limitations of localism, including the potentially neoliberal aspects of such efforts. However, the neoliberal notion that individuals can and should bring forth their own interests and engage in political contestation could (paradoxically) be the very kernel that further popularizes small-scale food production networks that provide safer, more healthful food and a better sense of community than the isolating conventional shopping experience. Finally, the chapter considers how deepening consumer involvement in the process of agriculture, incorporating concerns about social justice into local food systems, and addressing the inefficiencies of decentralized food production could push local agriculture to be even more alternative.

scholarly journals Kelayakan Usaha Ayam Broiler (Studi pada Usaha Peternakan di Desa Cibinong)

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Elpawati Elpawati ◽  
Achmad Tjachja Nugraha ◽  
Ratu Shofiatina
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Selling Price ◽  
Poultry Production ◽  
Poultry Farm ◽  
Financial Feasibility ◽  
Positive Growth ◽  
Poultry Farms ◽  
Positive Growth Rate ◽  
Small Scale Farmers ◽  
The Many

<p>Indonesia poultry consumption has increased year by year, with the average positive growth rate of 4.6%. This situation can be a chance for both small and large scales of poultry farmers, considering that poultry consumption is increasing every year. The rate of poultry production in Gunung Sindur was correlated with the amount of the existing poultry farms. Romli Farm was a small scale poultry farm in Gunung Sindur, Bogor. This poultry farm, with no partnership, could independently survive amongst the many other existing farms. However, although the opportunities were wide open, this business was not always viable for the farmers because many of small-scale farmers could not be able either to increase the income or to carry on the business. This research aimed to study the income, financial feasibility (NPV, IRR, Net B/C Ratio, and PP), the BEP of Selling Price, and the BEP of Product in Romli Farm.</p>

Supporting Students Following Crises and Natural Disasters

2020 ◽  
pp. 295-310
Author(s):  
Benjamin S. Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
School Safety ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
School Community ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Crisis Communications ◽  
Careful Planning

Acute traumatic events have the potential to significantly disrupt the learning environment as well as the psychological functioning of students, staff, and the school community. Such events range in size and intensity, though all require careful planning to address the comprehensive safety and recovery needs of a school. Such planning includes considerations of prevention and preparedness, establishing crisis teams and crisis communications, and the selection and delivery of appropriate interventions given demonstrated need. This chapter discusses best practices in school safety planning and approaches to recovery after an incident to address crisis-generated problems, prevent trauma, and help restore the learning environment.

scholarly journals Situated transformations of women and gender relations in small-scale fisheries and communities in a globalized world

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Frangoudes ◽  
Siri Gerrard ◽  
Danika Kleiber
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
Globalized World

AbstractThe need to uncover, interrogate, and integrate women’s contributions to fisheries in research and development has never been clearer. As coastal and fisheries management continues to look to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, as frameworks and mandates, gender equity and equality have become a central concern. To fill the still existing gap of documentation and theoretical engagement, in this thematic collection, we gather together voices from researchers and practitioners from around the world, with one overarching common approach of using a gender lens to examine the relationship between humans and aquatic resources. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s classic feminist concept of situated knowledges, we examine the many and varied approaches researchers are using to engage with the intersection of gender and fisheries. Beginning and ending with two reviews that examine where gender and fisheries has come from, and where it is going, this thematic issue includes case studies from 10 countries, engaging in the topic at various scales (individual, household, national, institutional etc.), and using multiple methodological approaches. Taken together, these pieces explore the mechanism by which women’s contribution to fisheries are overlooked and provide direct evidence to contest the persistent invisibility of women in fishing, fisheries labor, and fisheries decision-making. Going beyond the evidence of women’s contributions, the authors go further to examine different coastal contexts, intersectional identities such as age, and explore gender transformative approaches to fisheries development.

scholarly journals TRAUMA THROUGH THE LIFE CYCLE IN AN IMMIGRANT POPULATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S937-S938
Author(s):  
Gabriella Dong ◽  
Stephanie M Bergren
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Cumulative Exposure ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Older Immigrants ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Great Leap Forward

Abstract The majority of studies on traumatic events have focused on either children or younger adults, while traumatic events in older adults have not been sufficiently investigated. Older immigrants encountered a wide range of traumatic events across the life span, before and after immigration, in the origin and host countries. This study aims to provide a descriptive epidemiology of lifetime traumatic events in older Chinese Americans. The data were drawn from the Population Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago (PINE) in 2017-2019, with a sample size of 3,126. Traumatic events were evaluated by natural disasters, personal and historical events. After examining the lifetime prevalence of natural disasters, we found typhoon (64.46%) has the highest prevalence, followed by earthquake (39.81%) and tornado (7.25%). In terms of personal events, death of a loved one (69.78%) was the most prevalent, followed by robbery (12.57%), physical assault (5.36%), fire (5.29%), divorce (5.16%), cancer (5.10%), falsely accused (2.15%), homeless (1.57%), sexual assault (0.99%), and imprisonment (0.74%). In addition, 18.91% of women experienced abortion and 11.25% of women experienced miscarriage,. With respect to historical events, most participants experienced the Cultural Revolution (73.27%), the Great Leap Forward (62.71%), and famine (60.01%). A small proportion experienced the Japanese invasion of China (27.14%), Tiananmen Square protests (7.86%), and the Vietnam war (4.78%). In our sample, women were more likely than men to encounter traumatic life events. Further studies could examine the influence of cumulative exposure to natural disasters, personal events and historical events on health outcomes of older immigrants.

A microcomputer based system for small‐scale geophysical surveys

Geophysics ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. T. C. Sowerbutts ◽  
R. W. I. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
The Many

Manufacturers of geophysical instruments have kept abreast of the many developments in microelectronics that have taken place in the last decade, and have made important developments in geophysical instrumentation. The instruments they have produced are not only smaller and more robust than their predecessors, but are easier to operate, produce a quicker response, and often perform additional functions.

Labor Violence and Regime Brutality in Tsarist Russia: The Iuzovka Cholera Riots of 1892

Slavic Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore H. Friedgut
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Early History ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
History Of ◽  
Labor Violence ◽  
The Many

Recent monographs on Russian social development have raised a number of hypotheses regarding our general understanding of processes of political and social change. In his volume on the early history of Russian workers Reginald Zelnik, for instance, proposes that moderate labor unrest reinforced traditional repressive patterns, while extreme conflicts motivated innovative reform. In the work of Robert E. Johnson and of Victoria Bonnell we find the suggestion that workers in small-scale enterprises and artisan shops were often more radical and organized than those in larger industrial enterprises. The fragmented and antagonistic nature of Russian society, with multiple splits of both an intergroup and intragroup nature, has been noted in the work of both Roberta Manning and Allan Wildman. Diane Koenker, focusing her research on the period of the 1917 revolutions, has brought out the moderating and integrating effect of the urban setting on Russian workers. These are only a few of the many thought-provoking hypotheses that have been raised.

scholarly journals (A131) Surgical Help to Children in Disasters and Wars

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s37-s37
Author(s):  
L. Roshal
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Bone Fractures ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Primary Treatment ◽  
Tubular Bone ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Purulent Wounds ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Specialized Team

PurposeTo describe results of experience in providing surgical aid to children in technological and natural disasters in various countries of the world: Haiti, Algeria, Armenia, Afganistan (three times), Georgia, Egypt, Russia, Indonesia (twice), Iran, Pakistan, India, Japan, Gaza strip, Chechnya, and Yugoslavia.Materials and MethodsThe Russian specialized team consisting of highly qualified pediatric specialists (traumatologists, neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, specialists in wound treatment, anaesthesiologists-reanimatologists and others if necessary) work at local hospitals in the disaster zone. All of them work as volunteers. The most serious pediatric victims were concentrated in one or two regional hospitals. The volunteer specialists work on a twenty-four hour basis together with local doctors. Every day they examine patients, control wound bandaging, and perform surgeries. For long tubular bone fractures metalosteosynthesis is used. Modern techniques are used for Crush syndrome and for extended and purulent wounds (water-based ointments, early autoplasty). Currently, the main difficulty in many cases is primary treatment of extensive wounds with their complete closure and the many indications for amputations. Conservative and sparing techniques are not often used.ConclusionsPediatric victims in technologic and natural disasters must be helped by pediatric specialists. Our experience in the countries to which we have responded have revealed that there are not enough local specialists who can provide highly professional aid to children. There is no known coordinating structure in the world to efficiently organize specialized pediatric help to children in disasters and wars.

scholarly journals Investigating the Impact of Economic Uncertainty on Optimal Sizing of Grid-Independent Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1468
Author(s):  
Mostafa Rezaei ◽  
Udaya Dampage ◽  
Barun K. Das ◽  
Omaima Nasif ◽  
Piotr F. Borowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Scale ◽  
Optimal Size ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems ◽  
A Value ◽  
Inflation Rates ◽  
The Many ◽  
Hybrid Renewable Energy ◽  
The Impact

One of the many barriers to decarbonization and decentralization of the energy sector in developing countries is the economic uncertainty. As such, this study scrutinizes economics of three grid-independent hybrid renewable-based systems proposed to co-generate electricity and heat for a small-scale load. Accordingly, the under-study systems are simulated and optimized with the aid of HOMER Pro software. Here, a 20-year average value of discount and inflation rates is deemed a benchmark case. The techno-economic-environmental and reliability results suggest a standalone solar/wind/electrolyzer/hydrogen-based fuel cell integrated with a hydrogen-based boiler system is the best alternative. Moreover, to ascertain the impact of economic uncertainty on optimal unit sizing of the nominated model, the fluctuations of the nominal discount rate and inflation, respectively, constitute within the range of 15–20% and 10–26%. The findings of economic uncertainty analysis imply that total net present cost (TNPC) fluctuates around the benchmark value symmetrically between $478,704 and $814,905. Levelized energy cost varies from an amount 69% less than the benchmark value up to two-fold of that. Furthermore, photovoltaic (PV) optimal size starts from a value 23% less than the benchmark case and rises up to 55% more. The corresponding figures for wind turbine (WT) are, respectively, 21% and 29%. Eventually, several practical policies are introduced to cope with economic uncertainty.

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