scholarly journals Un acercamiento a los actores ribereños en la pesca de camarón en San Felipe, Baja California

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (67) ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Guadalupe López Torres ◽  
Luis Ramón Moreno Moreno ◽  
Ma. Enselmina Marín Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Baja California ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Governments ◽  
International Border ◽  
The City

Resumen: desde hace varios años, los gobiernos nacionales y las instituciones internacionales han generado un conjunto de estrategias con el objetivo de disminuir los problemas ambientales, mediante la creación de reservas naturales. A pesar de ello, las acciones no consensuadas sobre la conservación no resuelven el deterioro ambiental, debido a que se debilita el tejido social necesario para impulsar un proceso de desarrollo comunitario sustentable; la conservación se trasforma en una actividad o interés ilegítimo para la población local, lo que endurece las posturas y dificulta la búsqueda conjunta de soluciones. Esto es lo que ha sucedido recientemente con los pescadores del puerto de San Felipe, Baja California, quienes en un par de ocasiones han cerrado la vía de comunicación terrestre entre Mexicali y el puerto, y se ha llegado al extremo de cerrar la garita internacional Mexicali-Calexico. Este malestar social, que amenaza con un mayor escalamiento, es el resultado de la negativa de los pescadores de San Felipe (y ahora también del Golfo de Santa Clara, en Sonora) para modificar su arte de pesca, acorde con lo que plantea la nueva norma oficial mexicana.Palabras clave: norma oficial mexicana; chinchorro de línea; red de arrastre; reserva de la biosfera; alto golfo de California; vaquita marina; actores sociales; pesca.Abstract: for several years now, national governments and international institutions have generated a set of strategies with the aim of reducing environmental problems by creating nature reserves. However, it is worth mentioning that under the conservation scenario, non-consensual actions do not resolve the environmental degradation due to the weakening of the social fabric necessary to start a process of sustainable community development, and, as a result, conservation becomes illegitimate to the local population, which hardens positions and makes it difficult to search for joint solutions. The latter is what has been happening recently with the fishermen of the Port of San Felipe, Baja California, who on a couple of occasions have closed the highway between the city of Mexicali and the port, and has gone so far to close the international border between Mexicali and Calexico. This social unrest that threatens to escalate further is the result of the refusal of the San Felipe fishermen (and now the Gulf of Santa Clara in Sonora) to modify their fishing gear according to the new official standard (NOM-002-SAG / PESC-2013). Key words: Mexican Official Standard; gillnet; drift net; Biosphere Reserve; Upper California Gulf; vaquita porpoise; social actors; fishing.

The Information and Communication Strategies Focused on Young People and Adolescents within the Field of Public Health

2013 ◽  
pp. 247-267
Author(s):  
Martha Sabelli ◽  
Jorge Rasner ◽  
María Cristina Pérez Giffoni ◽  
Eduardo Álvarez Pedrosian
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Electronic Information Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Communication Flow ◽  
The City

Within the framework of the implementation of the Integrated National Healthcare System (SNIS) along with national policies of information and communication at the República Oriental del Uruguay, a research is being conducted, focusing on adolescents and young people in vulnerable contexts in the city of Montevideo, taking them as both real and potential users of healthcare information. It also centers in the mediators in the flow of communication and information, especially among healthcare staff. From a multi-interdisciplinary approach, this investigation aims at identifying the behaviors and needs of the target population in relation to the information and ICTs, the availability and access to personal technological resources, its context of use (the community, their everyday lives, the institutions), the process of interaction among the different social actors in the sector, as well as in the communication flow within the organizational culture of these services. On this basis, it will provide models to design electronic information resources according to the social needs, and which may contribute to the inclusion of all citizens in the so-called Information Society.

Seeing Immigrants

2012 ◽  
Vol 641 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Winders
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Immigrant Incorporation ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gateway Cities ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

Since the 1990s, immigrant settlement has expanded beyond gateway cities and transformed the social fabric of a growing number of American cities. In the process, it has raised new questions for urban and migration scholars. This article argues that immigration to new destinations provides an opportunity to sharpen understandings of the relationship between immigration and the urban by exploring it under new conditions. Through a discussion of immigrant settlement in Nashville, Tennessee, it identifies an overlooked precursor to immigrant incorporation—how cities see, or do not see, immigrants within the structure of local government. If immigrants are not institutionally visible to government or nongovernmental organizations, immigrant abilities to make claims to or on the city as urban residents are diminished. Through the combination of trends toward neighborhood-based urban governance and neoliberal streamlining across American cities, immigrants can become institutionally hard to find and, thus, plan for in the city.

scholarly journals Consciência ambiental e percepção sobre os resíduos sólidos pelos residentes da Cidade de Coremas, Paraíba

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Carlos Sergio Araújo dos Santos ◽  
Daniel Jackson Andrade de Sousa ◽  
Gabriel Carlos Moura Pessôa ◽  
Ricardo Ricelli Pereira de Almeida ◽  
Alan Dél Carlos Gomes Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Solid Wastes ◽  
Environmental Perceptions ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Semi Solid ◽  
The City

<p><strong>Resíduos sólidos</strong><strong> </strong>são todos os restos sólidos ou semi-sólidos das atividades humanas ou não-humanas, que embora possam não apresentar utilidade para a atividade fim de onde foram gerados, podem virar insumos para outras utilizações. Objetivou-se avaliar o comportamento da população à respeito das atitudes e percepção com relação aos resíduos sólidos na cidade de Coremas, Paraíba. Os dados referentes a atitudes e percepção dos atores sociais foram coletados na cidade de Coremas por meio de questionários, previamente estruturados com perguntas de múltipla escolha a fim de conhecer o perfil dos entrevistados através das seguintes variáveis: sexo, faixa etária, escolaridade, estado civil e renda. Foi realizada uma análise descritiva para verificar a percepção dos residentes no município segundo as variáveis relacionadas aos resíduos sólidos. A relação entre variáveis socioeconômicas e o comportamento ambiental referente aos resíduos sólidos dos moradores da cidade de Coremas foi verificada por meio do teste qui-quadrado de independência, mostrando que houve forte dependência entre essas variáveis, sugerindo que, a escolaridade, a renda e a localização dos residentes influenciaram em suas atitudes e percepções ambientais naquele município.</p><p><strong><em>Environmental Awareness and perception about solid waste by the residents of the City of Coremas, Paraíba</em></strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong><strong>: </strong>Solid wastes are all the solid or semi-solid residues of human or non-human activities that, although do not show utility for the order in which they were generated, can become to inputs for other activities. The study’s aim was to evaluate the population’s behavior about the attitudes and the perception connected to the solid wastes in the city of Coremas, Paraíba state. The data on attitudes and perceptions of the social actors were collected in the city of Coremas through questionnaires, previously structured with multiple choice questions in order to know the profile of the interviewed using the following variables: gender, age, education, marital status and income. The Descriptive analysis were performed to verify the perception of residents in the city according to the related variables to solid wastes. The relationship between socioeconomics variables and environmental performance related to solids wastes from residents of Coremas were verified by the chi-square test of independence, showing that there was a strong dependency between these variables, suggesting that the educational level, the income and the location of residents influenced in their attitudes and environmental perceptions in that city.</p>

scholarly journals New spatialities of work in the city

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110091
Author(s):  
Darja Reuschke ◽  
Carol Ekinsmyth
Keyword(s):  
Job Quality ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This introduction discusses the objectives and concepts underlying the Special Issue on the new spatialities of work in the city. It highlights the urban impact of both the changing spatiotemporal working patterns and the increased diversity of workspaces that have resulted from post-industrial restructuring, globalisation, labour market flexibilisation and digitisation. Even pre-COVID-19, when the research in this Special Issue was undertaken, this impact on the urban structure and the social fabric of cities was significant, but it had remained underexplored. Here, therefore, we question models of work and commuting that continue to assume the spatially ‘fixed’ workplace, and explore how new understandings of workspace and multi-locality, developed in this Special Issue, can inform future research. This, we argue, is more important than ever as we come to understand the medium- and long-term impacts of pandemic-altered work practices in cities. We further argue that the spatialities of work need to be connected with research on health, job quality and wellbeing in cities – such as, for example, on the risks that COVID-19 has exposed for driving and mobile work.

scholarly journals Keeping the dream alive: the European Court of Justice and the transnational fabric of integrationist jurisprudence

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Vauchez
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
European Court Of Justice ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Political Realm

How does the European Court of Justice (ECJ) firmly maintain a now 45-year-old consistent integrationist jurisprudence when exerting virtually no control over the recruitment of its members (a selection left to national governments)? Rather than considering such judicial consistency over time as a ‘given’, the paper questions the social fabric of judicial preferences. On the basis of a variety of commemorative materials produced within the Court (Festschriften, tributes, eulogies, and jubilees) and never studied so far, the paper stresses the manner in which these rituals are home to social processes of aggregation (into one unique judicial family), demarcation (from the political realm), and self-identification (to roles of so-called ‘founding father’, ‘current spokesmen’, or ‘would-be judges’), thereby enabling transnational role transmission within international courts such as the ECJ.

Local congregations: Engaging neighbors of other faiths

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
A. Roy Medley
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
The City ◽  
Christian Congregations

When I was growing up in rural north Georgia in the 1950s and 60s, religious diversity meant there might be a Pentecostal church tucked in among the Baptist and Methodist churches. Today, congregations typically do not live in communities in which religious diversity is so narrowly experienced. Diversity no longer even signals that there are Protestant, Pentecostal, Catholic, and Jewish houses of worship present. The increase in the scope of diversity in almost every community means there are representatives of various non-Abrahamic religions present as well. Members of these different faith expressions live together in community, send their children to the same public schools, participate in local civic events, and serve one another as physicians, pharmacists, teachers, restauranteurs, hoteliers, and retailers. In short, people of diverse religions live, work, and worship in close proximity. How, then, do they form community in which the social fabric of the city, county, or state in which they live, and ultimately that of the nation, is strengthened by a commitment to the common good that secures for all the blessings of security, peace, and justice? In this multi-religious context, how are Christian congregations enhancing rather than hindering the building of community in diversity?

scholarly journals Social Integration in the "New" Berlin

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Silver
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Fiscal Crisis ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnic Intermarriage ◽  
The City ◽  
Immigrant Neighborhoods ◽  
East West

Despite its highly visible physical reunification, Berlin has social fault lines that seriously challenge the city?s integration. This article reviews the multiple cleavages that crisscross Berlin?s social fabric and assesses whether and how these divides are being bridged. East-West, neighborhood, religious, national/ethnic, and socioeconomic fractures remain wide. Even the social construction of the city?s history and the embedding of collective memory in the built environment are occasions for division. Hopeful signs of increasing social integration, however, are found in the new memorials, creative multicultural forms, vibrant and diverse immigrant neighborhoods, ethnic intermarriage, and other indicators. Under conditions of severe fiscal crisis, policies such as housing renovation, the Social City Program, local nonprofit labor market initiatives, and expanded language instruction are among the deliberate attempts to promote social integration in the "New" Berlin.

An emerging art world: The de-subculturalization and artification process of graffiti and pixação in São Paulo

2021 ◽  
pp. 136787792110184
Author(s):  
Ricardo Campos ◽  
Gabriela Leal
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Graffiti art and street art have been increasingly described as an artistic movement, with a constant presence in the streets, but also in galleries and museums. In this article we use the term urban art to define this institutionalized category, originating from informal street expressions. In the specific context of the city of São Paulo (Brazil), most of the social actors that make up this art world have backgrounds linked to graffiti and pixação. These two urban subcultures are linked to informal forms of appropriation of the urban space through illicit inscriptions. In this article, we aim, on the one hand, to describe the features and singularities of urban art as an emerging art world and, on the other, to understand how careers are developed in this universe. The empirical data derives from a qualitative research (in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation) developed during the past three years.

scholarly journals Planning and Financing Services in the City Through Land Value Capture Instruments the Case of Tirana New Bazar

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 360
Author(s):  
Anila BEJKO (GJIKA) ◽  
Vezir MUHARREMAJ ◽  
Laura GABRIELLI
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Land Value ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Urban Services ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Objective: This paper comes as a contribution to the discussion happening in Albania related to limited funding sources for providing urban services, especially at the city level. It aims to bring some ideas on how to finance the new services that the Albanian cities need outside general budgets, or avoiding the accumulation of additional debt for local governments (LGs). Methodology: The approach suggested in the paper is to first identify the beneficiaries of any proposed improvement in providing both facilities and services, and then explore methods, which can involve the direct beneficiaries paying for their part of the benefits. The paper focuses on analyzing and reflecting upon the experience of the Municipality of Tirana for building up/refurbishing the city new bazar, and uses this as a case study to discuss on potential financing of facilities and urban services through land value capture gains, and relevant social implications in the Albanian society. Results: A value based property tax should be introduced first in Albania, not only as the instrument that can guarantee real local autonomy, but also as a precondition for applying other land value capture instruments. To mention some of the most applied ones that could also be explored in the broad Albanian context: betterment charges/fees; tax on the increment on the value of land; inclusionary housing, land assembling and land readjusting, and tradable development rights. For all of them, a substantial revision in the fiscal/public finances legislation is needed in Albania, given the fact that the relevant planning and development of territory legislation has already introduced such instruments. But above all, and what is most important, the social implications of the proposed instruments should be further researched and addressed through appropriate regulations and processes. Conclusion: Through this paper I try to demonstrate the implications of planning and financing services in the cities through land value capture instruments in the context of Albanian cities and society. Being that investments on urban services and facilities are accompanied by increases in land value, it has the features for recovering the capital costs of urban investment, by capturing some or all of the “unearned” increment in land value resulting from the investment. To accomplish this, ‘novel’ financing mechanisms should be used – such as land value capture instruments (betterment fees, special taxes, development agreements, etc.), but their implications in terms of improving the social fabric in the cities should be considered.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Level of Local Participation in Planning and Management of the Planned Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge Biosphere Reserve in Austria

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9685
Author(s):  
Michael Huber ◽  
Arne Arnberger
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Reserve Management ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
High Willingness

The participation of the local population in the planning and management of biosphere reserves is one of the preconditions for success. While numerous studies underpin its importance, few studies have addressed to what extent participation is desired by local residents and which factors determine the level of participation. A postal survey among local residents (n = 449) explored factors influencing their willingness to participate in the planning and management of the Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge Biosphere Reserve in Austria before it was officially recognised by UNESCO. By applying the “Theory of Planned Behaviour”, the study found a high willingness to be involved among the local population, but a considerable variance as to what extent. Regression models showed a strong influence of perceived behavioural control and the social environment, whereas the factors identified in previous studies were less relevant. The results show that the readiness to become active seems to be higher than expected by local bodies and more linked to the design of the participatory process or other barriers. The results support the biosphere reserve management in developing appropriate participatory approaches to maximise satisfaction with participation and management success.

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