scholarly journals Community Perception and Communication of Volcanic Risk from the Cotopaxi Volcano in Latacunga, Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1714
Author(s):  
Juan Camilo Gomez-Zapata ◽  
Cristhian Parrado ◽  
Theresa Frimberger ◽  
Fernando Barragán-Ochoa ◽  
Fabio Brill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Volcanic Risk ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Community Perception ◽  
Exposed Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cotopaxi Volcano ◽  
Hazard Scenario

The inhabitants of Latacunga living in the surrounding of the Cotopaxi volcano (Ecuador) are exposed to several hazards and related disasters. After the last 2015 volcanic eruption, it became evident once again how important it is for the exposed population to understand their own social, physical, and systemic vulnerability. Effective risk communication is essential before the occurrence of a volcanic crisis. This study integrates quantitative risk and semi-quantitative social risk perceptions, aiming for risk-informed communities. We present the use of the RIESGOS demonstrator for interactive exploration and visualisation of risk scenarios. The development of this demonstrator through an iterative process with the local experts and potential end-users increases both the quality of the technical tool as well as its practical applicability. Moreover, the community risk perception in a focused area was investigated through online and field surveys. Geo-located interviews are used to map the social perception of volcanic risk factors. Scenario-based outcomes from quantitative risk assessment obtained by the RIESGOS demonstrator are compared with the semi-quantitative risk perceptions. We have found that further efforts are required to provide the exposed communities with a better understanding of the concepts of hazard scenario and intensity.

The collective risk management of solo self-employed workers in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-277
Author(s):  
Silvia Rossetti ◽  
Susanne Heeger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Risk Management Framework ◽  
Collective Risk ◽  
The Social ◽  
Income Insecurity

The growth of solo self-employed workers in the Netherlands (zzp’ers) has not yet triggered a debate on how to combine their income security and business autonomy. The extent to which the social protection system and interest groups promote zzp’ers to take up collective arrangements mitigating income insecurity due to work incapacity and preventing income insecurity due to poor employability is investigated using the social risk management framework. Correcting economic obstacles and irrational risk perceptions, collective arrangements are found to encourage the take-up of work incapacity insurance and training among zzp’ers.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL PROJECTS IMPLEMENTATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOCIAL RISKS SPREAD

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Tetiana PYSMENNA ◽  
Nadiya LUBKEY
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
The Social

Introduction. The relevance of the research topic is justified by the fact that the application of the latest approaches to the management of social risks that accompany the development of society is becoming quite an urgent matter. Both the development and implementation of social projects make it possible to reduce the likelihood of negative consequences of social problems. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical and applied foundations of the functioning of social projects through various sources of funding in the context of the spread of risky social circumstances. Methods. Among the various scientific research methods applied in the paper are analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, observation and comparison. Results. Several scientific approaches of domestic scientists to the essence of social risk have been analyzed. Among them is the approach that puts into the essence of this concept a socially significant circumstance of an objective nature, in the event of which citizens are becoming unable to support themselves and need additional material protection from the state. In the studied definitions of the social project such component as the purpose of its realiza­tion is defined. Social development projects are aimed at implementing social change, such as poverty reduction, improving welfare, building elements of civil society, and so on. The paper supports scientific and expert opinion stating that while developing and imple­menting social projects it is important to justify their feasibility on a number of indicators. Among them are the social effect, which reflects the degree of satisfaction of the population with the quality of life, and social efficiency, which indicates an improvement in the quality of life of people as a result of social investment activities. Different types of social projects are identified depending on what kinds of resources are used to finance them. The domestic practice of implementation of social projects with financial participation of international financial organizations is analyzed. Conclusions. According to the results of the research, it is concluded that, firstly, social risks have become widespread today, secondly, social projects are being developed to reduce their negative impact on society, and thirdly, financial resources from various sources are in­volved for their implementation. Prospects for further research in substantiating applied aspects of the functioning of social projects at the expense of various kinds of financial resources in Ukraine are outlined.

scholarly journals Integrating hazard, exposure, vulnerability and resilience for risk and emergency management in a volcanic context: the ADVISE model

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Costanza Bonadonna ◽  
Corine Frischknecht ◽  
Scira Menoni ◽  
Franco Romerio ◽  
Chris E. Gregg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Quantitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Volcanic Risk ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Hazard Exposure ◽  
Exposed Population ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Available Information

AbstractRisk assessments in volcanic contexts are complicated by the multi-hazard nature of both unrest and eruption phases, which frequently occur over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. As an attempt to capture the multi-dimensional and dynamic nature of volcanic risk, we developed an integrAteD VolcanIc risk asSEssment (ADVISE) model that focuses on two temporal dimensions that authorities have to address in a volcanic context: short-term emergency management and long-term risk management. The output of risk assessment in the ADVISE model is expressed in terms of potential physical, functional, and systemic damage, determined by combining the available information on hazard, exposed systems and vulnerability. The ADVISE model permits qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative risk assessment depending on the final objective and on the available information. The proposed approach has evolved over a decade of study on the volcanic island of Vulcano (Italy), where recent signs of unrest combined with uncontrolled urban development and significant seasonal variations of exposed population result in highly dynamic volcanic risk. For the sake of illustration of all the steps of the ADVISE model, we focus here on the risk assessment of the transport system in relation to the tephra fallout associated with a long-lasting Vulcanian cycle.

scholarly journals DIMENSIONS OF THE SOCIAL RISK IN THE CONTEMPORARY ECONOMY

2008 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Marcela Danu
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
The Social

The role of risk and its implications in the societal life causes the systemic approach in the triad consumer - firm - environment. One of the types of risk that the company always supported but in periods of crisis, a known multiplied size and gravities, is the social risk. This paper highlights, mainly, two types of social risk faced by the demand, supply, the economic system exponents, as a whole, respectively the risk of poverty and social risk to the organization. The conditioning and the interdependencies of them are generated and maintained by the state of development of national economy, the quality of the business environment.

Epistemic and relational conflicts in sharing identical vs. complementary information during cooperative learning

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Céline Darnon ◽  
Céline Buchs ◽  
Fabrizio Butera
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Complementary Information ◽  
Relational Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

When interacting on a learning task, which is typical of several academic situations, individuals may experience two different motives: Understanding the problem, or showing their competences. When a conflict (confrontation of divergent propositions) emerges from this interaction, it can be solved either in an epistemic way (focused on the task) or in a relational way (focused on the social comparison of competences). The latter is believed to be detrimental for learning. Moreover, research on cooperative learning shows that when they share identical information, partners are led to compare to each other, and are less encouraged to cooperate than when they share complementary information. An epistemic vs. relational conflict vs. no conflict was provoked in dyads composed by a participant and a confederate, working either on identical or on complementary information (N = 122). Results showed that, if relational and epistemic conflicts both entailed more perceived interactions and divergence than the control group, only relational conflict entailed more perceived comparison activities and a less positive relationship than the control group. Epistemic conflict resulted in a more positive perceived relationship than the control group. As far as performance is concerned, relational conflict led to a worse learning than epistemic conflict, and - after a delay - than the control group. An interaction between the two variables on delayed performance showed that epistemic and relational conflicts were different only when working with complementary information. This study shows the importance of the quality of relationship when sharing information during cooperative learning, a crucial factor to be taken into account when planning educational settings at the university.

A Futures Study on the Quality Of Life from the Point Of View of Iranian Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sina Saeedy ◽  
Mojtaba Amiri ◽  
Mohammad Mahdi Zolfagharzadeh ◽  
Mohammad Rahim Eyvazi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Quality of life and satisfaction with life as tightly interconnected concepts have become of much importance in the urbanism era. No doubt, it is one of the most important goals of every human society to enhance a citizen’s quality of life and to increase their satisfaction with life. However, there are many signs which demonstrate the low level of life satisfaction of Iranian citizens especially among the youth. Thus, considering the temporal concept of life satisfaction, this research aims to make a futures study in this field. Therefore, using a mixed model and employing research methods from futures studies, life satisfaction among the students of the University of Tehran were measured and their views on this subject investigated. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analysed together in order to test the hypotheses and to address the research questions on the youth discontentment with quality of life. Findings showed that the level of life satisfaction among students is relatively low and their image of the future is not positive and not optimistic. These views were elicited and discussed in the social, economic, political, environmental and technological perspectives. Keywords:  futures studies, quality of life, satisfaction with life, youth

Shall I trust you? From child human-robot interaction to trusting relationships

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinzia Di Dio ◽  
Federico Manzi ◽  
Giulia Peretti ◽  
Angelo Cangelosi ◽  
Paul L. Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Cognitive Correlates ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Studying trust within human-robot interaction is of great importance given the social relevance of robotic agents in a variety of contexts. We investigated the acquisition, loss and restoration of trust when preschool and school-age children played with either a human or a humanoid robot in-vivo. The relationship between trust and the quality of attachment relationships, Theory of Mind, and executive function skills was also investigated. No differences were found in children’s trust in the play-partner as a function of agency (human or robot). Nevertheless, 3-years-olds showed a trend toward trusting the human more than the robot, while 7-years-olds displayed the reverse behavioral pattern, thus highlighting the developing interplay between affective and cognitive correlates of trust.

Data analysis of social hygiene monitoring in russian regions determining environmental and hygienic safety for population

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
O. Klepikov ◽  
S. Eprintsev ◽  
S. Shekoyan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Priority Pollutants ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Social Hygiene ◽  
Atmospheric Air ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Federal Center

Data of the Federal Information Fund for Social Hygiene Monitoring conducted on the basis of the Federal Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor have been analyzed to assess environmental risks, as well as to develop environmental safety system as a factor for sustainable development of the territory in the regions of the Russian Federation. Atmospheric air pollution in Russian regions was evaluated by content of priority pollutants. Ranking of Russian regions according to the quality of drinking water supply was carried out. The possibility of using Federal Information Fund for Social Hygiene Monitoring as an integral part of the model for optimizing the social and environmental conditions of populated areas is estimated.

About Using the Complex Method in Studies of the Quality of Life of the Population of the North Ossetia

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
I. M. Loskutova ◽  
N. G. Romanova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Complex Method ◽  
The North ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
North Ossetia

This article is devoted to the application of an integrated approach in the study of the quality of life of the population of the North Ossetia. Aspects of the specifity of objective and subjective approaches are substantiated. The increasing importance of the concept of “quality of life” in the XXI century is indicated. A review of sociological studies of the level and quality of life in Russia, as well as a range of monographic works on the analyzed issues. The results of empirical sociological studies in 2014 and 2018 (a study of the quality and standard of living of the population of North Ossetia and a study of the social wellbeing of the population of North Ossetia using the methodology developed by Lapin N. I. and Belyaeva L. A.) are presented.

Richard Mackenney, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250–c. 1650. Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019, xiii, 471.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 551-552
Author(s):  
Thomas Willard
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Italian Studies ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University

Shakespeare is well known to have set two of his plays in and around Venice: The Merchant of Venice (1596) and The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603). The first is often remembered for its famous speech about “the quality of mercy,” delivered by the female lead Portia in the disguise of a legal scholar from the university town of Padua. The speech helps to spare the life of her new husband’s friend and financial backer against the claims of the Jewish moneylender Shylock. The play has raised questions for Shakespearean scholars about the choice of Venice as an open city where merchants of all nations and faiths would meet on the Rialto while the city’s Senate, composed of leading merchants, worked hard to keep it open to all and especially profitable for its merchants. Those who would like to learn more about the city’s development as a center of trade can learn much from Richard Mackenney’s new book.

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