scholarly journals Ecotourism and Natural Resources in Dominica

2016 ◽  
pp. 85-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Sarrasin ◽  
Jonathan Tardif
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Innovative Practice ◽  
New Challenges

Tourism is one of the major outcomes of globalization, which also brings new challenges to local authorities. In this perspective, co-management could be analyzed as an innovative practice in promoting natural resources-oriented tourism. Moreover, it raises the following question: how does power sharing – on which co-management is based – contribute to local development? This question could be answered through a case study using political ecology which could contribute to renew the reading of ecotourism through an innovative analytical framework.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Resilience of Emerging Cities in Times of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9480
Author(s):  
Angela Ivette Grijalba Castro ◽  
Leonardo Juan Ramírez López
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Ecological Footprints ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Meta Analyses

The organization of a territory relies on a group of transformations produced by economic, environmental, and social emergencies, generating disruptions along with history. Furthermore, every new scenario generates a considerable impact, which makes it more difficult to recover from increasing urban ecological footprints. COVID-19-emergence-aware cities face new challenges that will test their resilience. This new outline constitutes a study regarding urban planning from an environmental and resilience perspective within this new pandemic state of emergency. It contains four main topics: emergent cities, natural resources, sustainability, and resilience. The document shows a case study carried out in a Colombian town named Cajicá, where a bibliometric inquiry conducted with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) adjustments was managed, tested on forty-one scientific papers; all the above were verified by VOSviewer software tools. The study reveals the creation and visualization of several keyword networks and relations retrieved from all the selected articles, along with the use of eight additional documents for all relation analyses. Sustainability and resilience are the main findings, supported as a process of functionality within urban planning. Sustainability findings’ results are prioritized, along with resilience analysis processes, which are both frameworks used during the COVID-19 pandemic; they constitute the main argument within this set of changes, building on alterations of lifestyle and behavioral situations within the main cities.

scholarly journals Increasing Landscape Appreciation through the Landscape Services Approach. A Case Study from Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Keller ◽  
Mélanie Clivaz ◽  
Emmanuel Reynard ◽  
Norman Backhaus
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Landscape Services ◽  
National Importance ◽  
Recommendations For Action

Switzerland uses various instruments to protect and maintain its natural resources and the environment. The federal inventory “Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance” documents 19 percent of Switzerland’s land surface. It aims for the permanent preservation or greatest possible protection of these environments. This inventory’s records of impact (knowledge by the population) and acceptance (in particular by local authorities) would benefit from improvements. Based on expert interviews and observations in five pilot regions, this study highlights the obstacles and possible solutions to the goal of increasing appreciation of landscapes of national importance. The study develops recommendations for action for different stakeholders (the federal state, cantons, local authorities, NGOs and associations, economic actors) in three areas: (i) communication, information, and dialogue, (ii) cooperation between stakeholders, and (iii) support from federal and cantonal agencies.

scholarly journals STATE AND TRENDS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOECONOMIC-ORIENTED LIVELIHOOD PRACTICES

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (Suppl.1) ◽  
pp. 442-450
Author(s):  
B. Stoykova ◽  
Y. Yarkova ◽  
N. Markov
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Programming Period

The aim of the present study is to establish the extent to which natural resources are used and how traditional livelihood practices are exercised at a regional level. The object of this study is a region with developed mass tourism - Bansko Municipality. The subject addresses traditional livelihood practices and opportunities for expanding alternative forms of tourism. The revival of traditional livelihood models, which directly corresponds to current trends in bioeconomy, can make alternative forms of tourism an important part of the local development strategies in the forthcoming programming period after 2020, including regions established as mass tourism ones. The study has been conducted by applying the survey method in the municipality of Bansko in the period of February-March 2020 coinciding with the onset of the epidemic situation related to COVID-19 in Bulgaria. Taking into account the results from the survey, it is possible to draw conclusions about the extent to which certain conditions for the development of alternative forms of tourism have been created when facing new challenges.

scholarly journals Applying Storytelling Approach to Analyze Kojima Jeans District Based on Slow Fashion Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13651
Author(s):  
Aki Nagano
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Slow Fashion

This study conducted a case study of Kojima district in Japan, which underwent a rise and fall through the past booms, disruptive innovation, international politics, and changes in government policy. Today, the district has successfully regenerated, and the regeneration is linked to fashion localism. This study aimed to explore how the Kojima district sustained community-based fashion business and analyzed the factors that contributed to its regeneration from the slow fashion viewpoint. This study employed a case study analysis, using the storytelling approach, and established an analytical framework based on keywords derived from slow fashion, namely localism, quality, and value. The results indicate that the strategies of business leadership, improvement in quality, a willingness to address new challenges, success in authenticating strategies, clustering fashion business, path dependency, and maintaining workers and the fashion business community contributed to promoting a series of industrial structural adjustments in Kojima and sustaining the community-based fashion business.

The Political Ecology of Pollution Enforcement in China: A Case from Sichuan's Rural Industrial Sector

2007 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 915-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Tilt
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Competing Values ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
Rural Enterprises

AbstractThis article uses a case study approach to examine the processes and consequences of pollution enforcement in an industrial township in rural Sichuan. China's national pollution emissions standards are relatively strict, but enforcement is the responsibility of some 2,500 Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) within municipal and county governments. EPB officials exercise considerable discretion in prioritizing and carrying out enforcement activities, but exactly what factors influence regulatory behaviour within EPBs is poorly understood. Data for the article are drawn from interviews with EBP officials, township government officials, industrial managers and local residents, as well as a review of township and district financial records and pollution enforcement records. In this case study, EPB enforcement priorities and actions were guided by State Council directives and State Environmental Protection Administration policy, but citizen complaints and media exposure regarding polluting factories also played a key role, and action culminated in the forced closure of township factories. The article uses political ecology as an analytical framework for understanding how pollution enforcement is shaped by the competing values, goals and priorities within the EPB and the administrative unit in which it operates. This is crucial in China, where the decentralized nature of environmental oversight requires an examination of both policy formulation and implementation. The implications of pollution enforcement on rural enterprises for ecological health, fiscal revenue and rural development are also discussed.

The Fight for the West: A Political Ecology of Land Use Conflicts

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette J. Brogden ◽  
James B. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Residential Sprawl

The commoditization of natural resources in a global economic system and the territorialization practices of nation-states present formidable challenges to the sustainable use of natural resources. Likewise, certain environmental problems such as growth management and residential sprawl have proved intractable to our existing political processes. This case study of grazing and growth conflicts in Arizona demonstrates that intractable environmental problems may actually be emergent properties of complex systems, requiring new political approaches that foster collaboration and knowledge sharing between disputing stakeholders. One such collaboration in Arizona revealed that attempts to remove grazing from Arizona landscapes could actually be to the detriment of biodiversity, contrary to the expectations of grazing critics.

scholarly journals Production of the organic cocoa in the amazon: a case study of the amazon organic products cooperative – COPOAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda Vronski ◽  
Silvia Maia Olimpio
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Organic Products ◽  
Agricultural Families

This article aims to show the results and discussions of the exploratory descriptive research carried out by the Cooperative of Organic Products of the Amazon (COPOAM), which is composed of cocoa producers part of agricultural families cooperative located in the Transamazon Highway region, state of Pará. The main purpose of this research is to illustrate the producer’s strategies towards production and marketing of organic products. This work also demonstrates the cooperative's market expansion based on its formalized contracts and sustainable development practices, which can stimulate initiatives that promote the good use of natural resources in the Amazon, as well as participatory management of the territory. Such actions contribute to local development in a needy and anthropized region.

Interrelationships between municipal spatial policy strategy and airport operation and development. Lodz Airport case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Nikorowicz-Zatorska
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Spatial Management ◽  
The One ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Abstract The present paper focuses on spatial management regulations in order to carry out investment in the field of airport facilities. The construction, upgrades, and maintenance of airports falls within the area of responsibility of local authorities. This task poses a great challenge in terms of organisation and finances. On the one hand, an active airport is a municipal landmark and drives local economic, social and cultural development, and on the other, the scale of investment often exceeds the capabilities of local authorities. The immediate environment of the airport determines its final use and prosperity. The objective of the paper is to review legislation that affects airports and the surrounding communities. The process of urban planning in Lodz and surrounding areas will be presented as a background to the problem of land use management in the vicinity of the airport. This paper seeks to address the following questions: if and how airports have affected urban planning in Lodz, does the land use around the airport prevent the development of Lodz Airport, and how has the situation changed over the time? It can be assumed that as a result of lack of experience, land resources and size of investments on one hand and legislative dissonance and peculiar practices on the other, aviation infrastructure in Lodz is designed to meet temporary needs and is characterised by achieving short-term goals. Cyclical problems are solved in an intermittent manner and involve all the municipal resources, so there’s little left to secure long-term investments.

Factors Influencing Customer’s Retail Chain Store Brand Choice Intention: Empirical Study of Circle K Stores in Hanoi

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thu Ha ◽  
Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen
Keyword(s):  
Brand Choice ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Store Brand ◽  
Chain Store ◽  
Retail Chain ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The retail market in Vietnam continues to grow with the entry of foreign retail brands and the strong rise of domestic businesses in expanding distribution networks and conquering consumer confidence. The appearance of more retail brands has created a fiercely competitive market. Based on the outcomes of previous research results on brand choice intention combined with a customer survey, the paper proposes an analytical framework and scales to examine the relationship of five elements including store image, price perception, risk perception, brand attitudes, brand awareness and retail brand choice intention with a case study of the Hanoi-based Circle K convenience store chain. These five elements are the precondition for retail businesses to develop their brands so as to attract customers.

Kelembagaan Masyarakat dan Struktur Agraria serta Keberlanjutan Sumberdaya Alam di Kawasan Capa

Agrotek ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mecky Sagrim
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Group Property ◽  
Young Shoot ◽  
Agrarian Structure

Aim of the research as follows: (1) inquisitive about variation of laws in regulating agrarian resources use, (2) function of traditional law in regulation at used of natural resources and related with existence on natural preservation-in formal law, and (3) inquiring influence outsider intervention to local institutions with the agrarian structure and relationship between expectation agrarian conflict. The unity of the study is Arfak community-as much as local community- was that administrative limited seatle in certain locations around natural preservation area of the Arfak Mountain. The trategy of the research is case study, while analysis of the data with qualitative manner. Result of the research is in the locations study beside property right of local community and movement of Arfak community from high land include at the resettlement programme. Not a problem related with economic subsistence with economic un-security because group property right community give free to the movement community for use to agriculture developing. For developing concept of forest sustainable as nit side to one side, income several NGO as well as role as institution relationship (young-shoot autonomy) for accommodation importance various party supra-village in relationship with existence natural preservation area of the Arfak Mountain and the party of local community in related of security in economic subsistence.

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