The role of the Australian Coastcare program in community-based coastal management: a case study from South Australia

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 161-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Harvey ◽  
Beverley D Clarke ◽  
Patricia Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Management ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals Additional Benefits of Community Managed Forest: A Case Study of Champadevi Community Forest

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 127-132
Author(s):  
Bhanu B Panthi
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Managed Forest ◽  
Community Based

This research attempts to identify the existing condition of the community managed forest based on the assumption that it will serve as a proxy for the condition of other forests in the mid hills region of Nepal. The research area has an atypical variation in altitude and diverse pattern of vegetation. This study mainly focuses on estimating carbon content in the forest and identifying the species that has more carbon storage capacity. The research signifies the role of forests in mitigation of ‘Global warming’ and ‘Climate change’ by storing carbon in tree biomass. These types of community based forest management programs are significant for their additional carbon sequestration through the avoidance of deforestation and degradation. The carbon sequestration have a significant contribution to environmental benefits, any shrinkage of forests have an enormous impact on CO2 emission with long term consequences. Thus, the development and expansion of community managed forests provide many benefits to the adjacent community and globally at large.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njst.v12i0.6490 Nepal Journal of Science and Technology 12 (2011) 127-32 

Crossing the Digital Divide in a Women's Community ICT Centre

2008 ◽  
pp. 904-910
Author(s):  
Clem Herman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the role of community-based training initiatives in enabling women to cross the so-called digital divide and become confident users of ICTs. Drawing on a case study of the Women’s Electronic Village Hall (WEVH) in Manchester, United Kingdom, one of the first such initiatives in Europe offering both skills training and Internet access to women, the article will illustrate the impact that community-based initiatives can have in challenging and changing prevailing gendered attitudes toward technology. Gendered constructions of technology in dominant discourse suggest that women must also cross an internal digital divide, involving a change in attitude and self–identification, before they can see themselves as technically competent. Learning about technology is intimately linked to learning about gender, and the performance of skills and tasks that are culturally identified as masculine can be an empowering step for women, successfully challenging preconceived gendered relationships with technology. The WEVH occupied a unique position, acting as a model for other women’s ICT initiatives and influencing the development and proliferation of other community-based ICT access projects. There were two main motivating forces behind its setting up in 1992. The first was a shared vision of the potential for ICTs to be used as a tool to combat social exclusion. The second was a feminist commitment to redressing the inequalities and underrepresentation of women in computing. Both these perspectives formed an important backdrop to the growth and development of the organisation and have continued to inform its strategic plans.

Crossing the Digital Divide in a Women's Community ICT Centre

2008 ◽  
pp. 2151-2158
Author(s):  
Clem Herman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the role of community-based training initiatives in enabling women to cross the so-called digital divide and become confident users of ICTs. Drawing on a case study of the Women’s Electronic Village Hall (WEVH) in Manchester, United Kingdom, one of the first such initiatives in Europe offering both skills training and Internet access to women, the article will illustrate the impact that community-based initiatives can have in challenging and changing prevailing gendered attitudes toward technology. Gendered constructions of technology in dominant discourse suggest that women must also cross an internal digital divide, involving a change in attitude and self–identification, before they can see themselves as technically competent. Learning about technology is intimately linked to learning about gender, and the performance of skills and tasks that are culturally identified as masculine can be an empowering step for women, successfully challenging preconceived gendered relationships with technology. The WEVH occupied a unique position, acting as a model for other women’s ICT initiatives and influencing the development and proliferation of other community-based ICT access projects. There were two main motivating forces behind its setting up in 1992. The first was a shared vision of the potential for ICTs to be used as a tool to combat social exclusion. The second was a feminist commitment to redressing the inequalities and underrepresentation of women in computing. Both these perspectives formed an important backdrop to the growth and development of the organisation and have continued to inform its strategic plans.

scholarly journals Antiviral Marketing: The Informationalization of HIV Prevention

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret MacAulay
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Virus De L’Immunodéficience Humaine

Background Leveraging the affordances of technology to enhance human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention efforts has become an increasing public health priority. Grounded in a case study examining the role of networked information technologies in reshaping the HIV prevention landscape for gay men in San Francisco and Vancouver, this article proposes that HIV prevention has become informationalized. Analysis  The informationalization of HIV prevention is a convergent and participatory process where networked information technologies not only mediate but also produce HIV risk subjectivities, discourses, and practices in ambivalent ways.Conclusion and implications  This article argues that although informationalization creates many important opportunities to revitalize HIV prevention, the binary logic of data and code can unwittingly reproduce hierarchies of guilt/innocence and perpetrator/victim that pose challenges for community-based HIV advocacy efforts.Contexte  L’utilisation des dernières technologies pour contrer le virus de l’immunodéficience humaine (VIH) est devenue de plus en plus prioritaire en santé publique. Cet article se fonde sur une étude de cas portant sur comment les technologies de l’information en réseau ont modifié la prévention du VIH parmi les hommes gais à San Francisco et Vancouver. L’étude suggère que dans ces circonstances la prévention du VIH est devenue informationnalisée. Analyse  Cette informationnalisation est un processus convergent et participatif où les réseaux informationnels ne font pas que transmettre les subjectivités, pratiques et discours relatifs au risque du VIH mais aussi produisent ceux-ci de manières ambivalentes.Conclusions et implications  Cet article soutient que, bien que l’informationnalisation crée de nombreuses occasions pour améliorer la prévention du VIH, la logique binaire de « données » et « codes » peut par inadvertance reproduire certaines hiérarchies (culpabilité/innocence, agresseur/victime) qui entravent les efforts de la communauté pour prévenir le VIH.

The Role of Community-Based Scientific Resources in Developing Scientific Talent: A Case Study

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Van Tassel-Baska ◽  
Marilyn J. Kulieke
Keyword(s):  
Community Based ◽  
Scientific Talent

Devolution, not decarceration: The limits of juvenile justice reform in Texas

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 578-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Cate
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Based ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Usa ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Control

Across the USA, a number of states have been reducing the number of juveniles sent to state-run corrections institutions. Findings from a case study on juvenile justice in Texas indicate that the effort to reduce the number of juveniles sent to large state institutions and to invest in “community-based corrections” has entrenched rather than challenged the role of the justice system in the lives of thousands of juveniles. Texas has cut the number of juveniles sent to state-run facilities, but has bolstered and expanded county probation and county detention, which is where the vast majority of juveniles have always been handled. Youth who continue to be sent to state-run facilities or who are housed in county-run institutions experience a high level of violence and are routinely subjected to solitary confinement. The popularity of deinstitutionalizing juveniles from state-run corrections institutions and increasing programming and control of offenders at the local level are animating the landscape of criminal justice policy across the country. The Texas case suggests that this narrow approach further consolidates the extensive role of the justice system in U.S. society.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) DALAM MEWUJUDKAN PARIWISATA BERBASIS MASYARAKAT BERKELANJUTAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ni Wayan Juniari ◽  
Luh Putu Mahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Corporate Social

Peningkatan kunjungan wisatawan ke suatu destinasi wisata selain membawa manfaat positif juga meninggalkan dampak negatif. Peran manajer sangat signifikan untuk memastikan operasional perusahaan pengelola destinasi wisata dapat mendukung perekonomian masyarakat lokal dan tidak merusak lingkungan, sehingga terwujud praktik bisnis berkelanjutan. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengeksplorasi bagaimana corporate social responsibility (CSR) dipraktikkan untuk dapat mewujudkan pariwisata berbasis masyarakat berkelanjutan. Untuk mencapai tujuan penelitian, penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus dilakukan di kawasan wisata Monkey Forest Ubud, Gianyar, Bali. Berlandaskan pada konsep CSR dan pariwisata berbasis masyarakat, data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara kemudian dianalisis secara kualitatif dengan bantuan software NVivo12. Penelitian ini mengindikasikan bahwa Monkey Forest Ubud mengimplementasikan berbagai bentuk CSR yang memungkinkan masyarakat lokal berpartisipasi penuh dalam operasional kawasan wisata dan memperoleh manfaatnya secara langsung. Penelitian ini memberikan inspirasi mengenai bagaimana suatu destinasi/kawasan wisata dapat mengimplementasikan CSR untuk memastikan terwujudnya bisnis berkelanjutan dan pada saat bersamaan berkontribusi bagi pengembangan pariwisata berbasis masyarakat berkelanjutan.   Increasing tourist arrivals in a touristic area, besides bringing positive impacts also leaving negative footprints. The role of managers is significant to ensure that the business operational supports the local community and preserve the environment, so as sustainable business can be attained. This study aims at exploring how corporate social responsibility (CSR) is practiced to develop sustainable community-based tourism. To address the research objective, a qualitative case study was conducted at Ubud Monkey Forest, Gianyar, Bali. Guided by the concept of CSR and community-based tourism, data was collected through interviews and analyzed qualitatively with the help of NVivo12 software. This research indicates that Ubud Monkey Forest implements various CSR activities that allow the local community to participate in the operational of the forest and obtain the benefits from the operational. This research exemplifies how a tourist destination could implement CSR to ensure business sustainability and at the same time contribute to the development of sustainable community-based tourism.

Conditions and Consequences of ELULU Improvement: Environmental Justice Lessons from San Francisco, CA

2020 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2092940
Author(s):  
Miriam Solis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Neighborhood Relationship ◽  
Locally Unwanted Land Uses

Existing locally unwanted land uses (ELULUs) are disproportionately located in low-income communities of color. As ELULUs fall into disrepair, can planners redevelop them in ways that advance environmental justice and, if so, how? Through a case study of a San Francisco ELULU redevelopment planning process, this article highlights the central role of community-based organizing in generating policy changes that promoted certain environmental justice outcomes. A reconceptualization of the agency-neighborhood relationship was key. Findings also identify the obduracy of infrastructure and directed redress as central planning considerations and tensions.

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