scholarly journals Ecosystem Service Commodification: Lessons from California

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa Bongiovanni Schmitz ◽  
Erin Clover Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Program Design ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Design Options ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Civic Environmentalism

In 2013 the state of California launched a cap-and-trade program with a groundbreaking protocol for improved forest management (IFM), providing a framework to monetize carbon sequestration in managed forests. Through in-depth interviews and document review, this research examines California's IFM program development as a case study in stakeholder-engaged ecosystem commodification. We consider how diverse, vested-interest actors contested rival program design options by using the familiar narratives of ecological modernization, green governmentality, and civic environmentalism. The results reveal the benefits and complexities of delegating methodological design to stakeholders who seek direct participation in the market, and highlight the challenges of balancing multiple program objectives, including environmental benefits, legitimacy and market reception, and landowner participation potential. This research provides a unique window into the complex process of forest-offset program design and offers broader lessons for ecosystem markets currently being designed and implemented globally.

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 

scholarly journals From ‘feminisation’ to ‘feministisation’ in Galician Nationalism: the case study of women in the Bloque Nacionalista Galego

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cora González otero
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Western Spain ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews

Given the current wave of nationalisms in Spain, this research project aims to explore the connection between nationalism and women in Galicia, a nation in north-western Spain. Through Lovenduski’s framework of ‘feminising politics‘, and Dean and Maiguashca’s ‘feministisation’ analytical criteria, this qualitative study seeks to identify the process of ‘feministisation’ that has been taken place in Galician nationalism, the role of women activists in this process and the obstacles encountered; ultimately assessing this ‘feministisation’ as a strategy to find a path towards reconciliation.Based on the experiences of women activists collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews, the study has identified that the alliance of feminism and nationalism has allowed international and local networks to be interwoven, and it has also positioned feminist values and gender analysis at the core of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), one of the institutional organisations within Galician nationalism. Additionally, it has defined ‘feministisation’ as a complex process where the wide context of an internal crisis, the years of collective work by feminist groups and individuals, and the current hegemonic acceptance of feminism in Galician society have played their part. The study concludes that there is substantial evidence to identify a process of feministisation that is taking place within the Galician Nationalist Bloc and that the characteristics and values of this process could become a strategy to forge a path towards a more tolerant and internationalist reconciliation.

scholarly journals “Hunger Would Kill us Instead of the Pandemic:” Elders’ Responses to COVID-19 in Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 735-735
Author(s):  
Messay Kotecho ◽  
Margaret Adamek ◽  
Anduamlak Takele
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Global South ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Emergency Fund ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unpredictable challenges globally. Urban elders in Global South nations are among the major population groups vulnerable to COVID-19. A qualitative case study design was used to uncover the challenges and sources of support for poor urban elders during COVID-19 lockdown in Ethiopia. Data were collected from 27 elders age 60 and above in Debre Markos Town via in-depth interviews and document review. Narrative data were analyzed using thematic data analysis. Four prominent themes were identified: 1. Food insecurity (“Hunger would kill us instead of COVID-19”), 2. Hopelessness (“Feeling hopeless and begging to die”), 3. Social isolation (“We prefer social support rather than food donations”) and 4. Gratitude (“Feeling thankful”). The physical distancing program introduced to contain the pandemic isolated many elders and diminished their capacity to access support from others needed to perform their daily activities. An institutional welfare system is needed to ensure older adults in the Global South can live a joyful and dignified life, even through a global pandemic. Moreover, a special emergency fund to meet older adults’ basic needs during a pandemic like COVID-19 should be introduced to minimize the effect of crises on vulnerable groups like destitute older adults in Ethiopia.

scholarly journals IMPACTOS DOS AVANÇOS TECNOLÓGICOS NO TELEJORNALISMO REGIONAL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DA TV FRONTEIRA ANALÓGICA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Matheus Honório da Silva ◽  
Thaisa Sallum Bacco ◽  
Clara Dias Nascimento ◽  
Ingrid Ferreira Tomimitsu ◽  
Letícia Vieira de Araújo Prieto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research had as the main goal to identify and analyze the practices of the audiovisual language of TV Fronteira’s regional telejournalism, during the analogical system from 1994 to 1997. The contribution proposal was the preservation of historical televiosio memory of Presidente Prudente. As metodology, it was used the qualitative research of the exploratory type and the method chosen was the case study. To make the data collection, some techniques were adopted as: bibliographic research, research and document review and in-depth interviews. The collected data were triangulated and, then, it was possible to identify, analyze and trace an overview about the production, filming, reporting and edition of the regional telejournalism content production during the analogical period.

GOAL-SETTING IN DGCE: A CASE STUDY OF XXX CUSTOMS OFFICE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimas Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Management System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Performance Management System ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Goal Characteristics ◽  
Depth Interviews

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate goal-setting characteristics in the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DGCE) using the XXX Customs Office as a sample. Document review related to Performance Management System (PMS) was examined, and in-depth interviews with employees in-charge are conducted for data collection. The result showed that goal-setting in DGCE partially had met quality goal characteristics in a way that the goals are specific and unambiguous. However, they are not challenging. Regarding participation, goals are mostly self-set at the staff level while they are more assigned at the supervisor level. From the employee perspective, goal-setting is sufficient to help them focus their effort and also set the work standard. This study also found that performance-related feedback is provided informally or maybe worse, it was neglected. This study provides an initial understanding of goal-setting practice in DGCE for further system development. One implication is to increase the number of mandatory KPIs for staff level.Keywords: Performance Management System, Goal-setting, Public sector, Indonesian Customs.ABSTRAK: Studi ini bertujuan untuk meneliti karakteristik sasaran kerja pegawai (SKP) atau indikator kinerja utama (IKU) pada Direktorat Jenderal Bea dan Cukai (DJBC) dengan sampel KPPBC XXX. Analisis terhadap dokumen terkait pengelolaan kinerja dan wawancara terhadap para pegawai yang bertanggung jawab atau mengetahui proses pengelolaan kinerja yang dilakukan. Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa sasaran kinerja pegawai telah memenuhi kriteria, yaitu jelas dan tidak ambigu. Namun, SKP dan IKU masih kurang menantang. Terkait partisipasi, sasaran kinerja kebanyakan ditetapkan oleh masing-masing pegawai pada level pelaksana dan lebih banyak yang ditetapkan oleh organisasi pada level pengawas. Dari perpektif pegawai, penetapan SKP atau IKU telah efektif dalam hal membantu pegawai untuk fokus terhadap tujuan organisasi disamping memberikan standar atas penyelesaian pekerjaan. Terkait umpan balik diberikan secara informal atau malah lebih buruk, tidak diberikan sama sekali oleh atasan. Studi ini memberikan pemahaman pendahuluan atas proses penetapan sasaran kinerja di DJBC sebagai landasan dalam perbaikan sistem pengelolaan kinerja. Memperbanyak jumlah IKU mandatory bagi staf menjadi salah satu implikasi.Kata Kunci: Sistem Pengelolaan Kinerja, Penetapan Sasaran Kinerja, Sektor Publik, Bea Cukai. 

Technoethical Inquiry into Ethical Hacking at a Canadian University

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baha Abu-Shaqra ◽  
Rocci Luppicini
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Academic Organizations ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Information Assets ◽  
Security Awareness Training ◽  
Security Risk Management ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Depth Interviews

Business and academic organizations are in a constant pursuit of efficient and ethical technologies and practices to safeguard their information assets from the growing threat of hackers. Ethical hacking is one important information security risk management strategy they use. Most published books on ethical hacking have focused on its technical applications in risk assessment practices. This paper addressed a scarcity within the organizational communication literature on ethical hacking. Taking a qualitative exploratory case study approach, the authors explored ethical hacking implementation within a Canadian university as the case study in focus, applying technoethical inquiry theory paired with Karl Weick's sensemaking model as a theoretical framework. In-depth interviews with key stakeholder groups and a document review were conducted. Findings pointed to the need to expand the communicative and sociocultural considerations involved in decision making about ethical hacking organizational practices, and to security awareness training to leverage sensemaking opportunities and reduce equivocality.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Construction of Large Reservoirs on the Cultural Landscape: A Case Study of the Shimen Reservoir, Taiwan

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1161
Author(s):  
Li-Yu Chen ◽  
Wen-Zhe Hsieh ◽  
Rung-Jiun Chou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Reservoir Construction ◽  
New Community ◽  
Document Review ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Reservoirs are large-scale water facilities with multiple functions, such as water supply, power generation, and tourism. This paper introduces the new community and cultural landscape formed by the indigenous people, engineers, workers who left their homes, and many migrating families at the Shimen Reservoir in Taoyuan, Taiwan, as an example. We analyzed how the community value of reservoir construction contributed to the development of the landscape through fieldwork, document review, and in-depth interviews. First, the new communities created to meet the needs of the immigrants influenced the surrounding environment and shaped a particular lifestyle. Secondly, new immigrants have formed a community consensus, and changes in the diet and natural landscape have promoted local tourism and affected the function of the reservoir. This study concludes that promoting local values through autonomous community action is a sustainable approach to community development. Tourism development with its symbiotic relationship with the reservoir can meet the needs of local socio-economic and cultural development. For sustainable development, a vulnerability study based on the Shimen Reservoir tourism is necessary.

Efektivitas Layanan Darurat Jakarta Siaga 112 dalam Penanganan Kebakaran oleh UPT. Pusat Data & Informasi Kebencanaan BPBD Provinsi DKI Jakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Musa Musa
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Service ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Center ◽  
Disaster Data ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Document Review

This research was conducted to determine the Effectiveness of Jakarta Siaga 112 Emergency Services in Fire Management by UPT. Disaster Data & Information Center of BPBD DKI Jakarta Province by paying attention to aspects contained in the Effectiveness of the Jakarta Siaga Emergency Service Program 112. The research method was carried out with a case study method with data collection techniques using interview methods and document review. Interviews were conducted on 10 (ten) key informants, document review focused on documents related to the Jakarta Emergency Alert Service 112 Effectiveness research in Fire Management. The results showed that the Effectiveness of Jakarta Siaga 112 Emergency Services in Fire Management by UPT. The Center for Disaster Data & Information BPBD DKI Jakarta Province Its effectiveness is still low, due to the Implementation of Emergency Services Jakarta Standby 112 in Fire Management implemented by UPT. Disaster Data & Information Center of BPBD DKI Jakarta Province in terms of the Target Group Understanding of the Program, the Achievement of the Program Objectives aspects, and the Program Follow-up aspects. It is recommended to continue to disseminate this Emergency Service to the public, it is necessary to increase the firm commitment of the Head of 8 SKPD related to fire management so that all units play a role in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Fire Management and the evaluation and follow-up of program services that are held periodically 3 once a month.Keywords: Effectiveness, Emergency Services, Fire Handling

Motivating Growth in Low-tech Manufacturing Industries

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi HERTZ
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Footwear Industry ◽  
Technological Platform ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Depth Interviews

Intensive manual labor enterprises in the developed world face challenges competing with products imported from countries where manufacturing costs are low. This reduces the volume of domestic production and leads to rapid loss of knowledge and experience in production processes. This study focuses on the Israeli footwear industry as a case study. Qualitative methodologies were applied, including in-depth interviews and field observations. A literature review on previous research, and contemporary trends was conducted. The field research examines challenges along the value chain in small factories. It finds that mass production paradigms impose a decentralized process between designers and manufacturers and therefore do not leverage local potential into a sustainable competitive advantage for small factories. The proposed solution is a digital and technological platform for small manufacturing plants. The platform mediates and designs the connections between production, technology, and design and enables the creation of a joint R&D system.

Removing Self-stigma: The Successes of People with Schizophrenia in Removing Self-stigma Through Self-control

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franciscus Adi Prasetyo ◽  
Jajang Gunawijaya
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Study Quality ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

Self-stigma experienced by people who experience schizophrenia has influence on reduced self-esteem, on powerlessness, the weakening of hope, and a motivation towards recovery. The aim of this study is to explain the efforts of people suffering schizophrenia to manage their self-stigma through self-control, using a case study approach. Based on the purposive sampling technique, five people with schizophrenia were selected as the cases to be studied. Data collection techniques utilized in-depth interviews, observation, and documentary studies. The analysis of the study data employed the stages of data reduction, data display, and data verification. Improvement in study quality employed the triangulation of data sources by checking the data to determine its consistency. The results of this study indicate that people with schizophrenia who have the ability to self-control can overcome self-stigma through changes in the manner of viewing themselves, self-training through activities, having endurance, having an honest approach, being able to explain schizophrenia from a positive viewpoint, having initiative, and having a positive attitude and the courage to face challenges.

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