This document summarizes a research project on farmers' risk perceptions of climate change. The project aims to assess how UK farmers form perceptions of climate change risks and how those perceptions relate to risk mitigation actions. The researcher conducted a literature review finding little prior research on UK farmers. A conceptual framework was developed using a "cultural-behavioral" theory to understand decision-making. Methods included analyzing climate data and newspaper reports. Next steps are to analyze newspapers using qualitative data software and conduct preliminary interviews with farmers.
The document discusses the problem of global warming caused by increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. It explains that CO2 interferes with the Earth's natural cooling system by trapping infrared radiation, leading the planet to continue warming even if emissions levels stabilize. The only way to stop global warming is to cap CO2 levels by transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy technologies. The presentation provides examples of policy steps and individual actions that can help adopt clean energy solutions and halt the dangerous impacts of climate change.
This document discusses trends in the US economy and agriculture from 1947 to 2006. It shows that while agriculture GDP has increased from $19.9B to $129.7B over this period, its percentage of total US GDP has declined from 6.8% to 1%. It also shows graphs depicting the rise of other industries like finance and services as a percentage of GDP, and increased agricultural productivity through higher output with fewer inputs over time.
NAL Energy Corporation is an oil and gas producer focused on light oil with assets in western Canada. Some key points:
- Market cap of $1.2 billion with monthly dividend of $0.07/share and current yield of 10.4%
- Produces over 28,000 boe/day from assets in Alberta, southeast Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. Reserves of 104 MMBoe with 50% liquids.
- Focused on oil drilling for its 2011 $240 million capital program to maintain production of around 28,500 boe/day for the year. Hedges over 50% of oil volumes.
- Operates across different oil resource plays like the Cardium, V
This talk sets out Gwenda’s PhD which is just getting underway. It was presenteed at Workshop 3 of the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and AHRC Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme; ‘“Between the Tides”. Comparative arts and humanities approaches to living with(in) intertidal landscapes in UK & the Netherlands. Learning from those who live and work with complexity, change and fragility’ on 23rd Oct “103 in Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol UK.
The project is led by Dr Owain Jones of CCRI with Dr. Bettina van Hoven Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. Gwenda’s PhD is one of the exciting outcomes of this research network.
One of the guest speakers #CCRI2015 was Margi Lennartsson from Garden Organic. Here are the slides from her presentation on the significance of growing carrots for health and happiness.
This document discusses a trial to address high levels of the pesticide metaldehyde found in local water sources. Metaldehyde concentrations exceed legal limits, requiring expensive treatment. The trial aims to investigate how different land management practices impact metaldehyde use and concentrations. Farmers' participation and feedback is sought to help monitor practices and pesticide application, in order to better understand solutions to prevent metaldehyde from contaminating drinking water supplies. Next steps include finalizing sampling locations and frequency to evaluate the effectiveness of various catchment management approaches.
The document discusses the problem of global warming caused by increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. It explains that CO2 interferes with the Earth's natural cooling system by trapping infrared radiation, leading the planet to continue warming even if emissions levels stabilize. The only way to stop global warming is to cap CO2 levels by transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy technologies. The presentation provides examples of policy steps and individual actions that can help adopt clean energy solutions and halt the dangerous impacts of climate change.
This document discusses trends in the US economy and agriculture from 1947 to 2006. It shows that while agriculture GDP has increased from $19.9B to $129.7B over this period, its percentage of total US GDP has declined from 6.8% to 1%. It also shows graphs depicting the rise of other industries like finance and services as a percentage of GDP, and increased agricultural productivity through higher output with fewer inputs over time.
NAL Energy Corporation is an oil and gas producer focused on light oil with assets in western Canada. Some key points:
- Market cap of $1.2 billion with monthly dividend of $0.07/share and current yield of 10.4%
- Produces over 28,000 boe/day from assets in Alberta, southeast Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. Reserves of 104 MMBoe with 50% liquids.
- Focused on oil drilling for its 2011 $240 million capital program to maintain production of around 28,500 boe/day for the year. Hedges over 50% of oil volumes.
- Operates across different oil resource plays like the Cardium, V
This talk sets out Gwenda’s PhD which is just getting underway. It was presenteed at Workshop 3 of the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and AHRC Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme; ‘“Between the Tides”. Comparative arts and humanities approaches to living with(in) intertidal landscapes in UK & the Netherlands. Learning from those who live and work with complexity, change and fragility’ on 23rd Oct “103 in Windmill Hill City Farm, Bristol UK.
The project is led by Dr Owain Jones of CCRI with Dr. Bettina van Hoven Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. Gwenda’s PhD is one of the exciting outcomes of this research network.
One of the guest speakers #CCRI2015 was Margi Lennartsson from Garden Organic. Here are the slides from her presentation on the significance of growing carrots for health and happiness.
This document discusses a trial to address high levels of the pesticide metaldehyde found in local water sources. Metaldehyde concentrations exceed legal limits, requiring expensive treatment. The trial aims to investigate how different land management practices impact metaldehyde use and concentrations. Farmers' participation and feedback is sought to help monitor practices and pesticide application, in order to better understand solutions to prevent metaldehyde from contaminating drinking water supplies. Next steps include finalizing sampling locations and frequency to evaluate the effectiveness of various catchment management approaches.
Presentation at the 2014 annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, held in London on August 27th-29th.
The paper provided an analysis of farmer knowledge networks in relation to bovine TB and argues that understandings of farmers’ knowledge networks relating to animal disease control are weak. TB is used as a case study and scenario analysis to determine the networks that farmers would draw upon in particular situations. The research team developed four different scenarios to control TB in the future: a badger cull in hot spot areas, an oral badger vaccine, a cattle vaccine, and a range of measures. The findings confirmed the importance of certain so-called ‘influencers’, such as private vets and the NFU, as well as Defra. The influence of other farmers is also notable but the findings raise interesting questions about how farmers are influenced by their peers – typically more to compare practise / reactions than to obtain information. At the end of the paper these specific findings are related to more general questions about the merits of using scenarios and influence maps to inform TB and other complex policy areas and wider debates about ‘stakeholdership’ and ‘partnership’ governance.
Programme from the forthcoming conference
Future of Rural Society: Opportunities for Rural Economic Development June 10th 2013
In association with CEDRA http://www.ruralireland.ie/
at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth http://www.nuim.ie/
Farmers currently receive payments through agri-environment schemes like the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) and the Environmental Stewardship Scheme (ELS) to help improve the environment. These schemes are ending and will likely be replaced by new schemes that incorporate payments for ecosystem services. It is an important time for farmers to provide input into pilot programs to influence the design of future agricultural support and environmental protection initiatives.
This document discusses the future of the organic movement. It argues that Organic 3.0 will focus on participation and de-commodifying food rather than consumerism. Examples of participatory models include community-produced vineyards, CSAs where membership involves work, and urban gardening cooperatives. While Organic 1.0 focused on holism and Organic 2.0 on consumerism, Organic 3.0 will prioritize participation. The document also notes challenges like maintaining livelihoods and accountability in more participatory systems.
Some reflections and future directions for research’ and arguements that we need to reposition short food chain activities beyond the ‘rural local’/value-added market-based model that they are more commonly associated with.
This is the presentation from our 2012 Nonprofit Seminar focused on Legal Issues All Nonprofits Should be Ready for.
Topics Included in this presenation:
Nuts and Bolts of Hiring and Disciplinary Actions for Nonprofits
Charitable Solicitations and Registration
What Board Members Should Know and Do/Form 990
Visit us at www.cbslawfirm.com to learn more.
Le Leggi dell’Abbondanza
www.ipoteridelsubconscio.com/subconscio.html
2012
Di seguito spiegate le Leggi dell’Abbondanza che Stuart Wilde ha espresso e divulgato nel suo libro.Per un approfondimento miglore ed un percorso di cambiamento duraturo ed eccellente visita il sito: www.ipoteridelsubconscio.co.cc/positivdiary.html dove troverai spunti per un cambiamento sereno e duraturo nella tua vita. Potete diffondere questo report in modo gratuito e libero. Vietata la vendita. I POTERI DEL SUBCONSCIO
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This document summarizes a presentation on ethics for social workers and attorneys. It discusses key differences in their roles, with social workers focused on clients' overall circumstances and attorneys advocating for individual clients' expressed wishes. The presentation covers ethics rules around competence and confidentiality that are important for both professions. It also explains when social workers should refer clients to attorneys, such as for legal advice regarding estate planning, guardianship, and Medicaid eligibility. The presenters are experts in elder law who provide their contact information.
This document provides an outline of a PhD student's research on valuing sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) using natural flood management techniques. The research aims to produce a set of plural values for the ecosystem services associated with SuDS using mixed monetary and non-monetary valuation methods. The research will involve stakeholder analysis, contingent valuation surveys to determine monetary values, and valuation workshops to identify both monetary and non-monetary values across cases studies. The results will provide insight into how valuation methodologies and social contexts influence the values individuals and groups assign to ecosystem services.
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) models emerged in response to concerns about the modern industrial food system and national food security. CSA aims to reconnect consumers and producers by having community members share the risks of food production through advance payments to farmers. This session reviewed different CSA structures in the UK, including community-owned cooperatives and farms that provide members with a share of produce. While CSAs promote alternative and localized approaches to food, their marginal scale and complex operations present challenges to significantly changing the mainstream food system.
This presentation poses the question as to whether happiness can be a realistic and achievable goal for rural policy. Importantly, it discusses the benefits of using happiness as a driver of policy, and how this could replace the economic growth paradigm which dominates rural policy making.
In the first draft, the lighting was poor due to incorrect camera settings, which was fixed in the second draft by changing to outdoor settings. Other improvements between drafts included removing a colon next to "Director" to seem less amateur, changing a computer scene zoom to a cut and close-up for a more documentary style, and adding establishing shots and changing shots for a beard application and dance scene to improve the storytelling. Additionally, drawings on paper were replaced with an iPad and friends were made to seem more understanding in a prom scene between drafts.
This document is a summary of a webinar on 2013 individual tax laws and their implications for philanthropy. It discusses changes to income tax rates including an increase in the top individual rate to 39.6% and the capital gains rate to 20%. A 3.8% healthcare tax also applies to investment income over $200,000. The estate and gift tax exemption increased to $5.25 million and is portable between spouses. Direct charitable contributions from IRAs are allowed for those over 701/2. Planning should focus more on income than estate taxes due to high exemptions and fewer subject to the estate tax.
An internship report by visiting student Yumiko Yamamoto from the University of Kyoto. The report investigates management of Rights of Way and the Cotswold Way in the United Kingdom. With assistance from Kate Ashbrook from the Open Spaces Society.
In recent years researchers have displayed an interest in understanding the rural dynamics in other regions of the world which are also being affected by global processes in different ways and the sum result is great global spatial diversity.
The focus for the project
was an exploration of the social impacts
arising from the Cod Recovery Plan. The
work provided input to the evaluation of
multi-annual plans for Cod in the Irish Sea,
Kattegat, North Sea, Eastern Channel,
and West of Scotland being undertaken
by the Scientific, Technical and Economic
Committee for Fisheries (STECF).
This presentation considers the role of cities in the future of agricultural food production, particularly in addressing challenges such as food security in a post-supermarket food supply chain. It also highlights changes in the conceptualization of the rural-urban continuum.
Economic tools and the choice of energy options with specific reference to Re...Martin de Wit
Economic tools can help analyze the costs and benefits of renewable energy options over time, but have limitations. Storage solutions are needed to overcome the intermittency of renewables. Transitions to new energy systems take decades as new technologies diffuse. External environmental costs are not fully captured in traditional economic analysis of energy options. Policy mixes that include regulations, incentives and disincentives can promote transitions to more sustainable energy systems.
Presentation at the 2014 annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers, held in London on August 27th-29th.
The paper provided an analysis of farmer knowledge networks in relation to bovine TB and argues that understandings of farmers’ knowledge networks relating to animal disease control are weak. TB is used as a case study and scenario analysis to determine the networks that farmers would draw upon in particular situations. The research team developed four different scenarios to control TB in the future: a badger cull in hot spot areas, an oral badger vaccine, a cattle vaccine, and a range of measures. The findings confirmed the importance of certain so-called ‘influencers’, such as private vets and the NFU, as well as Defra. The influence of other farmers is also notable but the findings raise interesting questions about how farmers are influenced by their peers – typically more to compare practise / reactions than to obtain information. At the end of the paper these specific findings are related to more general questions about the merits of using scenarios and influence maps to inform TB and other complex policy areas and wider debates about ‘stakeholdership’ and ‘partnership’ governance.
Programme from the forthcoming conference
Future of Rural Society: Opportunities for Rural Economic Development June 10th 2013
In association with CEDRA http://www.ruralireland.ie/
at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth http://www.nuim.ie/
Farmers currently receive payments through agri-environment schemes like the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) and the Environmental Stewardship Scheme (ELS) to help improve the environment. These schemes are ending and will likely be replaced by new schemes that incorporate payments for ecosystem services. It is an important time for farmers to provide input into pilot programs to influence the design of future agricultural support and environmental protection initiatives.
This document discusses the future of the organic movement. It argues that Organic 3.0 will focus on participation and de-commodifying food rather than consumerism. Examples of participatory models include community-produced vineyards, CSAs where membership involves work, and urban gardening cooperatives. While Organic 1.0 focused on holism and Organic 2.0 on consumerism, Organic 3.0 will prioritize participation. The document also notes challenges like maintaining livelihoods and accountability in more participatory systems.
Some reflections and future directions for research’ and arguements that we need to reposition short food chain activities beyond the ‘rural local’/value-added market-based model that they are more commonly associated with.
This is the presentation from our 2012 Nonprofit Seminar focused on Legal Issues All Nonprofits Should be Ready for.
Topics Included in this presenation:
Nuts and Bolts of Hiring and Disciplinary Actions for Nonprofits
Charitable Solicitations and Registration
What Board Members Should Know and Do/Form 990
Visit us at www.cbslawfirm.com to learn more.
Le Leggi dell’Abbondanza
www.ipoteridelsubconscio.com/subconscio.html
2012
Di seguito spiegate le Leggi dell’Abbondanza che Stuart Wilde ha espresso e divulgato nel suo libro.Per un approfondimento miglore ed un percorso di cambiamento duraturo ed eccellente visita il sito: www.ipoteridelsubconscio.co.cc/positivdiary.html dove troverai spunti per un cambiamento sereno e duraturo nella tua vita. Potete diffondere questo report in modo gratuito e libero. Vietata la vendita. I POTERI DEL SUBCONSCIO
www.ipoteridelsubconscio.com/
This document summarizes a presentation on ethics for social workers and attorneys. It discusses key differences in their roles, with social workers focused on clients' overall circumstances and attorneys advocating for individual clients' expressed wishes. The presentation covers ethics rules around competence and confidentiality that are important for both professions. It also explains when social workers should refer clients to attorneys, such as for legal advice regarding estate planning, guardianship, and Medicaid eligibility. The presenters are experts in elder law who provide their contact information.
This document provides an outline of a PhD student's research on valuing sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) using natural flood management techniques. The research aims to produce a set of plural values for the ecosystem services associated with SuDS using mixed monetary and non-monetary valuation methods. The research will involve stakeholder analysis, contingent valuation surveys to determine monetary values, and valuation workshops to identify both monetary and non-monetary values across cases studies. The results will provide insight into how valuation methodologies and social contexts influence the values individuals and groups assign to ecosystem services.
Community-supported agriculture (CSA) models emerged in response to concerns about the modern industrial food system and national food security. CSA aims to reconnect consumers and producers by having community members share the risks of food production through advance payments to farmers. This session reviewed different CSA structures in the UK, including community-owned cooperatives and farms that provide members with a share of produce. While CSAs promote alternative and localized approaches to food, their marginal scale and complex operations present challenges to significantly changing the mainstream food system.
This presentation poses the question as to whether happiness can be a realistic and achievable goal for rural policy. Importantly, it discusses the benefits of using happiness as a driver of policy, and how this could replace the economic growth paradigm which dominates rural policy making.
In the first draft, the lighting was poor due to incorrect camera settings, which was fixed in the second draft by changing to outdoor settings. Other improvements between drafts included removing a colon next to "Director" to seem less amateur, changing a computer scene zoom to a cut and close-up for a more documentary style, and adding establishing shots and changing shots for a beard application and dance scene to improve the storytelling. Additionally, drawings on paper were replaced with an iPad and friends were made to seem more understanding in a prom scene between drafts.
This document is a summary of a webinar on 2013 individual tax laws and their implications for philanthropy. It discusses changes to income tax rates including an increase in the top individual rate to 39.6% and the capital gains rate to 20%. A 3.8% healthcare tax also applies to investment income over $200,000. The estate and gift tax exemption increased to $5.25 million and is portable between spouses. Direct charitable contributions from IRAs are allowed for those over 701/2. Planning should focus more on income than estate taxes due to high exemptions and fewer subject to the estate tax.
An internship report by visiting student Yumiko Yamamoto from the University of Kyoto. The report investigates management of Rights of Way and the Cotswold Way in the United Kingdom. With assistance from Kate Ashbrook from the Open Spaces Society.
In recent years researchers have displayed an interest in understanding the rural dynamics in other regions of the world which are also being affected by global processes in different ways and the sum result is great global spatial diversity.
The focus for the project
was an exploration of the social impacts
arising from the Cod Recovery Plan. The
work provided input to the evaluation of
multi-annual plans for Cod in the Irish Sea,
Kattegat, North Sea, Eastern Channel,
and West of Scotland being undertaken
by the Scientific, Technical and Economic
Committee for Fisheries (STECF).
This presentation considers the role of cities in the future of agricultural food production, particularly in addressing challenges such as food security in a post-supermarket food supply chain. It also highlights changes in the conceptualization of the rural-urban continuum.
Economic tools and the choice of energy options with specific reference to Re...Martin de Wit
Economic tools can help analyze the costs and benefits of renewable energy options over time, but have limitations. Storage solutions are needed to overcome the intermittency of renewables. Transitions to new energy systems take decades as new technologies diffuse. External environmental costs are not fully captured in traditional economic analysis of energy options. Policy mixes that include regulations, incentives and disincentives can promote transitions to more sustainable energy systems.
Nanotechnology in energy applications
1. Nanotechnology can improve solar cell efficiency through solid state silicon and III/V group solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells.
2. Climate change poses serious threats such as rising sea levels and increased extreme weather events. Renewable energy from solar power can help address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
3. Many countries and organizations are working to increase renewable energy generation and reduce reliance on fossil fuels through policies that encourage solar and other renewable technology.
This document summarizes key findings from RAND research on health care spending in the United States. It finds that between 1999-2009, health care costs grew substantially for a median-income American family, consuming money that could have otherwise been used to pay down debt, save for retirement, or pay for education. While Americans received more medical services, the quality of care was still suboptimal, with recommended care received only about 55% of the time. The document also examines different approaches to reducing health care costs, finding that high-deductible health plans with deductibles over $1,000 were effective in reducing spending.
California Association of Realtors presentation by Oscar Wei, senior researcher at the CA Community College Real Estate Educators' Conference - Hilton, Oakland Airport. Friday, April 20, 2012
Sustainability in its shortest definition is the capacity to endure. To endure one does not only need material goods, but also a mental and spiritual resilience and set of skills on how to cope. When the quality and quantity of our material goods and biophysical environment starts to change, when our fellow South Africans are sick and dying prematurely and when our economy does not deliver the needed health and wealth to all of us, our hope for a better future is severely tested. It is the integrity of our hope that could and should be playing a fundamental role in a possible transition towards sustainability.
In this talk ladies and gentleman, the question of South Africa’s sustainability is under scrutiny. I will first show you that from an ecological, from a human well-being, and even from an economic perspective there are several warning lights on the biophysical and material sustainability of this country. I will also show the remarkable optimism we have as South Africans and highlight the importance of hope. Third, and finally I will argue that we as humans have an ethical responsibility in the individual and collective choices we make. It is our attitudes and behaviours that sustain or destroy.
Martin de Wit addresses sustainability in South Africa. He summarizes that South Africa is ecologically, environmentally, and humanely unsustainable based on several indicators. However, recent data shows improvements in GDP, optimism, and belief that the country is heading in the right direction. De Wit argues sustainability requires hope, changes to material and lifestyle wedges, and behavioral changes to attitudes and consumption.
The document outlines the steps for launching a successful cost takeout program to achieve operational excellence. It discusses the main drivers for cost reduction efforts including rising commodity prices and the importance of cost consciousness. The presentation recommends conducting a spend analysis, assessing addressable spending, drafting savings estimates and strategies. It emphasizes establishing clear governance, tracking progress regularly, and defining key performance indicators. The document provides advice on change management and ensuring cost reductions are sustainable over the long run.
Leslie Appleton Young, CAR Chief Economist, spoke at the Real Living Lifestyles New Year, New You Real Estate Symposium on January 31, 2012. She shared her economic forecast for the coming year, and all of the latest charts and stats on the California economy.
1. Foreclosures have declined for almost three years after peaking in 2008. However, short sales continue to be common as lenders work with borrowers. The short sale cycle may continue for 2-5 more years before a normal market trend returns.
2. The ratio of home listings to sales indicates the market may drift into oversupply in the second half of 2010 if current trends continue, potentially leading to more foreclosures and short sales.
3. While average home prices have increased in the first half of 2010, particularly for higher-end homes, prices have actually declined in many individual areas. Average prices should only be used as a general guide, not to assess specific markets or properties.
Solar resource monitoring and forecasting using satellite dataLeonardo ENERGY
This document discusses using satellite data to monitor and map solar radiation. It describes how Green Power Labs developed software to process images from geostationary satellites like GOES into high resolution solar radiation maps for Atlantic Canada. The maps were groundtruthed against meteorological station data with a correlation of 0.94. The software tools allow automated processing of satellite images within a GIS and have applications for solar system monitoring and forecasting to support energy management and production.
Application of seasonal climate forecasts for electricity demand forecasting:...matteodefelice
The document discusses using seasonal climate forecasts to improve electricity demand forecasting. Currently, only climatological data is used for forecasts over 14 days. The authors aim to assess using seasonal forecasts for Italy, as electricity demand is sensitive to climate. They analyze temperature patterns that influence demand and compare forecasts from reanalysis data and seasonal predictions. Preliminary results show potential for seasonal forecasts to enhance demand modeling. Further work includes analyzing additional years and locations.
Climate Change And Tdm Strategies Presentationfmongioi
This document discusses how state climate action plans are addressing transportation and greenhouse gas emissions. It provides background on the transportation sector's significant contribution to GHG emissions in the U.S. and details how states are developing plans to reduce emissions through stakeholder engagement and policies like improving transit options, parking pricing, and pay-as-you-drive insurance. Transportation demand management strategies like these that encourage alternative transportation are often recommended approaches. Metropolitan regions are also starting to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation into long-range transportation planning.
This document contains information about various Rotary clubs and their members between 2008 and 2009. It lists the names of members, dates of membership, offices held and club activities. Key information includes club membership numbers increasing to over 30,000 members by 2008-2009 and service projects focusing on realizing dreams.
Social-ecological dynamics and the effects of bonding social capital on local...Kemraj Parsram
Grenville, the second largest fishing centre in Grenada, share characteristics typical of small scale fisheries across the eastern Caribbean and further afield. A major fishery involves small tunas and tuna-like fishes. Approximately 50 boats, typically with a crew of 2, troll daily inside and along the edge of the island’s extensive shelf, landing on average nearly 400 metric tonnes of fish annually. Sixty percent of these landings are usually blackfin tuna (locally known as ‘bonita’ or ‘common tur’) and skip jack tuna. Over the last seven years, this fishery and particularly its marketing system have been plagued with perturbations, both idiosyncratic and covariate. In this paper, I explore some critical social-ecological factors that cause or contribute to these perturbations. I highlight how bonding social capital between fishers and unemployed youths (two key categories of stakeholders in the fishery) helps them to cope with some of these perturbations, as well as adding fire to the flame. This paper is part of larger doctoral research on the governance of small-scale fisheries in the eastern Caribbean. The findings here are based upon information collected through key informant interviews, participant observations, and informal interviews during a one year period of residence (July 2010 - June 2011) in the fishing community of Grenville.
The document analyzes the correlation between weather variability and seasonal asthma episodes in Miami Dade, Florida over three years. It describes the creation of a comprehensive weather database using sensors from WeatherBug and the National Weather Service to collect temperature, humidity, pressure, wind, and other variables. The analysis found a seasonal pattern with asthma episodes peaking in mid-December and bottoming out in mid-March each year.
China has experienced rapid economic growth averaging nearly 10% annually since economic reforms began in 1978. This growth has been driven by urbanization as hundreds of millions of people move to cities. Chinese cities must plan innovatively and sustainably to accommodate large population increases while improving livability. Shanghai exemplifies this transition as services now account for over half of its GDP compared to just 15% in 1978, demonstrating a shift from manufacturing to a more advanced, service-based economy.
Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist/California Association of Realtors presents his annual report to the California Desert Association of Realtors.
The Palm Springs desert area (Coachella Valley) housing market is on the upswing once again.
The document discusses the implications of a lower interest rate environment. It outlines how interest rates have declined to low levels not seen in decades. It explores reasons for the low rates, including reduced inflation and a credible Federal Reserve policy. The document examines the implications for investors like pension funds and insurers, including challenges from extended liability durations. It also looks at how institutions have responded by revisiting asset allocation studies.
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Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme.
The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.
This presentation highlights key methods and issues arising from the research in the EU Horizon funded projects MINAGRIS and SPRINT regading the presence and effect of pesticides and plastics in the soil.
This presentation considers the changing policy environment for public funding of agri-environment, the shift from entitlements to action-based funding and 'public good' outcomes, using a 'Test and Trials' case study.
Footage for the associated seminar: https://youtu.be/Z0Hkt7Sf0VA
The talk will focus on the current state of soil governance in Australia, alongside the recently released National Soil Strategy and debate how knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management is progressing. The need to maintain a healthy and functioning soil that is resilient and less vulnerable to climate change and land degradation is an ever-present goal. Yet to achieve this goal requires a critical mass of soil scientists who can effectively undertake research and more importantly people who can communicate such knowledge to farmers so that soil is protected through the use of landscape-appropriate practices. Decades of government de-investment and privatisation have led to a diminished and fragmented workforce that is distant from, rather than part of, the rural community, and farmers are also increasingly isolated with few functional social networks for knowledge exchange. Is it possible to chart a course that can see this decline in expertise and local soil knowledge corrected, and restore to it vitality and legitimacy?
Presentation made to CCRI as part of our seminar series. Footage of seminar: https://youtu.be/tWcArqtqxjI
Latvian meadows are inextricably connected to the Latvian identity. An identity built on the concept of the industrious peasant working their own land, free from the oppression of tyrannical regimes. This cultural association also feeds into the mid-summer festivals as the women weave the flower-filled crowns and people collect herbal teas to ward off illness over the winter. These biodiverse havens are under threat, as they are neglected or replaced with improved grasslands with their higher yields but lower diversity.
1) The document discusses research into how social and intellectual capital contribute to collective environmental action through Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) groups in the UK.
2) Key findings indicate that while CSFF funding aims to develop social capital, most knowledge sharing currently occurs between members with close ties, and there is limited evidence of collective environmental action.
3) Continued support is needed to strengthen relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange across different actor groups, and provide funding to enable CSFF groups to deliver landscape-scale environmental improvements over time.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
Natural Cambridgeshire as the Local Nature Partnership is developing a number of the attributes of a LEGO. It is engaging with and appears to have support from a broad variety of stakeholders and is energising actions at several different levels. Through a local deliberative process, it can have a much clearer view of local opportunities and priorities than can be possible via central government. Natural Cambridgeshire has begun to raise funds but the likelihood is that this is will be too little, relatively short term and unsystematic. Longer term core funding would give Natural Cambridgeshire the capacity to back up proposals with financial support, potentially matching funding from other sources. It would then need to monitor and audit the implementation of projects and report on expenditure and outcomes. Over time it would adopt an adaptive approach to respond to outcomes and changing threats and opportunities.
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3. By 2080…
Research background
+1.8 c - 8 c Summer +3-70% Winter and - 60%
Temperature Summer Rainfall
Soil erosion
Wheat Yield +40-140%
Water depletion from irrigation
Sugar Beet +20-70%
Flooding of farmland
Grass +20-50% New Pests & Diseases?
New Crops? Animal heat stress
Yet little research so far has focused upon farmer’s in the UK …
4. Research Project
• Aim: to assess how farmers perceptions of climate
change are formed, and the relationship of this with
risk mitigation actions.
• Three counties: Worcestershire, Shropshire and
Herefordshire
• Completed literature review and conceptual
framework
5. What is Risk Perception?
Risk perception = the way in which an individual
evaluates their level of risk in view of the
information they have received, observed and
recalled.
6. Literature review findings
• Food security in the UK could be under threat.
• UK & Europe left behind? Considerable research has
focused upon the developing world, Canada & in the
USA.
• Climate change adaption is not a linear process from
receiving of information to action.
• Three key lessons from the developing world: local
knowledge, Participatory Rural Appraisal & livelihoods
framework.
7. ‘Cultural-behavioural’ theory
• Devised a ‘cultural’ behavioural’ theory to
allow for the consideration of farmers decision
making as individual part of a wider cultural
society.
• This affects the way in which farmers behave
in practices, information receiving and seeking
and the actions taken as a result of this
• Allows both quantitative and qualitative
methodologies.
8. • Phase 1: Methods
Rank of Shawbury Airfrost per month 1982
extreme
30
Average Monthly minimum temperatures: decadal comparison 1983
1984
event
14 Ross-on-wye Average maximum temperature: decadal R max temp (c)
Year Date month 1985
comparison
1986
1987
R1 25
12
25 1990 3 8 1988 35
1989
1990
R2 2006 19 7 Average ofof
Average D1 1991 35
2010 min 1992
20 1982-1991 1993
R3 1995 1 8 33.2
Sum of Air Frost days
1994
Average ofof
Average D2 1995
Average of D1 (1986-1991)
Temperature (°c)
8 1996
R4 1990 2 8 1992-2001 33.1
Temperature (°c)
15 15 min 1997
1998
Average of D2 (1992-2001)
1999
R5 6 2003 9 8 Average ofof 33.1
Average D3 2000
10 10 2002-2011 2001
Average of D3 (2002-2011)
min 2002
R6 4
1995 2 8 2003 33
2004
2005
R7 5
5 1995 3 8 32.8
2006
2 2007
2008
R8 2006 18 7 32.5
2009
0 2010
0
R9 0
Jan
JAN FEB
Feb
MAR
Mar
APR2003
Apr
MAY JUN
May
JUL
Jun
AUG15
Jul
SEP
Aug
OCT NOV
Sep
DEC
Oct 7
Nov Dec 32.5
2011
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
R10 1989 21 7 31.9
11. Next Steps
• To conduct newspaper analysis using Nvivo.
Before Christmas.
• Analyse relationship between recorded data &
newspaper reports of this
• Conduct preliminary scoping interviews
12. Thank you & any questions or
ideas?
Rebecca.griffiths@worc.ac.uk
The Guardian (2007)
Editor's Notes
So just to provide a little background to the climate change impacts that Defra (2009) predicted on agricultural production. So by 2080 Defra predict … [read out quite quickly the predicted impacts& yet despite these predicted impacts and the scale of these there has been very little research to date that has focused upon farmers in the UK.
Started Sept 2011Early stages of data collection
Risk perceptions are formed within the persons cultural and behavioural norms. For example the farmer on the left has a different set of values, beliefs, attitudes to risk and priorities than the farmer on the right. As a direct result of their different socio-economic backgrounds.Additionally, Bryant et al. (2000) found that the perception of stress by a farmer can be influenced by individual, characteristics of the farm and prior experiences of the farm family. It is these influences on a farmers risk perception which include; communications, values, attitudes, experiences, memories, observations, communities and social networks. Which I am focusing on to establish how a farmers risk perception of climate change is formed, and how this then results in action. I am doing this by establishing the difference in the relationships between the met data recorded and scientific observations, with that communicated through the media, with farmers observations and experiences.
From looking at climate science and food security literature it is apparent that there is a sense of urgency across these reports. Adaption is a dynamic process that aims to reduce a systems vulnerability through increased resilience.In Canada Smitet al. (1996) found that most farmers reported being significantly affected by variable climatic conditions over a 6 year period however only 1 in 5 made any conscious effort to adjust to climatic events. Agricultural adaptations are determined by decisions and changing conditions at farm and local levels.Developing world literature is well established on this subject due its considerable focus at a local scale. Three key approach used to encourage climate adaptations in the developing world include:1. Local knowledge – allowing the farmers to draw upon their own past expeiriences, memories and observations. 2. Participatory Rural Apprasil – encourage groups of farmers to discuss actions, such as crop trials and irrigation strategies. 3. Livelihoods framework – considers a farmers physical, natural, social, economic and cultural capital. As key influences to farmers decision making.
In line with the focus of the devloping world literature, I have decided to use a cultural-behavioural theory which looks at farmers decision-making as individuals, but as part of a wider community. cultural-behvioural theoretical framework is not just an amalgamation of theory but also a ammalgamtion of methods thus I am using a mixed methods approach.
1 - I have analysed met data from a site in each county: Shawbury, Ross-on-Wye and Pershore, over a 30 year period of 1982-2011, the standard time frame used to establish a ‘climate’. I have now established rough prelimnaryfindings:Subtle seasonal shiftsDecadal analysis reveals gradual increase in the average maximum and minimum temperatures recorded Possible shift in rainfall, less winter rainfall and more intense episodes of summer rainfall NO significant shift in extreme events, most extreme temps recorded in both earlier & latter half 30 year period (highest temp recorded in August 1990 of 35 degrees at Ross-on-wye. Frost free days per annum appear to be slightly increasing, but it is not a significant trend. 2- Will use dates of considerable readings to look at the local newspaper to see if recorded. This will establish the relationship between extreme readings/recordings and the impacts on the ground. It will also allow to establish the communication of weather events (whether sensationalised or not etc.), and indicate how this may impact upon farmers perceptions, and thus actions.
I Will then be looking at worcester news, shropshire star and Hereford times. Along side three counties farmer, to asses how and when weather events are recorded.IT IS IMPORTNANT THAT THIS IS A VERY LOCALISED STUDY LOOKING AT LOCAL EVENTS AND CHANGES AND THE LOCAL COMMUNICATION OF THIS. Many studies have looked at national and international communication of long-term cc, but I want to be able to destinguish the relationships of specific weather events and farmers memories and perceptions of these. Thus fine grained local data and local newspapers have been used. I am particularly interested in the manner that these events are reported, and what are the specific impacts that certain conditions are perceived on having on the ground. This is to be analyses in relation to the met data findings. Targeting specific dates identified in SD test to show most extreme met values, investigating top 10 ‘most extreme’ conditions recordedI aim to start this next week.
I will then use this baseline data as comparison material in interviews and focus groups with farmers across the region.I also intend on presenting farmer’s with different climate scenarios and see how they reactAs well as exploring their reactions and interpretations of different newspaper reports , to explore communication chains.