The document discusses the creative rural economy initiative in England which was developed in response to crises facing rural communities, including climate change, the global economic downturn, EU agricultural policy reforms, and various animal diseases. It examines how these challenges provide an opportunity to rethink rural economic and cultural strategies. Some key points discussed include leveraging creativity from various rural groups, promoting cultural tourism and creative rural clusters, and recognizing the shift away from agriculture to other rural economic activities and environmental/social goods. Overall the document argues for a cultural approach to managing agricultural change and rethinking rural economies.
Presentation indrani organic farm and homestaySagar Dhakal
This is the slide we made during the inception of Indreni organic farm and homestay. Now both the projects have taken shapes but back then without a guide it wouldnt have been possible to think of the project
Our Daily Bread: Harvesters of Hope and Gardeners of Eden Z8Y
This document discusses several topics related to agriculture, food systems, and our Christian call to care for God's creation:
- It notes the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture and calls for more sustainable farming practices that protect soil, water, and habitats.
- It advocates for supporting small, local family farms over large industrial operations, as they are better for the environment, rural communities, and food security.
- It encourages readers to buy local, seasonal foods and consider how foods are produced to support more sustainable and just food systems.
- In conclusion, it provides four specific calls to action people can take to promote change, such as writing to elected officials to demand reform of agricultural policies.
The document discusses housing from several perspectives:
1. It defines the differences between a house and housing, with housing referring to multiple dwelling units within a complex and including shared amenities.
2. It covers the history and evolution of housing from early shelters to permanent structures as societies became more sedentary.
3. It describes different types of housing including plots, multi-unit apartment blocks, and classifications based on ownership, income, family size and other factors.
1. Vermiculture, or worm farming, is an important part of developing a circular economy and macro-agriculture system in China. Earthworms can process large amounts of organic waste into premium organic fertilizer, improving soil quality and the environment.
2. As intensive livestock and aquaculture have increased in China, there is a need to properly treat the large volumes of manure and waste these industries produce. Vermiculture can play a key role in stabilizing sludge from wastewater treatment plants and recycling organic wastes.
3. While vermiculture was an established industry in parts of the Western world by the 1990s, processing tens of thousands of tons of waste per week,
The document discusses the links between models of community supported agriculture (CSA) and future healthy urban and peri-urban areas. It outlines trends like population growth, climate change, and addiction to fossil fuels that make CSA schemes increasingly important. CSA is based on partnerships between producers and consumers, operates locally, is solidarity-based through risk/benefit sharing, and involves direct contact without intermediaries. CSA can benefit the environment, local economies, social cohesion, and quality of life if practiced ecologically. The document concludes CSA and shorter supply chains are logical solutions for more resilient, locally-enhancing food systems and communities in the future.
The document provides an overview of key concepts in environmental science, including:
1) It outlines current environmental conditions such as issues related to population, water, food, climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity.
2) It discusses the historical development of environmentalism in four stages from pragmatic conservation to global environmental citizenship.
3) It describes the divided state of the world between the rich and poor and issues of sustainable development, indigenous people, environmental ethics, and environmental justice.
Planning for Community Gardens in the CityKlausGroenholm
The document provides background information on the history of community gardening in the United States. It discusses how community gardening originated in the late 19th century in response to economic crises and continued through World War periods as a means to address food insecurity and unemployment. More recently since the 1970s, community gardening has grown as a grassroots movement to combat broken food systems and create green space. The report outlines the various purposes and models of historical and contemporary community gardens.
Presentation indrani organic farm and homestaySagar Dhakal
This is the slide we made during the inception of Indreni organic farm and homestay. Now both the projects have taken shapes but back then without a guide it wouldnt have been possible to think of the project
Our Daily Bread: Harvesters of Hope and Gardeners of Eden Z8Y
This document discusses several topics related to agriculture, food systems, and our Christian call to care for God's creation:
- It notes the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture and calls for more sustainable farming practices that protect soil, water, and habitats.
- It advocates for supporting small, local family farms over large industrial operations, as they are better for the environment, rural communities, and food security.
- It encourages readers to buy local, seasonal foods and consider how foods are produced to support more sustainable and just food systems.
- In conclusion, it provides four specific calls to action people can take to promote change, such as writing to elected officials to demand reform of agricultural policies.
The document discusses housing from several perspectives:
1. It defines the differences between a house and housing, with housing referring to multiple dwelling units within a complex and including shared amenities.
2. It covers the history and evolution of housing from early shelters to permanent structures as societies became more sedentary.
3. It describes different types of housing including plots, multi-unit apartment blocks, and classifications based on ownership, income, family size and other factors.
1. Vermiculture, or worm farming, is an important part of developing a circular economy and macro-agriculture system in China. Earthworms can process large amounts of organic waste into premium organic fertilizer, improving soil quality and the environment.
2. As intensive livestock and aquaculture have increased in China, there is a need to properly treat the large volumes of manure and waste these industries produce. Vermiculture can play a key role in stabilizing sludge from wastewater treatment plants and recycling organic wastes.
3. While vermiculture was an established industry in parts of the Western world by the 1990s, processing tens of thousands of tons of waste per week,
The document discusses the links between models of community supported agriculture (CSA) and future healthy urban and peri-urban areas. It outlines trends like population growth, climate change, and addiction to fossil fuels that make CSA schemes increasingly important. CSA is based on partnerships between producers and consumers, operates locally, is solidarity-based through risk/benefit sharing, and involves direct contact without intermediaries. CSA can benefit the environment, local economies, social cohesion, and quality of life if practiced ecologically. The document concludes CSA and shorter supply chains are logical solutions for more resilient, locally-enhancing food systems and communities in the future.
The document provides an overview of key concepts in environmental science, including:
1) It outlines current environmental conditions such as issues related to population, water, food, climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity.
2) It discusses the historical development of environmentalism in four stages from pragmatic conservation to global environmental citizenship.
3) It describes the divided state of the world between the rich and poor and issues of sustainable development, indigenous people, environmental ethics, and environmental justice.
Planning for Community Gardens in the CityKlausGroenholm
The document provides background information on the history of community gardening in the United States. It discusses how community gardening originated in the late 19th century in response to economic crises and continued through World War periods as a means to address food insecurity and unemployment. More recently since the 1970s, community gardening has grown as a grassroots movement to combat broken food systems and create green space. The report outlines the various purposes and models of historical and contemporary community gardens.
The world population has grown rapidly and exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity, causing issues like depletion of natural resources, environmental problems, water scarcity, destruction of rainforests and fisheries overexploitation. By 2050, the world population is projected to reach at least 9 billion people, which will increase the demand for food and fuel and likely outpace food production. This unsustainable population growth threatens our planet's life support systems and risks exacerbating problems like global warming, extreme weather, and loss of biodiversity if no action is taken to transition to a greener economy and more sustainable consumption and production.
Land Grabbing - A Mexican Presidium Under Threatberat celik
Around the world, huge tracts of fertile land are being sold or
rented for extremely low prices. Tens of millions of hectares
have been surrendered in recent years to produce food crops
for export or biofuels, to extract resources or to resell the land
on the financial market, like any other commodity.
This so-called land grabbing is severely threatening the
environment, the food sovereignty and the very lives of local
communities.
Another catastrophic earthquake in haiti tropical grace Nancytaban
1) On August 14, 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Haiti, killing over 2,000 people, injuring thousands more, and damaging or destroying over 130,000 homes.
2) The earthquake exacerbated Haiti's humanitarian crisis, as the country had not yet recovered from the 2010 earthquake and subsequent disasters. Infrastructure was destroyed, limiting access to healthcare and aid.
3) International organizations deployed search and rescue teams, aircraft, and over 1,700 tons of food and relief supplies. Medical evacuations transported over 380 injured people to hospitals. However, increased gang violence since the president's assassination has threatened humanitarian access.
The document discusses the impacts of extreme flooding in South Sudan. Faith Kasina, a spokesperson for UNHCR, states that the flooding is the worst South Sudan has seen in 60 years and is being intensified by climate change. Over 700,000 people have been affected since May by floods, drought, and other crises. Many families have fled to refugee camps in Juba, South Sudan or across the border in Uganda. The ongoing floods are exacerbating problems caused by South Sudan's ongoing civil war, including displacement and lack of access to food and aid.
THREE KEY MESSAGES FROM ISLAMIC RELIEF'S REPORT FLOODED AND FORGOTTEN
1. FORGOTTEN EMERGENCY Eight million people remain in dire need of basic health care, food or shelter in Pakistan. Six million are at risk of fresh floods this monsoon season and some areas are already underwater again.
2. WOEFULLY INADEQUATE RESPONSE Despite the generous response of the British public and government, millions of Pakistanis are paying the price for a woefully inadequate international response overall that fell $603 million short of UN appeals. Those affected received only an eighth of what was spent on aid for Haiti’s hurricane victims.
3. END THE LOTTERY OF EMERGENCY AID International disaster relief is too often a lottery in which the response of donor governments varies dramatically according to other international demands and domestic economic constraints. The time has come to establish a global contingency fund to tackle climate-related emergencies and protect vulnerable countries from being so dependent on the lottery of fresh UN appeals and uncertain responses every time disaster strikes.
The document summarizes eco-tourism efforts in South America, specifically Chile. It discusses how Chile is promoting more environmentally friendly practices and renewable energy sources to preserve its natural wilderness areas popular with eco-tourists. It provides examples of organic farms and initiatives that balance agricultural production with environmental protection to support eco-tourism industries. However, a proposed hydroelectric dam project could negatively impact the environment and tourism if approved.
Sustainable Tribal Economies: A Guide to Energy and Food Sovereignty in Nativ...Garden2bounty
The document discusses four major challenges facing Indigenous communities: climate change, peak oil, fuel poverty, and food insecurity. These interrelated challenges stem from the high levels of consumption and exploitation of resources by industrial society. While Indigenous communities are greatly impacted, the document also notes that Native communities have significant potential to reduce the negative effects of these challenges through sustainable solutions.
The document discusses some of the major problems facing humanity, including declining planetary health and resources, as well as increasing wealth inequality. It introduces permaculture as an approach to meeting human needs while improving ecological and social conditions through strategies like ecosystem mimicry and conscious design of resilient local economies. The history and global spread of permaculture techniques are also briefly outlined.
This document provides information on several topics related to ecology and sustainability, including ecological economics, sustainability indicators, ecosystems, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and conservation of biodiversity in India. It defines key terms, describes different types of indicators and services, and outlines threats to and methods of conserving biodiversity.
This document discusses topics related to ecology, ecosystems, deforestation, population growth in Pakistan, urbanization, and their impacts. It notes that the human population will grow to 8 billion by 2025. Deforestation has cleared large areas of forests for human needs like agriculture and industry, disrupting the delicate balance in ecosystems. Rapid urbanization and population growth in Pakistan have strained resources and increased problems like overcrowding and the spread of diseases.
This thesis explores the potential for rooftop agriculture in urban areas. It examines case studies of existing rooftop gardens in cities like Toronto, New York, and Italy. The document discusses the benefits of local urban agriculture, including increased food security, community building, and environmental benefits from reducing fossil fuel use in industrial agriculture. It also notes challenges like the technical difficulties of growing food on rooftops. The thesis will evaluate the potential to expand rooftop agriculture and reduce dependence on industrial food systems.
Bio(diverse)city – the variety of life | Biocity StudioBiocity Studio
Sydney is very diverse compared to other large cities around the world. Recent pressures are resulting in a decline of our diverse flora and fauna. Sydney has followed London’s and Scandinavian models to help with linking green space and biodiversity. We now have realised how important biodiversity is and have been limiting Sydney’s urban growth patterns.
Tno & bcc sustainability forum10thsept2012Kate Cooper
This document summarizes a presentation on feeding cities given at the Birmingham Sustainability Forum. It discusses how much food Birmingham needs, the limited potential for growing food locally in the city and surrounding region, and where most of the city's food comes from. It notes that locally grown food makes up a small percentage of overall food needs, and that globally food production will need to increase to feed a growing population. The document advocates for smarter land and food use through increasing yields, reducing impacts, and reducing waste.
Presentation by Ram Gidoomal (Chairman, Traidcraft plc, UK) on the occasion of the SOC section hearing on Migrant entrepreneurs’ contribution to the EU economy on 24.11.2011 in the framework of the Permanent Study Group on Immigration and Integration.
The document discusses rural development and poverty alleviation in India, outlining key concepts related to rural economy, development indicators, theories of development, and issues related to development and poverty in global and Indian contexts. It also provides details on planning, funding, and implementation of potential poverty alleviation programs and schemes in rural India.
Ethnography is defined as the study of people in their natural environments using social research methods like observations and interviews to understand culture and interpret results. Ethnography helps uncover consumer perspectives to avoid assumptions and build successful products, designs, and user experiences. It benefits product development by creating more compelling solutions, enabling designs for the global marketplace, and identifying barriers through a process that defines problems, finds study participants, plans data collection approaches, collects and analyzes data to share insights.
The document summarizes principles of the global positioning system (GPS) and its applications. GPS is a network of 24 satellites orbiting Earth that was originally established by the US Department of Defense. It provides positioning and timing data used for navigation, vehicle tracking, surveying, mapping and resource management. The system consists of space, control, and user segments. It calculates distances to satellites to determine a user's four position coordinates. Accuracy depends on factors like visible satellites and signal multipath. Differential GPS improves precision. Civilian uses include location, navigation, tracking, mapping and timing services. Competitors to GPS include Russia's GLONASS and the European Galileo systems.
This document provides instructions for using the basic functions of a Garmin eTrex GPS device. It explains how to navigate between pages like the skyview, map, and pointer pages. It also describes how to view navigation data like latitude, longitude, and trip information. Additionally, it outlines how to mark and name waypoints to save locations, and stresses the importance of recording waypoint coordinates. Finally, it reminds users not to swing the GPS by its lanyard to avoid damage, and to be back in class on time.
Usability testing involves testing a product on real users to evaluate how easily users can complete tasks and use the product. It is done early in the design process to identify usability issues. Pros include getting real user feedback and data, while cons are limited users and tasks can be tested. Common techniques are task completion analysis and eye tracking. The process involves planning with objectives, selecting users and tasks, conducting tests, and reporting results and recommendations.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the US Department of Defense to provide precise location and time information to military users. It became fully operational in 1995 with 24 satellites revolving around Earth. GPS uses these satellites and triangulation of signals to determine the latitude, longitude and altitude of a GPS receiver. It has both military and civilian applications such as navigation, tracking, and map making.
Towards a participatory community mapping method: the Tilburg urban farming c...CommunitySense
Urban farming communities often consist of many disjoint initiatives, while having a strong need to overcome their fragmentation. Community mapping can help urban farmers make better sense of their collaboration. We describe a participatory community mapping approach being piloted in an urban farming community-building project in and around the city of Tilburg. The approach combines (1) a basic community mapping language, (2) a state of the art web-based community visualization tool, and (3) a participatory mapping process to support the community-building efforts. We outline the approach being developed and present initial results of applying it in the Tilburg case.
The world population has grown rapidly and exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity, causing issues like depletion of natural resources, environmental problems, water scarcity, destruction of rainforests and fisheries overexploitation. By 2050, the world population is projected to reach at least 9 billion people, which will increase the demand for food and fuel and likely outpace food production. This unsustainable population growth threatens our planet's life support systems and risks exacerbating problems like global warming, extreme weather, and loss of biodiversity if no action is taken to transition to a greener economy and more sustainable consumption and production.
Land Grabbing - A Mexican Presidium Under Threatberat celik
Around the world, huge tracts of fertile land are being sold or
rented for extremely low prices. Tens of millions of hectares
have been surrendered in recent years to produce food crops
for export or biofuels, to extract resources or to resell the land
on the financial market, like any other commodity.
This so-called land grabbing is severely threatening the
environment, the food sovereignty and the very lives of local
communities.
Another catastrophic earthquake in haiti tropical grace Nancytaban
1) On August 14, 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Haiti, killing over 2,000 people, injuring thousands more, and damaging or destroying over 130,000 homes.
2) The earthquake exacerbated Haiti's humanitarian crisis, as the country had not yet recovered from the 2010 earthquake and subsequent disasters. Infrastructure was destroyed, limiting access to healthcare and aid.
3) International organizations deployed search and rescue teams, aircraft, and over 1,700 tons of food and relief supplies. Medical evacuations transported over 380 injured people to hospitals. However, increased gang violence since the president's assassination has threatened humanitarian access.
The document discusses the impacts of extreme flooding in South Sudan. Faith Kasina, a spokesperson for UNHCR, states that the flooding is the worst South Sudan has seen in 60 years and is being intensified by climate change. Over 700,000 people have been affected since May by floods, drought, and other crises. Many families have fled to refugee camps in Juba, South Sudan or across the border in Uganda. The ongoing floods are exacerbating problems caused by South Sudan's ongoing civil war, including displacement and lack of access to food and aid.
THREE KEY MESSAGES FROM ISLAMIC RELIEF'S REPORT FLOODED AND FORGOTTEN
1. FORGOTTEN EMERGENCY Eight million people remain in dire need of basic health care, food or shelter in Pakistan. Six million are at risk of fresh floods this monsoon season and some areas are already underwater again.
2. WOEFULLY INADEQUATE RESPONSE Despite the generous response of the British public and government, millions of Pakistanis are paying the price for a woefully inadequate international response overall that fell $603 million short of UN appeals. Those affected received only an eighth of what was spent on aid for Haiti’s hurricane victims.
3. END THE LOTTERY OF EMERGENCY AID International disaster relief is too often a lottery in which the response of donor governments varies dramatically according to other international demands and domestic economic constraints. The time has come to establish a global contingency fund to tackle climate-related emergencies and protect vulnerable countries from being so dependent on the lottery of fresh UN appeals and uncertain responses every time disaster strikes.
The document summarizes eco-tourism efforts in South America, specifically Chile. It discusses how Chile is promoting more environmentally friendly practices and renewable energy sources to preserve its natural wilderness areas popular with eco-tourists. It provides examples of organic farms and initiatives that balance agricultural production with environmental protection to support eco-tourism industries. However, a proposed hydroelectric dam project could negatively impact the environment and tourism if approved.
Sustainable Tribal Economies: A Guide to Energy and Food Sovereignty in Nativ...Garden2bounty
The document discusses four major challenges facing Indigenous communities: climate change, peak oil, fuel poverty, and food insecurity. These interrelated challenges stem from the high levels of consumption and exploitation of resources by industrial society. While Indigenous communities are greatly impacted, the document also notes that Native communities have significant potential to reduce the negative effects of these challenges through sustainable solutions.
The document discusses some of the major problems facing humanity, including declining planetary health and resources, as well as increasing wealth inequality. It introduces permaculture as an approach to meeting human needs while improving ecological and social conditions through strategies like ecosystem mimicry and conscious design of resilient local economies. The history and global spread of permaculture techniques are also briefly outlined.
This document provides information on several topics related to ecology and sustainability, including ecological economics, sustainability indicators, ecosystems, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and conservation of biodiversity in India. It defines key terms, describes different types of indicators and services, and outlines threats to and methods of conserving biodiversity.
This document discusses topics related to ecology, ecosystems, deforestation, population growth in Pakistan, urbanization, and their impacts. It notes that the human population will grow to 8 billion by 2025. Deforestation has cleared large areas of forests for human needs like agriculture and industry, disrupting the delicate balance in ecosystems. Rapid urbanization and population growth in Pakistan have strained resources and increased problems like overcrowding and the spread of diseases.
This thesis explores the potential for rooftop agriculture in urban areas. It examines case studies of existing rooftop gardens in cities like Toronto, New York, and Italy. The document discusses the benefits of local urban agriculture, including increased food security, community building, and environmental benefits from reducing fossil fuel use in industrial agriculture. It also notes challenges like the technical difficulties of growing food on rooftops. The thesis will evaluate the potential to expand rooftop agriculture and reduce dependence on industrial food systems.
Bio(diverse)city – the variety of life | Biocity StudioBiocity Studio
Sydney is very diverse compared to other large cities around the world. Recent pressures are resulting in a decline of our diverse flora and fauna. Sydney has followed London’s and Scandinavian models to help with linking green space and biodiversity. We now have realised how important biodiversity is and have been limiting Sydney’s urban growth patterns.
Tno & bcc sustainability forum10thsept2012Kate Cooper
This document summarizes a presentation on feeding cities given at the Birmingham Sustainability Forum. It discusses how much food Birmingham needs, the limited potential for growing food locally in the city and surrounding region, and where most of the city's food comes from. It notes that locally grown food makes up a small percentage of overall food needs, and that globally food production will need to increase to feed a growing population. The document advocates for smarter land and food use through increasing yields, reducing impacts, and reducing waste.
Presentation by Ram Gidoomal (Chairman, Traidcraft plc, UK) on the occasion of the SOC section hearing on Migrant entrepreneurs’ contribution to the EU economy on 24.11.2011 in the framework of the Permanent Study Group on Immigration and Integration.
The document discusses rural development and poverty alleviation in India, outlining key concepts related to rural economy, development indicators, theories of development, and issues related to development and poverty in global and Indian contexts. It also provides details on planning, funding, and implementation of potential poverty alleviation programs and schemes in rural India.
Ethnography is defined as the study of people in their natural environments using social research methods like observations and interviews to understand culture and interpret results. Ethnography helps uncover consumer perspectives to avoid assumptions and build successful products, designs, and user experiences. It benefits product development by creating more compelling solutions, enabling designs for the global marketplace, and identifying barriers through a process that defines problems, finds study participants, plans data collection approaches, collects and analyzes data to share insights.
The document summarizes principles of the global positioning system (GPS) and its applications. GPS is a network of 24 satellites orbiting Earth that was originally established by the US Department of Defense. It provides positioning and timing data used for navigation, vehicle tracking, surveying, mapping and resource management. The system consists of space, control, and user segments. It calculates distances to satellites to determine a user's four position coordinates. Accuracy depends on factors like visible satellites and signal multipath. Differential GPS improves precision. Civilian uses include location, navigation, tracking, mapping and timing services. Competitors to GPS include Russia's GLONASS and the European Galileo systems.
This document provides instructions for using the basic functions of a Garmin eTrex GPS device. It explains how to navigate between pages like the skyview, map, and pointer pages. It also describes how to view navigation data like latitude, longitude, and trip information. Additionally, it outlines how to mark and name waypoints to save locations, and stresses the importance of recording waypoint coordinates. Finally, it reminds users not to swing the GPS by its lanyard to avoid damage, and to be back in class on time.
Usability testing involves testing a product on real users to evaluate how easily users can complete tasks and use the product. It is done early in the design process to identify usability issues. Pros include getting real user feedback and data, while cons are limited users and tasks can be tested. Common techniques are task completion analysis and eye tracking. The process involves planning with objectives, selecting users and tasks, conducting tests, and reporting results and recommendations.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the US Department of Defense to provide precise location and time information to military users. It became fully operational in 1995 with 24 satellites revolving around Earth. GPS uses these satellites and triangulation of signals to determine the latitude, longitude and altitude of a GPS receiver. It has both military and civilian applications such as navigation, tracking, and map making.
Towards a participatory community mapping method: the Tilburg urban farming c...CommunitySense
Urban farming communities often consist of many disjoint initiatives, while having a strong need to overcome their fragmentation. Community mapping can help urban farmers make better sense of their collaboration. We describe a participatory community mapping approach being piloted in an urban farming community-building project in and around the city of Tilburg. The approach combines (1) a basic community mapping language, (2) a state of the art web-based community visualization tool, and (3) a participatory mapping process to support the community-building efforts. We outline the approach being developed and present initial results of applying it in the Tilburg case.
This document provides an overview of the Global Positioning System (GPS). It discusses the three main aspects of GPS which are determining position, speed, and time anywhere on Earth. It explains the basic principles of how GPS works by measuring the signal transit time between satellites and a receiver to calculate the receiver's location. It describes the three segments that make up the full GPS system - the space segment consisting of satellites, the control segment of ground stations, and the user segment of GPS receivers. It also provides a brief overview of differential GPS which improves location accuracy.
GPS has evolved since its development in the 1970s by the US Department of Defense. It was originally intended for military use but has grown to support many civilian applications. GPS uses a constellation of satellites that transmit timing and location data to receivers, which use triangulation to calculate the user's precise position. It has applications in navigation, tracking, emergency services, and more. A survey found that while GPS is commonly used for transportation, respondents felt it could benefit other sectors as well and its future trends are promising. However, some have privacy concerns about its growing use.
Latitude lines run east to west and measure degrees north or south of the equator, while longitude lines run north to south and measure degrees east or west of the prime meridian. GPS (Global Positioning System) uses satellites to pinpoint locations on Earth by calculating distances to receivers using latitude and longitude coordinates. GPS is widely used for navigation, by the military, and in activities like geocaching where users locate hidden items using their GPS coordinates.
GPS is a satellite-based navigation system that provides location and time information to users around the world. It consists of 24 satellites in orbit that transmit signals used by GPS receivers to calculate the user's position. The system was developed by the United States military in the 1970s and became fully operational in 1994. GPS provides accurate positioning for applications like navigation and tracking of vehicles, ships, and other assets. It is maintained by the US government and accessible to all with a GPS receiver.
This document discusses several applications of GIS technology. It describes how GIS is used in petroleum exploration to integrate geological, drilling and other data to identify potential oil and gas deposits. It also discusses using GIS to model the effects of wetland restoration and to generate ecological maps. Further applications discussed include creating a biomass map of the US to identify methane sources, digitizing road and transportation infrastructure, mobile transport mapping applications, land use planning, and mapping water distribution systems.
The document provides an introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS). It discusses that GPS uses orbiting satellites that transmit position and time data to handheld receivers, which can then calculate location details like latitude, longitude, altitude and velocity. The system was developed by the US Department of Defense, with the first satellites launched in 1978. It became fully operational in 1995 and available for civilian use in 2000. The document outlines the various components that make up GPS including the space, user and ground control segments.
Sociological Analysis of Globalization and its Impact on Rural EconomyShubham Mehta
Globalization refers to the increasing integration of economies and societies around the world through cross-border movement of goods, capital, services, technologies and people. It has significantly impacted India's rural economy in both positive and negative ways. On the positive side, it has led to higher consumption, development of credit facilities, technology, and empowerment of rural women. However, it also poses problems of unemployment, inequality and poverty if rural India does not cautiously adopt globalization. Overall, while globalization has transformed India's agrarian society and strengthened its rural economy, its negative consequences also need to be mitigated.
Community mapping, web GIS and the Creative Rural EconomyGreg_French
The document proposes using community mapping, web GIS, and a focus on the creative rural economy to empower communities and support rural development. It involves establishing positions at the Applied Geomatics Research Group to build spatial databases and online tools to engage communities in Annapolis and Digby counties in years 1 and expanding to other areas in year 2. Workshops and training materials would be developed to support communities in areas like agriculture, tourism, culture and history. Funding is requested from various sources including the Rural Secretariat to support the two year proposal.
El documento describe los componentes y funcionamiento básico del Sistema de Posicionamiento Global (GPS). Explica que el GPS está compuesto de tres segmentos: el segmento espacial con 24 satélites, el segmento de control con estaciones terrestres, y el segmento de usuarios. Luego detalla los tres métodos principales para determinar la posición usando GPS: navegación autónoma, posicionamiento diferencial corregido (DGPS), y posicionamiento diferencial de fase.
GPS is a global navigation system consisting of 24 satellites orbiting Earth that can locate positions within meters. It was created by the US Department of Defense and is now widely used in vehicles, handheld devices, and more precise applications. GPS works by satellites transmitting time signals that receivers use to calculate the distance to multiple satellites and triangulate the user's position.
GPS uses 24 satellites orbiting Earth to enable positioning, navigation, and timing services worldwide. It works by using triangulation based on distance measurements from at least 3 satellites, determining the user's location at the intersection of spherical surfaces. Sources of error include clock errors, atmospheric delays, and receiver noise. Differential GPS can correct some errors by using data from fixed ground stations.
Seeing urban and regional development dynamics through a food lense[1]LandelijkeGilden
De Plattelandsacademie organiseerde samen met de Faculteit Bio-Ingenieurswetenschappen van UGent, het Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserij Onderzoek en de Belgische Vereniging voor Landbouweconomie een lezing door Prof. Dr. ir. J.S.C. Wiskerke van de Wageningen Universiteit, Groep Rurale Sociologie. Nadien volgde een discussie tussen de aanwezigen,vooral studenten en wetenschappers.
Tourism: The Good, The Bad and the SustainableDeborah McLaren
The document discusses various rural strategies that are considered good, bad, or sustainable. It provides examples of farms, businesses, and organizations across the Midwest that are adopting sustainable practices to strengthen their communities. These include operating CSAs and value-added businesses, promoting local foods, preserving historic structures, offering education programs, and fostering connections between urban and rural areas. The overall strategies discussed aim to support small family farms, encourage rural renewal, and promote environmental stewardship.
Discussion paper prepared by Anna Pollock and Anna Drozdowska
October 21 exploring the potential for the hospitality sector to support regenerative farming
Growing Food In Cities: Benefits of Urban Agriculture in the United Kingdom
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The document discusses social innovation through four main dimensions:
1) The social economy and relationships between different sectors like the public, private, and household.
2) Catalysts and drivers of social innovation like innovators, collaboratives, and intermediaries.
3) The process of social innovation including design, development, scaling, and diffusion.
4) Transformative social innovations like social movements around health, education, and the environment.
- The document discusses the work of Christiana Gardikioti and her organization "Meraki People" which aims to promote sustainable development in Greece through agro-ecology and bio-economy projects.
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RETHINKING THE CREATIVE RURAL ECONOMY IN THE POST-AGRICULTURAL ERA
1. RETHINKING THE CREATIVE RURAL
ECONOMY IN THE POST-
AGRICULTURAL ERA
a rural community perspective
Dr. Ian Hunter
The Creative Rural Economy – From Theory to Practice
Conference, Kingston, Ontario, June 15 2011
4. The Creative Rural Economy initiative in England
was developed as a response to a growing sense
of crisis in the rural community:
Climate Change and Global Warming
The Global Economic Downturn
Implementation of EU CAP reforms
Animal pandemics and public health concerns
Demographic and political changes
5. Climate Change and Global Warming
Royal family to produce its own wine from Windsor Great Park grapes
English wine is certainly having quite a moment. As recently as 1984 just 325 hectares of land were producing grapes
that were being made into wine but over the past few years there’s been a huge increase in planting.
“It’s not all in production yet but we’ve now got 75 per cent more land under vine than we had in 2004,” says Julia
Trustram Eve of English Wine Producers. “The official figure stands at 1,323 though we estimate that the actual figure is
even higher than that.”
6. Climate Change and Global Warming
Greenhouse Britain, Helen & Newton Harrison, 2009
7. The Global Economic Downturn
Theories of Social Change - unstable dynamics
Change as a fundamental feature of modern life - the notion of ‘repertoire’
8. Implementation of radical EU CAP reforms
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) represents 48% of the EU’s budget, 49.8
billion Euros in 2007.
CAP reform (Pillar 2) aims to reduce this contribution to 36% by 2013 by shifting
subsidies from agricultural production to social and environmental priorities (RDPE).
9. BSE/vCJD (Mad Cow Disease)
The costs of BSE in Britain:
£3.5 billion since 1996
168 people dead and 95 suspect.
10. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
Images of Tony Blair at the height of the foot-and-
mouth crisis may have frightened off foreign
tourists, says the government's media chief.
Alastair Campbell is quoted in a think-tank's new
report, which says much of the £2bn losses
experienced by the British tourist industry during
the crisis was due to a lack of communication with
the public overseas.
11. AVIAN FLU (H5N1)
Incineration of H5N1 infected turkeys, 2002
US Congress voted $7.1 billion to combat avian flu. In 2006 donor nations pledged $2
billion to combat bird flu at the two day International Pledging Conference on Avian and
Human Influenza held in China. Over ten billion dollars have been spent and over two
hundred million birds have been killed to try to contain H5N1. Investment strategies are
being altered to manage the effects of H5N1. This changes the valuations of trillions of
dollars worth of stocks worldwide as investors move assets to avoid risk.
12. E-coli
E. coli fear grips Hamburg The gate to the grounds of the organic
June 2nd 2011 farm where the outbreak began
The killer bug claimed at least 33 lives, has left some 3,000 people ill across 14 countries,
and led to several bans on vegetables grown in Europe, which have cost farmers millions
of euros (dollars) in losses. The compensation package finalised by the European
Commission will cost more than €210m in June 2011.
13. Crisis also challenges us to re-think our values,
priorities, and the way we do things
An opportunity to re-think the core principles of the Creative
Rural Economy?
Creativity: professional, para-professional, and endogenous
Rural: land-based and agricultural communities
Economy: that’s anybody’s guess!
14. The Crisis in Agriculture is a Crisis in Culture
Proposing a cultural strategy for agricultural change
Establishment of a Rural Cultural Forum
The Creative Rural Communities Report
15. Re-defining Rural Creatives: unlocking the
cultural capital of ‘other’ rural communities
Farmer Creatives
Women and the Rural Economy
Young People
Rural Elders
Artists and Professional Cultural Entrepreneurs
New Rural Cultural Diversities
Marginals and illegals
17. Acting on Government
Advice:
A Rural Mandate:
Need for evidence of support from
grass-roots rural and professional arts
stakeholders (NFU, RASE, Soil
Association, ACRE, etc.)
Policy Fit
Focusing the aims of the rural cultural
strategy to address key Government
policy agendas: environmental
sustainability, public health, youth,
social cohesion, The Big Society, etc.
Making the Economic Arguments:
The proposal for a Creative Rural
Economy initiative was recognised
as the key to the success of the strategy
18. The Rural Community Response 2006 - 11
Establishment of The Rural Cultural
Forum, 2006
Rural Cultural Summit, Tate Britain,
2006 (stakeholders’ conference)
The Creative Rural Economy
Conference, Lancaster University, 2006
The Creative Rural Communities
Report, July 2010
The Government’s Rural Advocate,
Dr Stuart Burgess, with Tate Britain
Director Stephen Deuchar, at the
Rural Cultural Summit
19.
20.
21. Creative Rural Economy Conference - Final Panel
Michael Hart, Farmer (Chair); Linda Burnham, Art in the Public Interest, USA; Janet Barton, Lancashire Economic Partnership; Sally Medlyn,
Consultant; Dr Jan Hartholt, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture; Mark Robinson, Arts Council England; Iain Bennett, North West Development
Association.
22. Mapping the Creative Rural Economy
Arts and rural cultural tourism
Digital media and the rural economy
Promoting creative rural clusters (chains)
Arts-led urban rural and cultural diversity business partnerships
Art-farms, rural biennales, and rural arts festivals
New rural design and architecture initiatives
Investing in rural community creativity and rural cultural capital
Arts-based land use, and renewables (energy and fibre crops)
Food cultures and rural food marketing initiatives
New rural crafts, and textile/fashion interfaces with agriculture.
23. Re-Thinking the Rural: The Post-Agricultural
Landscape
The emergence of unanticipated rural social, economic,
and environmental formations
Inventing a new rural aesthetic
Proposing a cultural strategy to manage agricultural
change
Re-thinking the rural economy from a cultural
perspective
24. CREATIVE RURAL ECONOMY
Re-thinking the Rural Economy from a cultural perspective
Michael Eavis (farmer/Glastonbury) Murray Carter (biomass farmer) Robert Garlick (craftsman) Farm Barbecue (ArtBarns project)
25. £100 million for the local economy.. and still counting. Farmer creativity &
cultural entrepreneurship.
Rural leaders and farmers are successfully innovating by adopted a culture of self-
help and creative entrepreneurship, and are very eager to take on further
engagement with the arts, media and cultural sectors in developing all aspects of
rural regeneration, rural community development, farm diversification and the creative
rural economy. But they are still not getting anywhere near the level of support and
backing from the statutory arts and cultural funding and policy sectors that they feel
they are entitled to. Commenting on the outcome of a recent public into community
benefits from the Glastonbury Festival,
Farmer/cultural entrepreneur Michael Eavis stated:
"The local economy gets £100 million a year .. they are all on board now because
everybody earns some money from it [Glastonbury Festival] - and there are seven
[other] farms I now rent”.
26. HAY FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
CARTAGENA26—29 JAN 2012BEIRUTMAY 2012 BELFAST28 MAY—4 JUN 2011
HAY26 MAY—5 JUN 2011
XALAPA6—9 OCT 2011
BRECON12—14 AUG 2011
MERTHYR2—4 SEP 2011
NAIROBI15—18 SEP 2011
CAPE TOWN21—25 SEP 2011
SEGOVIA22—25 SEP 2011
MALDIVESNOV 2011
KERALA18—20 NOV 2011
Over the past decade, Hay Festival has become a global not-for-profit institution
27. The changes in agriculture are
radical, and are giving rise to
new economic, environmental
and social formations in rural
areas, and changing the way in
which farming and rural
communities think about
themselves and their role in the
context of the national discourse.
Gareth Gaunt (left) with fishing instructor Leon Shipley
There is a major shift away from FARM PROJECT HELPS CHILDREN
Farmers Guardian, August 10th 2007
farming and food production to
YORKSHIRE children with learning and
rural development and social and behavioural difficulties are set to benefit from
environmental goods. a new education project being set up by a
local land owner.
Gareth Gaunt is investing in three dedicated
fishing ponds and a new classroom at his
Sicklinghall Farm, near Wetherby. Working
with schools throughout the Leeds area, he
will take small groups of problematic children,
at risk of being excluded from school, to help
them gain an official ‘Fishing and the
Environment’ qualification.
28. Creative rural communities
The enhancement and unlocking of the creative and cultural capital of
grassroots rural communities and businesses
Sally Robinson, farmer and rural entrepreneur,
founder of Amplebosom.com www.amplebosom.com
29. Releasing rural creative potential
and cultural capital
Q. Why have rural communities and businesses not benefited more from the
creative rural economy and related arts and cultural funding and resources?
(i) Culture = untapping new economic potential. Because they don’t have a
coherent rural cultural strategy which clearly articulates and demonstrated
their cultural needs and potentials;
(ii) Culture = jobs They don’t know who to talk to, nor do they have access to
the policy language and key policy makers at DCMS, Arts Council, etc.;
(iii) Culture as an exclusively urban policy zone? Cultural industries, creative
economy and cultural policy discourse
is in general preoccupied with urban values and priorities.
30. Rural cultural strategy & creative rural
economy initiatives
It’s all about sustainability
A rural cultural strategy also means aligning the rural sector’s contributions
more identifiably with key government objectives for economic, energy and
environmental sustainability.
Achieving a credible rural policy fit
Addressing some of the RDPE axes, and paying attention to regional rural
development priorities as logical points of entry
Mapping rural cultural and economic diversity
Understanding the complexity and cultural diversity our ‘rural’
constituencies; what about the fishing port communities?
Partnership v dependency
Promoting rural communities as positive, proactive and full of untapped
cultural capital and creative potential
Brokering a place at the policy table
Getting the DCMS and DEFRA policy people on board
Political traction
Promoting a cross-party rural affairs lead on the creative rural economy
31. Four creative rural sectors
A brief sampling of a couple of rural sectors and communities which (from
our research) would seem to constitute important, but as yet
undocumented or unrecognised, new areas of creative economic output
and potential
Rural creatives
Professional artists, craftspeople, designers, architects, etc., resident and/or
working in mainly rural locations
Farmer creativity
Farmers who have pioneered uniquely cultural projects
and/or are consciously generating new cultural and social goods; i.e. social
farming and the ‘art farms’ phenomena
Creative rural communities
The enhancement and unlocking of the creative and cultural capital of
grassroots rural communities and
businesses
New urban – rural creative economic interfaces
New cultural communities in the countryside; farm
markets and cultural diversity; the Black Farmer
32. Rural creatives
Professional artists, craftspeople, designers, architects, resident and/or
working in rural locations contribute around £250 million per annum to the
national Creative Economy
‘Rural (traditional) crafts could soon overtake farming as the biggest contributor to the
rural economy’
‘The Crafts in the English Countryside’ Report, The Countryside Agency, 2004
33. BASKETS BY GYONGY LAKY
Made using orchard prunings -
recycling waste materials for high
value craft products
41. FOOD CULTURE AND ARTS-LED
MARKETING INITIATIVES
Poet James Crowden promoting West country cider
42. ARTS AND RURAL TOURISM:
the ArtBarns project - promoting cultural tourism with marginal hill-farming
communities in Lancashire
Tribute to Kurt Schwitters by Simon Cutts
neon installations outside and inside farmer Norman Nutter’s barn at Fence, Forest of Bowland
47. ART FARMS
There are 17 documented ArtFarm projects currently active in the South West
of England.
48. Farming fibre and alternative energy: new urban markets for rural craft
skills and farm grown materials
Murray Carter, Yorkshire pioneer of willow energy crops Willow bio-mass growing trials, at Long Ashton
49. Promoting new markets for surplus biomass willow: Concorde commission,
Manchester International Airport, 2007
51. DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE RURAL ECONOMY
Interviewing Henry Bainbridge and local farmers on Chipping FM, GRASS ROOTS 2001
52. ArtBarns project: Toro Adeniran-Kane with Sarah Hartley and Ben at Masons House Farm,
Bashall Eaves, discussing a joint farm produce marketing initiative
53. Arts-led farm foods marketing and new urban rural
cultural diversity business partnerships
Farmer John Hartley entertaining African women from
Manchester - ArtBarns 2000 - a project which led to a direct
selling scheme for his milk
57. Creative Rural Marginals and Illegals
Contribution of Travellers, Gypsies and Roma communities to the rural economy
Migrant rural workers and transportation of refugees across national rural borders
Urban/rural Youth culture, Nu-raves, and extreme sports/arts
Smokies and illegal meat exports for ethnic minority communities
Rural elders, rural Grey Bars: rural wisdom and the Knowledge economy
Rural Drug industry, and moonshine
Cat houses and sex ranching
58. Contribution of Travellers, Gypsies and Roma communities to the rural economy
The Appleby Horse Fair and Traveller convention in northern England
contributes an estimated £1.4 million annually to the local economy.
Right: The Rural Media Company, Hereford, publishes a monthly
periodical for Gypsies and Travellers
59. Migrant rural workers and transportation of refugees across national rural borders
FSA rural documentary project, 1930s
Below: Project with migrant workers by
Bridging Arts, England
60. Mass gatherings draft bylaw prompted by rural raves
by Nelson Daily editor on 24 November 2010
A surge of Nu-raves in the Kaslo area and Taghum Beach (BC) in the last year has
prompted complaints and now the drafting of a regional district bylaw to regulate mass
gatherings.
61. Smokies and illegal meat exports for ethnic minority communities
'Smokie' gangs threaten meat trade
The illegal meat trade could have serious long-term implications for Welsh farming, a
conference in Cardiff has been told.
Mafia-like criminal gangs are making huge profits from the illegal meat trade with little
risk of being caught and punished. Wales is becoming the centre for the illegal
production of so-called smokies - a delicacy made from carcasses which are primitively
blow-torched.
62. Elders: natural wisdom and the rural Knowledge economy
Left: The world’s first Grey Bar? Right: Sheep Judging at an English agricultural
show
63. Rural Drug industry, and moonshine
A traditional rural still
DEA Assessment: Methamphetamine is the principal drug of concern in all parts of
Iowa. Despite some abatement through State regulations placed on precursor
chemicals, rurally based local small toxic laboratories continue to be a significant
problem throughout the state.
64. THE HEART OF GOLD RURAL ECONOMY
The Shady Lady Ranch brothel in Nye County, Nevada, about 150 miles north
of Las Vegas
Some small brothels, with just a few girls, pay a quarterly fee of $5,000
(£3,100). Bigger houses can pay up to $37,000 (£23,000) per quarter. One
Nevada county takes in several hundred thousand dollars a year. The money is
used for services ranging from ambulances to veterans’ assistance. McMurdo
has found that in the “heart of gold” tradition, brothels are big on being silent
partners for community projects.
66. CHANGING THE POLARITY OF THE DISCOURSE
Changing the language and focus of the the creative rural economic debate
Creative = FERTILITY (the key to survival is safeguarding biodiversity and human
fertility)
Rural = SUSTAINABILITY (farming the sun - farmers produce our protein, energy,
fibres, and culture)
Economy = OIKOS (oikophobia - rejection of home values alienation - social
responsibility)
CAP Pillar III? A (rural) cultural strategy for agricultural change
Reframing EU agriculture and rural development policy become a cultural discourse
and social responsibility
Agriculture sits at the heart of culture (urban/rural)
Agriculture as the first culture
The rural is no longer marginal: it's now moving to the centre of economic and
environmental policy discourses
67. CALCULATING THE COSTS OF THE WRONG AGRICULTURE POLICY
Making the economic (OIKOS) arguments
£14bn estimated costs to the British Economy (1996 - 2011) of pandemics/health
scares: BSE, FMD, H5N1, E-coli. Approximately £.75 bn. p.a.
By reframing agricultural policy as a cultural undertaking and responsibility
i.e. factoring in other ethical, social, aesthetic, environmental values
we could possibly save the economy £2.5 bn over the next five years,
or £750 million p.a.
Reduce animal welfare, environmental, public health, and other social costs
68. RETHINKING THE CREATIVE RURAL ECONOMY
a post-agricultural perspective
Recalibrating the the rural sector's (cultural and creative) p.a. contribition to the
national creative economy
1.Estimated reduction (at 20%) in the costs relative to public health, animal welfare,
compensation, etc. £150 million
2.Farmer Creatives, rural marginals, illegals, and the cultural capital of creative rural
communities. £250 million
3.Rural creatives, artists, architects, designers, crafts, etc.£350 million
Total contribution pa. £750 million
This has been achieved without any Government arts or culture led
regeneration funding
By way of contrast the cities and urban economy have received over £200
bn in DCMS/ACE arts and Lottery Arts funding in the last five years
In the same period the Rural Culture Forum has only been able to secure
£100,000 of arts funding for rural regeneration.
70. REGISTERED CHARITABLE TRUST NO. 1002365
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1990 to promote innovative arts projects in response to social,
environmental and cultural change.
The Arts & Rural Creativity programme is supported by the Arts
Council of England.
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