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Cartografía de vulnerabilidad frente a inundaciones en llanos mediterráneos. Caso de estudio del Barranc de Carraixet y Rambla de Poyo
2008
Este trabajo aborda la cartografía de vulnerabilidad frente a inundaciones, en dos pequeños llanos mediterráneos pertenecientes al Barranc de Carraixet y la Rambla de Poyo. Ambos forman parte del Área Metropolitana de Valencia, integrando las comarcas de l¿Horta Nord y l¿Horta Sud, respectivamente. Constituye un ensayo metodológico, basado en estimadores socioeconómicos sencillos, obtenidos a partir de los usos del suelo. La vulnerabilidad se evalúa en función del valor económico del suelo y de la exposición humana al peligro. El valor económico del suelo se calcula a partir del Catastro. La exposición se calcula para tres supuestos de densidad de ocupación del espacio en función de la fran…
Le modèle de l'attachement adulte dans la perturbation de la régulation émotionnelle et des liens affectifs des femmes hospitalisées souffrant de dép…
2011
The purpose of our research is to show that the model of adult attachment constitute a factor of psychological vulnerability that explain women depression and its evolution on two levels: the disturbance of the emotional regulation (attachment strategies) and the insecurity of the representation of the past links of attachment (parental experiences), and the current ones (love and interpersonal attachment). The aim is also to determine the existing links between the personality of the depressed women and adult attachment. We have a more interest more specific in the study of the evolution between the depression and the patterns of attachment (stability or alteration) during hospitalization.…
Drought-related cholera outbreaks in Africa and the implications for climate change: a narrative review.
2021
ABSTRACT Africa has historically seen several periods of prolonged and extreme droughts across the continent, causing food insecurity, exacerbating social inequity and frequent mortality. A known consequence of droughts and their associated risk factors are infectious disease outbreaks, which are worsened by malnutrition, poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene and population displacement. Cholera is a potential causative agent of such outbreaks. Africa has the highest global cholera burden, several drought-prone regions and high levels of inequity. Despite this, research on cholera and drought in Africa is lacking. Here, we review available research on drought-related cholera outbreak…
La construcción de subjetividades en itinerarios de fracaso escolar. Itinerarios de inserción sociolaboral para adolescentes en riesgo
2016
RESUMEN La modernización del sistema de Formación Profesional del Estado español se remonta a los años 90. Desde entonces, ha evolucionado significativamente, teniendo los desarrollos europeos como marco de referencia. Con la extensión de la escolarización hasta los 16 años, se introdujo en el año 1994 un tipo de formación profesionalizadora de muy bajo nivel de cualificación, especialmente diseñada para los adolescentes clasificados como de bajo rendimiento académico en Educación Secundaria y para aquellos en situación de vulnerabilidad social. Esta formación fue rediseñada en 2006 y en 2013. Nuestra contribución, enmarcada en una investigación más amplia desarrollada en el seno de un proy…
Necesidad de una coordinación socio-sanitaria ante situaciones de emergencia social en las localidades de Xàtiva y Ontinyent (España)
2019
This article try to show up whether there is a need to coordinate the local Social Services (“SS.SS” in Spanish) with the Emergency Health Care Service (“SAMU” in Spanish) from both Xàtiva and Ontinyent (towns of the Community of Valencia) in order to allow an integrated care, carried out using an ad-hoc survey completed by (“SAMU” in Spanish) health workers and social workers from both Xàtiva and Ontinyent making up a descriptive, cross-sectional and observational study. Some of the results show that all the professionals point out the absolute need to coordinate the SAMU with the (“SS.SS” in Spanish) and that almost all of the sample believe that it is essential or necessary to implement …
A model of the filling process of an intermittent distribution network
2010
In many countries, private tanks are acquired by users to reduce their vulnerability to intermittent supply. The presence of these local reservoirs modifies the user demand pattern and usually increases user water demand at the beginning of the service period depending on the tank filling process. This practice is thus responsible for the inequality that occurs among users: those located in advantaged positions of the network are able to obtain water resources soon after the service period begins, while disadvantaged users have to wait much longer, after the network is full. This dynamic process requires the development of ad hoc models in order to obtain reliable results. This paper discus…
Integrating functional traits into correlative species distribution models to investigate the vulnerability of marine human activities to climate cha…
2021
Climate change and particularly warming are significantly impacting marine ecosystems and the services they provided. Temperature, as the main factor driving all biological processes, may influence ectotherms metabolism, thermal tolerance limits and distribution species patterns. The joining action of climate change and local stressors (including the increasing human marine use) may facilitate the spread of non-indigenous and native outbreak forming species, leading to associated economic consequences for marine coastal economies. Marine aquaculture is one among the most economic anthropogenic activities threatened by multiple stressors and in turn, by increasing hard artificial substrates …
Developing a scuba trail vulnerability index (STVI): a case study from a Mediterranean MPA
2008
Scuba diving is now one of the major form of commercial use of marine protected areas (MPAs) around the world and the control of its potential impacts on the marine environment represents a fundamental key to manage this recreational activity in highly dived areas. A potential tool to tackle such issues has been thought to be the definition of a value of recreational carrying capacity of an area, but this approach has been rarely considered management-effective. Therefore, the first step for effectively managing scuba-diving should be ‘bottom-up’: characterizing the benthic communities potentially affected by diving and evaluating their vulnerability. Aim of this paper is to propose a tool …
A bioenergetics framework for integrating the effects of multiple stressors: Opening a 'black box' in climate change research
2015
Climate change is already impacting marine ecosystems across a range of scales, from individual physiology, to changes in species interactions and community structure, and ultimately to patterns in geographic distribution. Predicting how marine ecosystems will respond to environmental change is a signifi cant challenge because vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors is highly variable, and depends on an organism’s functional traits, tolerance to stressors, and the environment in which it lives. We present a mechanistic approach based on biophysical and dynamic energy budget models that integrates the cumulative effects of multiple environmental stressors (temperature and food) …
Drinking pattern matters: effects on maternal care and offspring vulnerability to alcohol in rats
2015
Alcohol drinking during pregnancy and post-partum period is a major concern because of the persistent neurobehavioral deficits in the offspring, which include increased vulnerability to substance abuse (1). The intermittent pattern of alcohol consumption induces higher drinking levels and deeper neurobiological changes in addiction-related brain regions, with respect to traditional free-access paradigms in male rats (2, 3). Nevertheless, no studies investigated on the effects of the drinking pattern on female subjects during pregnancy and perinatal time. To this aim, this study explored the consequences of continuous vs. intermittent drinking pattern on maternal behaviour and on offspring v…