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Community action and planning. Contexts, drivers and outcomes
2014
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy. This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative a…
The history of human-induced soil erosion: Geomorphic legacies, early descriptions and research, and the development of soil conservation—A global sy…
2013
Abstract This paper presents a global synopsis about the geomorphic evidence of soil erosion in humid and semihumid areas since the beginning of agriculture. Historical documents, starting from ancient records to data from the mid-twentieth century and numerous literature reviews form an extensive assortment of examples that show how soil erosion has been perceived previously by scholars, land surveyors, farmers, land owners, researchers, and policy makers. Examples have been selected from ancient Greek and Roman Times and from central Europe, southern Africa, North America, the Chinese Loess Plateau, Australia, New Zealand, and Easter Island. Furthermore, a comprehensive collection on the …
The dialogue between east and west in the construction of gender photography as support of discourse and resistance
2018
En el marco de la globalización, en las nuevas narrativas de género se han producido cambios conceptuales con nuevos posicionamientos críticos y de resistencia. Mujeres creadoras de otras culturas, diferentes al mundo occidental, han trabajado para denunciar situaciones o poner en valor el empoderamiento de las mujeres como protagonistas de su destino. Y es en esta línea donde las mujeres artistas han aportado sus propuestas feministas y de resistencia. Los objetivos de este trabajo se centran en dos ejes conceptuales: a) analizar la situación de las mujeres en el contexto de los países islámicos y b), mostrar, a través del trabajo de fotógrafas procedentes de estos países, como se está con…
The relationship between persons with mental health problems and their dogs: A qualitative study within a nursing perspective
2013
Background: There is an increasing number of people with mental health disorders in the Western world. The most common traditional therapies are conversational therapy and medications. One alternative to traditional therapies is Anthrozoology. Anthrozoology treats the interaction between people and animals, and it shows that animals can be a great contributor to human health and wellness. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine how people with mental health disorders experience owning a dog. Methods: The chosen design was qualitative, and the methods were interviews and observations of five informants with their dogs. The analysis was conducted with systematic text-condensation. R…