EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook最新文献

{"title":"REFLECTION ON MINING EXTRACTION-Depredation and Appropriation of Natural Resources by Multinational Companies","authors":"Imelda Ortiz Medina, Jorge Martinez Perez, Tania Indira Arreola Medina","doi":"10.36713/epra14183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra14183","url":null,"abstract":"Mining activity, particularly mega-mining, is an economic activity that has boomed in recent decades. This activity is carried out by multinational companies, who have appropriated natural resources, particularly metals and minerals, which, after carrying out the extraction, ghost towns are left, impoverished regions where agricultural activity is no longer possible. Therefore, the central reflection of this research is: What does mining contribute? The main contribution of mining is the depredation of the planet and the impoverishment of the towns from which the resource is extracted. This is descriptive exploratory research, whose objective is to motivate a reflection on the depredation, appropriation, and dispossession of resources by a small group of companies.\u0000KEYWORDS: natural resources, depredation of the ecosystem, dispossession of resources, mega-mining, economic growth.","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116577593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF HYDRO POWER PROJECT: A CASE STUDY OF THE LOKTAK HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT IN MANIPUR","authors":"Mairembam Rajeev Singh, Dr. Kh. Tomba Singh","doi":"10.36713/epra13794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra13794","url":null,"abstract":"Energy is essential to modern economies and to living in the modern world. To achieve economic growth, improve living conditions, and alleviate poverty, it is essential. Access to energy is therefore considered one of the most important development goals. Due to factors such as high energy costs, unaffordable grid infrastructure, and geographically dispersed populations, providing access to the majority of the worlds population can prove challenging. Renewable energy technologies, on the other hand, provide affordable and sustainable electricity to millions of people. There are a number of economically viable options for rural electrification through renewable energy technologies. In terms of renewable energy, India heavily relies on hydropower. Hydropower projects can adversely affect the environment and socio-economic well-being of the population. As an energy source, hydropower contributes to economic development and meets the growing energy needs of countries. Dam construction, however, alters water flow and sediment load, adversely impacting the environment and the populations livelihoods. Various differences exist between upstream and downstream needs, demands, and challenges. In this paper, we attempt to assess the effects of hydropower projects on society in terms of the environment as well as socio-economic conditions.\u0000KEYWORDS: Impact, Hydroelectric, Livelihood, Displacement, and Decommission.","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126699502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ODYSSEY THROUGH ACADEME I & II:Exploration of Metal Scraps in the Production of Creative Lampstand by Segun Okewumi","authors":"Oligbinde, S. R, Orelaja O.A","doi":"10.36713/epra13014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra13014","url":null,"abstract":"The paper titled ‘odyssey through academe I&II was based on the problems and challenges students of higher education face in their quest of obtaining a degree in Nigeria. It is also a celebration of the determination of these students to be trained and acquire knowledge through formal education despite the hardship posed by the education system of higher institutions of learning. The methodology explored in this project involved both primary and secondary sources of data collection. Primary sources included observation, examination and review of previous works and studies related to challenges facing students in higher institutions, material exploration and the use of scraps for sculptures. The secondary sources include images/ photographs from the internet and journal articles. The analysis used includes descriptive analysis, which involves the explanation of the procedures and interpretation of the theme and meaning of the work piece. The paper revealed that a lot of undergraduates are faced with academic struggles and challenges such as, inadequate learning facilities, lack of regular water and power supply and tedious administrative processes amidst many, which are caused by the prevalent economic and political instabilities of varying nations. The paper also highlighted some of the ways forward from these problems. The study therefore concluded on the note that the effort of these students needs to be celebrated always. Also, laying emphasis on the importance of the executed piece to the academic community as a whole.\u0000KEYWORDS: welding, metal, waste, education, experimentation","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114534884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RURAL AND AGROTOURISM ON THE ECONOMY OF \u0000WEST AFRICAN RURAL FOLKS","authors":"Brou Pettey Jean, Kambou-Pandzou Renaud Stael, Denzel Esehwanu Ulric Strasser-King, Tembele Kimia Stevy Lovell Cephas, Faustina Brown, Michael Enyan","doi":"10.36713/epra13029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra13029","url":null,"abstract":"Tourisms influence on local socioeconomic development is a key issue for West African countries. It is a key industry for national economic growth. The developmental mission of local governments emphasizes the importance of tourist research and local socioeconomic development. Even though tourism has gotten attention in a growing corpus of local socioeconomic development works in West African nations, concerns surrounding agrotourism have been disregarded thus far. Agrotourism is a developing kind of agricultural tourism aimed mostly at metropolitan customers. Consequently, the primary goal of this study was to determine how Agrotourism will affect the local economies of West African countries. There is also an examination of current studies on the economic impact of rural and agrotourism on the local economy. This research concludes by laying out the requirements for effective and sustainable rural tourism, with the ultimate objective of improving lives and, eventually, the economies of West African countries.","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130062281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IMPACT OF RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEMES ON SEASONAL LABOUR MARKETS: OPTIMUM COMPENSATION AND WORKERS’ WELFARE","authors":"Dr.Suresha K.P","doi":"10.36713/epra12918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra12918","url":null,"abstract":"The policy of employment guarantee scheme (EGS) is well known since the 1817 Poor Employment Act and the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act in Great Britain (Blaug, 1963, 1964) and the New Deal programs of the 1930s in the United States (Kesselman, 1978; Bernstein, 1970), and it was considered an important element of relief policies during natural disasters and economic downturns. In recent past, these kinds of schemes were followed both in developed and developing countries with multiple objectives such as poverty reduction building and maintaining public infrastructure, improving bargaining power of the workers etc. Among others, some notable examples of such schemes mainly for poverty alleviation are as followed by Chile (1987), India (1978), Pakistan (1992), Bangladesh (1983), Philippines (1990), Botswana (1960) and Kenya (1992).","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127759501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A 15YEARS (2000-2015) RETROSPECTIVE STUDY ON OPPORTUNITY ACT AND THE NIGERIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY","authors":"Rebecca Ginikanwa Nnamani","doi":"10.36713/epra12887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra12887","url":null,"abstract":"This is a retrospective study that discusses the 15years (2000-2015) of the opportunity act and the Nigerian textile industry. The broad objective of the study is to examine the impact of AGOA and textile industry in Nigeria between 2000 and 2015. While the specific objective is to ascertain whether the preferential access to the U.S. market under AGOA increased the volume of textile export from Nigeria to the U.S. between 2000 and 2015. Findings revealed that Nigeria stands a better chance of gaining from the benefits of globalisation and AGOA given the trend and pattern of the present global political economy. But, the benefits have not been translated into development that will alleviate poverty, better the living standard of the people, create job opportunities, improve the technology, security, and governance. The study conclusively called for Nigeria to diversify its economy so as to achieve rapid and substantial strengthening of export base within a short time. Moreover, attempts should also be made to remove all impediments on the agricultural sector and other AGOA desired products. This will not only boost its output and export but will also take advantage of the provisions under tropical product.\u0000KEYWORDS: Human capital, Opportunity Act, Poverty alleviation, Trade liberalisation, unemployment.","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134133287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CONFLICT, DISPLACEMENT AND LIFE AS\u0000 SELF-SETTLED INTERNALLY DISPLACED CHILDREN: AN APPRAISAL OF SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES IN KADUNA AND KANO STATES NIGERIA","authors":"Mustapha Abdullahi Aliyu, Ogu, Musa Akwe","doi":"10.36713/epra12439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra12439","url":null,"abstract":"This explorative study used descriptive survey as research design to reach out and aggregate experiences of self-settled IDC in localities in Kaduna state and Kano states North-East Nigeria. Both multistage and purposive sampling techniques deployed in the study allows to unearth 212 self-settled IDC in Kaduna state and 170 in Kano state as participants in the study. The instrumentation used is the modified Qayumi, et.al. (2020) questionnaire on educational need assessment survey of the IDC in Afghanistan. Data collected were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences which elicited both the descriptive, inferential and test of the assumptions made in the study. The findings in the study reveals that majority of settled IDC studied are 11-15years old (56%), followed by those in the age brackets of 6-10years 13%, as those 1-5yeard are only 6%. In addition it is shown that 73% of the sample are male, while only 27% are female. The years in displacement shows that majority of the respondents (60%) spent 6-10 in displacement and as resettled persons. While, 29% of the sample are on 11-15 years, as only 11% of the sample were in 1-5years of displacement. Majority of the respondents state of education is Primary school at 44%, as only 33% of the respondents attends Junior Secondary Schools. Some 9% of the respondents attends Senior Secondary School, as only 6% each of the respondents gained Diploma or graduates. Majority of the respondents (89%) work to help sustained their life as settled IDC, only 20% of the respondents reported not engaging in any forms of manual work in this regard. The educational challenges reported by most subjects of the study are poor access to free and quality education, inability to pay school fees, lack of access to personal learning resources and transportation to school. The study recommends among other things that, the Federal Government through its National Population Commission should development elaborate research framework to engage in detailed nationwide study of the self-settled IDC outside Borno and Yobe states. \u0000KEYWORDS: displacement, internally displaced children, self-settlement, social and educational challenges","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122489166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF THE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP IN MONITORING AND EVALUATING COMMUNITY SAFETY IN LAMU WEST SUB-COUNTY, KENYA","authors":"Madoya Micah, Dr. George Wagah, Dr. Isabella Asamba","doi":"10.36713/epra12229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra12229","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the fact that community leadership as a key community policing element has been mentioned as a factor influencing monitoring and evaluation of community safety, there is limited research to ascertain this in Lamu West Sub County. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of community leadership in monitoring and evaluating community safety in Lamu West Sub-County. The study adopted quantitative design where data was collected from a sample of 405 respondents drawn from 32,873 of Lamu West Sub-County residents with the aid of a questionnaire. Correlation and regression analyses were adopted in data analysis to help in establishing the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. The findings of this study demonstrated that there was statistically positive relationship between community leadership and monitoring and evaluating of community safety at (β=0.106; p<0.05). The study concludes that community leadership significantly influences monitoring and evaluating community safety. the study recommends that effective collaborations between law enforcement and community stakeholders are critical to public safety, and it is critical that government agencies, community organizations, nonprofits, companies, and private citizens all see public safety as a shared duty. It is recommended that community leadership should be people centered in order to enhance accountability that seeks to promote community safety. There is need for more involvement of all key stakeholders in maintaining security. The government agencies in charge of community policing should consider ensuring that community leaders have the skills and competency of resolving security matters..\u0000KEY WORDS: Community Leadership, monitoring and evaluating of community safety, Lamu West Sub-County.","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124340890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE IMPACT OF COVID19 ON RURAL COMMUNITIES","authors":"Sharanya Bhatnagar, Deepanshu Singhal, Prateek Kumar","doi":"10.36713/epra11763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra11763","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper talks about how covid19 affected rural communities in India and how they recovered from it. As the rural healthcare in India was not prepared for containing the covid19 transmissions, especially in densely populated northern regions of India due to lack of doctors, hospital beds, and equipment. The impacts of this pandemic, and especially the lockdown strategy, are multi-dimensional. The authors argue for the need to take immediate steps to control the spread and its aftereffects and to use this opportunity to strengthen and improve its primary health care system in rural India.\u0000KEY WORDS: Covid19, Rural Communities, Health Care","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124041497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT","authors":"Kasturi Lalitha Manogna, Sahil Nath Kohli, Tanmay Aggarwal, Aaryan Jaish","doi":"10.36713/epra11761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36713/epra11761","url":null,"abstract":"It comprises daily wage workers, women, children, people living in poverty, the elderly, individuals with disabilities, youth, and indigenous populations. One such segment badly affected by the pandemic was women and the empowerment of women. In a patriarchal society like India, women are oppressed. Analyze the changes that women experienced as a result of the covid 19 pandemic, as well as the consequences the women faced during the pandemic and its effects on their means of subsistence, consumption patterns, and human rights. To study the challenges women faced during the epidemic, how it affected their lives and livelihoods, and to provide solutions for this issue. The Covid 19 pandemic has had a significant influence on women in India and throughout the world.\u0000KEYWORDS: Covid 19, Women Empowerment, Unemployment","PeriodicalId":132100,"journal":{"name":"EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129828439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}