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Inseguridad, violencia y actividad económica
Solo muy recientemente aparecen, en Colombia, estudios que procuran evaluar el significado económico de la inseguridad y la violencia. En ellos se establece que los efectos directos de la criminalidad común y del conflicto armado sobre la economía son de magnitud alarmantes, si bien la opinión pública no parece percatarse de ello. Por otra parte, un
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EL SENTIMIENTO DE INSEGURIDAD COMO INCERTIDUMBRE
En este capítulo inicial del libro Aspectos sociales en la seguridad ciudadana se mantiene que ese sentimiento es equivalente al concepto de incertidumbre y por tanto implica mirar el futuro con preocupación o con miedos. Partiendo de esta premisa conceptual se puede afirmar que el sentimiento de inseguridad, en gran medida, aumenta a medida que ...
Huesca González, Ana María +1 more
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Social protection and resilience in protracted crises
Abstract This article critically examines perspectives on social protection’s role in strengthening resilience capacities in protracted crises – contexts where conflict and displacement persist for five years or longer. These crises shape how stakeholders navigate their mandates to provide support, while influencing how affected communities seek to ...
Carolina Holland‐Szyp, Jeremy Lind
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Embodied Thermal Insecurity and Counter‐Hegemonic Heat Mapping
Abstract Lived experiences with urban heat are often rendered invisible, shrouded under the cloak of neoliberal resilience discourse and sanitised heat mapping and messaging. This is particularly tragic for disadvantaged at‐risk populations in white, settler colonial contexts where heat tolerance is worn as a badge of honour.
Petra Tschakert, Krishna Karthikeyan
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Food insecurity and coping strategies of low‐income households in Tshwane, South Africa
Abstract This study used principal component analysis to provide targeted policy interventions in response to livelihood coping strategies adopted by low‐income households in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa. The empirical findings are categorized into four food‐coping strategy groups.
Adrino Mazenda, Tinashe Mushayanyama
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Abstract We examine the impact of farmer organization (FO) membership on food and nutrition security among rural rice farmers, using cross‐sectional data from a household survey from Ghana. We employ an endogenous switching regression (ESR) model to account for selection bias from observed and unobserved factors. Our findings show that participation in
Kwabena Nyarko Addai +2 more
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El libro que organizan Natalia Bermúdez y María Elena Previtali permite dar cuenta de algunas de las aristas desde las que se puede comprender, preguntar y re preguntar por las políticas producidas alrededor de la seguridad en la ciudad de Córdoba ...
Agustín Villarreal
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This study aims to analyze the impact of the binational crisis between Colombia and Venezuela on the municipality of Pamplona. It is important to note that this research employed an inductive methodology, using the limited Delphi method, which ...
José Luis Jaimes Quinchoa +2 more
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El libro de Brenda Focás, El delito y sus públicos. Inseguridad, medios y polarización, inscribe el abordaje sobre la recepción de información securitaria en una construcción teórico-metodológica cuya perspectiva comunicacional no queda escindida de las
Susana Morales
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Abstract Sustainable land management (SLM) practices is a key to reducing rates of land degradation and has proven to ensure water security by increasing soil moisture availability, decreasing surface runoff, decreasing soil erosion, increasing infiltration, and decreasing flood discharge. Land degradation is adversely affecting over 75% of the Earth's
Melku Dagnachew +5 more
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