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Daniel Novik Warshawsky 《Geoforum》2010,41(5):763-775
While some non-profits have suffered under the political and economic pressures of neoliberal urban governance reform, others have emerged as important institutional players in local governance regimes. This article highlights how non-profits food banks in Chicago have commercialized in order to respond to increased demand, enhance their institutional independence from government, and reassert their local dominance in emergency food service delivery. From a food bank member agency perspective, the consolidation of food bank institutional power has produced new bureaucratic limitations, user fees, and increased competition. These shifts reveal the rise of metropolitan food banks as important players in neoliberal urban governance regimes, as they control the conceptualization of hunger, management of poverty, and organization of food distribution systems. 相似文献
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Research on hunger and food security in the Global South and the Global North has often emphasized different factors and scales
of analyses. Unlike newer monitoring systems in the Global South, which evolved substantially following critiques by Amartya
Sen, US food security research has rarely combined the two dimensions of food availability and food access. Furthermore, this
research has paid scant attention to household coping strategies. This study responds to this lacuna in US hunger research
by developing a spatial model for predicting risk to food insecurity based on proxy measures for access (three demographic
variables) and availability (grocery store density). The study then employs qualitative methodologies (surveys and semi-structured
interviews) to understand household coping strategies in two ethnically distinct areas in Minneapolis-Saint Paul at risk to
food insecurity. One neighborhood is dominated by Southeast Asian and East African immigrants and the other by African-Americans.
This approach should allow for better targeting of food aid and programs that help alleviate food insecurity. 相似文献
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Alice Atieno Oluoko-Odingo 《GeoJournal》2009,74(4):311-331
Poverty and food security are twin concerns of Kenya in a manner similar to many affected developing countries. It is characterized
by the inability of the affected households in the country to acquire and retain sustainable livelihoods. The picture in Kenya
is bound to be complicated by the projected changes in climate, as well as by population increase and environmental degradation,
all which will put pressure on the natural resource base and militate against the achievement of sustainable development.
The poverty picture in Kenya has hardly changed since independence over four decades ago despite the enormous resources and
efforts which have been directed at tackling it. The current national poverty level remains high at well over 70% in some
pockets which remain particularly vulnerable. Following the recent post-election violence, there is now a fear that the situation
could degenerate into famine conditions and further hopelessness for a sizeable proportion of the rural population. Government
efforts to eradicate poverty and food insecurity spelled out in a thirty year development plan are unlikely to succeed unless
underlying causes of inequality are properly addressed. The paper contains suggestions for new approaches to addressing the
twin problems. 相似文献
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Horizontal surface visibility range, one of the simplest measures of local atmospheric pollution, is critical for aviation, surface transport besides long-term impact on human health and climate. Long-term observations from multiple stations (including airports) across the world show statistically significant decline in visibility. We have studied climatology and trends of morning poor visibility days (PVD, visibility <4 km) and afternoon good visibility days (GVD, visibility >10 km) based on 279 surface meteorological stations well distributed over India for the period 1961–2008. During last 5 decades, all India averaged range of annual morning PVD has increased from 6.7 to 27.3 % days, while the range of afternoon GVD has decreased from 76.1 to 30.6 % days. Annually, the morning PVD increased significantly at 3.3 % days per decade, and the afternoon GVD declined significantly at ?8.6 % days per decade. Seasonally, the highest increase in morning PVD has occurred in winter (+4.3 % days per decade), while post-monsoon has the highest decrease in afternoon GVD (?9.2 % days per decade). In spatial distribution, visibility has decreased nationwide especially over Indo-Gangetic (IG) plains, central, east and northeast India which is due to increased wintertime fog, water vapor and aerosol loading. The IG plains suffer from increased fog or smog and aerosol loading during wintertime. Long-term visibility impairment over India is visible through increasing morning PVD (decreasing GVD) and decreasing afternoon GVD (increasing PVD) which are spatially well correlated with increasing relative humidity and decreasing wind speed (seasonal). 相似文献
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Trends in seasonal temperatures over the Indian region 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Nilesh K Wagholikar K C Sinha Ray P N Sen P Pradeep Kumar 《Journal of Earth System Science》2014,123(4):673-687
An investigation has been carried out to identify the trends in maximum, minimum and mean temperatures and temperature range over the Indian land mass during the winter (January, and February), pre-monsoon (March–May), southwest monsoon (June–September) and post-monsoon (October–December) seasons by using high resolution daily gridded data set prepared by India Meteorological Department for the period of 1969–2005. It has been observed that the maximum temperatures over the west coast of India show rising trend in winter, southwest monsoon and post-monsoon seasons but the maximum temperatures do not show any significant trend over the other parts of the country. Minimum temperatures show increasing trend over the North Indian states in all seasons and they show an increasing trend over the west coast of India in winter and southwest monsoon seasons. Mean temperature shows an increasing trend over the west coast of India during winter and southwest monsoon seasons. Decreasing trend is observed in the temperature range over North India in all seasons due to increasing trend in minimum temperature. 相似文献
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Bruce Frayne 《Geoforum》2004,35(4):489-505
Based on recent research in Windhoek, this paper demonstrates that it is the well established and widespread social linkages that persist between rural and urban households that are central to the ability of poor urban households to survive. Whereas informal coping mechanisms that include borrowing, piecework and credit are pervasive in rural areas of Namibia, intra-urban sources of food are poorly developed, and outside of kinship circles, social networks within Windhoek are used sparingly, even in times of greatest need. In addition, urban agriculture plays a very limited role at present in urban food supply. The research demonstrates that urban households that are most vulnerable to hunger are those that have limited social connections to the rural areas, and must rely on intra-urban opportunities to get food (including borrowing, begging, piecework and crime). The most vulnerable are female- and male-headed households with no access to farm income and limited/irregular urban incomes. In contrast, those with active rural-urban linkages enjoy significant transfers of food from rural areas that offset hunger and vulnerability in the urban context. Urban-rural reciprocity is therefore not only a one-way movement of people and resources from the urban to the rural areas, but also a transfer of food from rural to urban households. 相似文献
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The politics of defining and alleviating poverty: State strategies and their impacts in rural Kerala
Glyn Williams Binitha V. Thampi D. Narayana Sailaja Nandigama Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya 《Geoforum》2012,43(5):991-1001
This paper presents a relational approach to the study of poverty (Mosse, 2010), and uses this to critically evaluate state strategies for identifying and alleviating poverty in Kerala, India. It traces these from national planning documents through to their point of implementation, drawing on qualitative research in two of Kerala’s poorest Districts. Ideas of participatory poverty classification, economic self-reliance and political empowerment are laudable national policy goals, and Kerala has shown innovation in its adaptation of these within the State’s devolved structures of local governance. However, both the framing of policy and its implementation reproduce ideas of individual transitions out of poverty which indicate that the state pays insufficient attention to the highly unequal social and economic relationships reproducing poverty in contemporary Kerala – in short, to poverty’s inherently political nature. 相似文献
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Tornado fatalities and mobile homes in the United States 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Fatalities from tornadoes have declined dramatically over the last century in the United States. Despite the overall reduction
in tornado lethality, fatalities from mobile homes remain high. In fact, research suggests that the likelihood of a fatality
in a mobile home is ten times or more than that in a permanent home. This study examines possible explanations of the mobile
home tornado problem, including the potential for concentration of these homes in tornado prone states, the relation to Fujita
Scale rating, and incidence during the day. We find that mobile home fatalities are concentrated in the Southeastern US, significantly
more likely in weaker tornadoes, and occur disproportionately at night. 相似文献
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GeoJournal - In recent times, food security has received growing attention as a means to alleviate hunger, and to ensure sustainable supply of nutritious, secure and accessible food to the... 相似文献
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As urban poverty in the Third World worsens, an increasing proportion of World Food Programme (WFP) food aid is being used to support poor urban dwellers. WFP food aid has typically been used in three main ways in urban areas: as free relief after disasters (such as floods or earthquakes) have struck urban centres; as part of institutional feeding projects; and as support to urban renewal. While there have been some creative approaches to using food aid to help overcome urban poverty, the benefits have usually only been temporary. It has proved difficult to design food aid interventions for the urban poor that help to overcome the causes of poverty in sustainable ways. The challenge is to use food aid to help make permanent as well as temporary improvements in the lives and livelihoods of the poor. 相似文献
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Flood is among the deadliest disasters in India, and the frequency of floods and extreme precipitation events is projected to increase under the warming climate. The frequency of floods in India varies geographically as some regions are more prone to floods than the others. The Kerala flood of 2018 caused enormous economic damage, affected millions of people, and resulted in the death of more than 400 people. Here we provide a hydroclimatological perspective on the Kerala flood of 2018. Using the observations and model simulations from the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model, we show that the 2018 extreme precipitation and runoff conditions that caused flooding were unprecedented in the record of the past 66 years (1951–2017). Our results show that mean monsoon precipitation has significantly declined while air temperature has significantly increased during 1951–2017 in Kerala. The drying and warming trends during the monsoon season resulted in a declined total runoff in large part of the state in the last 66 years. Apart from the mean hydroclimatic conditions, extreme precipitation, and extreme total runoff have also declined from 1951 to 2017. However, 1 and 2-day extreme precipitation and extreme runoff conditions in August 2018 exceeded substantially from the long-term 95th percentiles recorded during 1951–2017. Since there is no increase in mean and extreme precipitation in Kerala over the last six decades, the extreme event during August 2018 is likely to be driven by anomalous atmospheric conditions due to climate variability rather anthropogenic climate warming. The severity of the Kerala flood of 2018 and the damage caused might be affected by several factors including land use/land cover change, antecedent hydrologic conditions, reservoir storage and operations, encroachment of flood plains, and other natural factors. The impacts of key drivers (anthropogenic and natural) on flood severity need to be established to improve our understanding of floods and associated damage. 相似文献
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Fouad N. Ibrahim 《GeoJournal》1994,34(3):257-261
Due to the current civil war and the economic and political deterioration in the Sudan, the majority of the Sudanese are suffering from food shortage. The dislocated southern Sudanese in Khartoum, however, belong to the group most affected. This paper tries to analyse the structure of hunger in the capital city of the Sudan. The formal and informal food supply systems are described. The reasons why the southern Sudanese are specially vulnerable to hunger and the indicators of this vulnerability are discussed. 相似文献
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DHRUVA KUMAR PANDEY SHAILENDRA RAI A K SAHAI S ABHILASH N K SHAHI 《Journal of Earth System Science》2016,125(1):29-45
This study investigates the forecast skill and predictability of various indices of south Asian monsoon as well as the subdivisions of the Indian subcontinent during JJAS season for the time domain of 2001–2013 using NCEP CFSv2 output. It has been observed that the daily mean climatology of precipitation over the land points of India is underestimated in the model forecast as compared to observation. The monthly model bias of precipitation shows the dry bias over the land points of India and also over the Bay of Bengal, whereas the Himalayan and Arabian Sea regions show the wet bias. We have divided the Indian landmass into five subdivisions namely central India, southern India, Western Ghat, northeast and southern Bay of Bengal regions based on the spatial variation of observed mean precipitation in JJAS season. The underestimation over the land points of India during mature phase was originated from the central India, southern Bay of Bengal, southern India and Western Ghat regions. The error growth in June forecast is slower as compared to July forecast in all the regions. The predictability error also grows slowly in June forecast as compared to July forecast in most of the regions. The doubling time of predictability error was estimated to be in the range of 3–5 days for all the regions. Southern India and Western Ghats are more predictable in the July forecast as compared to June forecast, whereas IMR, northeast, central India and southern Bay of Bengal regions have the opposite nature. 相似文献
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Yuting Liu 《Geoforum》2006,37(4):610-626
Since the transition of the economic system in the early 1990s, urban poverty has become a prominent social problem and attracted attention among Chinese officials and academics. However, there have been few studies on the spatiality of urban poverty. The purpose of this paper is to examine the spatial pattern of urban poverty in China and the mechanism of spatial concentration. Urban poverty has begun to concentrate in specific locations, mainly in three types of poverty neighbourhoods: inner-city dilapidated residence, degraded workers’ villages and rural migrants’ enclaves. We argue that the emergence of concentrated poverty is rooted in the state-led urban development and the socialist housing provision system. Based on fieldwork in typical poverty neighbourhoods in the city of Nanjing, the concentration of poverty is examined, and its creation mechanism is analysed. Further discussion indicates that poverty concentration in particular neighbourhoods is different from slums or ghettoes in advanced western economies. 相似文献
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In this paper Regional Pressure Index (RPI) over the Indian region (20‡N—40‡N and 70‡0E—85‡E) has been constructed for 101
years (1899-1999) on a monthly scale. The relationship of these indices was carried out with the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall
(June–September) (ISMR) over the various homogeneous regions, for all the time scales. From the analysis it has been seen
that RPI in the month of May is significantly associated with ISMR over various regions on all the scales. The relationship
is statistically significant at 1% level. The study reveals that RPI in the month of May and January will be a new precursor
for the long range forecasting of ISMR on the smaller spatial scale. On the decadal and climatological scale, winter and spring
time RPI show a significant inverse relationship with the rainfall over the regions Peninsular India (PI) and North West India
(NWI), while the association is direct with Central North East India (CNEI) and North East India (NEI). The relationship is
significant at 0.1 and 1% level respectively. 相似文献
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Stefan Buzar 《Geoforum》2007,38(2):224-240
One of the consequences of the post-socialist transformation of Eastern and Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union is the emergence of energy poverty, a condition where households are living in inadequately heated homes. This paper examines the institutional and demographic underpinnings of energy poverty in Macedonia and the Czech Republic, two post-socialist states with divergent development paths. It has been established that more than 50% of Macedonian households may be suffering from domestic energy deprivation, while the same figure is less than 10% in the Czech case. The notion of a ‘hidden’ geography of poverty encapsulates the character of domestic energy deprivation among these populations. The problem has been invisible to decision-makers to date, due to its private character and non-conformity to conventional poverty-amelioration methods. 相似文献
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Heat wave of 2015 over India, a natural disaster with 2500 human deaths, was studied to understand the characteristics, associated atmospheric circulation patterns and to evaluate its predictability. Although temperatures are highest in May over India, occurrence of heat wave conditions over southeast coastal parts of India in May 2015 had been unanticipated. Analyses revealed that isolated region of Andhra Pradesh (AP) had experienced severe heat wave conditions during May 23–27, 2015, with temperatures above 42 °C and the sudden escalation by 7–10 °C within a short span of 2–3 days. Short-range weather predictions with Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting model at 3-km resolution, up to 72-h lead time, have been found accurate with statistical metrics of small mean absolute error and root-mean-square error and high index of agreement confirming the predictability of the heat wave evolution. Analyses have indicated that regional atmospheric pressure disparities within the Eurasia region, i.e., increased pressure gradient between the Middle East and India, had been responsible for increased northwest wind flow over to northwest India and to southeast India which have advected higher temperatures. Estimates of warm air advection have shown heat accumulation over AP region, due to sea breeze effect. The study led to the conclusion that changing pressure gradients between Middle East and India, enhancement of northwest wind flow with warm air advection and sea breeze effect along southeast coast blocking the free flow have contributed to the observed heat wave episode over coastal Andhra Pradesh. 相似文献
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D. R. Pattanaik 《Natural Hazards》2007,40(3):635-646
Between 1941 and 2002 there has been a decreasing trend in the frequency of monsoon disturbances (MDs) during the summer monsoon
season (June–September). This downwards trend is significant at the 99.9% level for the main monsoon phase (July–August) and
the withdrawal phase (September); however, it is not significant during the onset phase (June). The variability in rainfall
over the homogeneous regions of India on the sub-seasonal scale also shows a significant decreasing trend with respect to
the amount of rainfall over Northwest India (NWI) and Central India (CEI) during all three phases of the monsoon. Meteorological
observations reveal that there has been an eastward shift of the rainfall belt with time over the Indian region on the seasonal
scale and that this shift is more prominent during the withdrawal phase. This decreasing trend in MDs together with its restricted
westerly movement seem to be directly related to the decreasing trend in rainfall over CEI during both the main monsoon and
withdrawal phases and over NWI during the withdrawal phase. The low-level circulation anomalies observed during two periods
(period-I: 1951–1976; period-ii: 1977–2002) are in accordance with the changes in rainfall distribution, with comparatively
more (less) rainfall falling over NWI, CEI and Southern Peninsular India (SPI) during period-I (period-ii), and are accompanied
by a stronger (weaker) monsoon circulation embedded with an anomalous cyclonic (anti-cyclonic) circulation over CEI during
the main monsoon and withdrawal phases. During the onset phase, completely opposite circulation anomalies are observed during
both periods, and these are associated with more (less) rainfall over NWI, CEI and SPI during period-ii (period-I). 相似文献
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Study on multiple induced polarization parameters in groundwater exploration in Bashang poverty alleviation area of Heibei Province,China 
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下载免费PDF全文 The study examines a water exploration and poverty alleviation project in Guyuan county. The study analyzes correlations between aquifers and multiple induced polarization (IP) parameters, including resistivity, polarizability, deviation, half decay time, water-bearing factors, and Kc, a new parameter refined in this study. Based on the study, the well was placed accurately, and its maximum water inflow reached 30 m3/h. Kc value highlights the rate of change at early stages of IP secondary field. Kc value served as a quick indicator in this groundwater prospecting and is validated in practice. Progress has been made in finding new parameters in exploring water with IP method. Thanks to the project, local people have access to water and poverty alleviation has scored some achievements. 相似文献