261 research outputs found
Towards Blended Learning for Deaf Studies at Third Level in Ireland,
Irish Sign Language (ISL), an indigenous language of Ireland, is recognized by the EU as a natural language. It is a language seperate from the other languages used in Ireland, including English, Irish, and, in Northern Ireland
La dimensión ambiental aplicada en la elaboración de planes reguladores comunales
En los últimos cuatro o cinco años, el Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano e Infraestructura (DDUI) de la Secretaría Regional Ministerial de Vivienda y Urbanismo de la Región del Bio Bio, ha tenido que afrontar un intenso trabajo público, referido a la elaboración, coordinación y tramitación de variados instrumentos de planificación territorial, entre los que se destaca el nuevo Plan Regulador Metropolitano de Concepción, instrumento de nivel intercomunal que regula el desarrollo territorial (urbano y rural) de 10 comunas metropolitanas costeras y ribereñas del río Bio Bio, en las que se concentra casi el 50% de toda la población regional, en sólo el 8% de su territorio
Alcances prácticos para la evaluación ambiental de planes reguladores comunales
En este contexto, al referirse a la evaluación ambiental de los planes reguladores comunales, el punto de partida obligado que impone la exigencia legal hoy en día, es tener que hacerlo bajo la premisa que un "plan" se evalúa como si fuera un "proyecto". Esto se origina en que la referida legislación no define cómo se evalúa un "plan", en comparación a que sí lo hace para establecer como evaluar un "proyecto"
La participación ciudadana en la Ordenación del Territorio: de la exclusión a la cohesión. El caso de Doñana
El concepto de Ordenación del Territorio se ha consolidado a nivel internacional por medio de la aprobación de la Carta Europea de 1983, donde se define como 'disciplina científica, técnica, administrativa y política concebida como una aproximación interdisciplinar y global tendente a un desarrollo equilibrado de las regiones y a la organización física del espacio', y cuyos objetivos son, entre otros, el desarrollo socioeconómico equilibrado y sostenible, la mejora de la calidad de vida de la población, la utilización racional y equilibrada del territorio, la gestión responsable de los recursos
naturales y la protección del medio ambiente.
Se trata de una tarea complicada por cuanto necesita una mirada al territorio diferente e integral y que permita superar las visiones tradicionalmente fragmentadas y sectoriales. Esto supone la necesidad de plantear nuevas formas de planificar mucho más flexibles que adaptándose, al ritmo de las transformaciones intensas y rápidas que se dan en el uso del suelo y que están inducidas por factores socio-económicos, sean capaces de generar nuevos modelos basados en los principios de suficiencia, ecoeficiencia y biomímesis. En este nuevo horizonte las áreas naturales, que a lo largo del tiempo han
consentido al hombre el poder disfrutar de los recursos necesarios para el desarrollo de su actividad y civilización, deben ser elementos estructurante en la escala territorial. A pesar de esto, en los últimos siglos los espacios naturales han sufrido una creciente reducción y fragmentación, con la consiguiente necesidad de aislar y proteger estos espacios; este tipo de gestión ha provocado numerosos problemas, entre los que cabe destacar la generación de contrastes con la población local, haciendo que ésta sintiera extraño su propio territorio.
La historia reciente de Doñana nos revela que no sólo es posible cambiar los modelos de ordenación y las formas de hacer política, sino que resulta necesario e imprescindible asumir con rotundidad los modelos de regeneración territorial y urbana. Pero no debemos sentirnos satisfechos con este gran avance. Debemos seguir incidiendo en la necesidad de innovar los modos y procesos de planificación territorial y urbana, mediante procesos participativos en código abierto
Impacts of Forest Fragmentation on Species Composition and Forest Structure in the Temperate Landscape in Southern Chile
Mapping pervasive selective logging in the south-west Brazilian Amazon 2000–2019
Tropical forests harbour the highest biodiversity on the planet and are essential to human livelihoods and the global economy. However, continued loss and degradation of forested landscapes, coupled with a rapidly rising global population is placing incredible pressure on forests globally. The United Nations has developed the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) programme in response to the challenges facing tropical forests and in recognition of the role they can play in climate mitigation. REDD+ requires consistent and reliable monitoring of forests, however, national-level methodologies for measuring degradation are often bespoke and, because of an inability to track degradation effectively, the majority of countries combine reporting for deforestation and forest degradation into a single value. Here, we extend a recent analysis that enabled the detection of selective logging at the scale of a logging concession to a regional-scale estimation of selective logging activities. We utilized logging records from across Brazil to train a supervised classification algorithm for detecting logged pixels in Landsat imagery then predicted the extent of logging over a 20 year period throughout Rondônia, Brazil. Approximately one-quarter of the forested lands in Rondônia were cleared between 2000 and 2019. We estimate that 11.0% of the forest area present in 2000 had been selectively logged by 2019, comprising >11,500 km2 of forest. In general, rates of selective logging were twice as high in the first decade relative to the last decade of the period. Our approach is a considerable advance in developing an operationalized selective logging monitoring system capable of detecting subtle forest disturbances over large spatial scales
Linguistic imperialism: still a valid construct in relation to language policy for Irish Sign Language
Linguistic imperialism—a term used to conceptualize the dominance of one
language over others—has been debated in language policy for more than
two decades. Spolsky (2004), for example, has questioned whether the
spread of English was a result of language planning, or was incidental to
colonialism and globalization. Phillipson (2007) contests this view, arguing
that linguistic imperialism is not based on ‘conspiracy’, and is underpinned by
evidence of explicit or implicit language policy that aims to intentionally
advantage some languages at the expense of others. This paper aims to test
criteria of linguistic imperialism by exploring the treatment of Irish Sign
Language (ISL) in language policy, or lack thereof. It does this by exploring
evidence within a conceptual framework of linguistic imperialism to explore
how discrimination and inequality occurs in relation to Irish Sign Language
users in Ireland. The findings highlight many policies and practices that fit the
linguistic imperialism paradigm. The paper, therefore, challenges some views
in language policy that linguistic imperialism lacks credibility (see Spolsky
2004; Ferguson 2006) by highlighting a current case of a minority language
(ISL) under imperialistic-like control of a dominant language (English)
Correspondence between the habitat of the threatened pudú (Cervidae) and the national protected-area system of Chile
BACKGROUND: Currently, many species are facing serious conservation problems due to habitat loss. The impact of the potential loss of biodiversity associated with habitat loss is difficult to measure. This is particularly the case with inconspicuous species such as the threatened pudú (Pudu puda), an endemic Cervidae of temperate forests of Chile and Argentina. To evaluate the effectiveness of the Chilean protected-area system in protecting the habitat of the pudú, we measured the congruence between this specie’s potential distribution and the geographical area occupied by the protected areas in central and southern Chile. The measurements of congruency were made using the Maxent modeling method. RESULTS: The potential habitat of the pudú was found to be poorly represented in the system (3–8 %) and even the most suitable areas for the species are not currenly protected. According to these results, the protected area network cannot be considered as a key component of the conservation strategy for this species. CONCLUSIONS: The results presented here also serve as a guide for the reevaluation of current pudú conservation strategies, for the design of new field studies to detect the presence of this species in human-disturbed areas or remaining patches of native forest, and for the implementation of corridors to maximize the success of conservation efforts. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12898-015-0055-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users
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