Is there a relationship between COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT (CD) AND BIODIVERSITY ? I need the information to complete my article about Biodiversity.
Hello Prof Abdelsalam Mohamed Meligy
A lot of the references relating to conservation and ecology; I was not sure if that was what you wanted, but then read your previous question about ecological biodiversity.
Drs Ann Dale and Lenore Newman are ResearchGate members and draw together the two topics in the paragraph 'Sustainable community development' in their paper:
Dale, A., & Newman, L. (2010). Social capital: a necessary and sufficient condition for sustainable community development?. Community Development Journal, 45(1), 5-21.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228310267_Social_Capital_A_Necessary_and_Sufficient_Condition_for_Sustainable_Community_Development
On p.7 of the paper below, under 'Biodiversity Protection', these topics are mentioned together, but possibly not demonstrating what you need:
Kellert, S. R., Mehta, J. N., Ebbin, S. A., & Lichtenfeld, L. L. (2000). Community natural resource management: promise, rhetoric, and reality. Society & Natural Resources, 13(8), 705-715.
http://afrpw.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Community-Natural-Resource-Management.Lichtenfeld.pdf
I'm not sure whether this paper is of any relevance - it touches on your topics at the bottom of the 8th page:
Collins, J. P., Kinzig, A., Grimm, N. B., Fagan, W. F., Hope, D., Wu, J., & Borer, E. T. (2000). A New Urban Ecology Modeling human communities as integral parts of ecosystems poses special problems for the development and testing of ecological theory. American Scientist, 88(5), 416-425.
http://izt.ciens.ucv.ve/ecologia/Archivos/ECOLOGIA_DE%20_POBLACIONES_Hasta%202004/ECOL_POBLAC_Hasta%202004_(A-G)/Collins%20et%20al%202000_Am_Sci_vol%2088_page%20416.pdf
See p. 142, top of 1st paragraph; this is targeted at young people:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i3157e/i3157e10.pdf
I hope that there is something of relevance
Best wishes
Mary
Article Social Capital: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Sus...
Hello Prof Abdelsalam Mohamed Meligy
Your question about eventual relationship between communities development and biodiversity is highly relevant for Egon Brunswik researchers dealing with decision making, stressing the importance of environment and situation sampling as equally important as individual sampling in our research design. If we try to generalize our research findings we want to generalize over the interaction individual-environment. A representative research design thus also includes some representative environmental (situation) sampling. This brilliant idea still waits to be fully implemented by Brunswik's successors.
During the years 2007-2012 I was the editor of The Brunswik Society Newsletter (see link below) and I am still contributing with an annual article. Today there is an editorial team dealing with this online publication. In my latest contribution "the Decision maker as a Planner", (2014) I touch upon some questions that might be relevant for your topic. On page 48 you will find a discussion about how realization of different societal goals are dependent on their allocation to societies' different organsational levels and how necessary premises for realizing goals on concrete levels often are completely overlooked. In the contribution to the 2013 Newsletter there is a discussion about Path Dependence and Routines. Not much of this topic is dealt with in psychological research. The key-concepts are here applied to psychiatric care, but the habit of rigidity or dependence on routines, habitual reaction, is certainly a strong obstacle to social adjustment among different groups in any society. In my latest publication "Path dependence and routines, a threat to capability development" the concepts ath dependence and routines are applied to diagnostic errors within mental and psychiatric care. Diagnosis 2014; 1(2): 183-188.
In the contribution to the 2011 Brunswik Newsletter you find an etiological model describing the development of a mental disease over time . Different cultural habits regarding basic psychological need satification (respective frustrations) between ' ethnic groups may be reflected in different health status. A similar model over attitude development within nursing is presented in the Brunswik Society Newsletter 2009.
In the Brunswik Society Newsletter 2011 you will find an editorial that might touch upon your question. An example is given how a Swedish town Malmoe tackled the problem with immigrants and a very large diversity of mother- languages among school pupils and a growing geographical segregation. I think that the music teacher's initiative is admirable and can not understand the lack of appreciation from the local authorities. During the last 2-3 years I have concentrated on a neglected medical field, psychiatric diagnoses, are they to be trusted. It is a heavy burden for any society and the lack of scientific approaches has caused a tremendous iatrogenic suffering among patients. My latest book " Psychiatric Diagnoses -are they to be trusted? (2012) First listen to the patients" has been downloaded here.
I hope you will find some of the above relevant to your important question.
Best wishes
Lars
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http://www.albany.edu/cpr/brunswik/newsletters/index.html
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/dx
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