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Historical Trauma: Literary and Testimonial Responses to Hiroshima by Ghonim, Mariam
Published 2023Subjects: “…Demography, Population, and Ecology…”
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Page will reload when a filter is selected or excluded.- A review has been carried out on the potential ecological impacts of peaceful or civilian robotic drone use and its policy implications for developing countries. The author delves into the emergence of what has become today known as drones right from the late 16th century it was first used as a hot - air balloon through its evolvement over the decades inspired by the need for national defence and global peace. The article highlights the rapid departure from the tragic use of military - grade drones to peaceful or civilian uses in the last decade to policy implications for developing countries. The article gives succinct analyses of the reported and potential pros and cons associated with peaceful drone use in developed and developing countries with the aim of assisting the later in this unavoidable policy decision at hand. Suggestions are made on the way forward through approaches to arrive at policy criteria on peaceful robotic drone use in accordance with cultural, developmental, ethical and ecological needs, aspirations and peculiarities of developing countries in need of such a framework. 3 results 3
- Ecology|| Peaceful Robotic Drone|| Policy|| Developing Countries 3 results 3
- African prose narratives for children 1 results 1
- Agro-Ecological Zones in Nigeria 1 results 1
- Agro-ecological zones 1 results 1
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- An understanding of forest communities’ risk factors for climate variation, adaptation trajectories, and how agroecological differences shape their responses are critical to future policy formulation in Nigeria. Therefore, drivers of vulnerability to climate change and adaptation options of forest communities’ farming households in major agro-ecological zones of Nigeria were investigated. Data were collected, using an interview schedule, from 183 forest-edge households in savanna, mangrove, and rainforest agro-ecologies. Descriptive statistics and analysis of variance were used to analyse the data. Respondents cultivated 6.4 ± 2.6 acres of farmland. Changes in rainfall patterns were most experienced in the rainforest and savanna whereas, it was temperature fluctuation in the mangrove. Crop farming was the worst hit by climate change among other livelihoods. Crop rotation in the savanna and mangrove (X = 2.12; 2.44, respectively), and mixed farming in the rainforest (X = 2.52) were top adaptation priorities while crop insurance was the least. Low paying livelihood alternatives (X = 1.54), illiteracy (X = 1.73), and lack of infrastructure (X = 1.38) were major social vulnerability drivers of climate change in the savanna, mangrove, and rainforest, respectively. Major political and economic drivers were inconsistent government policy and poverty, respectively. The use of adaptation measures was not significantly different in the agro-ecologies, whereas, the livelihood impact of climate change was (F = 9.990; p < 0.05). Social and environmental drivers of vulnerability to climate change differ in the forest communities, and adaptation priorities varied according to zones 1 results 1
- Bioinformatics 1 results 1
- Changes 1 results 1
- Climate 1 results 1
- Concentrations 1 results 1
- Conservation 1 results 1
- Conservation agriculture 1 results 1
- Cowpea pathogens 1 results 1
- Cross River State 1 results 1
- Demand Pressures 1 results 1
- Disease ecology 1 results 1
- Distance decay effect 1 results 1
- Ecological Epizootiology 1 results 1
- Ecological availability 1 results 1
- Ecological consciousness 1 results 1
- Ecological consciousness, the awareness created in stories through representation of human interaction with the environment, is paramount in African prose for children. Existing studies have focused mostly on style, didacticism and other contemporary issues, to the neglect of ecological consciousness. This study examined the depiction of ecological consciousness in selected African prose narratives for children with a view to revealing the predominant environmental tropes, ethics and symbols employed in them. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin’s postcolonial ecocriticism and Lawrence Buell and Trevor Cairney’s ecocritical criteria were adopted. Eight prose narratives for children were purposively selected from four traditionally-inclined African tales owing to their ecological consciousness (West—Charles Anson-Lawson’s The Greatest Treasure (TGT), East—Verna Aardema’s Bringing the rain to Kapiti plain (BRK), North—George Murphy’s The Enormous Yam (TEY) and Southern Africa—Charles Mungoshi’s Stories from a Shona Childhood (SSC)) and four contemporary African stories (West—Mabel Segun’s The Twins and the Tree Spirits (TTS), East—Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson’s Mama Miti (MMT), North—Walid Tahir’s Sayeed…Sayeed (SAS), and Southern Africa—Ignatius Musonza’s Ike’s Plant (IKP)). The narratives were subjected to critical textual analysis. The theme of ecological consciousness is depicted through pastoral, georgic and wilderness tropes infused with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), sustainability, mutuality and subtle domination of nature. Verna Aardema’s BRK, George Murphy’s TEY, Charles Mungoshi’s SSC, Mabel Segun’s TTS and Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson’s MMT raise awareness through TEK and establish affective relationship that promotes human connectedness with nature. Charles Anson-Lawson’s TGT, Walid Tahir’s SAS and Ignatius Musonza’s IKP underscores sustainability through conservation of water, plants and animals, and prevention of desertification, loss of species, water and air pollution. Mutuality, balance and synergy as significant elements of co-habitation are explicitly recreated in the contemporary stories but are only implied in the traditional tales. The omniscient narrators in SAS, MMT, and TTS serve as agents of change by projecting ecocentric ethical values, which query flagrant domination of nature through apocalyptic tropes of pollution and land degradation, thereby foregrounding the environmental ethics of restrained anthropocentrism and biocentrism. Water and death are dominant symbols signifying life and death in all the narratives. While water symbolises life for both human and non-human nature, natural death is regarded as a form of renewal. Anthropomorphism and romanticisation of nature are employed in the traditional tales to express the symbiotic relationship between human and non-human nature, while the realistic mode is adopted in all the contemporary tales except TTS. To avoid ecophobia while creating ecological consciousness, all the narratives tend towards social ecology. Environmental tropes of sustainability, mutuality and symbols projecting environmental synergism are used to imbue the young audience with ecological consciousness in African prose narratives for children. Eco-critical discourse should be central in the representation of environmental awareness for African children 1 results 1
- Ecological risk 1 results 1
- Ecological status 1 results 1
- Ecology 1 results 1
- Ecology|| History|| Policy|| Folklore|| Legend||Culture|| Prehistoric Times|| Tiv|| Nigeria 1 results 1
- Education|| Ecology|| Large Classes|| Future of Ecology|| Funding 1 results 1
- Elderly 1 results 1
- Enrichment planting | 1 results 1
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