Located in Sangkat Srash Chork, among 24 villages, Village 3 (Phum Bei) exposes to the worst waste management case. The coverage of the village include those houses along the Russian Federation Boulevard (RFB) (On the oppsite side of Kdan 2 and the COM) to the North until the railway next to the former Boeung Kak lake (or a former village 4 of this sangkat). The view from the RFB looks nice and tidy whereas the back is hidden from the public. One will never be able to imagine what the view at the aback look like. In the middle of a big construction poster, there is a fairly good road to the railway. Next to the railway on left is the back area of the village 3. Crossing the railway in the opposite side of the village 3 is the former Boeung Kak which is now filled with sand. Resident houses are located along the railway until the head of railway station where trains are check and fixed. There are 289 households in this village, 52 households among those are the family who rent other people’s house for settling. Families who live in the front area (along the RFB) are well better off comparing the ones settling at the back which is considered as a slum area. At the front, majority of the houses are operating small and medium businesses whereas those at the back are doing micro (very small) businesses for their livelihoods and some have regular job outside the village. As told by the deputy village chief, the livelihood activities of these people are cleaner of the Cintri or other company, garment workers, moto taxi drivers, and other in-the-area small business, such as food stall, vegetable or grocery, scavenging, and making dried clam for sell (which is known as a famous snack in Cambodia). Around 50% of households earn less tha... ... middle of paper ... ... have to even up their bed in order to have place to sleep. Reportedly, two people have been died in the previous year in the flooding. One was an adult who was electrocuted and another was a less-than-two year boy drowning as he was walking nearby his house. Secondly, it is a kind of emotional impact. The people there feel that they are losing something that they used have before. Some the people interview told that by the time the ground area was not filled with water, they could do some entertaining activities down there (e.g. having a nape on the hammock, drying clothes, and raising animals). Last but not lease, it affects the beauty of the city. The City beauty should not only be seen tidy from the outside (i.e. the front) whereas the inner looks dirty. As one travel along the railway, one could enjoy a beautiful sight-seeing rather than the piles of wastes.
Floods can be a very dangerous natural disaster because a flood has the power to move cars, buildings, and cause massive damage to life and property. Even the small floods that are only 30 centimetres or so can do massive damage to houses and if the
As the city expanded, swampland was reclaimed to expand the city. To protect its citizens, the Army Corp of Engineers built a series of levees around the city. These levees form a bowl around the city. It is precisely this architecture that was meant to protect the city will in effect destroy the city.
The book The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century by Robert Roberts gives an honest account of a village in Manchester in the first 25 years of the 20th century. The title is a reference to a description used by Friedrich Engels to describe the area in his book Conditions of the Working Class. The University of Manchester Press first published Roberts' book in the year 1971. The more recent publication by Penguin Books contains 254 pages, including the appendices. The author gives a firsthand description of the extreme poverty that gripped the area in which he grew up. His unique perspective allows him to accurately describe the self-imposed caste system, the causes and effects of widespread poverty, and the impact of World War I as someone who is truly a member of a proletarian family. His main contention is that prior to the War, the working class inhabiting the industrial slums in England "lay outside the mainstream of that society and possessed within their own ranks a system of social stratification that enclosed them in their own provincial social world and gave them little hope of going beyond it. " After the War, the working class found new economic prosperity and a better way of life, never returning to the lifestyle prevalent prior to the War.
As stated in the text there was a lot of flooding because 25 inches of rain fell in little than a day. The rain also collapsed hills that caused a sea of mud.
In the end of 18th century to 19th century, more and more people began moving into developed cities. Especially in New York City, thousands of new immigrants were seeking a better life than the one they had before. Tenements were built as a way to accommodate this growing population, and the majority people who lived in tenements were working-class, cause back to that time most tenements were located near factories, tenements were highly concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods of the city. A typical tenement building had four to five stories, in order to maximize the number of renters and to maximize their profits, builders wasted little space and buildings that had been single-family residence were divided into multiple living spaces to fit in more people, early tenements might dwell in almost 90 percent of their lots. There were no housing laws to protect the rights for people who lived in tenements until they stated The First
New York City has always been a turning point for many, may it be a native-American wishing to make a fortune or an arriving immigrant looking for better life conditions than the ones from his home country; it was particularly true for the many Irish immigrants fleeing Ireland. However, their growing numbers and willingness to accept any kind of work presented to them, attracted hostility from the rest of the New Yorkers leading them to be depicted mostly as troublemakers and a threat to the city. The fact that they resided mostly in Five Points, the most infamous slum of the time, did not help their case either. Still, their reputation was grossly exaggerated and merits to be set right. The Irish population in New York had survived through
Tsunamis caused by the Earthquake leads to flooding along the coastal environment. This damages any homes. Flooding caused new lakes or sag ponds on the land. Increasing groundwater flow from springs and displacing stream channel. ("Flood Consequences")
The parties involved in this case analysis are the sociologist, the researcher studying people in as urban slum, the people living in the urban slum, members in the community involved in a car theft ring and the police. The moral issues in this case analysis are the members in the community that are involved in the car-theft ring. The sociologist that is studying in the urban slum is concerned about being accepted in the community doesn’t tell the police about the car theft ring.
Rich in ancient ruins, beautiful coastlines and agreeable temperatures, Cambodia’s abhorrent garment factories as well as its illegitimate sex-for-sale network present a stark contrast to what is generally discovered when researching what the country has to offer. A garment worker’s career is far from glamorous, and due to factors, such as pay and working conditions, many seamstresses would rather be selling their bodies out on busy streets to survive and support their families. Prostitution runs rampant in the cities, while Cambodia’s programs to end it are what is sending scores of women back onto the streets. Cambodia’s solution to sex trafficking and prostitution is a flawed system.
I am writing to you in response to an article you recently published in Arena magazine - ‘Street Trash: Beggars of Britain’. It is poignant to know that humans, who have been made in the image of God, can have such a ghastly view; it is downgrading other human beings. This article is far too extreme and explicit!
Flooding is one of the leading public policy concerns in many cities. Major floods in Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, New Orleans, Talcoban, and Rome have resulted in loss of lives, damage to infrastructure, economic losses, and threaten health with water borne diseases. With the onset of climate change, sea level is expected rise and the frequency of intense storms are likely to increase, makeing cities more vulnerable to the resulting hazards (IPCC, 2007). The vulnerability of cities is chronic as 50% of the world population is expected to live in them by 2030 (Brown et al., 2012; Huong and Pathirana, 2012). Accordingly, there are two known approaches that address flooding: (1) mitigation is a global level response that reduces the long-term hazards of flooding by targeting the causes through policies that reduce green-house gas emissions; and (2) adaptation is a place-based policy response that reduces the felt and forecasted impact of flooding because the effects, response, and benefits area specific (IPCC, 2002; Webster and McElwee, 2009). Both of these interventions are complementary and should be undertaken jointly to reap their full intended benefits (Rose and Krausmann, 2013). At the city level, adaptation fits nicely into the paradigms of planning and can be undertaken by local planners and other decision makers to reduce flooding vulnerability (Blanco et al., 2008).
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Let us have a look at the definition of livelihood and its sustainability. Livelihood is defined as "A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (including both material and social resources) and activities required for a means of living." (Source: Chambers, Conway, December 1992) Capabilities of the household to address the needs to be fulfilled to live the dignified life can be enhanced by ensuring sustainable livelihood. Sustainable livelihood can be defined as follows – “A livelihood is sustainable which can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, maintain or enhance capabilities or assets, and provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for next generation”. (Source: Chambers, Conway, December 1992)
Getting money and getting jobs can be tough. Poverty in Uganda has been getting better, but it is still very bad. An average of about 65 percent of the population, which is about 24 million people, are poor or live below the poverty line which means living on less than $1.25 a day. Poverty in the rural area is worse with more than 85 percent living there. The poorest area in Uganda is the northern rural area with over 50 percent of the population in the north is below the poverty line (Rural Poverty Portal). People usually depend on farming in rural areas to get their money and work between 15-18 hours a day (DCI). Sometimes people can’t farm though because of the extreme drought that they have and because of that they can not grow crops (Katie Davis “Kisses from Katie” p. 31). Women also make baskets and jewelry from whatever they can find to sell at markets and also take care of their children and other families in their village’s (DCI and Kati...
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