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En Costa Rica, la extensión agrícola ha sido un importante instrumento de desarrollo rural. El documento nos presenta una valiosa serie de características de la extensión agrícola a partir del siglo XIX, señalando hitos ligados a los modelos de desarrollo imperantes en diferentes momentos de la historia institucional del país. Desde esta perspectiva de la extensión agrícola, y sobre todo de las características que este revistió desde los años 90-el autor propone seis líneas de acción con miras al desarrollo rural, que pasan por la democratización de la extensión y el replanteamiento de la investigación y la extensión agrícola dirigida a pequeños y medianos agricultores.

Bug out bags and first aid kits: undergraduate college students' awareness, perceptions, preparedness, and behavior around severe weather -- The gender dimensions of the 2013 southern Alberta floods -- Morphometric conditions underpinning the spatial and temporal dynamics of landslide hazards on the volcanics of Mt. Elgon, eastern Uganda -- Disaster recovery among older adults: exploring the intersection of vulnerability and resilience -- Hurricanes, disasters, and food insecurity: the intersection of two social events -- Homelessness and inequality in the U.S.: challenges for community disaster resilience -- Hazardous or vulnerable? Prisoners and emergency planning in the U.S. -- The recovery process: the standard used to measure Emergency Management effectiveness in the eyes of the public -- Institutions of higher education -- Institutionalizing nonprofit influences post-disaster -- Gender and representative bureaucracy: a qualitative look at opportunities and barriers for women in local emergency management agencies -- Natural hazards, resilience, and sovereignty: the case of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands -- People with disabilities: becoming agents of change in Disaster Risk Reduction -- Young, mobile, but alone in the cold and dark: experiences of young urban in-migrants during extreme weather events in the UK -- Social vulnerability and individual wellbeing: an empirical analysis of first responders in South Korea -- How do the perceptions of natural hazards influence migration decisions among ethnic minority farmers? Insights from coastal Bangladesh.

The Mexican state of Sinaloa has not developed diaspora policies directed to the Sinaloan Diaspora in the United States, even though the economic and social contributions to the state are significant and despite the existence of a significant group of Sinaloans in a situation of extreme vulnerability due to their precarious legal status. Current literature on diaspora policies has not developed a framework to understand atypical cases such as the case of Sinaloa. I developed a mixed method research design case study of state-diaspora relations in the Sinaloa-Los Angeles transnational field. I argue that political, economic, and organizational factors explain the absence of diaspora policies. Findings suggest that this is due to anti-democratic orientations of Sinaloan local governments, lack of strong Sinaloan Hometown Associations, and low remittance dependency at the state level. Only municipalities with few resources have developed a relationship with the diaspora or are willing to do so.

Presentación. ; Rangel, Christi ; Implicaciones de los procesos de globalización económica en las reformas de ; las economías locales. Una perspectiva teórica. ; Consequences of globalization processes in local economies' reforms. A theoretical perspective. ; Vargas Hernández, José Guadalupe ; El federalismo mexicano al inicio del siglo XXI. Problemas, avances y perspectivas. ; Mexican federalism at the dawn of XXI century. Troubles, advances and ; perspectives. ; Baca Rivera, Fernando Renoir ; El equipamiento sociocultural en la calidad ambiental urbana. ; Social and cultural equipments in urban environment quality. ; Rangel Mora, Maritza ; Importancia de la estructura organizativa y control de gestión integral en la ; gerencia de los gobiernos municipales. ; Relevance of organizational structure and management control in local ; governments. ; Soto O., Efrén ; Análisis de las relaciones intergubernamentales en áreas metropolitanas. Experiencias y propuestas. ; Intergovernmental relations in urban areas' analysis. Experiences and ; proposals. ; Grimaldo Lorente, Jaime y Rangel, Christi ; Coordinación entre los gobiernos municipales y el gobierno metropolitano en ; materia de transporte urbano: Caracas. ; Coordination between local and metropolitan governments in urban transport issues: Caracas. ; Ocaña Ortiz, Rosa Virginia ; Memorias del Taller de Integración de las Alcaldías del Área ; Metropolitana de Caracas ; Lecciones aprendidas del Taller de Integración de las Alcaldías del Área ; Metropolitana de Caracas. ; What we learn at the Metropolitan Area of Caracas municipalities' joint ; seminar. ; Boccalandro Álamo, María ; Resultados del Taller de Integración de las Alcaldías del Área Metropolitana ; de Caracas. ; Metropolitan Area of Caracas municipalities' joint seminar outcomes. ; González, Andreina ; 37-68 ; fernandorenoir@aol.com ; semestral ; Nivel analítico

This monograph provides valuable lessons in building disaster resilience for rural communities and beyond. With a focus on Florida, the authors present a comprehensive review of the current debates surrounding the study of resilience, from federal frameworks, state plans and local initiatives. They also review evaluation tools and feature first-hand accounts of county emergency managers as well as non-profit and community groups on key issues, including perspectives on vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children and farm workers. Readers will find insightful answers to such questions as

This monograph provides valuable lessons in building disaster resilience for rural communities and beyond. With a focus on Florida, the authors present a comprehensive review of the current debates surrounding the study of resilience, from federal frameworks, state plans and local initiatives. They also review evaluation tools and feature first-hand accounts of county emergency managers as well as non-profit and community groups on key issues, including perspectives on vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children and farm workers. Readers will find insightful answers to such questions as: How can the concept of resilience be used as a framework to investigate the conditions that lead to stronger, more sustainable communities? What factors account for the variation across jurisdictions and geographic units in the ability to respond to and recover from a disaster? How does the recovery process impact the social, political and economic institutions of the stricken communities? How do communities, especially rural ones, collaborate with multiple stakeholders (local, regional, state, national) during the transition from recovery to resilience? Can the collaborative nature of disaster recovery help build resilient communities? The primary audiences of this book are scholars in emergency and crisis management, planning and policy, disaster response and recovery, disaster sociology and environmental management and policy. This book can also be used as a textbook in graduate and advanced undergraduate programs / courses on disaster management, disaster studies, emergency and crisis management, environmental policy and management and public policy and administration.

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Central Florida is an emerging destination for Puerto Ricans migrating to the contiguous states of the United States. We use in-depth interviews with Puerto Rican adults and young adults (N=25) and data from the U.S. Census to examine Central Florida Puerto Rican families' demographic and economic profiles and to compare them to those in older destinations such as New York. We focus particularly on socioeconomic integration. Findings from interviews suggest that kinship networks may aid the efforts of families to maintain socioeconomic stability by providing access to social capital. However, the generational status and levels of acculturation may affect the kinds of jobs that are attainable. Importantly, experiences with discrimination may blunt economic progress and socioeconomic integration. The erosion of feelings of belonging due to discrimination may, in turn, affect future settlement decisions. We discuss the implications of these results for Puerto Rican families' socioeconomic status and economic stability.

In this article we examined how voluntary and self-organizing efforts contributed to disaster resiliency in a rural community in Central Florida. We analyzed data from a focus group with farmworkers in Central Florida to investigate how self-organizing collective action can help develop more resilient communities in socially vulnerable populations. We identified three major themes within our coding scheme: past disaster experiences, self-organizing collective action, and challenges to self-organizing collective action and resilience. The results indicated that past disaster experiences provided an opportunity for these farmworkers to mobilize their social capital and network partnerships to self-organize and develop disaster resilience. The findings indicated that self-organizing collective action could be effective in creating disaster resilience, even in socially vulnerable populations. Nonetheless, the results also indicated certain challenges to self-organizing collective action and resilience such as: language barriers, an anti-immigrant sentiment, poor relations with law enforcement, and lack of work. These challenges are constant reminders that the goal of creating truly disaster resilient communities cannot be reached if these conditions are not lessen or eradicated.