Essays about: "Volunteer Challenges"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words Volunteer Challenges.

  1. 11. Where’s Waddan? Missing Maps and cross-cultural voluntary engagement in ICT4D initiatives

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Joanna Keenan; [2019]
    Keywords : Communications; Development; ICT4D; Volunteering; Slacktivism; crowdsourcing; data; humanitarian; mapping;

    Abstract : In the wake of the Haiti earthquake response in 2010, crowdsourced humanitarian mapping has taken off, and today is considered an essential tool by many humanitarian agencies providing assistance in disaster-affected and under-resourced countries and contexts. But what happens when there is no information on a map to help agencies decide how to respond? If they cannot find roads to take to get there? If they do not know how many houses are in a village? What if the map is – missing?In response to this all-too-common problem, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), American Red Cross, British Red Cross and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) created and launched Missing Maps in 2014. READ MORE

  3. 12. Child protection systems in Sweden : gaps and challenges in services to asylum-seeking and returning children in families

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Joanna Ericson; [2017]
    Keywords : child protection systems; child maltreatment; gap analysis; children in families; migration;

    Abstract : During the second half of 2015, Sweden experienced the largest inflow of asylum-seekers in its history. Almost 163,000 people sought asylum in 2015, whereof approximately 70,000 children. READ MORE

  4. 13. Small and steady: the role of the town energy committees in the transition to clean energy in Vermont

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Carmen Paula Valache; [2017]
    Keywords : Vermont; town energy committee; local energy action; rural energy transition; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : International and national carbon reduction plans and targets have constituted the subject of a copious amount research in recent years. Concurrently, the number of cities, regions, companies and communities that have set ambitious targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency has been growing. READ MORE

  5. 14. Disarming the 'silent killer' : reducing the vulnerability of Toronto's elderly to extreme heat

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Rosalind Pfaff; [2016]
    Keywords : sustainability science; vulnerability; Toronto; elderly; heat wave; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Global climate projections forecast more frequent, intense and longer heat waves in the decades ahead. Heat waves are considered the most dangerous extreme weather event for human health, with impacts most pronounced in cities because of the urban heat island effect. READ MORE

  6. 15. Volunteer motivations and long-term viability of volunteer-based adaptive co-management : a case study of the Noosa biosphere reserve, South East Queensland, Australia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Hildur Hardardottir; [2014]
    Keywords : adaptive co-management; Noosa biosphere reserve; social-ecological resilience; volunteer motivations;

    Abstract : Citizens worldwide are increasingly volunteering in natural resource management and governments as well as public and private environmental organizations rely heavily on unpaid volunteers to further their commitments. Another growing trend is adaptive and co-management approaches to ecosystem-based management. READ MORE