Welfare-Partnership Dynamics and Sustainable Development

Gonçalves, Hermínia

doi:10.3390/su14137819

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“…For example, an approach based on economic indicators, such as GDP, can lead to policies that prioritize economic growth to the detriment of other important dimensions of well-being, such as quality of life or the environment. A broader approach considers multiple dimensions of well-being, leading to policies that prioritize quality of life, the environment, and other important dimensions of well-being, in addition to economic growth (Gonçalves, 2022;Keating, 2020).…”

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The Geomorphological Landscape of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

Pereira

2020

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The main geomorphological features of the eastern part of the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro region are presented, namely the Iberian Meseta, the residual ridges, the Serra de Montesinho, the tectonic landforms and the Douro River incision. The Iberian Meseta is represented by extensive plateaus shaped in pre-Mesozoic rocks of the Iberian Massif. Above the Meseta plateaus, Appalachiantype reliefs are built in metamorphic rocks, testifying an older planation surface. Below the plateaus, the incised river network and the canyon-type Douro River Valley in the Portugal-Spain border region reveal a recent Atlantic capture of the northern interior of Iberia. Nonetheless, it is the Vilariça NNE-SSW trending strike-slip fault system that is the main source for the push-up elevations and strike-slip tectonic basins bordered by pop-up type mountains that define the tectonic landscape of the region.

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The Geomorphological Landscape of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

Pereira

2020

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“…The literature demonstrates that the structural response capacity that exists in each country tends to be complemented with the organization of community support systems [33], which act in support aging-in-place vulnerabilities and even more active in pandemic situations.…”

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Transformative Processes of Gerontological Responses in Different Models of Public Providentialism in the COVID-19 Context: A Bibliometric Review

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Gonçalves

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world population at multiple levels. Within the most vulnerable population, the elderly have seen their usual fragilities worsened in an epidemiological context. Thus, it was necessary to reinforce the gerontological response to aging at home, or in place, framed in situations of comorbidities, health problems, economic need and isolation, among other situations of premeditated situations of aging fragility. Objective: Seeking to explain a model of gerontological response to aging-in-place in future pandemic situations. For that purpose, we have explored, through a scientific literature review, the relationship between public participation and the gerontological response to aging-in-place during COVID-19, considering the four main European welfare models. During this analysis we also intended to identify the reconfigurations from those responses, considering their place-based/neutral order. Methodology: To proceed in this analysis, we used a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to identify a series of articles that add value to this problem. Next, in order to identify current research trends, we undertook a Bibliometric Analysis (BA), using the metadata from the same set of articles collected from Scopus and Web of Science. Results: The literature on the subject is interdisciplinary, dispersed throughout areas such as health; social sciences; politics; and computational, molecular, and even environmental fields of study. Through the use of keywords, the literature found on the relationship between the type of gerontological responses to aging-in-place and providence systems is still insufficient. There are, however, other research possibilities, such as exploring indicators of gerontological responses, of public expenditure or of the type of support from interlocutor stakeholders through a comparative study between countries, which allowed us to robustly answer the central question: Is there any relationship between the different public welfare systems and the public participation model, which included community participation, in the gerontological response to aging-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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“…The Portuguese model foresees the operation of partnership devices and local and multilevel governance. Although the municipal scale is close to Bourdieu's idea of social capital [17], it is essential to recognize that at the local level, one finds different resources and personal interactions that determine how to respond to citizens' needs and aspirations, the demand and supply of services, and people's involvement in administrative and political control [9].…”

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“…It is crucial to take on a role of self-examination in the organization of community systems that respond to emergency situations and ensure the structural action capable of promoting the efficiency of these systems. Numerous authors consider that the ongoing sociopolitical and institutional changes could lead to novel approaches in community social work; however, it is vital to strengthen theoretical eclecticism that can mobilize systemic, ecological, and critical theories [9,[23][24][25][26][27][28] while searching for models of integrated intervention, place-based approaches, and equal access. Nevertheless, it will be important to envision a theory about the action and interaction between the various social institutions involved in the framework of these socio-political transformations [29,30] in order to standardize the new conditions of practice.…”

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“…The process of municipal decentralization of social action, an alternative to the centralized bureaucratic model founded on the deconcentrated structures of the Ministry of Social Affairs, is presented as a government strategy framed within the public administration reform to encourage regional and local levels of government to produce goods and provide services [7,8], thus alleviating state tasks by allocating action to a new pluri-institutional locus, which calls for professionals from various sectors (social security, the third sector, municipalities, and companies) to articulate with each other and with local communities [6,9]. However, it is critical to ensure that these local structures, characterized by the flexibility of the analyses, which for several years were centered on the management of participation and conception, incorporate principles of effectiveness in the production of concrete results of access to social rights and territorial cohesion.…”

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Transformations in Local Social Action in Portugal

Gonçalves,

Ferreira

2023

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The decentralization of social functions to municipalities, also known as municipal decentralization, triggered new contexts of practice in municipal social intervention. Municipalities are now dealing with more work and a focus on working in partnerships, which calls for greater dynamism of the local social action teams. This process has pushed the social workers to practices that alternate between mediation through the construction of access to a universal standard of social rights and the development of social intervention models with specific access to certain contexts and social groups. The objective of this paper is to envision new forms of standardization of social action within the framework of municipal decentralization, combining place-based perspectives with community and structural social work. What can we learn from social workers’ perspectives on the context of social functions in order to envision forms of place-based standardization of municipal social action? We seek to analyze the professional visions of local social action systems reform, discussing new contexts of practice; new place-based functions; and their correlation with political mediation for universal and intermunicipal social rights, instrumental dimensions of concrete work, and dimensions of value attributed to practicing social work. We organized the research according to the phenomenological paradigm, mobilizing the qualitative method and the multiple-case study. Based on evidence from the discourse of all professionals involved in the study, the findings indicate that the transformations of local social action systems, associated with the processes of social functions decentralization, imply greater comprehensiveness of social intervention, the ability to work in partnerships, and new place-based approach matrices, but they also present challenges for social workers in terms of multilevel governance that may favor the standardization of access to better social well-being between municipal territories.

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Welfare-Partnership Dynamics and Sustainable Development

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

The Geomorphological Landscape of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

The Geomorphological Landscape of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro

Transformative Processes of Gerontological Responses in Different Models of Public Providentialism in the COVID-19 Context: A Bibliometric Review

Transformations in Local Social Action in Portugal

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