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Protected Areas and Regional Development in Europe
While originally created as reserves for beautiful landscapes and endangered species, protected areas in Europe were subsequently used as a means to preserve whole ecosystems, with restrictions on human activities and impacts. More recently, protected areas are also being considered as instruments for regional development, particularly in marginal regions facing severe economic and socio-cultural problems. Contrary to previous conservation-focused policies, new approaches aim to blend conservation and development functions, making protected areas real 'living landscapes' and integrating activities such as agriculture, forestry, handicrafts, tourism and education with the conservation and sus...
Killer Algae
"This supposedly benign little plant - that no one thought could survive the waters of the Mediterranean - has become a pernicious force. Caulerpa taxifolia now covers 10,000 acres of the coasts of France, Spain, Italy, and Croatia, and has devastated Mediterranean ecosystems. And it continues to grow, unstoppable and toxic. When Alexandre Meinesz, a professor of biology at the University of Nice, learned of a square-yard patch of it in 1988, he warned biologists and oceanographers of the potential species invasion. His calls went unheeded. At that time, one person could have weeded the small patch and ended the problem. Since then, the plant has defeated the French Navy, thwarted scientific efforts to halt its rampage, and continues its destructive journey into the Adriatic Sea."--BOOK JACKET. "Killer Algae is the biological and political horror story of this invasion."--BOOK JACKET.
Protected Areas, Sustainable Land?
Protected areas, such as nature reserves, national parks and marine conservation areas, are the main tool of nature conservation policies and are increasing on a worldwide scale. They are one of the main forms of environmental planning, and conservation institutions have increasing means at their disposal. At the same time, the goals of protected areas have become more diverse, with the involvement of more stakeholders and complex institutional frameworks. Giving an account of the extension and diversification of protected areas, this book determines whether these two processes constitute a breakdown in conservation policies. Economists, ecologists, lawyers, anthropologists and geographers analyse the various trends which are fundamental to the future of protected areas to reveal a conflicting scene where narrative around cooperation and integration hides competition between different interests. This book shows how protected areas are emerging as zones of divergent experimentations of sustainable development rather than lasting forms of integrative environmental management.
Sober, Strict, and Scriptural: Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000
Calvinism’s influence and reputation have received ample scholarly attention. But how John Calvin himself – his person, character, and deeds – was remembered, commemorated, and memorialized, is a question few historians have addressed. Focussing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this volume aims to open up the subject with chapters on Calvin’s monumentalization in statues and museums, his appearance in novels, children’s books, and travel writing, his iconic function for Hungarian nationalists and Presbyterian missionaries to China, his reputation among Mormons and freethinkers, and his rivalry with Michael Servetus in French Protestant memory. The result is a fresh contribution to the field of religious memory studies and an invitation to further comparative research. Contributors include: R. Bryan Bademan, Patrick Cabanel, R. Scott Clark, Thomas J. Davis, Stephen S. Francis, Joe B. Fulton, Botond Gaál, Stefan Laube, Johan de Niet, Herman Paul, James Rigney, Michèle Sacquin, Jonathan Seitz, Robert Vosloo, Bart Wallet, and Valentine Zuber.
1981
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Du chapitre budgétaire à la salle de cours
La commission des Affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales a confié une mission d'information sur la gestion des enseignants du second degré au Rapporteur spécial de la commission des Finances, de l'Économie générale et du Plan, et au Rapporteur pour avis de la commission des Affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales sur les crédits de l'Enseignement scolaire. Compte tenu du nombre d'enseignants concernés (460 000), et du montant des crédits engagés (137 milliards de francs), la mission a constaté le bon fonctionnement d'un système de gestion, pourtant très complexe. Depuis quarante ans, l'Éducation nationale est gérée dans un contexte de croissance continue des effect...
Pour une politique éducative en Guyane
Une mission d'information et de contrôle budgétaire, composée des deux rapporteurs du budget de l'Éducation nationale pour la commission des Affaires culturelles, familiales et sociales, et pour la commission des Finances, de l'Économie générale et du Plan, s'est rendue dans le département de la Guyane, du 30 novembre au 3 décembre 1998. Elle avait pour objet de vérifier, sur place, dans le cadre des pouvoirs de contrôle du Parlement, comment s'est effectuée la création du rectorat et de l'académie de plein exercice, séparée des Antilles, suite aux manifestations lycéennes de novembre 1996, et comment sont affectés et utilisés les moyens supplémentaires attribués par l'...
N”mes at War
""In this highly interesting book, Robert Zaretsky describes how French men and women in the department of the Gard lived the Vichy regime from day to day. It will be most useful to historians of France, but it will also be welcomed by scholars who deal with the Second World War, the history of the Jews, and the history of religion. It might well be used in undergraduate classes as a case study for popular opinion in modern France.""-Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University ""Vichy will not go away. As I write, France is in the throes of the Paul Touvier affair. . . . The Touvier affair is just the most recent expression of what Henry Rousso has called the Vichy syndrome."" So begins Robert Zare...
