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This accessible text provides a comparative perspective on racism in Europe as experienced and exhibited by young people. It offers a clear analysis of the causes of racism and nationalism and examines public policies designed to have a positive effect.; This book is intended as a supplementary text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in social work, social policy, sociology and political science, and as an essential text for students on professional courses in youth and community work.
Tourism has experienced constant growth worldwide over the last decades. Studies carried out point out an average annual growth rate in the number of international arrivals and the estimation is that it will continue to rise. The impact of tourism reinforces the idea of developing tourism under sustainable principles and constitutes multiple environmental challenges to be faced by managers, regulators and academics because, if appropriately managed, tourism can be a great economic revitalizer. This book illustrates different models and experiences with a common final perspective: to generate knowledge on how to make effective and applicable the broad concept of sustainable tourism. Readers will have the opportunity to learn from these contributions and to apply that understanding to their day-to-day work in the tourism industry.
The reinvention and the emergency of the capitalism with new worldwide contours, having ecology as the paradigm of modernity, have introduced a set of new problems. The integration of the world economy with environmental questions, the control on the ecological future of the planet, the reinventions of new ethical utopias for the humanity, the universality of the participative democracy, and the construction of the new natural and social contracts on a worldwide scale, are questions that pressure the current systems of thoughts. The fast social depreciation and ecological destruction, putting the future existence of the humanity at risk, constitute a contradiction of the processes of globalization. Mankind has been confronted with this new historical perspective: to construct and incorporate socio-economical enterprises to the notion of sustainable development. This book has the pretension to introduce new elements in this dialogue, reaffirming the importance of the Amazonia in this worldwide political enterprise.
La investigación en pedagogía social y educación ambiental ha contribuido a desarrollar la aplicación de procedimientos metodológicos cualitativos de muy diverso tipo: estudio de casos, investigación-acción participativa, estudios prospectivos, etnografías educativas, grupos de discusión o entrevistas, entre otros. La consolidación en las últimas décadas de su saber hacer permite presentar sus contribuciones utilizando el lenguaje metodológico y la explicación de los procesos de toma de decisiones que anteceden a los resultados de investigación. Las personas que participan en esta publicación pertenecen o han colaborado estrechamente y de múltiples maneras con el grupo de investigación SEPA-interea de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (www.sepa.usc.es). Se trata de una obra coral que ha de animar a seguir investigando, a mejorar los diseños de investigación educativa y a potenciar la divulgación de los hallazgos y las reflexiones a que den lugar esos trabajos, más allá de las oportunidades académicas.