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Judicial Responses to Climate Change in the Global South
This book explores how judiciaries in different parts of the world are responding to climate change and how climate change intersects with the law. It offers feminist approaches to the judicial responses to climate change in the Global South, providing both jurisdictional and thematic reviews. Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues facing humankind, and is currently reshaping geopolitics, governance, law, and international relations around the world. The book’s originality lies in its endeavour to highlight judicial perspectives on climate change from prominent female researchers who have been working on this subject professionally and/or academically, bringing both regional and international views to the subject. The main objective is to give a new meaning to the study of climate change by bringing together the most recent aspects, including climate litigation, eco-constitutionalism and the environmental rule of law, climate and environmental justice, climate geopolitics and climate governance. The book will be of interest to students, academics, and scholars of climate law and environmental law around the world.
Securing Human Mobility in the Age of Risk
Protecting human mobility is a complex homeland security challenge. U.S. borders are crossed nearly 500 million times a year, and over a quarter of all Americans have passports. The U.S. government faces a daunting challenge in protecting people on the move from the risks of direct attack, preventing the travel and immigration system from being exploited by terrorists and criminals, and infusing it with resilience against breakdowns. In this book Susan Ginsburg, formerly a senior counsel on the staff of the 9/11 Commission, examines the massive enforcement buildup that has occurred since 9/11, and she finds it out of sync with some of the government's security imperatives. By reducing this e...
Performance Measurement and Management Control
Presents a collection of research in management control and performance measurement. This book offers guidance for both academic researchers and managers as they work toward improving organizations.
Diasporas
Diasporas play an increasingly prominent role in discussions on foreign assistance and development policy. Governments of migrant-sending countries are working to attract both the talents and resources of emigrants and their descendants while governments of aid-sending countries hope to improve the outcomes of development assistance by engaging the talents and expertise of diasporas. Independently of governments, many diaspora groups or individuals recognize profitable opportunities in their homelands or contribute their time, talents, and resources to improving the quality of life there. This volume examines the development impact of diasporas in six critical areas: entrepreneurship, capital markets, "nostalgia" trade and "heritage" tourism, philanthropy, volunteerism, and advocacy. It is the result of research commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Poverty Reduction, Diaspora Networks Alliance. Contributors include Roberto Munster, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Carlyanna Taylor, and Aaron Terrazas.
Anais do Seminário de Letramento Informacional
Os Anais do I Seminário de Letramento Informacional, evento realizado no mês de dezembro de 2015, tem como objetivo apresentar os resumos dos trabalhos resultado de pesquisas realizadas pelos estudantes durante o curso de Especialização em Letramento Informacional, oferecido pela Faculdade de Informação e Comunicação da UFG. O curso de especialização teve como objetivo capacitar professores da rede pública municipal e estadual; bibliotecários; e tutores e professores de EAD que atuam nos pólos de apoio presencial, parceiros da Universidade Federal de Goiás, para programas e ações pedagógicos competências informacionais de alunos necessárias para responder aos desafios da i...
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The Bickford Fuse
Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal - four parallel journeys are just beginning. Gorych and his driver, rolling through water, sand and snow on an empty petrol tank; the occupant of a black airship, looking down benevolently as he floats above his Fatherland; young Andrey, who leaves his religious community in search of a new life; and Kharitonov, who trudges from the Sea of Japan to Leningrad, carrying a fuse that, when lit, could blow all and sundry to smithereens. Written in the final years of Communism, The Bickford Fuse is a satirical epic of the Soviet soul, exploring the origins and dead-ends of the Russian mentality from the end of World War Two to the Union's collapse. Blending allegory and fable with real events, and as deliriously absurd as anything Kurkov has written, it is both an elegy for lost years and a song of hope for a future not yet set in stone. Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk
Letramento informacional
De um modo geral, os relatos de pesquisa reconhecem que professores e bibliotecários são atores fundamentais na formação de pessoas letradas em informação. As boas práticas têm mostrado que a efetividade dos programas de letramento informacional nas escolas exige um trabalho cooperativo principalmente entre esses dois profissionais. Mas o que se constata é que os próprios agentes pedagógicos e de inclusão digital carecem, eles mesmos, de uma educação para a informação e precisam desenvolver suas competências e habilidades informacionais. Diversas pesquisas no campo da Ciência da Informação têm confirmado esse fato. Le Coadic (2003 apud SILVA; JAMBEIRO; LIMA; BRANDÃO, 20...
Changing the Odds for Vulnerable Children Building Opportunities and Resilience
This report analyses the individual and environmental factors that contribute to child vulnerability. It calls on OECD countries to develop and implement cross-cutting well-being strategies that focus on empowering vulnerable families; strengthening children’s emotional and social skills; strengthening child protection; improving children’s health and educational outcomes; and reducing child poverty and material deprivation.
