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Political swings and roundabouts

contested at a political level: the ?hockey stick? graph???showing how high recent temperatures are compared with the past 2,000?years???is perhaps an exemplar. Clearly there is no simple catch-all answer ... ambiguities would seem to leave the door open to delay and debate over any new environmental legislation in the US, something that is particularly challenging in a political environment starting from the

A push for political will

US) or A PUSH FOR POLITICAL WILL RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Emma Marris 0 1 2 0 MANAGEMENT OFFICE Publishing Director: David Swinbanks Publisher: Jason Wilde Managing Production Editor: Donald McDonald Web ... , so too with climate change: only with political will can we hope for effective POLICY WATCH action to be taken to meet our past and future commitments. 81 Atmospheric science Tibetan dust bowl 88

Questioning the Nation: Ambivalent Narratives in Le Retour au désert by Bernard-Marie Koltès

must develop the traditional philosophy of French national understanding as defined by Jules Michelet, Maurice Barrès, and Ernst Renan, three thinkers credited with developing the specifically French ... Michelet is a key figure for this philosophy, and he argues that French history begins with the formalization of the French language. As he notes in his History of France, “The history of France begins with

Interactive, open source, travel time scenario modelling: tools to facilitate participation in health service access analysis

applications described has the potential to allow complex environmental social and political considerations to be incorporated and visualised. Through supporting evidence-based planning the innovative modelling ... environmental social and political considerations to be combined and visualised. The further development and integration of this approach has the potential to make the governance and planning of service delivery

Simulation of the Process of Training the Future Primary School Teachers for Organizing Extracurricular Activities

, formation of socially significant motives; the formation of a social orientation and valuable orientations of students, political consciousness and social activity, conscious discipline and culture of ... Education in Russia , 3 , 40 - 46 . Andrushenko , V.P. ( 2005 ). Philosophy of Education in the 21st Century . Philosophy of education, 1 , 5 - 17 . Asadullin , R.M. , Teregulov , F. Sh ., Koletvinova , N.D

Climate migration myths

for research on climate change and migration was symptomatic of this securitization agenda, reflecting political demands rather than research gaps to alleviate “migration pressures at the source” 5 ... political factors10. Even when climate change does play a role, it remains difficult to determine the extent of its influence. For instance, when people have to move in the event of a cyclone, it is not

Catchments of general practice in different countries– a literature review

, has featured prominently as an important political issue in a number of developed countries. The debates around health reform have had a significant health geographic focus.Conceptually, GP catchments ... been incorporated into the literature. However, the diversity of descriptions and use of a wide of indicators may not be helpful in clarifying the issues in the political debate over the allocation of

Catchments of general practice in different countries– a literature review

, has featured prominently as an important political issue in a number of developed countries. The debates around health reform have had a significant health geographic focus. Conceptually, GP catchments ... important political issue in a number of developed countries. For example, in the recent USA presidential elections, the debate around the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as

Lobbying for and against climate solutions

question of what kinds of policies are likely to succeed in the face of domestic political barriers. One such political barrier is organized lobbying. Extensive lobbying has emerged around climate policies ... lobby, the distributional consequences of policies means that businesses adopt a variety of political strategies. Certainly, fossil-fuel companies, utilities and transportation-related businesses have

Demarcation of local neighborhoods to study relations between contextual factors and health

which present properties potentially related to the target outcomes. Political and administrative divisions of urban areas are the most commonly used definition, although they suffer limitations in their ... . The process took into account the geographic boundaries between administrative neighborhoods (a political-administrative division larger than a local neighborhood, but smaller than a borough) and

Demarcation of local neighborhoods to study relations between contextual factors and health

present properties potentially related to the target outcomes. Political and administrative divisions of urban areas are the most commonly used definition, although they suffer limitations in their ability ... neighborhoods (a political-administrative division larger than a local neighborhood, but smaller than a borough) and natural geographic barriers. Results The original 8,145 census tracts were collapsed into

Bir Vatandaşlık Değeri Olarak Yurtseverlik: Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretmen Adaylarının Algısı

promote patriotism in schools? Political Studies . 59 , 328 - 347 . Hand , M. , & Pearce , J. ( 2009 ). Patriotism in British schools: Principles, practices and press hysteria . Educational Philosophy and ... studies, The Social Studies, 93(3), 103-108, Huddy, L. & Khatib, N. (2007). American patriotism, national identity, and political involvement. American Journal of Political Science,51(1),63-77. Ismail, R

Detecting cancer clusters in a regional population with local cluster tests and Bayesian smoothing methods: a simulation study

Background There is a rising public and political demand for prospective cancer cluster monitoring. But there is little empirical evidence on the performance of established cluster detection tests

Detecting cancer clusters in a regional population with local cluster tests and Bayesian smoothing methods: a simulation study

There is a rising public and political demand for prospective cancer cluster monitoring. But there is little empirical evidence on the performance of established cluster detection tests under

How to pay the price for carbon

package of climate policies if the Paris Agreement target is to be met2. Support for carbon pricing across the political spectrum has been slow to manifest, but this may be changing in the United States ... among its founding members a veritable who?s who of the global business and political elite. The group has attempted to make a ?Conservative? case for a carbon taxand-dividend plan. Such a policy faces

Towards evidence-based, GIS-driven national spatial health information infrastructure and surveillance services in the United Kingdom

information systems. Soon it became obvious that the pure technical approach had to be replaced by a more holistic approach encompassing organisational, political and technical matters at the different local ... enterprise, the micro level, and for society in general, the macro level. On the micro level there will be a technical approach whereas on the macro level political and organisational issues will be

Roundtable: Wikidemia? Scholarly Publishing on the World Wide Web

potential and realized effects of online publishing are pertinent to an issue where many of the papers engage with the notion of boundaries, genre, and new (textual, psychological, geographical, political

A high resolution spatial population database of Somalia for disease risk mapping

Background Millions of Somali have been deprived of basic health services due to the unstable political situation of their country. Attempts are being made to reconstruct the health sector, in ... services [1]. Attempts are being made to reconstruct the health sector but with the exception of the relatively peaceful northern region, the current political situation in Somalia poses a major obstacle for

A high resolution spatial population database of Somalia for disease risk mapping

Millions of Somali have been deprived of basic health services due to the unstable political situation of their country. Attempts are being made to reconstruct the health sector, in particular to ... health and social services [1]. Attempts are being made to reconstruct the health sector but with the exception of the relatively peaceful northern region, the current political situation in Somalia poses