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The challenge of adopting mitigation and adaptation measures for the impacts of sand and dust storms in Eastern Mediterranean Region: a critical review

SDS areas, which exhibit economic, political, and social diversity. This review also aims to identify successful mitigation strategies that have been used for similar environmental issues and to draw ... ; Socioeconomic and political dimensions; Transboundary air pollution 1 Introduction Air quality is of critical and rising importance, as widely acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO) and many other

Climate change and coastal resiliency of Suva, Fiji: a holistic approach for measuring climate risk using the climate and ocean risk vulnerability index (CORVI)

Area, the capital and largest metropolitan area of Fiji, is expected to be largely impacted by climate-related risks to its socio-economic, cultural, and political positions. In the face of these threats ... corresponding socio-economic and political risks with myriad interactions (Scheffran and Battaglini 2011) . PICs have diverse geographies and economic and social structures, which increases the difficulty of

The landscape of European policies in the power sector: first-mover advantages

. Some member states have further made political decisions to deploy or phase out particular generation technologies, such as coal-fired or nuclear power plants, decisively influencing national electricity ... reciprocally matching their public good contributions. In doing so, the subgroup takes a leader position in the game of public good provision. Page 4 of 25 technological and political conditions in the follow

Tourism and its policy. A theoretical analysis from the political science perspective

in the approach is based on the adoption of public policy analysis as a theoretical perspective, reconciling approaches from both tourism and political science. After more than half a century of the ... perspective, which considers tourism policy a multidisciplinary field. The analysis shows that political science emerges as a fundamental science for the study of tourism, providing methodological instruments

Prioritizing adaptation and mitigation in the climate movement: evidence from a cross-national protest survey of the Global Climate Strike, 2019

Climate adaptation is seen by many as increasingly important and as deeply political, leading some to argue for its democratization. Social movements could play an important role in this. Meanwhile ... climate impacts, such as flooding, drought, urban heat, and fires. As climate impacts become increasingly noticeable and locked-in across the world, adaptation has gained scholarly and political attention

Political subjects and State in the geography of new critical theories

: political practice of subaltern classes and State. In attention to that, the bets of different positions -such as cooperative and productive multitude; the political subject as loyalty to the event; the ... people as hegemonic articulation of heterogeneous demands and the political subject as emerging of an egalitarian irruption- are confronted. As conclusion of a reading committed to demarcation operations

Are transport networks in low-income countries prepared for climate change? Barriers to preparing for climate change in Africa and South Asia

regionally led strategic decisions may be responsible for the local level barriers to adaptation. For example, focusing on technological or managerial solutions may fail to consider other socio-political ... political, technical, and institutional and regulatory. Largely, the stakeholders interviewed recognise that climate change is affecting transport, but a widespread level of awareness is in its infancy. There

The Simpsons and its political portrayal

concept as well as other political elements in the animated series The Simpsons, based on the pragmatic analysis of the discourse. The program is understood as a highly relevant production with particular

Political campaigns, citizen participationand the possibilities of the web 2.0

periods while, in the meantime, the technologies of information and communication have brought to the forefront issues such as mobile communication, citizen empowerment, political participation of youth ... through apps, among others. Key Words: Political communication; Mobil apps; Political participation; Millennials; Political polls Introducción La elección presidencial de los Estados Unidos

Political campaigns, citizen participationand the possibilities of the web 2.0

, in the meantime, the technologies of information and communication have brought to the forefront issues such as mobile communication, citizen empowerment, political participation of youth through apps ... through apps, among others. Key Words: Political communication; Mobil apps; Political participation; Millennials; Political polls Introducción La elección presidencial de los Estados Unidos

Using systems thinking and causal loop diagrams to identify cascading climate change impacts on bioenergy supply systems

interconnectivity of the wood pellet supply system predispose the supply chain to various cascading climate change impacts stemming from environmental, social, political and economic domains, and highlight the value ... political efforts to increase its use mainly rely on the presumption that it will be domestically sourced, and hence increase energy self-sufficiency (Mandley et al. 2020) . However, international trade in

Applicability of leadership modes outside the negotiation framework: insights from China

–92; Grubb and Gupta 2000: 19–20; Parker and Karlsson 2014: 7) . Structural leadership is based on material power. It involves the capacity to utilize economic and political threats and incentives to ... political, cultural, and institutional backgrounds and perceptions regarding leadership needs, the selection of specific strategies depends on the context, such as the conference agenda, timing, and other

Understanding institutional barriers in the climate change adaptation planning process of the city of Beirut: vicious cycles and opportunities

presence of two vicious cycles influencing each other. In the first cycle, the root cause barrier is major political interference generating competing priorities and poor individual interest in climate ... in the first GHG national inventory in 1994. The 2016 report also points out that the regional political turmoil results in strategies being implemented in a fragmented manner. Many of these barriers

Anti-poverty Policies in Argentina: Scope, Limitations, and Challenges (2002-2015)

This article analyzes the different strategies Argentina implemented to fight poverty from the exit of Convertibility in 2002 until the change of the political cycle in 2015. It examines labor market ... policies during this political cycle, its scope, limitations, and challenges. It shows how the definition of policies depends on the type of government diagnosis on the problem, as well as on the available

Anti-poverty Policies in Argentina: Scope, Limitations, and Challenges (2002-2015)

This article analyzes the different strategies Argentina implemented to fight poverty from the exit of Convertibility in 2002 until the change of the political cycle in 2015. It examines labor market ... policies during this political cycle, its scope, limitations, and challenges. It shows how the definition of policies depends on the type of government diagnosis on the problem, as well as on the available

A binational social vulnerability index (BSVI) for the San Diego-Tijuana region: mapping trans-boundary exposure to climate change for just and equitable adaptation planning

). The consequences and impacts of climate change are distributed across political, economic, and cultural boundaries, producing wildly different experiences, exposures, and risks for communities around ... wide-ranging discourse with many definitions and applications (Martinez-Alier et  al. 2016) . We follow the development of the term as “ecological justice” in environmental political theory

Pantropical distribution of short-rotation woody plantations: spatial probabilities under current and future climate

future SRWPs, but explore an experimental pathway in which socio-economic and political condition remain the same and only climatic conditions change. Due to the use of absence data sampled within forest ... availability. The same is true for changes in the socio-economic and political situation, which can make areas accessible and suitable, which are currently not. The observed patterns of decreased probabilities

Psychosocial Analysis of Suicide in Young Bribris People

psycho-social trauma, which is the result of colonization systematic practices (historical, social, political, economic, and cultural practices) that have weakened the “Bribri” cultural identity and their

Potential implications of solar radiation modification for achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

numerous ideas for large-scale capture and storage of CO2 are being discussed. There is, however, growing recognition that such technologies or practices face the same political and economic challenges that ... globe. Actual predictions of such dynamics are nearimpossible for such highly interconnected issues across geographies and socio-economic and political systems over time. Yet, systematic exploration of

Education within constantino lascaris

sources are academic papers as well as opinion articles written by the author.Palavras-chave : Constantino Láscaris; Education; Pedagogy; Teaching Work; Philosophy. ... ; Pedagogy; Teaching Work; Philosophy Introducción En un texto leído el 11 de agosto de 2004 con ocasión del homenaje organizado por la Asociación Costarricense de Filosofía al cumplirse los 25