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The article deals with the process of knowledge management in the construction of urban infrastructure in Leningrad in the 1920s and the influence of political and economic factors on this process ... explosion at the Central Party Club in Leningrad, where a meeting of the philosophy section was under way, injured around 30 people. On the same day, the head of the Belarus OGPU, I.K. Opanskiy, was killed
corresponded to the prevailing flood protection philosophy, whether they were linked to floods and how flood protection influenced land use. The Gürbe regulation, its consecutive projects and the connected ... protection philosophy? (3) How were protection measures connected to flood events? (4) How has flood protection on mountain torrents changed in the last two decades? (5) How did flood protection measures
the Commission’s political significance. It was a bold and innovative attempt to find common ground between promoters and opponents of dams on which a new way of thinking about and planning dams could ... years. However, although important for subsequent approaches to dam projects, the true significance of the Commission’s work was not technical, but political. A focus on its outputs and impact draws
Belfast in the North of Ireland. A reservoir in the mountains was also planned at a later date but this was delayed by the Great War and then by Irish political instability and the high cost of construction ... by the South of Ireland and thus subject to the Boundary Commission of the Anglo-Irish peace treaty. The Water Commissioners had brought important British political leaders to tour the Silent Valley
juxtaposition with the antipathy that nationalist groups expressed in the political realm in the monarchy’s final decades. Studying government and public responses to flooding in the nineteenth century ... population’s empathetic responses notable was its juxtaposition with the conflict that increasingly characterized political and nationalist rhetoric among segments of the monarchy’s different language groups
environmental management, and is associated with a range of political and socioeconomic consequences (Gupta & van der Zaag, 2008) . Issues of social equity relating to water access, flooding and draught have ... , before the issue of INNS was understood as it is today, this is perhaps unsurprising. In amongst this complex landscape of environmental, political and socioeconomic consequences of water resource
socioeconomic, environmental, and political conditions. We trace this history from a political–ecological standpoint, applying the Echelons of Rights Analysis framework and the hydrosocial territory concept to ... , and political realities of the watershed (Becker and Tutillo 2009; Hidalgo et al. 2017) . The central question of this article is: How have socio-environmental conflicts related to irrigation water
, with details on several political and economic factors that turned the town’s location and function into an issue for international sanitary diplomacy. Then I analyse the circumstances in which Romania ... periphery. Politics, economy and public health in Sulina Political control over the Danube Delta region (Map 2) changed often during the modern age, yet Sulina’s role as a crucial transportation hub only
built between 1950 and 1985; a period when environmental considerations for large projects were evolving to present-day social, political and regulatory standards. Large projects result in ecosystem
fast social change, political turmoil or external threats, as in the late eighteenth Century, the 1930s and 1940s and since the 1990s, the link between water and the Netherlands was used to promote ... specific historical and political context (Leerssen 2011, p. 20) and establish the nation as an “imagined community” (Anderson 2006) , determining who are part of nation and who are not. To be convincing
(Brunnee and Toope 2002; Degefu 2003; and Woldetsadik 2013) ; political economy studies (Allan 1999 and Waterbury 2002) , and political studies (Yohannes 2009; Adar and Check 2011; Melesse et al. 2014 ... informal determinant, religions are also institutions, and so religion was also an institutional determinant of Ethiopian–Egyptian relations. The Ethiopian kingdom was the third political entity to adopt
protection as well since the lakes were of importance for Sámi communities (Össbo 2014). After the battle over the Vidduoljiennuo/Vindel River in the 1960s and the decision not to expand in 1970, political ... expansion 1955–1958, where the lake Reevhtse was dammed and became Norway’s third largest lake. Reevhtse is located in the area where the now well-known Sami political actor Elsa Laula Renberg’s family
” each represent a collection of papers to testify to the variety of approaches and topics that concur in reaching the common aim to scientifically underpin political and societal decisions to mitigate our
point in the philosophy and practice of cancer drug research.
political representatives and multiple governmental agencies, such as the Department of Defense (DoD), the EPA, and the MPCA. These local pressures led to three main periods of investigation: local ... discontinuing further research on the barrels (ARMCOM 1977). Multiple stakeholders, including state agencies, environmental organizations, and political representatives, disagreed with this recommendation. For
research that reflected distinct political, economic, and environmental needs at a time when the state required more rigorous water planning. Case studies presented here include research on understanding and ... , political, and economic concerns shaped scientific research agendas, reminding us of the larger social context in which scientific research occurs. Idaho Water Resources Research Institute; Water Resources
to be tamed. Rather the discourse was much more about certain socio-political arrangementsin this case the feudal oneswhich were framed as allowing nature to degrade. The state of the natural ... environment was partially a product of the lack of proper social arrangements. The humanenvironmental connection we as historians like to emphasize was already used in these political discussions in the early
Extended author information available on the last page of the article Engineers 1968) was also significant in the political, social, and economic contexts of that time. With the primary objective of ... . Transformability is defined as: The capacity to create a fundamentally new system when ecological, economic, or social (including political) conditions make the existing system untenable. Transformability means
factors involved in ponds and pondscapes (e.g. social, political, economic and financial factors) can affect the ecological status of ponds and pondscapes by driving either their protection and conservation ... , but requires explicit consideration of the social, political, and economic context (Balian et al., 2014). In particular, there is a need for engaging stakeholders from relevant sectors operating at
and strategic responses from Indigenous peoples, responses shaped by diplomacy, political philosophy, cultural practices as well as pragmatism. While different Indigenous peoples have repeatedly ... water a good lens to examine the connections between historical processes, cultural attachments, and political dynamics. We then offer some interpretations about what these five articles say about settler
