The North American Mosaic

The North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:
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The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.

Lecturas sobre el desastre del Prestige

Lecturas sobre el desastre del Prestige
Author: Ricardo García-Mira
Publisher: Instituto de Estudios e Investigacion Xoan Vicente Viqueira
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2024-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:
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En 2013, diez años después de uno de los mayores desastres de la historia ambiental de España y, podría decirse, de Europa, un grupo de investigadores, coordinados por el profesor Ricardo García–Mira, tienen el atrevimiento de recopilar en este volumen un amplio conjunto de evidencias empíricas que muestran que el desastre del Prestige es (en tiempo presente, porque aún perviven muchos de sus efectos), un hecho ambiental con fuertes implicaciones políticas, psicológicas, sociales, económicas y culturales. El esfuerzo realizado por el cualificado elenco de investigadores que aparecen en la relación de autores resulta no sólo oportuno, sino de una gran importancia científica para poder tener una imagen completa del significado de este desgraciado evento. Además, constituye una muestra efectiva del compromiso de los investigadores del campo de las ciencias sociales por devolver a la sociedad resultados de los proyectos de investigación que ellos han llevado a cabo. Índice de contenidos: 1 - El Prestige: Una Aproximación Desde las Ciencias Sociales Ricardo García Mira 2 - La Leyenda del Prestige: El Proceso de Construcción de la Realidad Política Xosé Luis Barreiro Rivas 3 - La Comunicación, Otra Catástrofe Ernesto S. Pombo 4 - Estrategias de Comunicación y Gestión Durante la Crisis Ricardo García Mira & Isabel Lema Blanco 5 - Diferencias en Actitudes y Atribuciones Entre Afectados y Voluntarios José Eulogio Real, Ricardo García Mira & Carmen Voces 6 - Explorando las Representaciones Cognitivas de los Ciudadanos en las Áreas Afectadas por el Desastre Ricardo García Mira, José Eulogio Real, David Uzzell, Gemma Blanco & Dolores Losada 7 - Afrontando la Amenaza a la Calidad de Vida Ricardo García Mira, José Eulogio Real, David Uzzell, César San Juan & Enric Pol 8 - Psicología, Participación y Adopción de Decisiones Ambientales Ricardo García Mira, David Stea, José Eulogio Real, Victor Coreno & Silvia Elguea 9 - Lecturas para la Educación Ambiental en la Sociedad Global Pablo Meira Cartea 10 - Educación Ambiental en Tiempos de Catástrofe: La Respuesta Educativa al Prestige Pablo Meira Cartea 11 - El Análisis Económico de las Catástrofes: Evaluación y Cálculo de Daños en el Sector Pesquero y Turístico Fernando González Laxe 12 - Estimando los Efectos Económicos a Corto Plazo de la Marea Negra en la Pesca y el Turismo María Dolores Garza–Gil, Albino Prada–Blanco & María Xosé Vázquez–Rodríguez 13 - Posibles Responsabilidades Penales en el Caso del Prestige Carlos Martínez–Buján Pérez 14 - Cronología de un Desastre Ernesto S. Pombo

Cities of Tomorrow

Cities of Tomorrow
Author: Peter Hall
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1997-02-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780631199434
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Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

Democracy and Expertise

Democracy and Expertise
Author: Frank Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2009-03-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199282838
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This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society. From the perspectives of both political theory and policy studies, the chapters explore the implications of deliberative democratic governance for professional expertise and extends them to specific policy practices. Following the lead of John Dewey, the discussion focuses in particular on the ways professional practices might be reoriented to assist citizens in understanding and discussing the complex policy issues of an advanced technological society. In doing so, it also explores how public deliberation can be improved through more cooperative forms of policy inquiry. Adopting a deliberative-analytic approach , policy inquiry is grounded in a postempiricist, constructivist understanding of inquiry and knowledge and the participatory practices that support it. Toward this end, the chapters draw on thriving theoretical and practical work dedicated to revitalizing the citizen's role in both civil society and newer practices of democratic governance, in particular deliberative democracy in political theory, practical work with deliberative experiments, the theory and practices of democratic governance, and participatory research. Deliberative practices are promoted here as a new component part of policy-related disciplines required for participatory governance. Calling for a specialization of "policy epistemics" to advance such practices, the second half of the book takes up issues related to deliberative empowerment, including the relation of technical and social knowledge, the interpretive dimensions of social meaning and multiple realities, the role of narrative knowledge and storylines policy inquiry, social learning, tacit knowledge, the design of discursive spaces, and the place of emotional expression in public deliberation.