A Population History of North America

A Population History of North America
Author: Michael R. Haines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2000-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521496667

Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including two essays on the Amerindian population, this volume takes advantage of considerable recent progress in demographic history to offer timely, knowlegeable information in a non-technical format. A statistical appendix summarizes basic demographic measures over time for the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: International Epidemiological Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1968
Genre: Epidemiology
ISBN:

Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals

Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Pego, Ana Cristina
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1799877876

The smart city is a driver of change, innovation, competitiveness, and networking for businesses and organizations based on the concept of the Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 agenda. The importance of a new paradigm regarding the externalities of the environment, citizen welfare, and natural resources in cities as an impact of urban ecosystems is the main objective for sustainable development in cities through 2030. Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals provides innovative insights into the key developments and new trends associated with online challenges and opportunities in smart cities based on the concept of the Sustainable Development Goals. The content within this publication represents research encompassing corporate social responsibility, economic policy, and city planning. This book serves as a vital reference source for urban planners, policymakers, managers, entrepreneurs, graduate-level students, researchers, and academicians seeking coverage on topics centered on conceptual, technological, and design issues related to smart city development in Europe.

Producción y difusión de conocimiento

Producción y difusión de conocimiento
Author: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. México
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1992
Genre: Public health
ISBN:

La presente publicacion tiene por finalidad dar un impulso adicional a la labor de difusion del conocimiento producido durante el periodo 1987-1992 por el personal academico del Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (INSP). Para ello, se presenta el resumen de cada uno de los productos escritos que han visto la luz desde la fundacion del INSP. Aparecen 245 articulos originales (reproduccion facsimilar) publicados en su mayoria en revistas periodicas que circulan dentro y fuera de Mexico y se encuentran registradas en indices internacionales. Las publicaciones se agrupan de la siguiente manera: Desarrollos conceptuales; Condiciones de salud, que a su vez se subdivide en: transicion epidemiologica, salud ambiental y ocupacional, salud de la mujer y el niño, dinamica de poblaciones de enfermedades infecciosas, biologia molecular de la relacion huesped-parasito, enfermedades de transmision sexual y SIDA, cancer y otras; Respuesta social organizada, es el siguiente capitulo que se subdivide en: sistemas y servicios de salud, atencion primaria a la salud, calidad de la atencion, recursos humanos, tecnologia para la salud, economia de la salud y salud internacional; El ultimo capitulo se titula: Educacion superior en salud publica.

Sewer of Progress

Sewer of Progress
Author: Cindy Mcculligh
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2023-07-25
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0262545926

A creative and comprehensive exploration of the institutional forces undermining the management of environments critical to public health. For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic clouds of foam lift off the river in a strong wind. In Sewer of Progress, Cindy McCulligh examines why industrial dumping continues in the Santiago despite the corporate embrace of social responsibility and regulatory frameworks intended to mitigate environmental damage. The fault, she finds, lies in a disingenuous discourse of progress and development that privileges capitalist growth over the health and well-being of ecosystems. Rooted in research on institutional behavior and corporate business practices, Sewer of Progress exposes a type of regulatory greenwashing that allows authorities to deflect accusations of environmental dumping while “regulated” dumping continues in an environment of legal certainty. For transnational corporations, this type of simulation allows companies to take advantage of double standards in environmental regulations, while presenting themselves as socially responsible and green global actors. Through this inversion, the Santiago and other rivers in Mexico have become sewers for urban and industrial waste. Institutionalized corruption, a concept McCulligh introduces in the book, is the main culprit, a system that permits and normalizes environmental degradation, specifically in the creation and enforcement of a regulatory framework for wastewater discharge that prioritizes private interests over the common good. Through a research paradigm based in institutional ethnography and political ecology, Sewer of Progress provides a critical, in-depth look at the power relations subverting the role of the state in environmental regulation and the maintenance of public health.

Credit And Socioeconomic Change In Colonial Mexico

Credit And Socioeconomic Change In Colonial Mexico
Author: Linda Greenow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429725183

This book, based on a study of the credit market in Nueva Galicia during 1720–1820, reveals a number of the social characteristics of colonial Mexico, including social status, the role of women, the church, ethnicity, and the complexity of the family network in economic affairs.