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Environmentally induced displacement and the 1951 Refugee Convention : pathways to recognition / Bruce Burson -- Institutional barriers to the recognition and assistance of environmentally forced migrants / Chloe Anne Vlassopoulos -- What's in a name : social vulnerabilities and the refugee controversy in the wake of hurricane Katrina / François Gemenne -- Forced migration from sub-Saharan Africa : the conflict-environment link / Wim Naude -- Solastalgia : environmentally induced distress and migration among Africa's poor due to climate change / Petra Tschakert and Raymond Tutu -- Climate and migration : a synthesis / Etienne Piguet -- Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change / Robin Bronen -- 'Buscando la vida' : how do perceptions of increasingly dry weather affect migratory behaviour in Zacatecas, Mexico? / Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk -- Environmental migration from rainfed regions in India forced by poor returns from watershed development projects / Kaushalya Ramachandran and Padmaja Susarla -- Migration to contaminated sites : migrants' settlements in Central and Eastern Europe built-in places with high environmental and social vulnerability / Richard Filčák -- Migration and natural hazards : is relocation a secondary disaster or an opportunity for vulnerability reduction? / Nishara Fernando, Koko Warner and Jörn Birkmann -- Guatemala : a review of historic and recent relocation processes provoked by disasters of natural origin / Yojana Miner Fuentes and Juan Carlos Villagrán de León -- Environmental factors in Mexican migration : the cases of Chiapas and Tlaxcala / Stefan Alscher -- Case study Senegal : environmental degradation and forced migration / Frauke Bleibaum -- The environmental root causes triggering economic migration : the case of Egypt / Tamer Afifi -- A country made for disasters : environmental vulnerability and forced migration in Bangladesh / Alice Poncelet ... [et al.] -- In the land of ostriches : developmentalism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in Turkey / Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu -- Environmental migration : case of Kyrgyzstan / Emil Nasritdinov ... [et al.] -- Linking the earth's future to migration : scenarios of environmental change and possible impacts on forced migration / Johannes Frühmann and Jill Jäger

Contents: Preface -- 1. Innovation -- 2. The history and development of robots -- 3. Robots now and in the future -- 4. The science of robots -- 5. The impact on employment, unemployment and wages -- 6. The economic, social and political impact -- 7. People's hopes and fears -- 8. Policies to deal with potential problems and to realise the promise -- 9. A changing world of innovation -- References -- Index.

"This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around the world by emphasizing the obstacles that prevent governments from fulfilling their obligations. The interdisciplinary analysis offers a detailed and up-to-date discussion to help scholars and policy makers find the best ways to instantiate economic and social rights. The authors examine the role of the associated obligations, and especially the obstacles to respect, protect and fulfil those obligations. The book's introductory and concluding chapters address conceptual issues and correct mistakes often made by critics of economic and social rights"--

"This book discusses theoretical aspects of gender issues in ICT and presents a number of case studies from various countries, covering topics such as social networking, ICT use among women, the digital divide, and theoretical approaches to gender gaps and ICT"--Provided by publisher

If sustainability is our goal, social and environmental policy must be treated as one and the same field. Examples from Agriculture, Nutrition, Forestry, Urban Planning, Care Work, Tourism, and University Management show that such a paradigm shift is indicated, important, and timely. They also show that Environmental or Social Impact Assessments are no longer adequate. The new paradigm synthetically combines environmental and social policy. Not to do so leads to policy inefficiency and perverse effects. One policy domain may counteract or outright "sabotage" the other. To synthetically combine environmental and social policy calls for a trans-disciplinary perspective to include both policy fields and academic disciplines. This is well illustrated by the contributors in this book who represent numerous academic disciplines. They help professionals and students appreciate the centrality of trans-disciplinary thought and practice in working toward sustainability

Survenue le 30 août 1965, la catastrophe de Mattmark représente le plus gros accident industriel de l'histoire de la Suisse. Par la diversité d'origine des victimes cet événement acquiert une dimension internationale. Il suscite en Suisse et en Europe un débat sur les conditions sociales des migrations économiques et sur les conditions d'exercice professionnel des migrants. Nous nous sommes interrogés ici sur les grands thèmes liés à cette tragédie qui a entrainé la mort de 88 travailleurs. Premièrement, nos réflexions ont été liées au concept de mémoire avec l'objectif de vérifier si cette catastrophe représente véritablement un héritage historique. Deuxièmement, nous avons analysé à travers des entretiens avec les survivants et les familles des victimes quelles ont été leurs stratégies de survie et comment est-il possible de construire une mémoire collective et individuelle dans ce contexte. Troisièmement, la catastrophe a eu comme conséquence la naissance de plusieurs sentiments de solidarité – d'urgence, religieuse, émotionnelle – et la constitution d'une fondation pour prendre en charge les victimes, un fait unique à l'époque. Finalement, la catastrophe de Mattmark a aussi remis en question l'image-même de la Suisse et, à cet égard, est devenue un symbole des controverses politiques de l'époque.

As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through economic integration, technology, communication, and political transformation, the sphere of the family is a fundamental arena where globalizing processes become realized. For most individuals, family in whatever configuration, still remains the primary arrangement that meets certain social, emotional, and economic needs. It is within families that decisions about work, care, movement, and identity are negotiated, contested, and resolved. Globalization has profound implications for how families assess the choices and challenges that accompany this process. Families are integrated into the global economy through formal and informal work, through production and consumption, and through their relationship with nation-states. Moreover, ever growing communication and information technologies allow families and individuals to have access to others in an unprecedented manner. These relationships are accompanied by new conceptualizations of appropriate lifestyles, identities, and ideologies even among those who may never be able to access them. Despite a general acknowledgement of the complexities and social significance inherent in globalization, most analyses remain top-down, focused on the global economy, corporate strategies, and political streams. This limited perspective on globalization has had profound implications for understanding social life. The impact of globalization on gender ideologies, work-family relationships, conceptualizations of children, youth, and the elderly have been virtually absent in mainstream approaches, creating false impressions that dichotomize globalization as a separate process from the social order. Moreover, most approaches to globalization and social phenomena emphasize the Western experience. These inaccurate assumptions have profound implications for families, and for the globalization process itself. In order to create and implement programs and policies that can harness globalization for the good of mankind, and that could reverse some of the deleterious effects that have affected the world's most vulnerable populations, we need to make the interplay between globalization and families a primary focus.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- A question of identity: Introduction / Sagiv, Lilach / Katz, Dikla Rivlin / Hacham, Noah / Herman, Geoffrey -- Part I: Ancient Mesopotamia and Further East -- 1. In His Majesty's Service / Zilberg, Peter -- 2. Judean Identity during the Exile / Bloch, Yigal -- 3. Issues in the Historical Geography and the Ethno-Linguistic Character of the Zagros and Adjacent Regions / Zadok, Ran -- 4. Going West / Kiperwasser, Reuven -- 5. Jewish Identity in Babylonia in the Period of the Incantation Bowls / Herman, Geoffrey -- 6. The Quest of the Historical Metatron: Enoch or Jesus / Boyarin, Daniel -- Part II: The Hellenistic and Roman World -- 7. Priests in Exile / Piotrkowski, Meron M. -- 8. Iron Wall or Common Feast? / Hacham, Noah / Sagiv, Lilach -- 9. Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the Letter of Aristeas §§1–27 / Pearce, Sarah -- 10. Literary Genres and Identity in the Letter of Aristeas / Honigman, Sylvie -- 11. Monotheism as an Identity Norm / Sterling, Gregory E. -- 12. Material Culture and Ethnic Identity in Hellenistic-Period Galilee / Leibner, Uzi -- 13. "How Fine are the Works of this People"? / Silberklang, Hillel -- Part III: Religious and National Identities in a Complex World -- 14. The Context of Conversions in Early Modern Europe / Kaplan, Benjamin J. -- 15. So What's Really in a Name? Theology of Etymology in Sixteenth-Century Arian Thought / Luszczynska, Magdalena -- 16. "It's All Hebrew to Me" / Shafir, Gershon -- 17. Social and Spatial Borders between "Us" and "Them" / Katz, Dikla Rivlin -- Contributors -- Index