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We examine the effects of income, institutions, and social capital—proxied by the level of corruption and ethnic tensions—on literacy and life expectancy in Africa. Random effects estimates show that income has a robust positive influence. GMM estimates indicate that corruption reduces the effectiveness of institutions in promoting literacy. However, this effect is not monotonic; improvements in the corruption index within the high corruption range reduce the effectiveness of institutions, while continuous improvement within the low corruption range enhances the effectiveness of institutions. Similarly, ethnic tensions reduce the effectiveness of institutions. Based on these findings, we conclude that social capital and institutions can complement each other. (JEL O11, O17, Z13)

Intro -- Page de titre -- Copyright -- Présentation -- Table des matières -- Étudier les interactions hommes-milieux, pourquoi et comment ? -- Éléments constitutifs des Observatoires hommes-milieux, origine et évolutions -- L'Observatoire hommes-milieux « Bassin minier de Provence » : mise en œuvre et réflexions après cinq années de fonctionnement -- À propos d'Observatoires des interactions hommes-milieux : réflexions d'un écologue -- Rétro-observation des interactions hommes-milieux et de leurs conséquences sur l'environnement : le cas de l'agriculture au Groenland

"Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the "Anthropocene" Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes a new account of modernity that shakes up many accepted ideas: on the supposedly recent date of "environmental awareness," on previous challenges to industrialism, on the manufacture of consumerism and the energy "transition," as well as on the role of the military in environmental destruction. Through a dialogue between science and history, the authors draw an ecological balance sheet of a developmental model that has become unsustainable, and explore paths for living and acting politically in the Anthropocene"--

Dominionism identified -- Before agriculture : a world alive and ensouled -- Animals : the most moving things in the world -- Agriculture : a new relationship with nature, a new world order for living beings -- Misothery and the reduction of animals and nature -- Misogyny and the reduction of women and female power -- Racism and colonialism : dominating lands and others -- Rituals of dominionism, then and now -- Beyond dominionism -- Epilogue : how to move toward kinship.

This book explores the way in which human culture and technology have altered the environment through time. The contributors, drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, history, physics and atmospheric science, explore the relationship between humans and the environment as an ongoing process, not just as a recent art

This book discusses in straightforward terms why climate changes, how it has changed naturally before the industrial revolution made humans important, and how it has changed since then. It compares the scale and rapidity of variations in pre-industrial times with those since the industrial revolution, infers the extent of humanity's impacts, and looks at what these may lead to in the future.

11. Pollution in the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea observation and forecasting system project plan / Ilkay Salihoglu -- Caspian environmental programme (CEP): achievements and challenges / Hamid Ghaffarzadeh -- A review of Caspian Sea environment, climate variability and air-sea interaction / Emin Özsoy -- Pollution impact to sturgeon from Ural Delta, Kazakhstan / Igor V. Mitrofanov -- Mathematical modeling of oil pollution in the northern Caspian Sea / Anatoly Vasiliev -- The conditions of the hazardous management system in Azerbaijan / Rashid Ajalov -- 12. Permanent monitoring panel reports. Combined meeting of the Permanent Monitoring Panels on water and defence against floods and unexpected meteorological events / Soroosh Sorooshian, Robert A. Clark -- Mother to child transmission of HIV - antiretroviral therapy and therapeutic vaccine: a scientific and community challenge / Guy De Thé ... [et. al.] -- Summary of the Workshop on geophysical and geological properties of NEOS: "know your enemy" / J.M. Greenberg, W.F. Huebner -- PMP report: missile proliferation and defense / Andrei Piontovsky -- World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel report on information security / Henning Wegener -- World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel on pollution - 2001 report / Richard C. Ragaini -- Extending activities of the World Federation of Scientists in Ukraine / Valery P. Kukhar, Gennady I. Palshin -- Permanent Monitoring Panel report: limits of development and sustainability / Hiltmar Schubert -- World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel, climate, ozone & greenhouse effect / William Sprigg -- 13. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy workshop. Structural variations of abnormal prion protein in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease / Pedro Piccardo ... [et al.] -- Update on BSE and variant CJD / Robert G. Will -- 14. Aids and infectious diseases workshop. Preventive HIV vaccines, present status / Gunnel Biberfeld -- Therapeutic HIV vaccines / Alf A. Lindberg -- Communication strategy for the introduction of anti retroviral therapy: a concept paper / Sheilah Tlou -- 15. Pollution workshop. Environmental pollution in the Caspian Sea: workshop summary, conclusions and recommendations / Richard Ragaini, Ilkay Salihoglu -- The Caspian environmental programme / Hamid Ghaffarzadeh -- Oil and gas pollution of the Caspian ecosystem in Kazakhstan / Ludmila Shabanova -- Air-sea interaction in the Caspian / Emin Özsoy -- Pollution impact to fish from north Caspian Sea / Yelena N. Zhimbey, Igor V. Mitrofanov -- Socio-economic conditions and environment in the Caspian / Rashid Ajalov -- Monitoring of marine pollution in the northern Caspian Sea / Alexander Korshenko -- Modeling of the oil pollution in the northern Caspian / Anatoly Vasiliev.

"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen helps us imagine an alternative. We need, he says, a new normal, a new ecological order that is actually economical with resources, that embraces limits, that sees sustainable living not as a "lifestyle" but as a long-term connection to fresh, free-flowing water, fertile soil, and healthy food." "That economies must grow is a fundamental belief among economists, politicians, and journalists. But it is rampant material growth that has brought us to this precipice. Princen argues that it is time to build an economy that is grounded in the way natural systems work; that operates as if we have just the right amount of resources rather than endless frontiers. The goal would be to live well by living well within the capacities of those resources. Society's material foundations would be grounded in the biophysical, its practices based on satisfying work, self-reliance, and restraint rather than the purchasing of goods. Princen doesn't offer a quick fix - there's no list of easy ways to save the planet to hang on the refrigerator. He gives us instead a positive, realistic sense of the possible, with an abundance of examples, concepts, and tools for imagining, then realizing, how to live within our biophysical means."--Jacket.

16. Permanent Monitoring Panel reports. Mother and Child Permanent Monitoring Panel: manifesto / Nathalie Charpak -- Report by Permanent Monitoring Panel on Missile Proliferation and Defense / Andrei Piontkovsky -- Limits of Development Permanent Monitoring Panel report / Hiltmar Schubert -- World Federation of Scientists/Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security / Henning Wegener -- Meeting of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on defense against floods and unexpected meteorological events / Robert Clark -- Water; climate; ozone and greenhouse effects; and desertification / Robert Clark -- Pollution Permanent Monitoring Panel / Richard Ragaini -- Report of the Energy Permanent Monitoring Panel / Kai Siegbahn -- Minutes of Desertification Permanent Monitoring Panel / Andrew Warren -- 17. Brain and behaviour diseases workshop. Unravelling the mysteries of schizophrenia: advances from genetic studies / Anne S. Bassett ... [et al.] -- Genetics of substance dependence / C. Robert Cloninger -- Huntington disease and other CAG repeat disorders / P. Michael Conneally -- Dementia from brain vascular disease: the silent epidemic / Charles DeCarli -- Noncognitive symptoms of dementia: rigor and relevance / Marshal F. Folstein -- Can we find genes for common disorders? / Susan E. Folstein -- Neuropathology at the crossroads of neuropsychiatry and genetics: new insights into neuroserpin encephalopathy / Bernardino Ghetti ... [et al.] -- The genetics and epidemiology of multiple sclerosis / Jonathan L. Haines -- Alzheimer disease: genes and environment; the value of international studies / Hugh C. Hendrie ... [et al.] -- Genetics and the global health burden of mood disorders / Francis J. McMahon -- Violence and violent conflicts: views from affective neuroscience / Sergio Paradiso, Lauren Schrock -- The genetics of Alzheimer disease / Margaret A. Pericak-Vance -- Tau gene mutations in frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 / Maria Grazia Spillantini -- Psychiatric disorders as vectors for HIV and other behaviorally transmitted infectious epidemics / Glenn J. Treisman -- Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy: current status / R.G. Will -- Neuropsychiatric aspects of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / R.G. Will, R.S.G. Knight, M.D. Spencer -- 18. Information Security Workshop. New forms of confrontation: cyber-terrorism and cyber-crime / Ahmad Kamal -- 19. Kangaroo Mother's Care Workshop. A tool for the follow-up of your Kangaroo Mother Care: baby from birth to one year of corrected age / Nathalie Charpak ... [et al.].

"Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise - a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights, a swelling affirmation of moral responsibility to the future and to Earth's fullness of life. Philosopher and nature essayist Kathleen Dean Moore takes on the essential questions: Why is it wrong to wreck the world? What is our obligation to the future? What is the transformative power of moral resolve? How can clear thinking stand against the lies and illogic that batter the chances for positive change? What are useful answers to the recurring questions of a storm-threatened time - What can anyone do? Is there any hope? And always this: What stories and ideas will lift people who deeply care, inspiring them to move forward with clarity and moral courage? "--