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Hot Science, High Water explores the work of different generations of Vietnamese scientists as they engage with local and international efforts to conserve nature, address climate change, and carry out scientific research. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in universities, government offices, and foreign embassies, as well as the muddy intertidal zones of coastal Vietnam, the study reveals scientists engaged in a politics of nature that is local and global, contemporary and historical, and natural and social. More generally, this book is an ethnography of science in a developing country grappling with the local implications of global networks of knowledge production, and shifting trends in international development policy.

Extreme polarization can undermine democracy by making compromise impossible and transforming politics into a zero-sum game. "Ideological polarization"—the extent to which political views are widely dispersed—is already strong among elites, but less so among the general public [N. McCarty, Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2019, pp. 50–68]. Strong mutual distrust and hostility between Democrats and Republicans in the United States, combined with the elites' already strong ideological polarization, could lead to increasing ideological polarization among the public. The paper addresses two questions: 1) Is there a level of ideological polarization above which polarization feeds upon itself to become a runaway process? 2) If so, what policy interventions could prevent such dangerous positive feedback loops? To explore these questions, we present an agent-based model of ideological polarization that differentiates between the tendency for two actors to interact ("exposure") and how they respond when interactions occur, positing that interaction between similar actors reduces their difference, while interaction between dissimilar actors increases their difference. Our analysis explores the effects on polarization of different levels of tolerance to other views, responsiveness to other views, exposure to dissimilar actors, multiple ideological dimensions, economic self-interest, and external shocks. The results suggest strategies for preventing, or at least slowing, the development of extreme polarization.

Montreal 1995 : XVIIIe Congres International des Sciences Historiques du 27 aout au 3 septembre 1995: Pellens, Karl: Enseignement de l'histoire et diversité des perspectives dans les sociétés multiculturelles: la question des valeurs ; Pellens, Karl: Introduction du président ; SECTION I: Laville, Christian: L'éducation historique pour achever l'idéal démocratique ; Martineau, Robert: Culture et mode de pensée historique à l'école de la démocratie ; SECTION II: Mork, Gordon R.: History Curricula and Development of the Democratic Ideal ; Gies, Horst: Multiperspectivity in History Didactic Theory ; SECTION III: Cajani, Luigi: Historical Consciousness and Problems of Definition of Values ; Ziegler, Peter: Erziehung zur Demokratie gemäß Zürcher Lehrplan von 1992 ; Pellens, Karl: International Society for History Didctics in Montreal ; Montreal 1995 : 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences from 27 August to 3 September 1995

Food waste is the loss of perfectly edible food products. It is a wide-ranging phenomenon: a substantial part of agricultural production is never consumed. The prevalent, most widespread paradigm regarding this phenomenon holds that it is due to inadequate logistics and technology, or to poor management of food on the part of end users. However, an analysis from a political ecology standpoint allows a different interpretation: the root of the problem lies in the hegemonic agrofood system and the unequal power relationships between the actors in the agrofood chain. ; This research was supported by Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación – SENESCYT) of the Republic of Ecuador (Prometheus Project).