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Abstract Cities have become important actors in international relations, and integral to security and environmental politics. We are living in an increasingly urban world, dominated by human settlements and activities. The central role now played by humans in shaping the planet has led us into an uncertain, unstable, and dangerous geological epoch – the Anthropocene – that poses great and additional challenges to security. Local and global spheres are connected as never before, generating 'glocal' issues in which water plays a central role. Water is the element that interconnects the complex web of food, energy, climate, economic growth, and human security. In a rapidly urbanising world, cities influence the hydrological cycle in major but uncertain ways, affecting water resources beyond their boundaries. There is no doubt that these issues are highly relevant to the discipline of International Relations (IR). However, IR scholars have been slow to engage with them, and most academic studies of cities and water security still emanate from the natural sciences. This article examines the ways in which cities in the Anthropocene challenge water security, and why IR needs to reinvent itself if it wants to sustain its contribution to global security.

Abstract Cities have become important actors in international relations, and integral to security and environmental politics. We are living in an increasingly urban world, dominated by human settlements and activities. The central role now played by humans in shaping the planet has led us into an uncertain, unstable, and dangerous geological epoch – the Anthropocene – that poses great and additional challenges to security. Local and global spheres are connected as never before, generating 'glocal' issues in which water plays a central role. Water is the element that interconnects the complex web of food, energy, climate, economic growth, and human security. In a rapidly urbanising world, cities influence the hydrological cycle in major but uncertain ways, affecting water resources beyond their boundaries. There is no doubt that these issues are highly relevant to the discipline of International Relations (IR). However, IR scholars have been slow to engage with them, and most academic studies of cities and water security still emanate from the natural sciences. This article examines the ways in which cities in the Anthropocene challenge water security, and why IR needs to reinvent itself if it wants to sustain its contribution to global security.

Abstract This research aims to assess the impact of conditional cash transfer (PKH) program on infant welfare. The poor people usually treated their babies inadequately due to of lack of resources. Government intervention by social protection program is expected to contribute to increase infant welfare. Infant welfare determines their quality of future life, and to some extent will determine the quality of human resources in a country. This research uses two micro data set which are Indonesia family life survey (IFLS) 4 and 5. The method is using econometrics with difference-in-differences (DiD) model to measure impact of the CCT program. Then, this research reveals that CCT (PKH) program is significantly positive affected to infant health status by 1.02% with OLS (2.39% using odered-probit and 4.38% using ordered-logit). However, the CCT program is insignificantly affected to increase infant weight. As a result, CCT program has just contributed to increase the infant welfare by increasing health status. By the result, the program should need to be improved and extended for beneficiaries in the future. By improving and extending program, the infant welfare will increase by health status indicator By this research, we can see how the significance of the program is contributed to the quality of Indonesia's human resources by improving infant health status.Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur dampak program keluarga harapan (CCT) terhadap kesejahteraan bayi. Masyarakat kurang mampu sering kali tidak mampu merawat bayinya dengan baik. Intervensi pemerintah melalui PKH/CCT diharapkan mampu meningkatkan kesejahteraan bayi. Kesejahteraan bayi menentukan kualitas hidupnya dimasa depan, dan akan menentukan kualitas sumber daya manusia pada suatu negara. Penelitian ini menggunakan dua periode data mikro Indonesia family life survey (IFLS) 4 dan 5. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ialah dengan ekonometrika menggunakan model difference-in-differences untuk mengukur dampak program PKH. Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan, penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa program PKH berdampak positif terhadap status kesehatan bayi sebesar 1,02% dengan OLS (2,39% dengan ordered-probit, dan 4,38% dengan ordered-logit). Namun, program PKH tidak signifikan memengaruhi berat badan bayi. Maka, program PKH telah mampu berdampak positif melalui peningkatan status kesehatan bayi. Berdasarkan hasil tersebut, keberadaan program PKH seharusnya perlu untuk ditingkatkan dan diperluas penerima manfaatnya. Melalui peningkatan dan perluasan manfaat, maka program akan secara langsung berdampak pada peningkatan status kesehatan bayi. Hasil penelitian ini juga menunjukkan bahwa kita dapat melihat bagaimana signifikasi dari program dalam berkontribusi meningkatkan kualitas sumber data manusia melalui peningkatan status kesejahteraan bayi.

At a glance, 'borders' and 'boundaries' may seem synonymous. But in the real (geopolitical) world, they coexist as distinct, albeit overlapping entities: the former a state's delimitation of territory; the latter the social delineation of differences. The refugee crisis in Europe showed how racial and ethnic boundaries are often instrumentalised to justify the strengthening of state borders - regardless of the cost in human life. But there are other, less tragic, examples that illustrate this overlapping as well, and ultimately demonstrate that the oft-differentiated spheres of borders and boundaries are best understood through their relationship to one another. Deepening Divides explores this relationship from many distinct perspectives and national contexts, with case studies covering five continents and drawing on anthropology, gender studies, law, political science and sociology for a truly interdisciplinary collection.

Describes the ongoing research project, "Population Displacements: State Building & Social Identity in the Lands of the Former Russian Empire, 1918-1930," aimed at developing a new empirical & conceptual account of the interaction between population displacement/resettlement, processes of war/peace, imperial collapse, new state building, & the dissolution/reformation of social identities in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Soviet Russia, Ukraine, & Belorussia during the postwar decade. A multidisciplinary, multination team of researches have focused on locating archival sources & developing a theoretical framework for identifying key problems relevant to the project goals. Project-related events/conferences that have been held to date are listed & themes of research papers presented at a Dec 2001 workshop are described. It is noted that refugees are not treated as passive objects of policy but as participants in nationalist & state-building projects who are capable of negotiating their status in the new collective. Other matters discussed include the need to treat displaced populations as spatial processes; theoretical approaches used, insights gained, & future directions of the project. 29 References. J. Lindroth

Scientific production is undergoing a gradual process of democratization. Over the past 50 years, a growing number of cities and countries have joined the global scientific community, and are making a signifi-cant impact. A more balanced distribution of paper citations means greater equity between researchers regardless of their location. These changes have not gone unnoticed in traditional science hotspots, such as London, Paris and Tokyo, but those cities need not fear relinquishing their dominance in the foresee-able future. The observed spatial dispersal of knowledge production is driven by the emer-gence of new centres of higher education and innovation, not productivity losses at the top, and the newcomers have much ground to catch up.

Patient perspectives in multi-disciplinary study teams can add to the relevance, quality, and application of research. In the United Kingdom, ethics committees tend to distinguish patient and citizen involvement from research participation. This means that when researchers ask patients or citizens for advice on a study, or invite them to collaborate with the study team, they do not need ethical approval. This puts their input on a similar footing to clinicians, other practitioners, academics, and policy makers. But there are times when people's input into study design and implementation derives from their participation as research subjects. This is more likely to be common in qualitative research, where a researcher's interaction with participants may result in collaboration on data collection and analysis. Drawing on a study with young people leaving foster and residential care, this case study describes what we did when a research participant wanted to be acknowledged by name. This request challenged the principle of anonymity which ethics committees and researchers commonly expect to be afforded to, and welcomed by, participants. We declined the request on two grounds. First, the commitments we had made in our application for ethics approval and second, our concern that naming one participant might breach the confidentiality of those who preferred to remain anonymous. Here, we ask whether it is possible to conduct fully anonymised participatory research and suggest that involvement of patients and citizens as research advisors carries challenges to established conventions.

"Mit dieser Einführung in 'Mixed Methods' hat der Autor ein deutschsprachiges Lehrbuch vorgelegt, das an angloamerikanische Diskurse der Methodenverknüpfung anschließt, die insbesondere forschungspraktisch ausgerichtet sind. Das Buch informiert über die Entwicklung von Mixed Methods, wichtige Begriffe und konzeptionelle Anbindungen bzw. Abgrenzungen, Forschungsdesigns und Überlegungen zur (softwaregestützten) Datenanalyse. Was diesem Überblick allerdings fehlt, ist ein Blick auf mögliche Grenzen und typische Probleme sowie Problemlösungsstrategien im Zuge von Methodenintegrationen." (Autorenreferat)

1. Schooling and inequality in China -- 2. Challenging the gendered dimensions of schooling : the state, NGOs, and transnational alliances -- 3. Poverty, health, and schooling in rural China -- 4. Tibetan girls' education : challenging prevailing theory -- 5. Rural classroom teaching and nonfarm jobs in Yunnan -- 6. Education in rural Tibet : development, problems, and adaptations -- 7. The integration of migrant children in Beijing schools -- 8. Educational stratification and the new middle class.

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