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This book on water and climate change goes beyond the usual and predictable analyses, by bringing religion and values into a discussion that is often dominated by technocratic solutions. The three case studies of Jakarta, Cape Town, and Amsterdam demonstrate the challenges of water management in urban areas and the role religion can play in addressing them. With representatives from science, politics, economics, and religion, as well as young voices, the book stimulates a values-driven dialogue on issues of water in times of climate change.

The relationships between observable changes in sociocultural behavior on the one hand and underlying value systems on the other is examined in two communities that stem from a single sociocultural tradition but that recently diverged because of differential exposure to economic development. Value preferences of individuals in each community were elicited by structured questionnaires, which allowed operational measurement of values and statistical testing of differences within and between the community samples. The findings are explained with reference to the nature of the behavioral responses of individuals to perceived modifications (related to economic development) in their environments.

Leadership perspectives -- Emerging trends in leadership -- Ethical pathologies and cognitive dissonance in corporate leadership -- Corporate social responsibility from the national, community, company, and individual level -- Complexity view on leadership -- The concept of the leadership approach based on the system and relational theory -- Designing the concept of reflective leadership -- Focus on change and innovation -- Bridging the process of leading with the change and innovation -- Reframing current leadership approaches to include diversity -- How emerging technologies transform leadership -- Leading in the era of innovations and the appearance of new values -- Appendices -- List of contributors -- Index.

The socialization that parents and society exercise on children instills in them a set of values towards parents. Some of these values are not lying, feeling affection for the parents, and wanting to have contact with them. In this work, we attempt to determine whether these values change in the face of intrafamilial abuse. To that end, an incidental sample was used, consisting of 2730 minors aged between 6 to 18 years, who had never suffered abuse. They were asked to put themselves in the place of the main character of a story. The story varied depending on the conditions to be studied: observation and direct suffering or account of the abuse by another, type of abuse (physical or psychological), who perpetrated the abuse (custodian or non-custodial), and who received it (the other custodian or the minor). The results show that, as a rule, children lie to conceal both parents' abusive behavior; they love their parents and want to have contact with them, even in the presence of abuse. Notwithstanding that in the presence of abuse by one of their parents, children still love them and want to have contact with both parents, a significant number of children, however, stop loving them or want to have contact with the abusive parent. These results undermine what is defended by theories like PAS with no scientific evidence, and underline the need to use scientific procedures to test the reliability of minors' testimony based on the idea that children tell the truth.

Der Autor geht in seinen thesenhaften Anmerkungen zum Wertewandel in der heutigen Gesellschaft auf die Ansätze von Horst Baier ein, welcher auch im Gesundheitswesen einen postmodernen Werteschub bei den Berufen und ihrer Arbeitsorganisation und bei den Patienten und ihrer Lebensqualität feststellte. Demnach wird das neue Leitwort der Medizin in den nächsten Jahren 'Gesundheit als Lebensqualität' sein. Der Autor fragt ferner nach der Zukunft der sozialen Sicherung im Sozialstaat, denn die politische Transformation vollzieht sich im Rahmen von Verrechtlichungsprozessen mit einer freiheitseinschränkenden Interventionspolitik. Die Ursache fortschreitender Verrechtlichung, die ein Formelement der sozioökonomischen Leistungsverteilung darstellt, liegt in der Diskrepanz zwischen der Legalitätsstruktur und den gesellschaftlichen Bedürfnissen nach situationsgerechtem Recht. Dies wirft vor allem die Frage nach der Legitimität als Kontingenzformel moderner Politik auf. (ICI2)

This book analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the four Democratic presidents, Truman, Johnson, Clinton and Obama, who tried to expand access to and affordability of healthcare in the United States. It considers how they made such arguments, the ethics they advanced, and the vision of America they espoused. The author combines rhetoric analysis, policy analysis, and policy history to illuminate the dynamic nature of the way American presidents have imagined the moral and social bonds of the American people and their exhortations for governance and policy to reflect and honor these bonds and obligations. Schimmel illustrates how Democratic presidents invoke positive liberty and communitarian values in direct challenge to opposing conservative ideologies of limited government and prioritization of negative liberty and their increasing prominence in the post-Reagan era. He also draws attention to the ethical and policy compromises entailed by the usage of specific rhetorical strategies and their resulting discursive effects

Social work is a marginal profession, ranking between a white-collar occupation and a fullfledged profession. When the training school toward such a profession is part of a well-established academic organization and students at the school come from a lower socio-economic background than those who choose other academic fields, the marginality is accentuated. The marginal-man theory may therefore offer an explanation of the attitude changes undergone by social work students during socializing at a university-based professional school. It was found that in each stage of their professional socialization, the (marginal) socializees adopted the values of the dominant group. Thus, while at the university, the social work students adopted the attitudes prevalent in the academic subculture (represented by social science students). Upon graduation, the young social workers changed their attitudes and adopted attitudes similar to those held by other members of their professional subculture, i.e., veteran social workers and supervisors. Each of these attitude changes were interpreted as attempts to cope with the marginal situation.

Finland is characterized by a substantial heterogeneity across its regions. Key economic indicators, such as the GDP per capita and the unemployment rate, vary widely for different areas, with Uusimaa, the region where Helsinki is located, being significantly richer than regions such as Kainuu and Savo. This heterogeneity, however, has not been stable over time. We find that many important indicators, namely the GDP per capita, the unemployment rate and real wages and salaries per employee, have been converging across regions over the years going from 2000 to 2014. Moreover, we examine regional values and attitudes, using surveys from the Finnish Business and Policy Forum, and find that there has been a strong regional convergence in terms of trust in political parties and in the EU. In particular, we find that the trust in these institutions has increased more in regions where there was a more negative attitude toward parties and the EU during the initial years of our analysis. On the other hand, we do not find a significant convergence with respect to the attitude towards immigration.