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Patton's Drive tells the story of how a young man born to war-who believed himself the literal incarnation of all great warriors past-became a modern American general: in terms of enemy killed or captured, territory taken, and people liberated, the greatest field commander of World War II

Tomo I: La institucionalización. - 189 S. : Tab., Lit.Hinw., 2007. ISBN 970-9967-18-5; Tomo II: Los problemas sociales y metodológicos. - 351 S. : Tab., Lit.Hinw., 2008. ISBN 970-9967-13-4

"In a genre-defying blend of history and first-person narrative, Jesus Salas examines the history of migrant labor in the United States and the migrant farmworkers' movement of the 1950s-1970s. He begins with his grandparents' relocation in 1906 from Coahuila, Mexico, to the semi-arid but fertile floodplains along Comanche Creek in southcentral Texas. Their community of tens of thousands of Mexican settlers, recruited by land speculators to cultivate, plant, and harvest vegetables, were joined by thousands more fleeing the Mexican Revolution and the chaos that followed. Salas describes the resulting system of borderland apartheid, of segregated schools, poll taxes, and "white primaries," and examines the values of the "mutualistas," or mutual aid societies, that sustained the farmworkers and would form the basis for the Wisconsin farmworkers' "social unionism." As the Great Depression dislocated the settlements and forced laborers to seek work elsewhere to survive, whole communities began to migrate to the Texas gulf counties and Panhandle, to the Plains States, and to the Great Lakes region, a generational pattern that began with Salas's grandfathers, continued in the 1940s with his parents, and persisted in the 1950s by Salas and his five brothers, who ultimately relocated to Wautoma, Wisconsin. While Mexican and Tejano workers fueled the growth of Wisconsin's agriculture and food processing industries, they paid a profound personal toll, and Salas provides a firsthand account of the migrant farmworker experience: brutal working conditions; overcrowded and unsanitary labor camps; physical and mental devastation, particularly harmful to women and children. He describes a life of uncertainty, constant fear of injury, his brother's broken bones, the hospitalization of his mother-all of it on reflection feeling like a "harvest of madness." Salas recounts how the gross violation of Wisconsin's social and progressive legislation and administrative code that protected migrant workers-child labor laws, migrant housing codes, minimum-wage law-led him and others in 1966 to form Obreros Unidos (Workers United), a farmworker union based on the tenets of the mutual aid societies in the Texas borderlands. That August, at age twenty-two, Salas led the union's protest march from Wautoma to Madison to draw attention to their cause. The first Wisconsin farmworkers' strike soon followed. Not solely concerned with improving the wages and working conditions of its members, Obreros Unidos offered meeting spaces, published a newspaper, provided free legal services, opened a gasoline cooperative, and later assisted in the establishment of the first migrant health clinic in the area. Salas recalls the greatest challenge of serving and organizing migrant families living in labor camps dispersed across a three-county area; he describes meeting with migrant families after church services and while shopping in downtown Wautoma, organizing rallies, and setting up grape boycott pickets in support of California striking workers. In the late 1960s, Obreros Unidos continued its community development strategies, but the environment changed; with increasing mechanizing on farms and in processing plants, for the first time the majority of OU organizers now lived in an urban industrial setting. In Milwaukee, one of the country's most segregated communities and recently convulsed by 200 consecutive days of open-housing marches, the NAACP Youth Council and the farmworkers' movement intersected in a profound manner. OU and Latino community leaders joined the Youth Council's protest of employment discrimination in summer of 1969; that fall Father Groppi joined OU's picket of Kohl's Foods, and attorney Lloyd Barbee helped organize a grape boycott rally for Latino and African American labor and community leaders. The next year both communities supported protests of Wisconsin's "welfare reform," the dismantling of the safety net for indigent families. Most significantly, OU organizers adopted the Youth Council's direct action strategies in its action for Latino civil rights. Salas demonstrates how the farmworkers' movement and Latino activism of the 1960s led to later action and lobbying efforts on a number of migrant labor and other Latino issues, including the creation of a Hispanic Desk in the Wisconsin governor's executive office, the offering of a Chicano Studies program at UW-Madison, Wisconsin's Bilingual/Bicultural Act and Wisconsin Migrant Labor Law, and the Migrant Tuition Bill"--

Belonging (Section Introduction) -- Indigenous Youth, Nationhood and the Politics of Belonging -- Belonging in Troubling Times: Considerations from the Vantage Point of Arab American Immigrant Youth -- Kids Like Us': Education and Belonging -- Strong Belonging in Poor Neighborhoods -- The Politics of Non-Belonging in the Developing World -- 'Let's Go 50/50' -- Girls' Embodied Experiences of Media Images -- Bodies in and out of Place: Schooling and the Production of Gender Identities through Embodied Experience -- Bodies: Bringing a Focus on Corporeality and Embodiment to Youth and Childhood Studies -- Theorizing Subjectivity and Feminine Embodiment: Feminist Approaches and Debates -- Citizenship: Inclusion and Exclusion -- Citizenship (Section Introduction) -- Enhancing Citizen Engagement at the Municipal Level: Youth's Perspectives -- Participating as Young Citizens in Diverse Communities -- Turkana Pastoralist Children and Youth in Kenya: What Does CRC Mean to Them? -- Gender Identity and Generations of Change in Youth Studies -- Disrupting Disenabling Identities Through Drama -- Youth, Relationality and Space: Conceptual Resources for Youth Studies from Critical Human Geography -- Stay or Go? Reading Identity Through Young People's Lives in Rural Places -- Thinking About the Future: Young People, Identity and Class -- Getting to Precariat: Young People's Precarious Transition from School to Work, Japan's Case -- Young People and Employability -- Ordinary Working Lives and the 'Missing Middle' -- Unemployment, Insecurity and Poor Work: Young Adults in the New Economy -- Young People's Transitions to Employment: Making Choices, Negotiating Constraints -- Learning from and with Young People in the Context of Social Problems in South Africa and Kenya -- "We Need to Talk about Learning": Dialogue and Learning amongst South African Youth -- TBD 3 -- Learning Gender in the Early Years of Schooling in South Africa -- Who's Learning or Whose Learning? Critical Perspectives on the Idea Youth-Led Policy-Making -- Related to Gender-Based Violence in a South African Classroom -- 'Black Neighbourhoods' and 'Race', Placed Identities in Youth Transition to Adulthoods -- Mobilities and Immobilities in the Creation of Contemporary Educational Inequalities -- Possibilities for Learning Between Childhoods and Youth in the Minority and Majority Worlds: Youth Transitions as an Example of Cross-World Dialogue -- Space and Place in Studies of Childhood and Youth -- Storing Our Lives of Now: The Pluritemporal Memories of Rural Youth Identity and Place -- Play (Section Introduction) -- Serious Play: Youth and the Deployment of Culturally Subversive Sign Within Postmodern Capitalism -- Young People and Mobile Phone Technology in Botswana -- Young People, Online Gaming Culture and Education -- Youth, Consumption and Creativity on Australia's Gold Coast -- Current Debates in Social Justice -- Indigenous Girls, Social Justice and Schooling: Addressing Issues of Disadvantage -- The Role of Place in the Reproduction of Social Inequalities for Young People in India and Ethiopia -- The Youth Experience of Social Inequality: Class, Gender and Urban Space in Mexico City -- Young People and Social Class in the United Kingdom -- Belief, Not Religion: Youth Negotiations of Religious Identity in Canada -- Koorlungka koorliny Noongar kaitijin kura, yeye boorda: Indigenous Young People and Spirituality -- Spirituality, Religion and Youth -- Young People and Religion and Spirituality in Europe: A Complex Picture -- Youth and Religion in the Asia-Pacific -- Deconstructing Discourses to Rupture Fairy tales of the 'Ideal' Childhood -- The Promises of Empowered Girls -- Thinking about Childhood and Youth -- Thinking about Children: How Does it Influence Policy and Practice? -- Youth as a Social Phenomenon -- Critical Moments? The Importance of Timing in Young People's Narratives of Transition -- Juvenile Chronotopes: Space, Time and Youth -- Rhythms and Flow: Timing and Spacing the Everyday -- Scale in Childhood and Youth Studies -- Time and Space in Youth Studies -- Reconsidering Youth Well-Being as Fluid and Relational: A Dynamic Process at the Intersection of Their Physical and Social Geographies -- Responding Effectively to Support the Mental Health and Well-Being of Young People -- Approaches to Understanding Youth Wellbeing -- Protecting and Promoting Young People's Social and Emotional Health in Online and Offline Contexts -- Young People, Pleasure and the Normalization of Pornography: Sexual Health and Well-Being in a Time of Proliferation

Tension exists between technologists and social thinkers because of the impact technology and innovation have on social values and norms, which is often viewed as damaging to the cultural fabric of a nation or society. Since the global business environment is the context in which implementation of technology and innovation takes place, it is widely accepted as the major reason for such conflicts. In this backdrop, this edited book integrates independent research from across the globe. It deals with the nature and significance of technology, innovation and social change as well as the relationships between them, and discusses the significance of social entrepreneurship from social innovation and technology perspectives.Research areas covered are related to the development and deployment of technology, innovation and knowledge in social change, capabilities of institutions, models, role of government and corporate social responsibility and community involvement. Multiple aspects of social change are discussed in the context of India, Mexico, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Nigeria and other African countries. But society does not silently accept technologically enforced changes; sometimes technology is seen as an enemy of inclusive growth and for many, economic development is an anti-thesis of social change. Selected case studies on sector-specific technologies, such as the use of genetically modified seeds in agriculture, which has impacted the market and society, are critically analyzed to develop insights into the adoption of technology and its impact. At the same time it examines policy related issues, without any bias in favor of, or against, a specific technology. Satyajit Majumdaris a Professor at the Center for Social Entrepreneurship in the School of Management and Labour Studies of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (India) and teaches entrepreneurship, growth and technology strategy, corporate social responsibility and service operations management. He has published research papers and case studies in the areas of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, small business, growth strategy and corporate social responsibility. He also reviews research papers for international journals and evaluates research scholars for awarding doctoral degrees. Prof. Majumdar advises organizations and young entrepreneurs, and mentors entrepreneurs and start-up organizations. He is member of expert panel of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland on 'pro-poor investment' related educational initiatives in higher education of the developing and developed countries, member of Academic Councils, Board of Studies of universities and Editorial Boards of scholarly journals, and member of advisory boards of educational, research and business organizations.Samapti Guhais an Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She teaches macro economics, social entrepreneurship, microfinance, Marxian economics, development economics and micro economics. She has many research articles in national and international journals and also in books. She received NET-JRF from University Grants Commission to pursue her Doctoral Study. She has obtained a PhD degree in Economics from Jadavpur University, West Bengal. Dr. Guha was Sir Ratan Tata Fellow at the Asia Research Centre in London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK in 2006-07. She has presented research papers in several national and international Conferences. She is mentoring Microfinance Institutions, Social entrepreneurs and Non-Profits. She is in the Editorial Board of many journals. She is one of the advisers to the Regional Government of Siberia, Russia.Nadiya Marakkathis an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. Prior to her affiliation at TISS, she was pursuing her doctoral studies in Finance, under the UGC (University Grants Commission) Research Fellowship. Her doctoral research experience was at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. She was also subsequently the recipient of the ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) and FMSH( Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme) Research Fellowship for Indo-France Cultural Exchange Programme in the year 2013, for carrying out a cross-country comparison of crowd funding models. Her current teaching and research efforts span across Social Finance Models and Sustainability Challenges for Social Ventures. Apart from this academic interest, she is involved in the incubation and funding initiatives of social ventures.

Part I. The Structure of Professional Sports -- Chapter 1.Cooperation Amidst Competition: The Nature of Sport Leagues / Nathaniel Sampson and Gerard C.S. Mildner ; Why League Cooperation Is Necessary ; Downside of Cooperation ; Organized Baseball: Evolution of a Cartel ; Antitrust Law Interpretations and Baseball ; Antitrust and Other Leagues: Are All Sports Equal? ; Effect of Public Policy on the Balance of Power ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Beyond the Major Leagues: Lessons from the Organization of International Sports / Gerard C.S. Mildner ; Organization of Soccer, the World Sport ; Women's Soccer: The Trial of a Single-Entity League ; Rugby: The Contest over Professionalism, Nations, and Clubs ; Cricket: The Broadcaster's Leagues ; Lessons for American Sports ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Why Professional Athletes Make So Much Money / Zenon X. Zygmont ; The NHL's Missing Season ; Wage Determination in Professional Sports ; Free Agency ; Evaluating Player Productivity ; Is it Possible to Pay too Much? ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Part II. Professional Sports, Cities, and Public Finance -- Chapter 4. Economic Impact of Sport Stadiums, Teams and Events / Charles A. Santo ; Public Cost of Big-Time Sports ; Economic Magnitude of Sports in Perspective ; Promoting Sport Investment Through Economic Impact Analysis ; Sources of Exaggeration in Economic Impact Analysis ; Ex Post Facto Empirical Evaluations ; Policy Implications on Predicted Economic Impacts ; Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Cities, Stadiums, and Subsidies: Why Cities Spend So Much on Sports / Charles A. Santo ; Evolution of Major League Sport Facility Development ; Political Economy of Sport Facility Development ; Importance of Consumption Benefits ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Community Ownership of Professional Sport Teams and the Role of Social Entrepreneurship / Dorothy Norris-Tirrell and Susan Tomlinson Schmidt ; Identifying Community Ownership Alternatives ; Using the Nonprofit-Charitable Purpose Structure: The Memphis Redbirds Baseball ; Foundation ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Part III. Amateur Athletics, Participation, and Public Health -- Chapter 7. Influences of Urban Form on Physical Activity / Jennifer Dill and Lynn Weigand ; Importance and Decline of Physical Activity in the United States ; How Urban Growth Has Made Us Less Active ; Public Policies to Increase Physical Activity ; Do These Strategies Work? ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 8. MLB's Mixed Messages: African American Participation in Baseball / David C. Ogden ; Myth and Semiotics ; Analyzing MLB's Messages ; Moving from Political Speech to Myth ; Challenging Myth ; Policy Implications for Myth Making ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 9.Contradictions and Conflicts: Ethical Dilemmas Inherent in Big-Time College Sports / Richard Southall, Mark S. Nagel, John Amis,and Crystal Southall ; College Sports Today ; National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ; Corporatization in College Sports ; Institutional Logics ; Case Study: 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Broadcasts ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 10. Sport, Doping, and Public Policy / Bryan E. Denham ; Mediated Doping Representations and the Formation of Public Policy ; Sporting Competition and the Formation of Regulatory Bodies ; Media Representations, Government Hearings, and Public Policy in the 21st Century ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Part IV. Sports and Globalization -- Chapter 11. Political Economy of the Olympic Games / Gregory Andranovich, Matthew J. Burbank, and Charles H. Heying ; Globalization, the New Economy, and Political Economy ; Political Economy and the Olympic Games ; Los Angeles: The Market Matters Most ; Atlanta: The State Matters Most ; Mexico City: Civil Society Matters Most ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 12. American Baseball and the Global Labor Market: Resistance and Hegemony in the Caribbean / Charles A. Santo ; Globalization of American Professional Baseball ; Shared History and Parallel Development of Caribbean Baseball ; Dominican Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Exploitation ; Cuban Nationalism and Resistance ; Movement Along the Spectrum ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 13. Expanding Global Consumer Market for American Sports: The World Baseball Classic / Mark S. Nagel, Matt T. Brown, Dan A. Rascher, and Chad D. McEvoy ; Baseball's Worldwide Development ; The Consumption of MLB in the United States ; The Creation of the World Baseball Classic ; World Baseball Classic Revenue Sources ; Future Trends ; Conclusion.

1. Constructing transnational studies / Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt -- 2. Transnational relations and world politics : an introduction / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and Robert O. Keohane -- 3. "Conclusions" and "Post Scriptum" from Dependency and Development in Latin America / Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto -- 4. The homeland, Aztlan / El otro Mexico / Gloria Anzaldua -- 5. Global ethnoscapes : notes and queries for a transnational anthropology / Arjun Appadurai -- 6. The real new world order / Anne-Marie Slaughter -- 7. "Introduction" and "the state and the global city" from globalization and its discontents / Saskia Sassen -- 8. Discipline and practice : "the field" as site, method, and location in anthropology / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson -- 9. Methodological nationalism, the social sciences, and the study of migration : an essay in historical epistemology / Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller -- 10. Assimilation and transnationalism : determinants of transnational political action among contemporary migrants / Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Alejandro Portes and William Haller -- 11. "Introduction" from forces of labor : workers' movements and globalization since 1870 / Beverly J. Silver -- 12. "Transnational struggles for water and power" and "dams, democracy, and development in transnational perspective" / Sanjeev Khagram -- 13. Breakthrough to history / William H. McNeill -- 14. The world system in the thirteenth century : dead-end or precursor? / Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod -- 15. The historical sociology of race / Howard Winant -- 16. The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity / Paul Gilroy -- 17. Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 18. The cosmopolitan perspective : sociology of the second age of modernity / Ulrich Beck -- 19. The nation-state and its others : in lieu of a preface / Khachig Tololyan -- 20. "Nigerian Kung Fu, Manhattan fatwa" and "the local and the global : continuity and change" / Ulf Hannerz -- 21. Introduction : transnational feminist practices and questions of postmodernity / Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan -- 22. "Transnational projects : a new perspective" and "theoretical premises" / Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc -- 23. The local and the global : the anthropology of globalization and transnationalism / Michael Kearney -- 24. The study of transnationalism : pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field / Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Patricia Landolt -- 25. Conceptualizing simultaneity : a transnational social field perspective on society / Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller -- 26. Systemic religion in global society / Peter Beyer -- 27. Introduction : religion, states, and transnational civil society / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- 28. Theorizing globalization and religion / Manuel A. Vasquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt -- 29. Locations of culture / Homi K. Bhabha -- 30. Interstitial subjects : Asian American visual art as a site for new cultural conversations / Elaine H. Kim -- 31. Cultural reconversion / Nestor Garcia Canclini -- 32. Living borders / Buscando America : languages of latino self-formation / Juan Flores and George Yudice -- 33. World society and the nation-state / John W. Meyer ... [et al.] -- 34. Norms, culture, and world politics : insights from sociology's institutionalism / Martha Finnemore -- 35. Do regimes matter? Epistemic communities and Mediterranean pollution control / Peter M. Haas -- 36. Cross-national cultural diffusion : the global spread of cricket / Jason Kaufman and Orlando Patterson -- 37. Transnationalism, localization, and fast foods in East Asia / James L. Watson -- 38. "Introduction" from transnational corporations and world order / George Modelski -- 39. Imperialism, dependency, and dependent development / Peter Evans -- 40. The organization of buyer-driven global commodity chains : how U.S. retailers shape overseas production networks / Gary Gereffi -- 41. "Flexible citizenship : the cultural logics of transnationality" and "afterword : an anthropology of transnationality" / Aihwa Ong -- 42. Bringing transnational relations back in : introduction / Thomas Risse-Kappen -- 43. World culture in the world polity : a century of international non-governmental organization / John Boli and George M. Thomas -- 44. Social movements and global transformation / Louis Kriesberg -- 45. Conclusions : advocacy networks and international society / Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink -- 46. The challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist praxis / Nancy A. Naples -- 47. Global prohibition regimes : the evolution of norms in international society / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- 48. Transnational organized crime : an imminent threat to the nation-state? (transcending national boundaries) / Louise Shelley -- 49. "Introduction" from New and Old Wars : organized violence in a global era / Mary Kaldor -- 50. Smuggling the state back in : agents of human smuggling reconsidered / David Kyle and John Dale

1. Opening session. The 32nd Session of the International Seminars and International Collaboration / Antonino Zichichi. Science and national intelligence / Richard L. Garwin. Statement on migration / Rolf K. Jenny -- 2. Limits of development : migration. Migration and cyberspace / Ahmad Kamal. Migration in Europe / Hiltmar Schubert. Migration and development : a synoptic European overview / Nigel Harris. Migration from and within Asia / K. C. Sivamarakrishnan. Migration and globalization / Geraldo G. Serra -- 3. Climatology : global warming. From curiosity to concern : a chronology of the quest to understand global climate / John S. Perry. Simple climate models / Tom M. L. Wigley. Old physics for new climate models - maybe / Garth W. Paltridge. Energy and electricity considerations - global warming perspectives / Hisham Khatib -- 4. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy : prions. Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and blood transfusion / Robert G. Will. BSE in North America / Maura N. Ricketts. Role of the polymorphism at codon 129 of the prion protein gene in the phenotypic expression of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease associated with the F198S mutation / Bernardino Ghetti. Update on the pathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / Herbert Budka -- 5. The cultural emergency : information and communications - environment. Innovations in information and communications technologies : benefits and threats / Axel Lehmann -- 6. Cosmic objects. Recent perspectives on the hazard of an asteroid impact / Clark R. Chapman. Recent close approaches of asteroids to the earth / Donald K. Yeomans. Asteroid deflection : hopes and fears / Russell L. Schweickart. The near-earth object impact hazard : space mission priorities for risk assessment and reduction / Alan W. Harris. Hayabusa and its follow-up plans by JAXA / Hajime Yano -- 7. AIDS and infectious diseases : ethics in medicine. Limiting access to dangerous pathogens - the need for international cooperation / Diego Buriot. The U.S. select agent rule and an international opportunity to develop laboratory biosecurity guidelines / Reynolds M. Salerno. New Georgian legislation on biosafety / Lela Bakanidze. International biosecurity norms and the role for international organizations / Bradford Kay. Legal measures to prevent bio-crimes / Barry Kellman -- 8. Water and pollution. Overview of the hydrological cycle and its connection to climate : droughts and floods / Soroosh Sorooshian. What is the real value of water? Reaching beyond the global dilemma of cost and price / Ronald B. Linsky. Agrarian transformation and shifts in water requirements in rural Iran : a case study / Amir I. Ajami. Sustainable water resource management and the role of isotope techniques / Pradeep Aggarwal. Scientific challenges for ensuring clean and reliable water for the 21st century / Andrew F. B. Tompson -- 9. Permanent monitoring panel meetings and reports. AIDS and infectious diseases permanent monitoring panel / Guy de Thé. Implications of climate variability and change : a policy maker's summary / William A. Sprigg. Panel report / Walter E. Huebner. Panel report / Bruce Stram. Bangladesh rural electrification program : a success story of poverty reduction through electricity / Abul Barket. Sustainable nuclear energy - some reasons for optimism / Richard Wilson. Chairman's report / Henning Wegener. Information revolution in the military field and the establishment of an international legal regime for information security / Vitaly N. Tsygichko. Panel report / Hiltmar Schubert. West African point of view on migration / Mbareck Diop. Impacts of migration on megacities in the United States / Christopher D. Ellis. Inter-regional migration in China in the post-Deng economic era 1990-2000 / Stephen S. Y. Lau. Migration in Mexico : slower trends to megacities ; higher flow to the U.S. / Alberto González-Pozo. Panel report / Nathalie Charpak. Using the KMC programme's database in developed countries : an illusion? / Christiane Huraux. Quality of health care assurance : the kangaroo mother care program experience / Juan G. Ruiz. Panel report / Lorne Everett, Richard C. Ragaini. Panel report / Terence Taylor -- 10. Global biosecurity workshop. The bio-science dilemma - precious opportunities and dire threats / Barry Kellman. Biological safety and security - advances in the life sciences - reaping the rewards and managing the risks / Terence Taylor -- 11. Cosmic objects workshop. Detection of transient phenomena on planetary bodies / Mario Di Martino. Proposed ground-based experiments for asteroid seismology / Raymond Goldstein -- 12. Seminar participants.

Global Change and Mountain Regions — an IGBP Initiative for Collaborative Research -- Climate Variations in Italy in the Last 130 Years -- Dendroclimatic Information on Silver Fir (Abies Alba Mill.) in the Northern Apennines -- Trends in High Frequency Precipitation Variability in Some Northern Italy Secular Stations -- Climate Change Experiments on a Glacier Foreland in the Central Alps -- High Mountain Summits as Sensitive Indicators of Climate Change Effects on Vegetation Patterns: The "Multi Summit-Approach" of GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments) -- Temperature and Precipitation Trends in Italy During the Last Century -- Climate and other Sources of Change in the St. Elias Region -- Permafrost and Climate in Europe. Climate Change, Mountain Permafrost Degradation and Geotechnical Hazard -- Thermal Variations of Mountain Permafrost: an Example of Measurements Since 1987 in the Swiss Alps -- Climate Change and Air Quality Assessment in Canadian National Parks -- Regional Clean Air Partnerships and the ETEAM -- Land-Atmosphere Interactions -- Uncertainties in the Prediction of Regional Climate Change -- Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for "In Situ" Measurements on Glaciers and Snowfields -- Cs-137 Gamma Peak Detection in Snow Layers on Calderone Glacier -- The Effects of Global Warming on Mountain Regions: a Summary of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- Global Change in Respect to Tendency to Acidification of Subarctic Mountain Lakes -- Influence of Climate, Species Immigration, Fire, and Men on Forest Dynamics In Northern Italy, from 6000 Cal. BP To Today -- Koenigia Islandica (Iceland Purslane) — A Case Study of a Potential Indicator of Climate Change in the UK -- Semi-Objective Sampling Strategies as One Basis for a Vegetation Survey -- Simulating the Impact of Climate Change on Drought in Swiss Forest Stands -- Forecasted Stability of Mediterranean Evergreen Species Considering Global Changes -- Birds as Bio-Indicators of Long-Transported Lead in the Alpine Environment -- Annual Estimations of Ecophysiological Parameters and Biogenic Volatile Compounds (BVOCs) Emissions in Citrus Sinensis (L.) Osbeck -- A Multiscale Study to Analyse the Response of Vegetation to Climatic Conditions -- Phytotoxic Ozone Effect on Selected Plant Species in a Standardized Experimental Design -- Plant Invasions in Central European Middle-Mountains: A Result of Global Change? -- Can Testate Amoebae (Protozoa) and Other Micro-Organisms Help to Overcome Biogeographic Bias in Large Scale Global Change Research? -- Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Mineral Nitrogen Deposition on Litter Quality, Bioleaching and Decomposition in A Sphagnum Peat Bog -- Analysis of the Environmental Impact Caused by Introduced Animals in the Clarion Island, Archipelago of Revillagigedo, Colima, Mexico -- High Mountain Environment as Indicator of Global Change -- Effects of Elevated CO2 and Nitrogen Deposition on Natural Regeneration Processes of Cut-Over Ombrotrophic Peat Bogs in the Swiss Jura Mountains -- Economic Evaluation of Italian Parks and Natural Areas -- Environmental and Human Impacts on Coastal and Marine Protected Areas in India -- Past Climate Change and the Generation and Persistence of Species Richness in a Biodiversity Hotspot, the Cape Flora of South Africa -- The World Network of Biosphere Reserves: a Flexible Structure for Understanding and Responding to Global Change -- The Role of a Global Protected Areas System in Conserving Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change -- The Strong Reduction Phase of the Calderone Glacier During the Last Two Centuries: Reconstruction of the Variation and of the Possible Scenarios With GIS Technologies -- Digital Geomorphologic Cartography of the Top Area of the Gran Sasso D'Italia Mountain Group (Central Apennine, Italy) -- The Late Pleistocene and Holocene Temporary Lakes in the Abruzzo Parks and the Central Apennines -- The Travertine Deposits of the Upper Pescara Valley (Central Abruzzi, Italy): A Clue for the Reconstruction of the Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironmental Evolution of the Area -- The Protected Areas System for the Conservation and for an Eco-Compatible Development of the Territory: The Maiella National Park -- Environmental Protection and Social Protection: The Sirente-Velino Regional Park -- Protected Areas Management: an Example of Application in the Gran Sasso Park -- The Main Invasive Alien Plants in the Protected Areas in Central Italy (Abruzzo) -- The Historical and Iconographic Research in the Reconstruction of the Variation of the Calderone Glacier: State of the Art and Perspective -- Numerical Experiments to Study the Possible Meteorological Changes Induced by the Presence of a Lake.

Have regional trade agreements led to a new form of economic cooperation by promoting deeper integration in the regulatory structures of participating countries? The answer has profound i m p l ications for the future of multilateral cooperation and international economic relations. Regional trade agreements have led to deeper integration in a number of fields, and recent agreements are generally more effective than the more remote WTO procedures in facilitating t rade and improving transparency. There is no single model for deeper i n t e g ration and each t rade agreement is the result of attempts to achieve very different policy objectives. But Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Economic Integration finds that regional processes and rules have been consistent with the multilateral obligations of each party. WTO rules therefore constitute a floor that underpins additional commitments in the regional agreements.