R ecent years have seen adaptation come to the fore of the international climate change debate. The focus is centred largely upon enhancing the capacity of developing countries and the poorest to adapt to the impacts of climate change. As a result, interventions to facilitate adaptation need to identify and address key barriers to ensure that societies are resilient in the face of a changing cl...

Macroeconomic theorists have devoted considerable attention to designing optimal rules for government policy. The arguments for why governments should set policy in terms of rules are well known. However, until recently, there has been very little formal analysis devoted to asking how macroeconomists’ policy (regime) prescriptions can be adopted in a way which is credible. This seems quite impo...

Nutzungsbedingungen: Die ZBW räumt Ihnen als Nutzerin/Nutzer das unentgeltliche, räumlich unbeschränkte und zeitlich auf die Dauer des Schutzrechts beschränkte einfache Recht ein, das ausgewählte Werk im Rahmen der unter → http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen nachzulesenden vollständigen Nutzungsbedingungen zu vervielfältigen, mit denen die Nutzerin/der Nutzer sich durch die erste ...

The green building movement has overcome formidable, technical, and economic hurdles in recent years, yet adoption of green building practices within the design and construction field remains low. Major corporations now offer products and services at a scale that is bringing costs down to competitive levels, but environmental sustainability in building design and delivery remains at the early s...

BACKGROUND The importance of increasing adolescence girl's level of physical activity is recognized as a priority for having a healthy lifestyle. However, adolescent girls especially Iranian, are at high risk for physical inactivity. Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) is a successful theory to explain physical activity behavior. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of physical activ...

Migration is an important phenomenon that deeply affects the lives of adolescents and paves way for many emotional behavioral problems. It to go through migration process without any problems in order them continue their harmony with society they have just joined individual development a healthy way. The aim this study draw attention experienced by adolescents, who are interim period from child...

Abstract Digital (video) calls have become a significant tool during the challenging times marked by COVID-19 pandemic. The article focuses on perceived functionality of video for maintaining social contacts and overcoming loneliness in celebrating family festivities limited physical distance policies. qualitative study conducted at end 2021 Latvia Spain examines families’ cultural socialisatio...

Family is one of the most important grounds of crime and crime victimization development. The experts, welfare workers, lawyers and sociologists argue that the factor or factors should be identified that provide the kind of conditions under which the individuals abuse, tolerate or accept the crime in order to secure the society, reduce the social harms and finally propose the procedures to refo...

The recruitment of respondents belonging to ethnic minorities poses important challenges in social and health research. This paper reflects on the enablers and barriers to recruitment that we encountered in our research work with persons belonging to ethnic minorities. Additionally, we applied the Matching Model of Recruitment, a theoretical framework concerning minority recruitment, to guide o...