The European Landscape Convention (2000) obligates European Union countries to identify and implement landscape quality objectives (LQOs) understood as the specification of public expectations and preferences concerning the landscape of a given area, expressed by competent public authorities. The convention emphasizes the important role of local community representatives in this field. In Polan...

The 33 session of the General Conference of UNESCO has adopted by acclamation on 19 October 2005 the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. After the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (1997), followed by the Universal Declaration on Human Genetic Data (2003), the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights is the third instrument related to bioethi...

After centuries of cultural and economic conquest of the Americas by European and Euro-American conquistadors, contemporary rhetoric in ex-colonial powers heralds the decline of material and ideological imperialism. Instead, it is purported that today’s world is peopled by a great brotherhood, with the more affluent striving to relieve their less fortunate, underdeveloped kith. This conviction ...

In this paper we propose a goal programming model that provides consensual aggregated solution minimizing conflicts to guide multi-stakeholder decision-making processes and generates information regarding stakeholder groups be exploited for negotiation purposes. This permits quantify variations in when the relative contribution of each criteria changes gives insight strategies with application ...

the unesco chair in health education in tums (tums), iran, was established in immunology, asthma and allergy research institute in april 2004. the purpose of this chair is to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation activities in the field of health education. the target group includes the public, health care workers, students, trainees and researchers. ...