Despite the growing knowledge on benefits of Urban Trees, there is a gap related to dimension governance, normative instruments and public policies. In an attempt improve this context, Brazilian Society Forest instituted National Policy Work Group (GTPNAU) inserted in scope Standardization Certification Committee. GTPNAU had as its goal elaborate policy proposal at national level, capable offer...

In 2015 the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) argued that surgical care is important to national health systems along with the economic viability of countries. Gajewski and colleagues outlined how the Commission’s blueprint has been implemented in sub-Saharan Africa, including two funded research projects that were integrated into national surgical plans. Here...

The relationship between ethnic and faith communities in the United States and domestic forces relating to a converging and diverging social contract on the one hand, and US foreign, security and military policies in national, regional and global contexts on the other hand, constitutes the key focus of this paper and the ongoing research upon which it is based. Theories related to American ethn...