Urban and regional planning is a notion that encompasses the whole set of social activities aimed at anticipating, representing and regulating the development of an urban or a regional area. It thus articulates intellectual activities of study and prospective, of social and economic forecasting with more concrete activities such as infrastructure programming, land reservation and land use regul...

this article presents the key insights about the environment and security links in the context of the persian gulf region. this research paper focuses on the challenge of finding a balance among development, armed conflicts and environmental degradation in the persian gulf region. environmental security challenges are human security, sustainable development and regional cooperation in the persi...

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...

OBJECTIVE To determine antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) activities currently being undertaken at Victorian hospitals, identifying gaps when assessed against the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care criteria for effective AMS. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A survey open to all Victorian health services, conducted between January and March 2012. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES A...

In the 1980s, amid regional controversy over France’s policies in South Pacific, a debate emerged around the idea of whether France was simply a sovereign presence ‘‘in’’ the region, or could also be seen as being ‘‘of’’ or ‘‘from’’ the region. It is an important question, as it goes to the heart of how France wants to be seen in the South Pacific region, and in the world. If France wants to re...

While the horror of the Nazi medical experiments has been unanimously acknowledged, debate continues over whether results of those experiments which are scientifically sound should be used and cited in publications and, by extension, over whether any ethically-suspect research should be cited or published. The author consulted persons in such diverse disciplines as medical journalism, Holocaus...

This article traces significant moments in the history of the magazine Saúde em Debate - sourcing references and information from documents, historical studies, editions of the magazine, academic work and interviews with physicians and writers who contributed to its creation. In its 39 years of existence, although there may have been variations in the magazine's editorial policy, its role as a ...

Abstract. The impacts of innovation programs may go far beyond improvements in private R&D expenditures and patents. In this paper we propose that domestic-level programs, not necessarily designed to increase international links in science and technology, may indirectly foster international cooperation in innovation, by providing additional funding, experience in domestic collaboration, and lea...

The insurance function of federal budgets against regional asymmetric income shocksin scal federations is well known in the literature. Empirical studies provide estimates of the amount of stabilisation between the regions. Especially automatic stabilisers, like the unemployment insurance, show a large reaction to regional imbalances. The goal of this paper is to estimate the amount of redistri...

European Regional Policy produced several generations of programmes at both National and Regional levels. Such a complex framework tends to increase multi-level governance in the period 2007-2013, promoting a wider participation of stakeholders (including Public Administration, Local Communities, Enterprises, etc). This process has been usually accompanied by e-tools for the management of botto...