Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces

concerns present to traditional theories of international relations? The environmental challenges throughout the world are numerous and complex. Most governments and institutions now clearly realize that environmental issues are now directly related with other social/ cultural and socioeconomic issues. Promoting sustainable growth and assuring the protection of biodiversity on the planet is the only path forward for human survival. Decades of environmental mismanagement have…

Acknowledgements The TCPA gratefully acknowledges the support and input of Land Securities. The TCPA is indebted to all those who gave their time and energy to attend workshops and give interviews to inform this report. Particular thanks are extended to those who helped with hosting the workshops from Stevenage Borough Council and Peterborough City Council and to Graeme Bell in Welwyn Garden City. Photographs courtesy of Land Securities (pp. 13 & 16), O&H Properties (p. 23), Stevenage…

RESOURCES • SOLAR RECOURCES • Solar Energy Conversion Toward 1 Terawatt David Ginley (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) Martin A. Green (University of New South Wales, Australia) Reuben Collins (Colorado School of Mines, USA) Abstract The direct conversion of solar energy to electricity by photovoltaic cells or thermal energy in concentrated solar power systems is emerging as a leading contender for next-generation green power production. The photovoltaics (PV) area is…

de sua aplicação na matemática e na informática. Inserimos igualmente algumas passagens relacionadas à teoria dos grafos, dado o seu emprego na análise e representação matemática de fenômenos de rede em parte expressiva da literatura sobre redes sociais. Não recuperamos, entretanto, elementos provenientes da ecologia, da termodinâmica, da teoria sistêmica da complexidade ou de outras abordagens que analisamos no livro Redes de Colaboração Solidária (Mance, 2002), pois, do contrário,…

TOOLKIT FOR AFRICA AFRICAN CONNECTION Centre for Strategic Planning Funding for the preparation of this Toolkit was provided by the info Dev Program of the World Bank This Toolkit is available electronically at http://www.infodev.org/projects/telecommunications/351africa/RuralICT/Toolkit.pdf (World Bank Publication information) Principal Authors: Andrew Dymond Sonja Oestmann of I ntelecon Research & Consultancy Ltd. Telecommunications & Information…

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature http://jcl.sagepub.com Imagining the Nation: The Role of Singapore Poetry in English in "Emergent Nationalism" Robbie B. H. Goh The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2006; 41; 21 DOI: 10.1177/0021989406065770 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jcl.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/2/21 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature can…

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The New Dynamics of Strategy sense-making in a complex-complicated world Cynthia F Kurtz and David J Snowden Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity IBM Global Services www.ibm.com/services/cynefin ckurtz@us.ibm.com snowded@uk.ibm.com (corresponding author) We challenge the universality of three basic assumptions prevalent (in our view) in organizational decision support and strategy: assumptions of order, of rational choice, and of intentional capability. We describe the…

été accepté pour la quatrième édition de l’Atelier mondial des jeunes chercheurs en environnement (WWW YES), qui va être tenu au Domaine départementale Adolphe Chérioux, du 10 au 13 mai 2005, pour présenter ses travaux intitulés : Inundation maps of urban areas and floods caused by dam failure. L'hébergement et les repas sont offerts par le Conseil général du Val-de-Marne au Domaine Départemental Adolphe Chérioux ,4 route Fontainebleau, 94400 Vitry sur Seine, France (référence : Olivier…