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Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages
No full textThe triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the environment, agriculture, and population; they do not explicitly take into account the compatibilities and inconsistencies among them. Farm households and their livelihood strategies are at the core of the intersectoral linkages approach advocated in this chapter. Three key aspects of the population-environment-development debate are discussed: first, the finding that inconsistencies between public and individual household behavior regarding childbearing and family planning constitute a veritable "demographic tragedy of the commons;" second, the tendency to conceptualize population variables as "unmanageable," and exogenous to environmental and economic change; third, the importance of land markets and land tenure as critical population-sustainability policy issues.Africa, agriculture, Rwanda, population, sustainability, environment, food security, Agricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Consumer/Household Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy, Food Security and Poverty, International Development, Q56,
The Digital Role-Playing Game and Technical Communication: A History of Bethesda, BioWare, and CD Projekt Red
No full textWith annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.S. dollars each of the last two years, the digital games industry may one day challenge theatrical-release movies as the highest-grossing entertainment media in the world. In their examination of the tremendous cultural influence of digital games, Daniel Reardon and David Wright analyze three companies that have shaped the industry: Bethesda, located in Rockville, Maryland; BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta, and CD Projekt Red in Warsaw, Poland.
Each company has used social media and technical content in the games to promote players\u27 belief that players control the companies\u27 game narratives. The result has been at times explosive, as empowered players often attempted to co-op the creative processes of games through discussion board forum demands, fund-raising campaigns to persuade companies to change or add game content, and modifications (“modding”) of the games through fan-created downloads. The result has changed the way we understand the interactive nature of digital games and the power of fan culture to shape those games. Source: Publishe
Deutliche und gründliche Erklärung der Adelichen und Ritterlichen freyen Fecht-Kunst : Lectionen auff den stoß/ und deren gebrauchs eigentlicher Nachricht. Auff die rechte Italianische Art und manir, in dieses Tractätlein verfaßt/ und mit nothwendigen Kupfferstücken nach möglichkeit gezieret und vor Augen gestelt / Durch Jeann Daniel L'Ange ...
No full textThe Family History Of Daniel C. Hodges
No full textThe Family History of Daniel C. Hodges 21 April 2018
Daniel Clayton Hodges authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2018 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
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Book Review
No full textFrederick Spiegel reviews Paul C. Reardon and Clifton Daniel’s 1968 report: Fair Trial and Free Press. Fair Trial and Free Press is a report on one in a series of National Debate Seminars sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute held at George Washington University, Washington, D. C. and the first in the series to be nationally televised. The debate dealt with the conflict of the two fundamental rights and centered around the controversial Reardon Report adopted at the ABA\u27s House of Delegates in February, 1968. The participants in the debate were Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, who served as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice which originated the Reardon Report and E. Clifton Daniel, the Managing Editor of The New York Times, who has distinguished himself as a correspondent in the United States and Europe
Book Review
No full textFrederick Spiegel reviews Paul C. Reardon and Clifton Daniel’s 1968 report: Fair Trial and Free Press. Fair Trial and Free Press is a report on one in a series of National Debate Seminars sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute held at George Washington University, Washington, D. C. and the first in the series to be nationally televised. The debate dealt with the conflict of the two fundamental rights and centered around the controversial Reardon Report adopted at the ABA\u27s House of Delegates in February, 1968. The participants in the debate were Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, who served as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice which originated the Reardon Report and E. Clifton Daniel, the Managing Editor of The New York Times, who has distinguished himself as a correspondent in the United States and Europe
Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
Replication Data for: Interests, Information and Minority Influence in Deliberation
No full textThis data and code are to replicate the findings in "Interests, Information and Minority Influence in Deliberation." Please email the author at [email protected] or [email protected] with any questions
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