albertmartinez/OSDG huggingface dataset:
In this article, the author explores the challenges for sexual citizenship campaigns as same-sex marriage emerges as a touchstone for progressive politics in Australia and beyond. Analysing popular media and public debate, she argues that there is much to be learned from recent critiques of liberal and colonial feminisms. Jasbir Puar argues that the ‘woman question’ is currently being supplemented or supplanted by the ‘gay question’ as a marker of a nation’s modernity, democracy and ‘civilization’. In the context of widespread support for marriage equality, an urgent challenge is how to respond to an emerging ‘homonationalism’ in public culture which positions the West on ‘the right side of history’ in contrast to homophobic Islam, and a liberal version of gay rights which obscures ongoing discrimination and injustice.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
Pressure on aquifers will increase as farms try to offset missing precipitation with increased pumping, and aquifer recharge rates will decrease. There will be major consequences for the livestock sector if forages are depleted and cattle herds have to be reduced. Competition for scarce irrigation water for crops will require new water allocation schemes if the water supply is not to be exhausted. In addition, increased variability in rainfall will lead to increased variability in incomes, which will make access to credit and insurance even more important if farms are to be viable over a longer time period.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg6)
Child Poverty in Vietnam - Providing Insights Using a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model”, Social Indicators Research,98 (1), 129 - 145. False Positives or Hidden Dimensions - What Can Monetary and Multidimensional Measurement Tell Us about Child Poverty T,International Journal of Social Welfare, DOI: 10.1111/j. Poverty: an Ordinal Approach to Measurement”,Econometrica, 44 (2), 219-231. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Oxford University Press, Oxford. First Things First: Meeting Basic Human Needs in Developing Countries,Oxford University Press, New York.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg1)
The dominant discourse in accommodating the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia during Suharto’s regime was one of assimilation, which forcefully aimed to absorb this minority into the national body. However, continuous official discrimination towards the Chinese placed them in a paradoxical position that made them an easy target of racial and class hostility. The May 1998 anti-Chinese riots proved the failure of the assmilationist policy. The process of democratization has given rise to a proliferation of identity politics in postSuharto Indonesia. The policy of multiculturalism has been endorsed by Indonesia’s current power holders as a preferred approach to rebuilding the nation, consistent with the national motto: ‘Unity in Diversity’. This paper critically considers the politics of multiculturalism and its efficacy in managing cultural diversity and differences. It deploys the concept of hybridity to describe as well as analyze the complex identity politics of the ethnic Chinese in contemporary Indonesia.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
Municipalities can choose the level of control among several different methods. They have the authority to either formulate a plan local d'urbanisme (or PLU, a local uiban plan that includes detailed land-use regulations and sets the zones where construction is permitted) or a carte communale (the municipality map demarcating areas where construction is permitted), depending on the context of the municipality. Construction in green fields is only possible when allowed by the PLU or by the carte communale, and municipalities must otherwise comply with the national principle of limiting construction.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg11)
Recharging also requires a non-contact recharging facility to be installed at the station (such a recharging system is running in other Korean cities such as Jeju, Suwon and Pohang). The introduction of compressed natural gas buses is another example of low-pollution transport policy in Sejong. The central government provided a subsidy to Sejong to help the city adopt CNG buses. Sejong’s bus network includes 72 routes, served by 130 buses, among which 24 are BRT types.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg11)
The initiative makes use of various communication channels. It developed and disseminated digital packages in simplified Arabic (and sometimes French) such as CDs, websites and audiotapes. The WRCATI also runs telephone hotlines in some countries, where operators who speak the national language have been trained in answering legal questions and offering advice.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg5)
At the same time new jurisdiction or wider jurisdiction is given to other bodies, thereby increasing their involvement in the licensing process. It should be pointed out that municipalities are currently responsible for licensing establishments that process fisheries and aquaculture products. The General Directorate for Fisheries and Aquaculture is no longer responsible for licensing industrial activity. This breakdown is much the same as in previous years. Facilities for preparing and conserving fresh and frozen fish are still most numerous, followed by those for producing dried and salted products.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg14)
The Directive requires Member States to create systems that allow final stakeholders and distributors to return e-waste free of charge. To guarantee environmentally sound treatment of the separately collected e-waste, the E-waste Directive lays down treatment requirements for specific materials and components of e-waste, and for the treatment and storage sites. This legal framework uses the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility, which requires producers to organise and/or finance the collection, treatment, and recycling of their products at end-of-life.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg12)
In particular, they should interact with and/or facilitate water stewardship efforts by agro-food sector companies. The rest of this section will look at these three aspects (additional programmes, adapting policies, co-ordination with other actors) successively, encompassing different types of approaches based on the existing literature and illustration from existing programmes. The level of action can vary by region, state or province, to a county or district, or even farms most at risk or most responsible for water risks, and could expand if successful in the hotspot area if funding allows.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg6)
T able 24 overleaf provides an overview of the five indices. Generally, the characteristics and quality of the habitats in the open land will predominantly be determined by agricultural activities including structural changes, crop use and intensification. Also, infrastructural developments such as road network developments, establishment of power lines, wind farms etc. In more pristine open landscapes, such as open upland landscapes in northern Scandinavia, agricultural activities do not play a significant role (though extensive grazing with reindeer may locally result in notable impacts on the habitats).
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg15)
They may suffer abuse and difficulties when travelling on public transport. Transport operators may refuse concessionary fares (a problem also experienced by students). P.. J. Hine 120141 Poverty end sustainable transport: Hour transport affects poor people v/ith policy implications for poverty reduction.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg11)
Hope that, through the efforts of those working to protect the park, we can maintain an example of a working green economy providing both stability and conservation. The impact of wildlife crime cannot be overstated. The illegal exploitation of natural resources has led to the critical endangering of thousands of species around the world through poaching and the destruction of delicate and vital ecosystems. Comprising over 7,800 square kilometres of forests, savannahs, swamps and glaciated peaks, the park poses significant challenges to those tasked with its protection.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg15)
Intelligence studies has grown tremendously as an academic discipline in recent years. At key international conferences in the field, such as the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention, there is not only a broad range of topics under discussion, but attendance by a good mix of academics and practitioners. In many ways, this reflects the broadening and deepening of security actors in the post-Cold War world. But this depth and breadth poses interesting challenges for the discipline: Should it be an interdisciplinary field of study or a more defined and prescribed discipline? Perhaps more importantly, is intelligence studies an adjunct to the intelligence sector or a critical commentator on it? This article seeks to address these questions, arguing for a broad, interdisciplinary approach that combines critical education about intelligence with equipping prospective policymakers with professional skills.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
It is fair to say that it is a growing market in Norway where different actors offer AfL packages, and from a research point of view, not all of these packages are seen as high quality tools. The policy programme could be seen as a sign of distrust of the teaching profession, as well as of Teacher Education, since it both suggested which material should be read, and offered examples of how to practice AfL in classrooms. This, according to the researchers, suggested that teachers were not able to develop assessment practices for themselves, and therefore needed recipes to know how to do it.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg4)
The issue of low noise vehicles (i.e.: electric/hybrid cars) needs to be investigated further, not least as the use of electric scooters or electric vehicles for mobility impaired persons increases. It has to be decided how to adapt infrastructure so that these vehicles can be used under conditions of appropriate safety, both for the users, if they have to share space with cars, and for pedestrians and/or bicyclists, when they have to share the space with them. The international databases that contain crash data of several European countries do usually not include data on fatalities per means of transport per age-group.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg11)
There are a large number of migrants from Fiji living in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States (Mohanty, 2006a). The emigration rate is high in PICs, especially in Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. Table 4 shows that in 2005 the emigration rates for these countries were 35 per cent, 34 per cent and 15 per cent respectively.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg1)
The evidence regarding declining returns on job creation is not that clear, however. On the one hand, as it has been demonstrated in diffusion theory, early technology adopters are generally those who can elicit the higher returns of a given innovation. On the other hand, while job creation in traditional industries tends to diminish, the emergence of “new economy” jobs compensates for the former effect. Clearly, the job mix will change over time but the positive net impact will remain.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg8)
In the 2012/13 financial year, a total of USD 18.47 million was transferred to fisheries sector from the UK Government, which is a 79.6% decrease compared with the GFTs in 2005 (Panel C). Total number of registered vessels and total tonnage of the fleet also decreased respectively by 5.3% and 5.7% since 2007. ( Responsibility for fisheries in the United Kingdom lies with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Scottish Ministers, Minister of the Welsh Assembly Government and Northern Ireland Executive Ministers. The principal powers governing the regulation of fisheries are set out in the Sea Fish (Conservation) Acts 1967 and 1992, the Sea Fisheries Act 1968, the Fishery Limits Act 1976, the Fisheries Act 1981, the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 and the Fisheries Act 1966.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg14)
As a further comparison, the secretariat of the Council for Environmental Cooperation (the organization set up as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to facilitate coordination of environmental protection in the three countries) employs fewer than 50. Finally, energy security issues are of prime importance to political leadership and it was widely believed that national energy security would be compromised by regional energy trade diat creates import dependency on neighbouring countries. Political and policy mindset was thus working against regional energy connectivity until very recendy. This will have to change if energy connectivity is to take root in the Regjon.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg7)
Alternative solutions, such as utilization of energy sources with lower carbon footprints, can also have implications for the water environment. Hydropower production can contribute to fragmentation of river systems, while the construction of some solar-energy infrastructure consumes significant quantities of water (United Nations Environment Programme, 2012a). Extreme weather events such as droughts and floods, have been affecting food production, with dramatic consequences for various agroecosystems.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg2)
The importance of infrastructure and connectivity is recognized by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9, on industry, innovation and infrastructure. The chapter looks at fixed- and mobile- broadband prices, and the affordability of services in developed and developing regions. In addition to addressing supply-side barriers, it examines demand-side barriers outside the ICT ecosystem, including broader socio-economic inequalities, digital and analogue skills, and the availability of relevant local content. The steep rise in mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide, which began early in this century, is tailing off as the global penetration rate approaches 100 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants. At the same time, there has been a gradual decline in the penetration rate for fixed-telephone subscriptions, owing to the tendency for new users to prefer mobile over fixed lines.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg9)
Depletion of non-renewable resources (including oil and minerals) and degradation of arable land add to the resource pressures. Increased efforts to better manage water resources including through water prices that reflect scarcity of supplies is urgently required. Some countries are now making foreign investments to secure food supplies from other countries where resource constraints are lower, but guidelines for such investments are critical to respect local economies.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg2)
Thirdly, high aquaculture production volumes contribute to the policy objective ‘food security'. There is however an ongoing discussion about the ‘fishmeal trap’, which questions the ethical acceptability of using fish from capture fisheries for the production of high-value fish. Finally, aquaculture product safety and hygiene is important to ensure consumer protection.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg14)
Time series estimates from the World Bank and IMF suggest a wide variation in the degree to which prices are transmitted from international to domestic markets. Among developing countries, the largest passthrough is observed in the countries of Latin America, which are largely open to international trade. In Sub-Saharan Africa the pass-through of rice and wheat prices to countries importing these cereals has been relatively fast, but the transmission of international maize prices has been much weaker.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg2)
Russian Abstract: В настоящей работе в фокусе внимания находится региональная политика в отношении инвалидов, она рассматривается в контексте соответствия принципам Конвенции ООН о правах инвалидов и реальных запросов семей с инвалидами, оцененных на основе социологического опроса. С учетом бюджетной обеспеченности шести пилотных регионов и объемов затрат на социальную политику проведен анализ их сильных и слабых сторон, представлены риски и возможности совершенствования региональной политики.English Abstract: In this paper, the focus is regional policy for people with disabilities, it is considered in the context of compliance with the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and real families queries with disabilities, estimated on the basis of a poll. Taking into account the budget sufficiency six pilot regions and the volume of expenses for social policy analysis of their strengths and weaknesses, presents risks and opportunities for improving regional policy.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
The hospital and emergency care sectors were reorganised, leading to efficiency gains. Primary care was also strengthened, with the aim of focusing more effort on preventive care. Population ageing and worsening rates of smoking and other key risk factors mean that more people are living with chronic disease, and demands on the health system are intensifying. Latvia must continue to undertake reforms, therefore, to optimise performance of the health care system and improve people's health. Key challenges in each of these areas are identified. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg3)
Countries that spend the most on cash transfers tend to concentrate more on redistribution across the life-cycle (in particular through old-age pensions). In contrast, those countries that focus more on redistribution between the rich and the poor, through extensive use of targeting, spend less. They reduced income inequality, as measured by the fall in concentration of market income before and after transfers, by about 19% in the late 2000s. Those countries that spend the most are not always those where the redistributive impact is strongest.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg10)
An innovation that is accessible to the poorest in advanced economies may only be accessible to the emerging middle classes - rather than the poor - in emerging and developing countries. Innovations such as the Tata Nano - known as the world’s cheapest car - and Narayana Health’s healthcare services (described in Table 1.1) fall into this category, yet are often cited as examples of inclusive innovations, for two reasons. First, these products are potentially relevant to serving the needs of the poorest in advanced countries. Second - similarly to inclusive innovations aimed at the poorest - their objective is to reach groups of people with lower incomes. Hence, it is relevant to include them in an analysis aiming to identify policy lessons on inclusive innovations. It also influences the number of different markets -often limited in size and with specific local demands, posing potential challenges for delivering certain types of inclusive innovations.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg9)
Work with government, industry and unions to establish sustainable industry networks in metropolitan Sydney amongst small and medium-sized enterprises in selective industries in building and construction, manufacturing and business services with the aim of providing opportunities for project identification, technological and product innovation and effective and low cost skills upgrading. Implement community based initiatives aimed at increasing sustainability literacy in schools, community networks and households through the extension of accredited and non-accredited short courses, and strengthening articulation and pathways through secondary, vocational and higher education. Develop new initiatives, in partnership with local government and employment service organisations such as Job Services Australia, to support disadvantaged people to gain access to learning and job opportunities in sustainability tasks and occupations and, in particular, improve opportunities for entry level jobs. Design and implement, in partnership with government and industry, a communications strategy to promote an identity of Sydney as a sustainable city, along with the values, attitudes and skills associated with a low carbon economy and the employment opportunities associated with the transition.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg7)
Summary The tactics of war have profound impacts on tropical forest ecosystems, and modern weapons technologies have greatly increased their destructive potential. Some legal protection is afforded by customary international law, and the international community responded to the Vietnam War by adopting, inter alia, the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and the 1976 Environmental Modification Convention, which prohibit “long-term” (or “long-lasting”), “widespread,” and “severe” environmental damage. Nevertheless, many regard these and other existing conventions as inadequate, especially as applied to internal conflicts. More recently, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature-World Conservation Union (IUCN) put forth a Draft Convention on the Prohibition of Hostile Military Activities in Internationally Protected Areas. This paper analyzes the IUCN Draft Convention-particularly issues of prior designation of protected areas, waiver of protection, and monitoring and enforcemen...
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
In our mediatised and visually-driven era, international law, its institutions and practitioners feel the pull of publicity, engage with communicative platforms and negotiate the politics of representation. There is increasing attention given to the visual dimension of law and to the power of the image. In the fields of human rights and international criminal justice, in particular, film has been used as evidence, and for advocacy and outreach. There is also a growing and significant literature beginning to consider the role played by film and representation within our discipline.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
The analysis also draws on relevant insights from the Fifth National Reports. Nearly all NBSAPs refer to development (and poverty alleviation) in one way or another, but few have established priority actions that specifically link socio-economic development and biodiversity objectives, and fewer have identified indicators against which to monitor progress. On the whole, more recent NBSAPs tend to fare better with regard to mainstreaming than those that are outdated.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg15)
It assesses governance of the AIS in ASEAN, investments in innovation, institutions for facilitating knowledge flows in the AIS, and systems for cross-country co-operation on innovation within the region. The chapter concludes with recommendations for promoting sustainable agricultural productivity growth across the region by improving the enabling environment and innovation systems in ASEAN. But there are gaps in the agricultural innovation systems of most ASEAN countries. As a result, some countries do not have the necessary domestic research capacity to respond to the challenges facing their agricultural sectors, and not all farmers are reached by extension services.
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg2)