The Impact of Family Sustainable Livelihood and Environmental Cognition on Herdsmen’s Choice of Production Behavior by Qihang Wang, Yinjia Miao

“…The area and quality of grassland in herdsman families’ sustainable livelihood could encourage herdsmen to increase breeding scale, while the quantity of livestock, structure of house, the number of labor, the level of education, the status of health, and the income of families could promote herdsmen to restrain the breeding scale. The cognition of policy and ecological environment also had a significant positive effect on herdsmen restraining breeding scale.…”
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A Worthy Heir: Donald Trump, the Republican Party and Climate Change by Jean-Daniel Collomb

“…The aim of this article is to demonstrate that Donald Trump’s commitment to climate skepticism and his hostility toward the very idea of a proactive federal apparatus of environmental regulation do not mark a departure from Republican and conservative orthodoxy but, rather, signal his adherence to positions developed and refined by the libertarian and free-market conservative think tanks that have been supplying the Republican Party with ideas and policy proposals since the 1970s. The article underscores the high degree of continuity between President Trump’s approach to climate change and the environmental policies implemented by his Republican predecessors since Ronald Reagan, which have revolved around a preference for market solutions over government regulations, deep mistrust of environmental multilateralism, efforts to increase fossil fuel production on public lands, and attempts to restrict access to environmental and climate data.…”
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O Plano Diretor de Chapecó (SC) e a possibilidade de um pacto social à luz dos princípios do Estatuto da Cidade by Monica Hass, Myriam Aldana, Rosana Maria Badalotti

“…With the obligation to work out a Master Plan in cities with more than 20 thousand inhabitants, on the basis of instruments and participative principles defined by the City Statute, there is a need to establish a social pact between government, market and civil society on urban policy. In view of the different interests of the actors involved in the discussion, the article analyzes the conflicts that surfaced in the debate about the reformulation (2002/2003) and revision (2006) of the Master Plan of Territorial Development of Chapecó, in the light of the principles of the City Statute and the possibility of a minimal and lasting consensus among the participants. …”
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Disintegration of the BRELL electric ring: causes and consequences for the Baltic states by Anatoly I. Bazhan

“…The article discusses some problems of energy supply of the Baltic republics with electricity after their accession to the European Union. The policy of Brussels aimed at curtailing energy cooperation between the Baltic States and Russia and Belarus is analyzed. …”
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Regulationist Macro-Models for Developing Countries. An Application to the Argentine New Development Pattern by Demian Tupac Panigo, Pablo Ignacio Chena

“…In this paper we present a regulationst structural macroeconometric model (RSMM) to develop economic forecasts and examine different policy outcomes in Argentina. RSMM main characteristics involve cumulative causation dynamics where income distribution, macroeconomic volatility, credit rationing and productive heterogeneity conjugates to obtain a new instrument to precisely examine key macroeconomic and social variables. …”
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COOPERATION OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION AND ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS by A. Pakhomov, K. Bagdasaryan

“…The article examines modern economic and integration processes in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the context of opportunities and constraints to implement the foreign economic policy of Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in the region. …”
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PERAN PEREMPUAN DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN PROGRAM PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN MELALUI MULTIMEDIA by Emilia Ramadhani

“…This study aims to unify ideas or thoughts that will be developed in the movement of Indonesian women academics to women's empowerment program, particularly through the media.The approach will be used in this study is to model the quantitative and qualitative approach in social policy research. The population in this study were all female academics in the city of Medan with the characteristics of women who are actively teaching professor at the PTN and PTS in the shade Kopertis region I. …”
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Two Years in Crisis — Municipal Finances Remain Sustainable Nonetheless by Florian Boettcher, Ronny Freier

“…Abstract Federal and state policies have massively supported the German municipalities during the coronavirus crisis. …”
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Digital economy, green finance, and economic resilience. by Jianqi Zhang

“…In this regard, China's economic resilience must be enhanced by strengthening the construction of digital infrastructure, promoting innovation and the development of green finance, and formulating a policy environment conducive to the development of green finance.…”
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Fault-tolerant scheduling algorithm for real-time tasks in virtualized cloud by Ji WANG, Wei-dong BAO, Xiao-min ZHU

“…In order to achieve the high reliability of real-time systems in virtualized clouds,a fault-tolerant scheduling algorithm for virtualized clouds named FSVC that used primary-backup approach to tolerate physical host failures was proposed.FSVC strived to enhance the performance by employing backup-backup overlapping technique and virtual Machine migration technique.The constraints of the two techniques were elaborately analyzed to realize fault tolerance.Besides,a two-phase policy was incorporated in FSVC to further improve the performance.Simulation experiments demonstrated that FSVC can improve the schedulability and resource utilization effectively in virtualized clouds.…”
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The Global Rise of Anti-Gender Movements and Feminist Resistance Strategies by Maja Gergorić, Kusumika Ghosh, Anya Kuteleva

“…Politicians, policymakers, and diverse societal actors in various countries challenge or reject feminist ideas and gender-related concepts, as well as support policy changes that erode the structures and institutions that have been instrumental in upholding women's rights, promoting gender equality, and protecting the rights of LGBTQ people. …”
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How Parents and Agents Can Address Bullying with Youth by Rosemary V. Barnett

“… Recently the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new anti-bullying policy that concluded that bullying is not just another childhood behavior that will eventually be outgrown, but rather a public health problem that can have long-term effects for both the bully and the victim. …”
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Croissance et répartition en présence d’investissements environnementaux non désirés by Laurent Cordonnier, Franck Van de Velde, Benoît Desmarchelier

“…Sustainable development policies can have, inter alia incidences, that to impose on firms investments which otherwise they did not wish to undertake. …”
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Économie politique des services écosystémiques : de l’analyse économique aux évolutions juridiques by Benoît Prévost, Audrey Rivaud, Agnès Michelot

“…We focus on the interactions between theoretical arguments and institutional changes involved by the integration of ecosystem services within policy and law. The political economy of ecosystem services appeared to be dual: on the one hand it could be a seminal framework to implement new strategies to overcome the failures of our development models; but, on the other hand, the strength of epistemological principles inherited from mainstream economics could enforce the processes of commodification through radical changes concerning the Humans and Nature relationships. …”
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Drug Cost-Effectiveness Assessments Require Standards for Rigor and Inclusion by Tia Goss Sawhney, Neil Thakur

“…ICER’s cost effectiveness assessments are increasingly being used to support health insurance coverage and healthcare policy decisions. ICER often does not apply rigorous data quality and inclusion criteria to either the assumptions embedded within their cost-effectiveness models or the data inputted into the models. …”
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STATE AS AN INVESTOR AND CUSTOMER IN POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION: NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES NETWORK by Elena B. Mudrova, Elena B. Vinogradova

“…The article provides an analysis of the state policy as an investor in the course of reforminghigher education system. …”
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A Survey of Educational Program Needs for the Florida Association of Counties County Commissioner Training Program by Rodney L. Clouser

“…The survey collects information regarding attendance at FAC-FCF sponsored events, willingness to pay for educational programs, worth of events and programs attended by commissioners and administrators, desired locations for educational activities and, most importantly, the type and amount of training needed by commissioners on various topics that would assist them as an elected policy maker. The results of the 2005-06 survey are presented as an executive summary that follows. …”
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Participação social na avaliação de impacto ambiental: lições da experiência da Bahia by Francisca Neta Andrade Assunção, Maria Augusta Almeida Bursztyn, Teresa Lúcia Muricy de Abreu

“…The aim is to understand up to what extent EIA is an effective contribution to the environmental licensing procedures, as an instrument of the Brazilian environmental policy. Social participation in Bahia can occur in three different moments. …”
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TRANSFORMATION AND CONTRADICTIONS OF THE IDENTITY POLITICS IN MODERN WESTERN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY by S. P. Mitrakhovich

“…Largely initiated by civil society organizations representing social minorities, this policy has become an instrument for the realization of the tasks of the state power. …”
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Open innovation for property management in emergency and post-emergency pandemic regime by Massimo Lauria, Maria Azzalin

“…In general terms, it supports the ongoing transition towards a management policy that uses the tools of digital culture and interoperability to keep the main variables under control already in the decision-making phase.…”
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