Bosques de guacamole: el surgimiento de la franja aguacatera mexicana a mediados del siglo xx by Viridiana Hernández Fernández

“…Three factors explain the extraordinary growth of Michoacán’s avocado production: (1) land-use changes, (2) the development of agricultural infrastructure in the region, and (3) the Mexican state’s varying forest management policies. This article describes those changes and their consequences in the Meseta Purhépecha’s pine forests that now grow almost 30 percent of the total global production of avocados every year.…”
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Une communication politique 2.0 by Alexandre Eyries, Cassandra Poirier

“…The rise of information and communication technologies – notably media and social networks including Twitter - has transformed the media practices and communication policies of political parties. The authors compare the use made of Twitter in 2012 – in France and in Quebec - during the presidential and the provincial elections in order to measure it’s influence on the course of two campaigns and on their outcome.…”
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Transformações recentes no circuito espacial produtivo de hidrocarbonetos e nas trajetórias da transição energética no Brasil by Luciano Duarte

“…Finally, it examines the effects provoked by the political crisis around 2010 and the reemergence of neoliberal policies with Bolsonaro’s government upon the dynamics of hydrocarbon circuit and energy transition.…”
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Post Graduate Students Handbook by Kabale University

“…This handbook defines the type of postgraduate degrees offered at Kabale University, it also provides a few policies, procedures and practices that guide student research undertakings and supervision at postgraduate level. …”
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La politique britannique d’aide à l’innovation : pour une recherche scientifique d’excellence by Marie-Claude Esposito

“…After justifying the role played by the government in the financing of R&D and investigating the link between innovation, productivity and economic growth, this article deals with the research and innovation policies under Tony Blair. It focuses on the financing of public research institutions whose objective is to ensure that the British economy becomes a knowledge-based economy with increased productivity and economic growth. …”
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Environmental Project and Enhancement of Periurban territories by Andrea Tartaglia, Davide Cerati, Guglielmo Di Chiara

“…The experience develops an implementation model aimed at facilitating the integration of the rehabilitation practices of peri-urban rural territories in coherence with the European and regional policies for territorial development. Design simulations resulted in the conscious, pro-active and productive re-design of the rural landscape reshaping the role of abandoned buildings in a functional and performance key.…”
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Les coopérations au développement durable en question dans les pays du Sud by Géraldine Froger

“…After identifying decentralized cooperation, its fields of action, changes in its procedures and the ambiguities it faces in supporting sustainable development in developing countries, we focus on sustainable development policies and programs based on more conventional forms of cooperation. …”
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L’équité au cœur des politiques climatiques : l’exemple des négociations relatives au climat et de la recherche de solutions à la crise énergétique by Loïc Aubrée, Antoine Bonduelle

“…In both cases, the discussions stem from an essential moral principle, but also as a requisite for consensus and thus a condition of success of climate change policies to combat Climate Change. The issue of equity brings also forward the necessary modification of consumption patterns, into more frugal modes.…”
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Expanding Europe’s conflicts-law constitution: against negative externalities of dominant function systems by Gunther Teubner

“…Europe’s material constitution is characterised not only by the conflicts between nation-state policies, but also by the deeper conflicts between different intrinsic normativities of societal institutions.…”
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Why is suicide a social problem? by Jonatan Baños Chaparro

“…Every death by suicide is a failure of society and public policies. The purpose of this work is to offer some reasons to conceptualize suicide as a social problem.…”
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Quinze ans de recherches sur l’interface entre développement durable et territoires. Un bilan réflexif by Bruno Villalba, Olivier Petit

“…Fifteen years after the creation of the research network ‘Développement durable et territoires fragiles’ (Sustainable development and fragile territories) this article aims at retracing the way this research network has mobilized the notion of sustainable development, in the framework of its research activity and scientific animation This reflexive view was needed, in a context characterized by a large recognition of sustainable development as a key component of territorialized public policies, but also by the mobilization of this notion by a variety of actors, with sometimes contradictory logics.…”
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Multihost Tuberculosis: Insights from the Portuguese Control Program by Mónica V. Cunha, Madalena Monteiro, Paulo Carvalho, Paula Mendonça, Teresa Albuquerque, Ana Botelho

“…In parallel, the recent awareness of tuberculosis in local free-ranging wildlife species causes concern regarding the final steps towards eradication, demanding new approaches to the existing disease control policies.…”
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Espace urbain et échanges chez les Ye’kuana à Boa Vista, Roraima (Amazonie brésilienne) by Elaine Moreira

“…The circulation of people and their building of contacts’ networks are analysed as related to their entry strategies into new labour markets linked to education and health public policies for indigenous peoples in Brazil. Their return to home villages with a paid job, as well as the circulation of food products between villages and town, are also analysed in this context, where family cares between relatives remain present, as needed.…”
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Desigualdades persistentes, direitos e democracia contemporânea by Aloísio Ruscheinsky

“…In this sense, despite social policies and the middle scale decision devices, the evaluation of the Gini coefficient shows a massive persistence of inequalities. …”
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Access control model based on trusted computing for integrated avionics system by CUI Xi-ning1, 2, SHEN Yu-long1, MA Jian-feng1

“…Integrated avionics system is a highly integrated and modularized system.It strongly requires the reliability of platform, the confidentiality and integrity of information.Software alone does not provide an adequate foundation for building a high-assurance trusted platform.The access control policies based on trusted hardware and trusted computing technologies were focused.By using BLP model and BIBA model, an access control model was brought for ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of information, which greatly improved integrated avionics system’s security.…”
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Bureacrats and Colonos: State Formation in Southeastern Colombia by Sandra Patricia Martínez Basallo

“…From an anthropological approach to the study of the state, the article discusses the process of local state formation in southeastern Colombia from the analysis of the interactions arising between officials and beneficiaries of agricultural policies implemented in this region between 1960 and 1980. …”
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La defensa del medioambiente y la construcción de ciudadanía: reflexiones en torno a un “movimiento ciudadano” en la ciudad de Valdivia, Chile by Bárbara Morales Aguirre

“…Well will also show the way the movement questions and redefines dominant notions of citizenship, policies, participation, among others, which are the basis of the political project of the current Chile.…”
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Un espace social transnational entre les Émirats et le sud de l’Iran : les Khodmouni (Lârestâni) à Dubaï by Amin Moghadam

“…On the creation of the United Arab Emirates state in 1971, the present migrants were granted the new state’s nationality and citizenship, while the new migrants, remained “temporary workers” because of policies restricting access to Emirati nationality. …”
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Child mental health problems and poverty by Philip Graham, Barbara Maughan

“…Waiting lists for children and young people with mental health problems are at an all-time high. Almost the only policies proposed to deal with this situation involve increasing the number of mental health professionals. …”
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IMPACTS OF NON-INTEREST INCOME ON RISKS AND PROFITABILITY IN VIETNAM’S COMMERCIAL BANKS by Nguyễn Minh Sáng, Nguyễn Thị Thùy Trang

“…Based on the results of this study, some recommendations related to policies are given to enhance the operational efficiency of Vietnam’s commercial banking system.…”
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