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Narangoa, Li, and Robert Cribb. "Nations-of-intent: from counterfactual history to counterfactual geography." Journal of Historical Geography 36, no. 3 (July 2010): 276–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2009.12.004.
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Et.al, Nur Atiqah Tang Abdullah. "Citizenship Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 3 (April 10, 2021): 1278–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i3.894.
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This chapter explores Citizenship Education in Malaysia in the context of its current experiences as we approach the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution. As a cultural discourse, the problematic conception of citizenship is a product of social fragmentation in Malaysia. Citizenship can carry two meanings - legal and sociological. The legal simply refers to a subject’s right and duties to be recognized as a legally permanent inhabitant of a state. Secondly, the development of citizenship, understood in sociological terms, would involve a transformative process in which individuals come to see themselves as part of a wider citizen body, to which they owe obligations involving duties as well as having rights. As such, ‘citizenship’ in this chapter refers to an educational process: learning and teaching to improve or achieve the aims inherent to the legal meaning. The objective of this chapter is to pull together citizenship and education as central themes, - not legal but the sociological aspects, with the ‘nations-of-intent’ as a conceptual framework. Nevertheless, the present effort of citizenship education in Malaysia is based on a particular form of ‘nation-of-intent’ (Bangsa Malaysia). As nation-building in Malaysia is a state without a nation (and it has many nations-of-intent), the present effort does not include ideas to the nation when promoting citizenship education- the notion of ‘equality in diversity’ and not only ‘unity in diversity’. The concept of citizenship and citizenship education in Malaysia is prompting only one form of ‘nation-of intent’ available in the country, whereas, there are other nations as well, apparently. An implication of it is that the concept of citizenship and thus, nation-building in Malaysia is still fraught with confusion. The presence of plurality of ‘nations-of-intent’ in contemporary Malaysia demonstrates the fact that dissenting voices are present and heard, within and without government. To some degree, it is necessary, for the underlying reason that the identification and sense of belonging of individuals and communities themselves are fragmented, not necessarily conducive to the knowledge of national unity. Hence, in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is a need to clarify and explore the meaning of citizenship in diverse and democratic Malaysian as a nation-state, the multiple views of citizenship and the dimensions of citizenship education.
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Metcs, Robert. "The Common Intention of the Parties and the Payment of Annuities Under the Numbered Treaties: Who Assumed the Risk of Inflation?" Alberta Law Review 46, no. 1 (November 1, 2008): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr238.
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The article examines a key term in the so-called Numbered Treaties between the Crown and the Indians of the northwest: the provisions for “annuities” or annual payments in perpetuity by the Crown to the Indian signatories. The author observes that the Crown, in the performance of this obligation, has adhered consistently to the monetary law principle known as nominalism, thus asserting that the common intention of the parties to these treaties was for the First Nations signatories to assume the entire risk of any future loss in value or purchasing power attached to the nominal sums provided. It is argued, however, that the stability of the annuity in terms of purchasing power (with a consequent placement of the risk of any decline in the buying power of the dollar on the Crown) must, if not found explicitly within the terms of the treaties as the expressed intent of the parties, be implied as a reflection of their unexpressed intent. Any interpretation that entails the risk of inflation being assumed by the First Nations signatories must therefore be based entirely on factors other than the common intention of the parties to the Numbered Treaties.
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Afrilianti, Dewi, Budi Ardianto, and Dony Yusra Pebrianto. "Pengapusan Hak Veto Dalam Rangka Reformasi Dewan Keamanan Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa." Uti Possidetis: Journal of International Law 2, no. 2 (June 8, 2021): 210–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22437/up.v2i2.12114.
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This study aims to find out what is the reason the veto is considered irrelevant to the Security Council in realizing world security and peace in connection with the plan of veto power in the framework of reform of the United Nations Security Council because the use of veto rights by the five permanent member states of the Security Council, especially the United States has been used with no limits. The research method used is normative type with statutory, conceptual, and case approach. The results of this study show that the security council's veto power in practice has deviated from its original intent. The reform efforts of the United Nations Security Council have many obstacles but the main obstacles that greatly hinder the reform efforts are the arrogant, selfish, and willless nature of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council who are veto holders to continue to maintain their hegemony and national interests.
Keywords: United Nations; Right; Veto;
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Solomon, Tereapii. "'Akara ki Mua – Looking forward; Navigating education spaces as Cook Islands Māori." Waikato Journal of Education 27, no. 3 (December 9, 2022): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/wje.v27i3.1019.
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I know it seems somewhat unconventional to begin this paper with the words of my eldest son’s Year 12 speech, especially when the first few stanzas reflect deficit profiling of Cook Islands Māori people. But this paper is not focused on deficit profiling at all—far from it. However, as I pondered on Fa’avae’s abstract in this Waikato Journal of Education volume, I was moved by his inclusion of Pacific educator’s voices from Realm nations with the intent to provide an “analytical lens centred on unpacking stories and insights” (Fa’avae, 2022), focused on change in Pasifika/Pacific education, in Aotearoa NZ. The emphasis on voices and stories reminded me of the purpose of my son’s speech in high school—one that was inspired by the young writer Joshua Iosefa’s 2012 spoken word poem titled ‘Brown Brother’ (Iosefa, 2012). In his article Fa’avae advocates for a greater presence of Pacific educators and leaders from Aotearoa NZ’s Realm Nations in higher education, enabling their (our) voices, knowledges, and Indigenous languages, with the intent to inspire and empower others into this space, and prioritising insights often ignored. This paper is my response to his article.
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Sathish, and Rajendra Kumbharjuvenkar. "Does the Brand Equity of a Retail Store Mediate the Relationship between Store Choice and Store Loyalty?" GIS Business 14, no. 6 (January 17, 2020): 1050–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/gis.v14i6.16855.
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The retail industry is changing worldwide, especially in developing nations. This retail transformation is a result of changing lifestyles, increased disposable income, growing brand consciousness and changing consumption patterns of consumers. In the process of meeting these growing expectations of consumers, there are noteworthy initiatives adopted by retail organizations. Brand equity of a retail store is seen as a major factor influencing buying decisions and repurchases intent of consumers’ world over.
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Duxbury, Alison. "Rejuvenating the Commonwealth—The Human Rights Remedy." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 46, no. 2 (April 1997): 344–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589300060462.
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Lord Casey's sad testament to an organisation which was perceived as “on the way to becoming not much more than a paper connection” is hardly encouraging to someone intent on studying the institution. It would appear that the Commonwealth of Nations as a contemporary discussion point is even less fashionable today than it was 30 years ago. It has recently been written that in our generation those few individuals with an opinion about the Commonwealth view it as an “anachronistic organization whose retirement to the pages of history is long overdue”. The situation of an Australian attempting to write about the Commonwealth is confused by the need to distinguish it from the “Commonwealth of Australia” by such adjectives as the “British” Commonwealth or the “Commonwealth of Nations”.
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de Wilde, Pieter, Wiebke Marie Junk, and Tabea Palmtag. "Accountability and opposition to globalization in international assemblies." European Journal of International Relations 22, no. 4 (July 26, 2016): 823–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354066115604032.
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Advocates of a global democratic parliament have expressed hopes that this would not only legitimize global governance in procedural terms, but also bring about more cosmopolitan policies. They point to the European Parliament as an example of a successful real existing democratic parliament beyond the state with cosmopolitan intent. We analyse plenary debates in the United Nations General Assembly and the European Parliament about the issues of climate change, human rights, migration, trade and European integration between 2004 and 2011 to study the nature of opposition to cosmopolitanism within these two assemblies. We find more vocal and better-organized opposition to cosmopolitanism in the European Parliament than in the United Nations General Assembly. We demonstrate the plausibility that direct and more proportional mechanisms of delegation and accountability in the case of the European Parliament account for this observed difference. Should further research confirm these initial findings, advocates of a global democratic parliament may find that an empowered democratic World Parliament would support less cosmopolitan policies than the current United Nations General Assembly.
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Aydin, Devrim. "The Interpretation of Genocidal Intent under the Genocide Convention and the Jurisprudence of International Courts." Journal of Criminal Law 78, no. 5 (October 2014): 423–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1350/jcla.2014.78.5.943.
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Many scholars studying substantive criminal law examine the crime in an analytical way to determine the elements of crime, determining these elements as the material or objective element ( actus reus) and the mental or subjective element ( mens rea). In accordance with this, a crime consists of a physical act or omission (material element) and the psychological bond that links the act to the perpetrator (mental element). The elements of the crime of genocide are derived from the definition of Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. According to this, the crime of genocide is committing any of the acts enumerated in the Convention with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such. The mental element of genocide was not mentioned either during the Nuremberg trials or in the Convention. The discussion on the mental element of the crime of genocide or ‘genocidal intent’ took place within international criminal law for the first time during the trials at international courts for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in order to prove the perpetrators' genocidal intent. This article discusses the definition of genocide, the mental element of the crime in substantive criminal law, the mental element of the crime of genocide and the jurisprudence of the international tribunals related to the issue.
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Cupać, Jelena, and Irem Ebetürk. "Backlash advocacy and NGO polarization over women's rights in the United Nations." International Affairs 97, no. 4 (July 2021): 1183–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab069.
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Abstract The article observes that women's rights politics in the United Nations are caught in full-scale polarization between feminist and conservative non-governmental organizations (NGOs), particularly visible in their fights over institutional spaces and language. It then sets out to elucidate the process by which this polarization came about. It first ties it to specific reasons for which conservative NGOs entered the UN; namely, their intent to halt and reverse the progress of women's rights. Next, the article observes that this intent has given birth to a specific style of conservative NGOs' advocacy: backlash advocacy. This advocacy differs from regular advocacy in that it does not target only UN decision-makers, but also a rival NGO group and its normative record. Polarization results from feminist NGOs' defensively reciprocating this attack. The article contributes to the literature on international organization (IO)–NGO relations by specifying why conservative NGOs, considered unlikely IO utilizers, end up actively using the UN and by showing that this diversification in NGOs' utilization of the UN can have detrimental rather than positive institutional effects. The article also invites feminist NGOs to be more aware of the political dynamic that now entraps them, and to tailor their future strategies accordingly.
Дисертації з теми "Nations-of-Intent"
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O'Shannassy, Michael. "Imagining identity: visions of Malaysia and the interrelationship between state, society and the global." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10297.
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The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998 and the political crisis it engendered in Malaysia called into question the framework of governance associated with the long-standing Barisan Nasional (National Front, BN) government. And yet, despite the traumas induced by these twin crises, the fundamental relationships and structures that characterized political and economic relationships in Malaysia were not radically transformed. The underlying puzzle this thesis seeks to address is just how domestic reverberations of "the global" are mediated by the specific historical structure of a state. Utilizing the concept of national identity as an organizing principle while employing a model which positions the relationship between the international and domestic spheres and the state as a mutually constitutive dynamic offers a much more complete picture of the processes in operation. The central research question this thesis seeks to answer is: How are conceptions of national identity in Malaysia being shaped by the interrelationship between domestic society, the state and the global?
By carrying out an in-depth empirical investigation into the historical (re)construction of and practices associated with national identity discourses in Malaysia, this thesis not only illuminates the society-state-global interrelationship but, in doing so, tells a story about how political elites in Malaysia have sought to construct and use ideas about "national" identity in order to, first, sediment their power and, second, to legitimize that power as authority. This thesis demonstrates that political elites in Malaysia found it easier to manipulate that identity in the periods immediately following independence in 1957 but that, in recent times, doing so has proven more difficult. The broad hypothesis behind this thesis is that state actors have found it increasingly difficult to avoid external socio-political and economic pressures, which has then made the maintenance of power and authority more problematic. That is, global forces increasingly act upon and destabilize political culture and assumptions about what is "eternal" and "taken-for-granted" in Malaysian politics and society, disrupting elite efforts to maintain social control and authority.
The findings of this research have important theoretical and policy implications. At the theoretical level, they suggest that, in practice, any divide that exists between analyses of state-society relations on the one hand and state-global processes on the other, is largely redundant. But while they may be conceived of as two sides of the same coin, the exact nature of the mutually constitutive dynamic between domestic society, the state and the global may be an asymmetrical one. What is required, therefore, is a means of exploring the shape of any such asymmetry and a central finding of this thesis is that a historical consideration of discourses on national identity provides one such way of doing so. From a policy perspective, the findings suggest that political leaders in multiethnic states need to strengthen their role in formulating more inclusive conceptions of national identity if they are going to find an acceptable balance between particularistic ethnic desires and the universal desire for economic development and "national" stability in a world that is becoming increasingly globalized.
Книги з теми "Nations-of-Intent"
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, drafting, and intent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
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Morsink, Johannes. Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
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Gunter, Filippucci. Part V Case Studies, 46 Alternative Approaches to Certain Deployments: Agreements Conferring Status Similar to the Status of Administrative and Technical Staff of Embassies (A&T Agreements). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198808404.003.0046.
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This chapter discusses ‘A&T agreements’, which are a type of Visiting Forces agreements. It explains the unique nature, purpose, and intent of such agreements, and discusses particular provisions commonly found in such agreements. A&T agreements have become a common fixture in the practice of many nations in support of short duration military deployments, especially in support of exercises and humanitarian activities. As a form of A&T agreement, the Global SOFA Template (GST) in particular is valuable to study for its ‘best-case’ language, although in practice it would be best to tailor the language to the situation at hand, giving due consideration for the legitimate interests of the receiving state. Regardless, the increasing acceptance of A&T agreements is a positive development which makes the negotiation of status arrangements for deploying forces increasingly simple.
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Robin M, Warner. 33 Conserving Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Co-Evolution and Interaction with the Law of the Sea. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198715481.003.0033.
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This chapter explores key normative features of the legal and institutional framework for areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) and their applicability to the conservation of marine biodiversity. It considers gaps and disconnects in that framework and global and regional initiatives to develop the legal and institutional framework for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in ABNJ. It suggests that the biodiversity conservation elements of any multilateral agreement adopted under the umbrella of the UN Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) should be designed to implement the spirit and intent of Part XII provisions of the LOSC, rather than radically changing the basic principles and inherent balance of the law of the sea.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
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Baldridge, David, Joy Beatty, Stephan A. Böhm, Mukta Kulkarni, and Mark E. Moore. Persons With (dis)Abilities. Edited by Adrienne J. Colella and Eden B. King. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199363643.013.9.
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This chapter examines workplace discrimination faced by persons with (dis)abilities. It begins by discussing usage, meaning, and effects of the word “disability” and the related term “persons with disabilities.” It then considers the diversity of conditions and experiences among persons with (dis)abilities by reviewing extant research on people with five common disabling conditions (i.e., mobility, seeing, hearing, chronic illness, and psychiatric conditions). It also examines the importance of national context by taking a closer look at research on the experiences of people with (dis)abilities in five nations (i.e., United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China). By separately highlighting extant research on a few common conditions and nations, the chapter’s intent is to show the need for more research on specific conditions in specific work and national contexts, as well as the need for research integrating and summarizing these focused studies.
Частини книг з теми "Nations-of-Intent"
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Roos, Vera, Anél du Plessis, and Jaco Hoffman. "Municipal Service Delivery to Older Persons: Contextualizing Opportunities for ICT Interventions." In Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa, 29–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94606-7_2.
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AbstractThis chapter has a threefold aim: (1) to contextualize older persons’ inclusivity at municipal level as outlined in Goal 11 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and international, African regional and South African law and policy frameworks; (2) to obtain an assessment of service delivery by local government, and (3) to reflect on gaps in service delivery and offer suggestions. Stratified sampling was used and information obtained through semi-structured interviews, emailed responses and focus groups from representatives (n = 17) on three local government levels, NGO representatives (n = 5), and officials from the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and the Department of Social Development (n = 26). A sample of older persons (n = 302) from a rural area and two large towns in North West and Gauteng provinces completed questionnaires and participated in semi-structured interviews (n = 14) and focus groups (n = 22). Findings indicated compromised service delivery related to local government officials’ systemic, managerial, and capacity challenges. Municipal services were either non-existent or age-inappropriate. Local government’s unresponsiveness leaves older people at risk—particularly those who lack social networks. We present suggestions to address the disconnect between the intent of laws and policies for inclusivity and municipal service delivery, and the service delivery experiences of older persons.
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Ochao-Morales, Herberto. "Social Responsibility and the Technology Paradigm in Latin America." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, First Edition, 2529–33. IGI Global, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-553-5.ch448.
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In Latin America, regional as well as multilateral integration schemes have a predominant role within integration agreements. A representation of this includes MERCOSUR: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. The Andean Community of Nations (CAN) is composed of Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela and the Group of Three (G3): Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. Another regional pact is the CARICOM, composed of English speaking countries within the Caribbean Basin. These organizations have the intent to establish, among other components, free trade areas, customs unions, common markets, and economic unions; all covenants that, in the future, may evolve into a political union (S.C.A. et al., 1998).
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Janet E, Lord. "Preamble." In The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810667.003.0001.
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This chapter discusses the preamble to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The preamble consists of twenty-five paragraphs, and is thus half the length of the operative provisions of the treaty. Of the core human rights conventions, it is by far the longest preamble among them. Preambles to human rights treaties, as with all treaty preambles, are introductory statements that set out the treaty’s purpose, underlying philosophy, drafters’ intent, and historical evolution. The preamble facilitates treaty interpretation; supports the interpretation of particular provisions which are less precise than they should be by its indication of the general idea behind them, and indicates the spirit in which they should be applied; and can contribute to the crystallization of an international rule.
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Sheinin, David M. K. "Argentina’s Secret Cold War." In Latin America and the Global Cold War, 174–98. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655697.003.0008.
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At the close of the Cold War, Argentina and the United States held secret, high level nuclear talks. For years and without success, Washington had pressed Argentina to shut down its nuclear program. Nuclear intent, its interpretations, and its misunderstandings are at the core of how Argentina shaped a Cold War nuclear politics. That politics, in turn, defined its approach to the Non-Aligned Movement and to the developing world more generally on non-nuclear matters. Drawing in large measure on Argentine government archival records, this chapter explains Argentina’s emergence in the 1960s as a builder and exporter of experimental nuclear reactors to poor nations including Iran (1970s) and Algeria (1980s); as a provider of nuclear medical technology and products to developing nations; and as trainer of hundreds of nuclear technicians and engineers from around the globe as a function of four central parameters.
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Joshi, Dhaval, and Raj Rath. "Experimental Research Approaches for Mobile UX in Emerging Markets." In Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication, 128–38. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4446-5.ch007.
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Mobile devices and services have changed the way people interact around the world, especially in the resource-constrained parts of developing countries. A growing number of professionals, students, and organizations show interest in understanding the user population in these regions to create solutions that address their needs. In this chapter, the authors aim to share and discuss their experiences and experiments designed to understand these user needs by using a more locally relevant and playful approach. The primary objective is to sensitize the readers about various challenges that a researcher working in this domain might face while trying to gather and understand the user behavior and their responses; and to try to explore tailor-made methods to overcome those challenges while undertaking studies in these regions. The authors’ intent is to benefit the entire fraternity by sharing these experiences, and making them aware of the possible problems in incorporating traditional research methods in developing nations.
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Fredericks, Sarah E. "Philosophical Arguments for Individuals, Memberships, and Collectives in States of Guilt or Shame." In Environmental Guilt and Shame, 70–87. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842699.003.0004.
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While there is ample evidence that people experience collective guilt and shame, many philosophers and laypeople reject such experiences as unjustified either because they reject emotions as significant realms of experience or because they dismiss the possibility of collective agency and therefore find guilt or shame feelings about collective acts, like those leading to climate change, absurd. Chapter 4 addresses these concerns, building an account of collective agency, responsibility, and identity that demonstrates the importance of moral emotions including those of collectives. This argument draws on but extends the work of multiple philosophers and theologians including Karl Jaspers, Larry May, and Tracy Lynn Isaacs to argue that individuals, memberships, and collectives can be guilty and shameful and that collective and individual guilt and/or shame do not reduce to each other. Collectives have identity, agency, and a form of intent that is more than the sum of their constituent agents. Collectives include both well-defined collectives, such as corporations or nations, and diffuse collectives such as people living resource-intensive capitalist lives and/or supercollectives––those which are larger than but not reducible to collectives. They may contribute to climate change alongside individuals, membership groups, and well-defined collectives. The chapter also argues why in some cases it is not only possible but also appropriate to experience environmental guilt and shame about climate change as an individual or collective.
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Worku, Goshu. "Integrated Watershed Management for Sustainable Development." In Green Technologies, 920–33. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-472-1.ch420.
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The over exploitation of natural resources (soil, water, fauna and flora) is critically affecting the social, economic and environmental needs of the current generation and is feared to risk the ability of the future generation to meet its needs. Nowadays citizens in many countries are facing severe livelihood challenges ranging from seeking for external aids for existence to massive life devastation due to natural hazards such as flooding & land slide imposing death tolls. The degradation of the natural environment imposes the threatening of life not only in those less developed nations but also life all over the globe. The problem is more pronounced in less developed countries like the Eastern Nile Catchment nations. Sustainable development is hoped nowadays to be a promising solution. In this regard integrated watershed management is a potential tool for bringing about such a promising tool, by laying better ground for sustainable development. This chapter is prepared with the intent of showing the link between integrated watershed management and sustainable development which a country envisages to reach, and the contribution of integrated watershed management to sustainable development. Various previous documents are reviewed and used as sources of information for the preparation of the write up. The author’s professional experience on the current overall natural resources condition is an added value, too. Sustainable development, which can be achieved through proper conservation and utilization of the existing resources by employing integrated watershed management, is development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs,. Integrated watershed management is the process of formulation and carrying out a course of actions involving the manipulation of resources in the watershed to provide goods and services without adversely affecting the soil, water, vegetation base and other elements of the ecosystem, by employing multi-disciplinary teams.
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Akgül, Yakup. "A SEM-Neural Network Approach for Predicting Antecedents of Factors Influencing Consumers' Intent to Install Mobile Applications." In Mobile Technologies and Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Nations, 262–308. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4029-8.ch012.
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This chapter explores the present gap in the literature regarding the acceptance of mobile applications by investigating the factors that affect users' behavioral intention to use apps in Turkey. First, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to determine which variables had significant influence on intention to install. In a second phase, the neural network model was used to rank the relative influence of significant predictors obtained from SEM. The results reveal that habit, performance expectancy, trust, social influence, and hedonic motivation affect the users' behavioral intention to use apps.
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Valentine, Scott. "Understanding Wind Power Systems." In Wind Power Politics and Policy. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199862726.003.0004.
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All of the above statements represent prominent objections to wind power development. For the most part, these statements are premised upon small truths that have been exaggerated by wind power opponents in order to generate public opposition. The intent of this chapter is to try and separate fact from fiction in order to give the reader a better technical understanding of the true hurdles faced by nations that embark on ambitious wind power development programs. Although a technical understanding of wind power systems is not necessary to understand the case studies presented in this book, enhanced technical understanding will help the reader better understand the possibilities and limitations of the technology. This chapter begins by describing the basic components of a wind power system before exploring how technical choices made in regard to system components and site location influence generation costs. From this technical foundation, the discussion will shift to the stochastic (fluctuating) nature of wind power and examine existing solutions for smoothing power fluctuations. This will provide the reader with a better understanding of the potential of wind power systems to replace fossil fuel electricity generation technologies. In concluding sections of this chapter, an attempt will be made to separate truth from fiction in regard to community and environmental impacts commonly attributed to wind power systems. Hopefully, by the end of this chapter, the pros and cons associated with wind power development will be better understood. There are basically two main wind turbine designs—vertical axis and horizontal axis. Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), which can resemble egg beaters placed on towers, are not widely used for electricity generation, so this section will focus on the main components of horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT). The main components of a wind turbine includes the rotor blade; the nacelle (which houses the gearbox, generator, and yaw motor); the tower upon which the wind turbine is placed; the foundation which anchors the tower to the ground; the control system and transformer (usually located at the base of the tower), which transforms the collected energy into electric current that can be delivered to the electricity grid; and the electrical conduits that connect the wind turbine to the electricity grid.
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Poirier, Sandra L., and Mary Ann Remsen. "Technical and Vocational Education and Training." In Technical Education and Vocational Training in Developing Nations, 284–310. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1811-2.ch013.
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Today, no issue is as important to a global community's continued prosperity as education. Research has illustrated those societies who invest in a 21st century education benefits immediately by transforming an outdated system to a more sustainable approach. As the primary consumer of the world's education system, the business community needs capable, enterprising employees to compete in a global economy. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) educators worldwide must develop challenging and relevant learning environments to prepare the future workforce of tomorrow. This strategy must incorporate workforce and economic development policies in K-12 education to be sustainable. The intent of this paper is to highlight challenges that are facing the future of the global workforce and provide guidance for a more sustainable TVET system. Twenty first century pedagogy and employability skills, universally accepted certifications, public-private partnerships, and program outcomes which have the potential to significantly increase a workforce prepared to thrive in rapidly changing times will be emphasized.