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Connecting Disasters and Climate Change to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus

2022

As climate change increasingly affects the world, much is said about the rising amounts of aid required to support emergency response, long-term development to adapt, and peacebuilding to ensure that conflict does not undermine these efforts. Bringing these ideas together, some advocate for the addition of a separate climate change stream into the humanitarian, development, and peace/peacebuilding nexus (or triple nexus). Based on a critical literature review and synthesis, this article articulates and conceptualizes how climate change perspectives and actions should be integrated into the existing streams of the humanitarian, development, and peace/peacebuilding nexus, rather than being ad…

SDG 16 - PeacePolitical Science and International RelationsSDG 16 - Peace Justice and Strong InstitutionsSDG 13 - Climate ActionVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200Safety ResearchJustice and Strong Institutions
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Taking Stock and Re-Examining the Role of Science Communication

2021

Eight science communication research projects have been funded by the European Commission since 2018. These projects are a response to one of the European Commission's 'Science with and for Society' (SwafS) funding calls ¿ 'SwafS-19: Taking stock and re-examining the role of science communication.' Together these projects have received almost ¿10 million in research funding, and each has been affected to some extent by the COVID-19 global pandemic. This paper provides an overview of the eight projects, how they adapted to the challenges caused by the pandemic, and the subsequent implications for science communication policy and research funding.

SDG 16 - PeaceSDG 16 - Peace Justice and Strong Institutionsscience with and for societyhorizon europeComunicació científicascience communication/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutionsJustice and Strong InstitutionsCiència Aspectes socialsscience journalismpublic engagementEnvironmental scienceshorizon 2020citizen scienceGE1-350swafsGeneral Environmental Science
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Council Appointed Mayors in Spain: Effects on Local Democracy

2017

El presente artículo toma en consideración los efectos que el sistema de elección del Alcalde tiene sobre la democracia local, basándose en la consideración cinco aspectos: el sistema electoral y su influencia en la composición política de las administraciones locales; la estructura de la administración local y la distribución de funciones entre los alcaldes y el pleno municipal; el papel de los partidos políticos; los mecanismos de control del ejecutivo local y la participación ciudadana. El estudio subraya especialmente la incidencia que el sistema de elección del alcalde por los concejales tiene en relación con los principios de responsabilidad, legitimidad, transparencia y eficiencia de…

ScrutinyParticipació políticaElectoral systemLocal democracylcsh:Political scienceLocal government systemsPublic administrationPoliticslocal governancecouncil appointed mayorsJF20-2112Development economicsDemocràciaPolitical scienceLegitimacydirectly elected mayorsGeneral MedicineMunicipis Govern i administracióTransparency (behavior)Jlcsh:Political institutions and public administration (General)GeographyLocal governmentAccountabilitylcsh:JF20-2112Political institutions and public administration (General)lcsh:JLocal Government StructurePolitical PartiesRevista de Estudios de la Administración Local y Autonómica
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Political Consumerism and Food Community Networks

2011

European society, with its steadily increased welfare levels, is not only concerned about food (safety, prices), but also on other aspects such as biodiversity loss, landscape degradation, pollution of water, soil and atmosphere. To a large extent these concerns can be translated into a wider concept named sustainable development defined as a normative concept by Morgan and Sonnino (2008). Sustainability in the food chain means approaching a new emerging vision of a sustainable agro-food system introducing an institutional dimension to take into account. Among different attempts to conjugate such concepts, there is one that is taking place in many Regions of Italy. In the last years spontan…

Settore AGR/01 - Economia Ed Estimo RuraleSustainability New Models of Consumption Equatable Purchase Group Institution and EconomicsSustainability New Models of Consumption Solidarity Purchase Groups Institutions and Economics Agribusiness Agricultural and Food Policy Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety Productivity Analysis Public Economics
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Palermo si cura. Pratiche culturali di mutuo soccorso come risposta alle fragilità della città (post)pandemica

2023

In un quadro di riferimento in cui la crisi è globalizzata ma diseguale e in mancanza di un sistema di welfare capace di rispondere alle urgenze dei contesti e dei gruppi sociali più marginalizzati, una risposta ai nuovi bisogni sociali ed individuali è stata offerta da reti solidali e da pratiche di mobilitazione dal basso che svolgono un ruolo di agency territoriale, spesso indipendentemente o in assenza di Istituzioni. Nel contesto palermitano un impegno agito da una pluralità di soggetti culturali già attivi sul territorio, riuniti in un’assemblea pubblica (Palermo si cura), durante il periodo del primo lockdown hanno dato vita ad azioni di mutuo soccorso per rispondere all’emergenza ec…

Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaIn a framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized contexts and social groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by networks of solidarity and from bottom-up mobilization practices that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of institutions. In the Palermo context a commitment made by a plurality of cultural subjects already active in the area gathered in a public assembly (Palermo si cura) during the period of the first lockdown gave rise to mutual aid actions to respond to the economic emergency and social and offer a proposal to cure the fragility of the city based not on charity but on the claim of a political dimension of collective action. Starting from the analysis of initiatives such as "Un sorriso per Ballarò" and "Abbiamo un (bi)sogno" the contribution analyzes the role the incidence and the fragility of these experiences in providing answers - often filling gaps - to a general interest and how these processes of value creation can hopefully contribute to the construction of local government policies capable of addressing emerging issues.
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Un incontro sulla storia delle istituzioni

2021

Si tratta di una notizia relativa a un seminario sulla storia delle istituzioni It is a news about a seminar on history of Italian institutions

Settore IUS/10 - Diritto Amministrativohistory of institutions administrative procedurestoria delle istituzioni procedimento amministrativo
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Il controllo della salute pubblica nel Regno di Sicilia (secoli XVI-XIX)

2011

Settore MED/02 - Storia Della MedicinaSicily Public Health Health Institutions XVI-XIX centurySicilia Salute Pubblica Sanità Istituzioni XVI-XIX secolo
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Designing Performance Management Systems in Academic Institutions: a Dynamic Performance Management View

2013

This paper illustrates how to design and implement performance management systems in universities by identifying and modeling those factors impacting on academic performance through a dynamic performance management view. Particularly, combining performance management with System Dynamics modeling may allow academic decision-makers to better identify key-performance drivers for pursuing a sustainable performance improvement in universities. In the second section of the paper, a number of examples based on empirical findings from a field project aimed at designing a dynamic performance management model for the University of Palermo are discussed.

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleAcademic institutions performance measurement and management systems accountability dynamic performance management view field project
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Improving performance measurement/management in Academic Institutions: a dynamic resource-based view. Insights from a field project

2011

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleAcademic institutions performance measurement and management systems accountability dynamic resource-based view field project
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Enhancing the Performance of Chinese High Education Institutions through Collaborative Governance: A Dynamic Performance Management Approach

2021

With the development of the knowledge economy, knowledge generation and application has been a powerful engine for economic development and global competition. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are under great pressure to improve their performance in teaching, research and the third mission, to respond to the changing social needs actively. This doctoral thesis is aimed at proposing a framework to enhance the performance of Chinese HEIs through collaborative governance using a dynamic performance management approach. Based on a literature review of performance management in Chinese HEIs, a conceptual framework is proposed to enhance the performance of teaching, research and the third mis…

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendalePerformance management System Dynamics collaborative governance Chinese Higher Education Institutions Strategic resources
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