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Taksvärkki ry kansainvälisyyskasvattajana

2003

The toughest animals of the Earth versus global warming: Effects of long-term experimental warming on tardigrade community structure of a temperate d…

2021

Abstract Understanding how different taxa respond to global warming is essential for predicting future changes and elaborating strategies to buffer them. Tardigrades are well known for their ability to survive environmental stressors, such as drying and freezing, by undergoing cryptobiosis and rapidly recovering their metabolic function after stressors cease. Determining the extent to which animals that undergo cryptobiosis are affected by environmental warming will help to understand the real magnitude climate change will have on these organisms. Here, we report on the responses of tardigrades within a five‐year‐long, field‐based artificial warming experiment, which consisted of 12 open‐to…

Geogenic carbon dioxide degassing from active tectonic areas of the Balkan Peninsula

2023

Sin dagli anni ’70, la ricerca scientifica ha evidenziato una forte relazione tra il degassamento di carbonio profondo e le aree tettonicamente attive, sottolineando l’elevata importanza del contributo di queste emissioni nella quantificazione del carbonio globale. La Penisola Balcanica presenta grandi aree caratterizzate da degassamento di carbonio di origine mantellica, da attività vulcaniche Quaternarie, da un’elevata sismicità e da strutture tettoniche a scala regionale. Purtroppo, la stima del degassamento di anidride carbonica profonda in quest’area è ancora poco studiata. La ricerca di questa tesi di dottorato si è focalizzata sulla (i) stima dell’output di carbonio profondo dalle gr…

Studies of satellite-based tracking systems for improving law enforcement : comprising investigation data, digital evidence and monitoring of legality

2014

Cultural differences in Ibero-Nordic communications : perceptions about Finnish and Colombian negotiators

2001

Päivi Vaahterikko-Mejía selvittää väitöstutkimuksessaan, millainen kuva latinalais-amerikkalaisilla neuvottelijoilla on kolumbialaisista ja suomalaisista neuvottelijoista, ja minkälaisia kulttuurieroja suomalaisten ja latinalais-amerikkalaisten välisessä kommunikaatiossa esiintyy. --Neuvottelijoiden kansallinen kulttuuri vaikuttaa heidän käytökseensä, neuvotteluihin, heidän havaintoihinsa ja odotuksiinsa kauppasuhteissa. Nämä tekijät taas vaikuttavat kauppasuhteen syntymiseen, kehittymiseen ja itse kauppaan, Vaahterikko-Mejía toteaa.Vaahterikko-Mejían mukaan Suomi-Kolumbia kaupassa on neuvottelijoiden välisiä kulttuurieroista johtuvia viestinnällisiä epäselvyyksiä. Suomalaiset ja kolumbiala…

Bretton Woods uudella vuosituhannella : kehityspolitiikka uusliberaalin käänteen jälkeen

2010

Maailmanpankki on ehkä merkittävin kehitysyhteistyön määrittelijä ja yhdessä toisen Bretton Woods -instituution, Kansainvälisen valuuttajärjestön IMF:n kanssa huomattava tekijä globaalissa talousjärjestelmässä. Instituutiot myöntävät talouspoliittisesti ehdollistettuja lainoja kehitysmaille, jotta ne pystyisivät kohentamaan elinolojaan sekä turvaamaan talouskasvun ja sitä myötä vähentämään köyhyyttä. Tutkimuksessani käyn läpi Bretton Woods- instituutioiden, etenkin Maailmanpankin, tapaa vähentää köyhyyttä kehitysmaissa. Tarkastelen, millaiseen ajatusmaailmaan sen voidaan katsoa perustuvan ja miten nykyinen, uusliberaali kehityspolitiikkaa on muotoutunut. Yksinkertaisin kysymys on, pystyykö …

Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development : Starting from the South

2023

At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors’ agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and ‘shifting power’ in civil society collaborations in development, the debate thus far centers on the aid system. This book directs attention to CSOs as drivers of development in various contexts that we refer to as the Global South. This book take a transformative stance, reimagining roles, relations and processes. It does so from five complementary angles: (1) Southern CSOs reclaiming the lead, 2) displacement of the N…

Toward sustainable environmental quality: Priority research questions for Europe

2018

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals have been established to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. Delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals will require a healthy and productive environment. An understanding of the impacts of chemicals which can negatively impact environmental health is therefore essential to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, current research on and regulation of chemicals in the environment tend to take a simplistic view and do not account for the complexity of the real world, which inhibits the way we manage chemicals. There is therefore an urgent need for a step change in the way we study and communic…

Materiality assessment in sustainability reporting : case study of the airline industry

2017

Materiality has been heavily emphasized in different sustainability reporting guidelines to increase the quality of the sustainability reports and report issues that are most aligned with the company’s most significant economic, environmental and social issues. In this thesis materiality analysis in sustainability reporting is analyzed. Firstly, in the theoretical part, the concept of sustainability reporting and materiality is explained along with the provision of materiality in different reporting guidelines. In this research section, fifteen different airlines’ sustainability reports are analyzed to find out how the materiality analysis is carried out in the airlines. The study is focuse…

Policy is what happens while you’re busy doing something else: introduction to special issue on “language” indexing higher education policy

2016

Traditionally, language has had three functions in higher education. It has been seen as a medium of teaching; as a means of archiving knowledge in different text depositories like books and libraries; and as an object of theoretical study (Brumfit 2004, 164). Brumfit’s typology acknowledges the fact that language somehow crosses the everyday experience of everyone working, studying or otherwise engaged at universities—in other words, in knowledge production. In recent years, however, two major trends in higher education policies have challenged Brumfit’s classification and called for attention to language in a new way: internationalization and globalization policies on the one hand, and kn…