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The role of greenways in the sustainable mobility development: The study case of western municipalities of Sicily
2018
As is known, mobility policies based on greenways represent an effective and comprehensive response to the demand for travel and recreation and to environmental protection as well. There are several reasons why spreading cycling mobility contributes to making cities more liveable: a more efficient urban transport system, less congested roads and, consequently, less noisy roads, more security on the roads, etc. Furthermore, cycling helps fight climate change and the conservation of fossil fuels, promotes forms of sustainable tourism development and, not least, physical activity and, thus, the health of citizens. Whereas greenways may constitute a strategic opportunity for the promotion of la…
Reshaping the sea-land interface through sustainable mobility: a project for a greenway in western Sicily
2018
This work illustrates the planning experience, still underway, carried out by five municipalities of western Sicily (Italy) in the preparation of a sustainable urban development strategy in the framework of the EU’s urban agenda 2014-2020. The strategy, whose general objectives are strengthening territorial cohesion and increasing accessibility to local resources, focuses on sustainable mobility corridors in coastal areas as the instruments through which such objectives can be better achieved and reciprocally integrated. After an exploration of the literature, the article provides an analysis of the potential demand for sustainable mobility in the given urban system, an explanation of the c…
Development discourses of the low human development index : countries in UN post-2015 discussion
2015
This study is about development discourses and agents of the countries with low Human Development Index (HDI) in Africa. It is based on six UN Post-2015 national consultations. These six nations are Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Liberia and Zambia. The criteria of data selection involve the level of HDI, language, format of the report and geographical location. The idea about development as discursive constructed social reality is at the focus of theoretical framework. The method is Discourse Analysis (DA) with some Foucauldian characteristics. The research questions are: What kind of specific development discourses and agentive roles are there in pol…
Journalistic practices of science popularization in the context of users’ agenda: A case study of „New Scientist”
2017
The article includes a discussion of two models which describe contemporary communication processes in journalism: agenda-setting and news value, indicating the need to expand their research tools to include qualitative methods, and merging the analyses of the reception and the message. It also includes indications as to the possibility, or even the social relevance, of the methods for applying those research perspectives to analysing journalism popularising science. Later, I present the results of an analysis of the content of a sample of 500 most read popular science texts available on the New Scientist website. I demonstrate which thematic areas were valued by the readers, and what value…
Assessing Master Students' Competencies Using Rubrics: Lessons Learned from Future Secondary Education Teachers
2020
The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the appropriateness of teaching-learning and evaluation processes using rubrics, for student self-assessments. We studied students enrolled on the Master&rsquo
La contribución de las refugiadas colombianas a la Agenda Global de Desarrollo a través de su empoderamiento en la acción colectiva para la defensa d…
2020
El propósito del presente estudio es ahondar sobre los aportes y los significados del activismo social y político en defensa de los derechos humanos que llevan a cabo las refugiadas colombianas asentadas en España y su estrecha vinculación con relevantes dos procesos que experimentan: de empoderamiento y generación de nuevas identidades. Considerando, además, que el drama del exilio es un elemento que atraviesa y fragmenta sus trayectorias vitales incrementando sustancialmente su vulnerabilidad, las refugiadas colombianas en España son un ejemplo de resiliencia que se fundamenta en la conformación de redes de activismo en defensa de los derechos humanos de las mujeres exiliadas. Para ello s…
Measuring the Change Towards More Sustainable Mobility:MUV Impact Evaluation Approach
2019
Urban areas can be considered the ground for the challenges related to the UN&rsquo
The Commission’s informal agenda-setting in the CFSP. Agenda leadership, coalition-building, and community framing
2020
This study contributes to the literature on informal governance by examining politics of informal agenda-setting in the European Commission. As a ‘hard case’, the paper examines how the European Commission exceeds limited legal Treaty provisions in foreign and security policy (CFSP). This system, where the Commission has come to play a more prominent role than stipulated in the treaties, is interpreted as a normalization of CFSP governance. Three complementary propositions on the informal agenda-setting role of the Commission are developed: agenda leadership (#1), coalition-building (#2), and community framing (#3). To illuminate these propositions, we examine their relevance across three e…
Éducation et formation a Madagascar :
2002
International audience; The prospects for educational development are excellent in Madagascar, in light of the increasingly favorable, policy environment for the sector. Public spending for education, relative to the gross domestic product declined in the 90s, coinciding with a five-fold rise in the country's interest payment for external debt. As the debt service burden began to ease in the late 90s, public spending on education began to recover, and can be expected to grow. A key challenge however, is to transform the sector's public spending into educational outcomes that would make significant contributions to poverty reduction. The report identifies challenges at all levels of formal e…
La agenda temática sobre la universidad española en prensa entre 2010 y 2013. El encuadre informativo-discursivo de El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia …
2019
En los últimos años la universidad española ha vivido cambios a nivel político y comunicativo de amplio alcance, consecuencia en parte de su incorporación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior y su participación en redes internacionales de excelencia, lo que le ha llevado atransformar su agenda informativa y especializar sus gabinetes de comunicación. En este trabajo seanaliza el discurso sobre la universidad y la educación superior en prensa en cuatro de los periódicosde ámbito nacional de mayor difusión: El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia y ABC, durante un períodode cuatro años (2010-2013). El objetivo es conocer el imaginario social que crean acerca de estainstitución educativa atendien…