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Increasing societal discomfort about a dominant restrictive planning discourse on open space in Flanders/Belgium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The specific spatial context in the densely urbanised northern part of Belgium, Flanders, offers a sort of laboratory conditions to study, design and plan fragments of open space in an urbanising context.
Allaert, Georges, Leinfelder, Hans
core   +1 more source

Bicycle Sharing: Sustainable Value Creation and Institutionalisation Strategies in Barcelona

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
A highly debatable issue is whether or not a paradigm shift toward the sharing economy could help to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of our time.
J. Winslow, O. Mont
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Integrated Evaluation of Contaminant Profiles, Detection Techniques, and Management Strategies for Tannery Sludge

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review article critically examines the environmental and health hazards of tannery sludge (TS), a complex by‐product of the leather tanning industry. TS is characterized by a diverse array of contaminants, including heavy metals like chromium, organic pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), volatile organic compounds ...
Yashar Aryanfar   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the Right Care for Children : Orientations for Reforming Alternative Care Systems - Africa, Asia, Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In order to increase its knowledge on the possible issue of de-institutionalisation in developing countries and how it could be addressed, the European Commission Directorate- General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) commissioned ...
Cantwell, Nigel   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Emotional Awareness: Reflections on the Preoccupation with Emotion Management in Contemporary Scandinavian Societies

open access: yesBarn
This article explores the current concern for the mental wellbeing of children and young people. Rather than seeing wellbeing as solely an individual psychological matter, I argue that it should be understood in the light of three pervasive ...
Eva Gulløv
doaj   +1 more source

Cross-border Euro-regional activation and regional development in Slovakia

open access: yesAgricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2005
Social-political transition in the former socialist countries led to a new understanding of borders and created the prerequisites for renaissance and significant activation of the cross-border co-operation.
Ľ. Falťan
doaj   +1 more source

Major Causes of Rabies Outbreak in Pastoral Areas of the Somali Region and Importance of the One Health Approach

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Rabies Transmission and Control in the Somali Region. Introduction: Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease caused by the Lyssavirus, posing a significant threat to both wildlife and public health in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Key Points: 1. Primary Hosts: Wild carnivores such as foxes, jackals, raccoons, skunks, bats, and honey badgers are the main ...
Hassan Abdi Hussein
wiley   +1 more source

Organising Soft Governance in Hard Times - The Unlikely Survival of the Open Method of Coordination in EU Education Policy

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2018
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 235-255 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Theories of organisational change and survival. - II.1. Functional imperatives: organisational survival "on
Åse Gornitzka
doaj   +1 more source

“Am I being responsible?”: Navigating coming‐of‐age transitions through personal financial information management

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This research explored how young adults (ages 18–25) learn to use financial records and the roles financial records play in their experiences in coming to see themselves as financially mature social actors. The contribution of this paper is a revised model of transitions theory that includes personal information management (PIM) as an ...
Robert Douglas Ferguson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The creation of FRONTEX and the politics of institutionalisation in the EU external borders policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In a context of high politicization, if not securitization, of asylum and migration in Europe, the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the EU – also known under its acronym FRONTEX
Leonard, S
core   +2 more sources

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