Gegenstand des Beitrags sind Demonstrationen gegen die staatlichen Corona-Maßnahmen in Sachsen, erfasst über die Zahl der Tage mit Corona-Protest auf der Ebene der 419 Gemeinden in den Jahren ...2020/2021. Den größten Einfluss auf das Demonstrationsgeschehen übt die Einwohnerzahl des Ortes aus. Je größer der Ort, desto wahrscheinlicher ist dort das Vorkommen von Protesten. Einen leichten Einfluss übt darüber hinaus die Wahlbeteiligung in der Bundestagswahl 2021 aus: Je geringer sie ist, desto größer der Einfluss. Keinen Effekt übt der AfD-Stimmenanteil in der Bundestagswahl 2021 aus. Entweder bedeutet dies, dass der Stellenwert der AfD-Wahlpräfenzen sich in Grenzen hält und der Kreis der Protest-Teilnehmer politisch heterogener und weniger AfD-affin ist als oftmals angenommen. Oder es bedeutet, dass der Ort des Protestes nicht mit dem Wohnort identisch ist und die Protestierenden in maßgeblicher Weise aus benachbarten Gemeinden und Dörfern mit hoher AfD-Präferenz herstammen. Dazu und zum Anteil auswärtiger Kundgebungsteilnehmer aber liegen keine Daten vor. Unternimmt man die Analyse auf der Ebene der 13 kreisfreien Städte und Landkreise, erweist sich die regionale Verbreitung von Verschwörungsdenken und Politikverdrossenheit - ermittelt über Bevölkerungsumfragen - als bedeutsame Einflussgröße für das regionale Protestgeschehen.
The importance of investments for the country consists in the economic growth stimulation, attraction of new technologies, increase of jobs and payments to the budgets of various levels of federal ...system. The article is devoted to the topical problem of investments attraction to Volgograd region and development of corresponding measures for the improvement of the situation in this sphere. In the Russian Federation, investments are distributed unevenly across federal districts and regions. According to the methodology, used by Expert RA company, the bulk of investments is directed to five to seven constituent entities of the Federation, the remaining regions have to make efforts to attract them. In the Southern Federal District, Volgograd region has the fourth place in terms of capital investments after Rostov region, Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Crimea. According to the Expert RA rating, Volgograd region, like most regions of the country, is characterized by low potential and moderate risk. It is important for the region to make efforts and attract investments from all possible sources: both external and internal. To work with foreign investors, the region needs to use specific measures (personal participation of the governor in project attraction, search for large projects for foreign investors, interaction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). The regional administration should pay attention to the successful experience of other regions in investments attraction. The authors suggested measures to increase the investment attractiveness of the region and investment attraction in the near future. They are subdivided into administrative and financial (selective tax evasions). Within the administrative framework, special measures are allocated to attract foreign investors. The regional development strategy for the next period should be project-oriented, taking into account the new industrialization policy.
Circumpolar health atlas Young, T. Kue
Circumpolar health atlas,
2012, 20150201, 2012, 2015, 2012-12-15
eBook
Richly illustrated with maps, charts, tables, and images, this atlas includes overviews of the physical environment that influences human health; cultures and languages of northern peoples; health ...conditions of children and youth; and health systems, policies, resources, and services.
This book examines Arctic defense policy and military security from the perspective of all eight Arctic states. In light of climate change and melting ice in the Arctic Ocean, Canada, Russia, Denmark ...(Greenland), Norway and the United States, as well as Iceland, Sweden and Finland, are grappling with an emerging Arctic security paradigm. This volume brings together the world's most seasoned Arctic political-military experts from Europe and North America to analyze how Arctic nations are adapting their security postures to accommodate increased shipping, expanding naval presence, and energy and mineral development in the polar region. The book analyzes the ascent of Russia as the first 'Arctic superpower', the growing importance of polar security for NATO and the Nordic states, and the increasing role of Canada and the United States in the region.
Dramatic challenges face human civilization everywhere. Relations between human beings and their environment are in peril, with mounting threats to both biological diversity of life on earth and ...cultural diversity of human communities. The peoples of the Circumpolar Arctic are at the forefront of these challenges and lead the way in seeking meaningful responses. In Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Karim-Aly Kassam positions the Arctic and sub-Arctic as a homeland rather than simply as a frontier for resource exploitation. Kassam aims to empirically and theoretically illustrate the synthesis between the cultural and the biological, using human ecology as a conceptual and analytical lens. Drawing on research carried out in partnership with indigenous northern communities, three case studies illustrate that subsistence hunting and gathering are not relics of an earlier era but rather remain essential to both cultural diversity and to human survival. This book deals with contemporary issues such as climate change, Indigenous knowledge, and the impact of natural resource extraction. It is a narrative of community-based research, in the service of the communities for the benefit of the communities. It provides resource-based industry, policy makers, and students with an alternative way of engaging indigenous communities and transforming our perspective on conservation of ecological and cultural diversity.
Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. The industry has moved beyond its infancy, and is now ...entering a maturing phase with increased numbers and types of vessels, more demanding routes, and more regular and predictable patterns of activity. The increase in cruise activities, and the associated risks of accidents, as well as the potential and actual impacts of the large numbers of tourists in the polar regions bring with it management challenges for sustainable use of these regions.
This book discusses critically the issues around environmental and social sustainability of the cruise industry in Polar Regions. Authors from Canada, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are experts in their respective fields and take an innovative, critical and at times controversial approach to the subject.
Northern Lights against POPs tells the many-faceted scientific, policy, legal, and advocacy story that led to the Stockholm convention. Unique in its perspective, scope, and breadth, it reveals the ...key links among environmental and health science, international politics, advocacy, law, and global negotiations. Never before have public health concerns articulated by northern Indigenous peoples in Canada and throughout the circumpolar Arctic had such a direct impact on global policy-making. Authors show how research on POPs (persistent organic pollutants) in the Arctic from the mid-1980s influenced international negotiations and analyze the potential for the convention to be effective. Contributors include elected representatives, researchers, civil servants, Indigenous people who participated in the negotiations, and scientists who provided the compelling Arctic data that prompted the United Nations Environment Programme to sponsor negotiations. Contributors include David Anderson (Minister of the Environment, Canada); Nigel Bankes (University of Calgary); John Buccini (Consultant, former chair of the Global POPs Negotiations); Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Inuit Circumpolar Conference-Canada); Barry Commoner, Paul Woods Bartlett, Holger Eisl, Kimberly Couchot (Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, City University of New York); Eric Dewailly (Laval University); David Downie (Director of Educational Partnerships, Columbia Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York); Terry Fenge (Inuit Circumpolar Conference-Canada); Henry Huntington (Consultant, Anchorage) and Michelle Sparck (Circumpolar Conservation Union, Washington, D.C.); Harriet Kuhnlein, Laurie Chan (Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, McGill University), and Olivier Receveur (formerly Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, McGill University); Lars-Otto Reiersen (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Secretariat,Oslo); Henrik Selin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); David Stone, Russell Shearer (Northern Contaminants Program, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Canada); Klaus Topfer (Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme).
Regional well-being in the OECD Peiró-Palomino, Jesús
Journal of economic inequality,
06/2019, Letnik:
17, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This paper analyses convergence in well-being across 395 OECD regions in the period 2000–2014 using data from the Regional Well-being Dataset. It is widely known that well-being is a concept that ...goes far beyond income. However, whereas papers analysing convergence on income abound, the literature considering convergence in well-being is virtually nonexistent, especially at the regional level. Convergence is approached following the distribution dynamics technique and conditional density estimation (CDE), well-established data-driven methods that allow for the assessment of the shape and the time evolution of the kernel distribution of well-being. Moreover, the paper also assesses the role of a set of potential well-being determinants. Results show great disparities across the OECD regions, and no signs of convergence in the studied period. On the contrary, regions polarised into two clubs of low and high well-being, and country level factors explain in a large extent the observed tendencies.
