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Vertrauenskrisen haben Konjunktur: Ob Politik, Wissenschaft oder Journalismus - kein gesellschaftliches Teilsystem bleibt von öffentlichen Misstrauensbekundungen verschont. Doch was genau meint der schillernde Begriff »Systemvertrauen« und welche Konsequenzen hat ein Mangel desselben? Malte G. Schmidt folgt diesen Fragen aus einer gesellschaftstheoretischen Perspektive. Er zeigt die sozialintegrative Bedeutung des Journalismus auf und prüft, inwieweit dieser seine Rolle als Vertrauensvermittler im neoliberalen Kapitalismus erfüllen kann. Ein ökonomisierter Journalismus - so seine These - bedingt gesellschaftliche Integrationsstörungen, die dann in Form von Autoritarismus auf ihn zurückfallen.

Immer und überall steht Recht unter Spannung zwischen Einheit und Vielfalt. Einerseits gab es nie ein einziges Normensystem, das menschliche Beziehungen bis ins Detail steuerte; andererseits verbietet das Eigenbild des Rechts als geltende Ordnung, ausschließlich auf Pluralität zu fokussieren. Gerade „das“ römische Recht kommt nicht als Einheit daher, schon weil es seine Quellen in verschiedenen Rechtsschichten findet. Erst im Laufe der Zeit fließen diese Schichten teils zusammen - wenn Erscheinungen des Honorarrechts als ius civile wahrgenommen werden, infolge der Constitutio Antoniniana oder durch das Gesetzgebungswerk Justinians. Die Beiträge in diesem Band beleuchten den Übergang zwischen Einheit und Vielfalt aus der Perspektive von Regel und Ausnahme: Spiegelt sich die Vielfalt des römischen Rechts in Regel-Ausnahme-Verhältnissen wider? Wird Vielfalt zu Einheit, wenn die Ausnahme im Laufe der Zeit als Regel begriffen wird?

This paper aims at explaining exactly how the Jesuati slowly appropriated the Holy Name for themselves, visually incorporating it in their artistic creations. Through an exploration of the uses and practices of the supporters the cult of the Name of Jesus, such as Bernardino of Siena, and the similarly named Jesuiti, a more nuanced understanding of the Jesuati's own reception emerges.

This book pays tribute to international cooperation for the cultural heritage of the Island of Mozambique, focusing on the period between Independence (1975) and its inscription on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List (1991). Through texts that combine personal accounts and institutional experiences, the work highlights the uniqueness of the Island, not only for its cultural, architectural, and urbanistic richness but also as a laboratory for heritage preservation and international collaboration in the reconstruction of Mozambique.

"The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429458781, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license." This book examines the uncertainties underlying various strategies for a low-carbon future. Most prominently, such strategies relate to transitions in the energy sector, on both the supply and the demand side. At the same time they interact with other sectors, such as industrial production, transport, and building, and ultimately require new behaviour patterns at household and individual levels. Currently, much research is available on the effectiveness of these strategies but, in order to successfully implement comprehensive transition pathways, it is crucial not only to understand the benefits but also the risks. Filling this gap, this volume provides an interdisciplinary, conceptual framework to assess risks and uncertainties associated with low-carbon policies and applies this consistently across 11 country cases from around the world, illustrating alternative transition pathways in various contexts. The cases are presented as narratives, drawing on stakeholder-driven research efforts. They showcase diverse empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges to and potential negative consequences of such pathways. Together, they enable the reader to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties associated with choosing the envisaged transition pathways, as well as ways to manage the implementation of these pathways and ultimately enable sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental and energy policy, low-carbon transitions, renewable energy technologies, climate change action, and sustainability in general.

This study essentially provides the edition and annotated translation of a historical inscription in the assembly hall of Dgung ’phur Monastery in Spu rang (Mnga’ ris, Western Tibet). The inscription deals with religious and political events in the history of Western Tibet up to the beginning of the 17th century. The introductory part of the study includes a description of the inscription’s general characteristics, a summary of its contents, an enquiry into its date and a discussion of the magistrate Mgon po skyabs, whom the inscription identifies as the “founder” of Dgung ’phur.

Fléaux parmi les plus dévastateurs, les sécheresses marquent depuis longtemps et d'une façon périodique l'histoire des populations. Aujourd'hui, elles sont à la fois mieux connues gr âce au progrès scientifiques, et plus graves socialement parce que les hommes concernés sont plus nombreux. Mettant toujours à l'épreuve les autorités des pays atteints et entra înant souvent l'intervention de la communauté internationale, elles constituent un problème politique majeur. Comparant le Nordeste in...

This essay explores the historical relationship between mental health and the prison system in England and Ireland, from the introduction of the separate system of discipline in the 1840s. In doing so, we focus on the persistently high rates of confinement of prisoners with mental health problems as well as the impact of prison regimes in producing or exacerbating mental illness. Despite recognition of the harmful relationship between the prison and mental disorder, responses by prison medical officers were stymied by their complex tasks of managing and treating mental illness and preserving prison discipline. Our account concludes by drawing out continuities from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in terms of the obstacles to the effective care of mentally ill prisoners.

Dossier : Autour des Érinyes. Représentations psychiques, discursives et figurées. Cette réflexion sur la représentation pose le cas limite de ces puissances divines que l’on ne saurait ni voir ni représenter, tant elles sont effrayantes. L'étude du passage des « images » aux « images mentales » met en exergue la façon dont les Grecs ont réussi à rendre visible l’invisible, figurer l’infigurable, représenter l’irreprésentable.Les articles rassemblés dans la seconde partie se donnent des objet...

The volume collects contributions that were presented at the PARTE workshop in Budapest in September 2022 or at the Partitive Online Talks, with the goal of investigating the universal and varying properties of partitive constructions and partitive elements. Since the expression of partitivity in Romance languages has been studied extensively, in this volume special attention is paid to other European languages, such as Germanic, Gaelic, Finno-Ugric and Slavic languages. With data from microvariation and variation that spans over vast geographical distances and involves various contact situations, this volume brings new insights into what is universal and what is particular in partitive constructions and elements in Europe.

This edited volume presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces (NeWSps), both formal and informal (such as coworking spaces, maker spaces, fab labs, public libraries, and coffee shops), and their role during and following the COVID-19 pandemic in urban and regional development and planning. This book presents an original, interdisciplinary approach to NeWSps through three features: (i) situating the debate in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed NeWSp business models and the everyday work life of their owners and users; (ii) repositioning and rethinking the debate on NeWSps in the context of socioeconomics and planning and comparing conditions between before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; and (iii) providing new directions for urban and regional development and resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic, considering new ways of working and living. The 17 chapters are co-authored by both leading international scholars who have studied the proliferation of NeWSps in the last decade and young, talented researchers, resulting in a total of 55 co-authors from different disciplines (48 of whom are currently involved in the COST Action CA18214 ‘The Geography of New Working Spaces and Impact on the Periphery’ 2019–2023: www.new-working-spaces.eu). Selected comparative studies among several European countries (Western and Eastern Europe) and from the US and Lebanon are presented. The book contributes to the understanding of multi-disciplinary theoretical and practical implications of NeWSps for our society, economy, and urban/regional planning in conditions following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking on the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. In part it showcases the key findings of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, which has funded over 120 research projects in more than 50 countries since 2010. ESPA’s goal is to ensure that ecosystems are being sustainably managed in a way that contributes to poverty alleviation as well as to inclusive and sustainable growth. As governments across the world map how they will achieve the 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, most of which have poverty alleviation, wellbeing and sustainable environmental management at their heart, ESPA’s findings have never been more timely and relevant. The book synthesises the headline messages and compelling evidence to address the questions at the heart of ecosystems and wellbeing research. The authors, all leading specialists, address the evolving framings and contexts for the work, review the impacts of ongoing drivers of change, present new ways to achieve sustainable wellbeing, equity, diversity, and resilience, and evaluate the potential contributions from conservation projects, payment schemes, and novel governance approaches across scales from local to national and international. The cross-cutting, thematic chapters challenge conventional wisdom in some areas, and validate new methods and approaches for sustainable development in others. The book will provide a rich and important reference source for advanced students, researchers and policy-makers in ecology, environmental studies, ecological economics and sustainable development. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429016295, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

El presente informe fue elaborado por el equipo del Observatorio de Políticas de Seguridad de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (OPS), radicado en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Este trabajo retoma y analiza datos delictivos oficiales para construir series históricas que profundizan el conocimiento sobre las dinámicas de ciertos delitos y violencias. El informe presenta una mirada general sobre la Provincia de Buenos Aires durante el período 2009-2019, a partir de los datos de homicidios dolosos consumados, tentativas de homicidio, homicidios culposos y otros delitos importantes para explorar las violencias: las lesiones leves, las amenazas, los robos y los delitos contra la integridad sexual. Asimismo, incluye un análisis desagregado por departamentos judiciales para el mismo período, lo cual posibilita una aproximación a las tendencias de estos delitos –específicamente, de los homicidios– en las distintas realidades territoriales de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

El propósito de esta obra colectiva es contribuir a arrojar luz sobre la cara femenina del problema. El conjunto de los trabajos aquí presentados, sin duda, constituye un aporte en esta dirección. Se revisan aspectos como la prevención, el problema epidemiológico, la relación sida-muerte-rechazo y la falta de información, entre otros.

This monograph focuses important points related to growth habits in stone fruit trees and represents a significant contribution to the field of breeding for improved fruit tree growth habit. A team of experts in the field have produced an information platform based on an orderly and coordinated set of measured parameters. Each growth habit within a species is defined and discussed, terms are defined (glossary), objective tree growth data are presented, and reference cultivars are provided. Illustrations represent a useful visual guide to each growth type. This monograph thus seeks not only to describe the main tree habits found in five important stone-fruit species but also to identify the morphological keys unlocking their characterization and, in the process, provide some suggestions for their practical exploitation.