The Role of Community Foundations and Regional Associations of Grantmakers as Successful Models

1998 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Alison Wiley ◽  
Caroline Tower ◽  
Dorothy Reynolds ◽  
Alicia Philipp ◽  
Terry O'Hara Lavoie
Keyword(s):  
Community Foundations ◽  
Regional Associations

Effects of Media Exposure on Regional Associations

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-343
Author(s):  
Chun-Yi Peng
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Regional Association ◽  
Aspect Marker ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Regional Associations

AbstractAlthough there is a long-standing tradition discounting the effect of media exposure on language variation, this study shows how televised media formulate and reinforce the sociosemiotic links between linguistic features and their regional associations. The Mandarin aspect marker you is an interesting case in this regard, as it is semiotically linked mostly, if not exclusively, to Taiwanese Mandarin by many Chinese mainlanders, even though the feature is, in fact, also observed in many southern Mandarin varieties on the mainland. Drawing upon Agha’s concept of enregisterment, the goals of this study are 1) to provide empirical evidence of the semiotic work that media do to language, and 2) to test whether exposure to Taiwanese televised media contributes to the mismatch between the regional association and actual geographical distribution of the aspect marker you. The findings of this study suggest two levels of media influence: meta-awareness and indexicality. The relationships between these two levels are incremental and mutually constitutive, and televised media play the role of catalyzing these reciprocal processes.

scholarly journals Regional approach to achieving sustainable development goals: legal analysis of the EAEU experience in creating a common labor market in its relationship with SDG 8

2021 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 06001
Author(s):  
Dmitry Ivanov ◽  
Mariia Levina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Regional Component ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Regional Associations

The article is devoted to the study of the role of the regional component in implementation of the Agenda for Sustainable Development until 2030. Achievement of the 17 Goals and 169 targets in the field of sustainable development indicated in it can hardly be conditioned only by the successful and effective policy of each of the UN member states in this direction. This is explained, first of all, by the fact that the implementation of the Agenda envisages both the interaction of countries at a universal level and largely depends on their regional cooperation, including through integration associations. Wherein, the study of the relevant experience of the Eurasian Economic Union as one of the largest regional associations of economic integration is of considerable interest in this matter. The authors consider practical achievement of the mentioned Goals, primarily Goal 8, through the prism of ensuring freedom of movement of labor within the Union and the effective functioning of its common labor market.

scholarly journals Re-thinking the Lower-middle Level of Administration in Hungary with Particular Reference to the Web 3.0. Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
László Tibor Buskó
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The Public ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Regional Associations ◽  
The Web

This paper will evaluate the current situation and role of the Hungarian (administrative) lower-middle level and make projections about its future. Centralisation efforts since 2010 have had a non-negligible impact on the administrative and non-administrative (common institution maintenance, micro-regional development policy) tasks assigned to the lower-middle level. However, it may be argued that the transition to the Web 3.0 era – the era of the most advanced, most intelligent and customised web technologies – may put such centralisation efforts into a new context. Revitalisation of formations similar to the multi-functional micro-regional associations of local self-governments which largely disappeared after 1 January 2013 may be justifiable in the forthcoming period in order to promote local synergies. If this is correct, a rethink of the public administration system at the lower-middle level may become a very important task for the public administration as along with regional discourse.

Biogeographical affinity shapes relationships between ecological and phylogenetic mammal diversity and associations with their environmental correlates in the Americas

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5060 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-332
Author(s):  
PAULA NILDA FERGNANI ◽  
ADRIANA RUGGIERO
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Environmental Correlates ◽  
Continental Scale ◽  
Diversity Gradient ◽  
Evolutionarily Conserved ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Regional Associations ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Mammal Diversity

We evaluate the role of biogeographical affinity in shaping relationships between ecological diversity as a proxy of functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity and their association with environmental variation, across tropical and temperate latitudes of the Americas. If environmental niches are evolutionarily conserved, high mammal taxa of tropical and temperate affinity will show consistent differences in these relationships. Accordingly, mammal groups of tropical affinity (old-autochthonous: marsupials and xenarthrans; and mid-Cenozoic immigrants: hystricognaths and primates) show stronger positive correlations between ecological and phylogenetic diversity within the tropics than those from extra-tropical latitudes where newcomers from North America (artiodactyls) show the strongest positive correlations. The other group of newcomers (carnivorans), however, show a peak in the association that include both tropical and extra-tropical latitudes of South America. Climate predominates over topographic relief in structuring the spatial variation of ecological and phylogenetic mammal diversity. The environmental structuring of ecological and phylogenetic mammal diversity across the Americas is more complex than expected from a latitudinal diversity gradient. Dry seasonal tropical habitats generated considerable heterogeneity in relationships between ecological and phylogenetic diversity and their association with environmental correlates. We conclude that biogeographical affinity and regional associations between the different components of diversity and the environment should be considered for a comprehensive explanation of covariation between ecological and phylogenetic diversity on a continental scale.  

Subnational Governance and Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 407-431
Author(s):  
Jenny Hodgson ◽  
Peter McKinlay ◽  
Barry Knight
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Community Governance ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Community Foundations ◽  
Community Banking ◽  
Subnational Governance

This chapter examines how the practice of governance, especially at a subnational level, has been evolving since the 1990s, focusing on the implications for “community governance”. An overview of recent thinking on the nature of governance opens up the question of whether “governance” may be exercised through institutions entirely separate from government. Examples are considered from Australia's experience with “community banking”, and from trusts and foundations that have emerged from major public sector restructuring. The chapter considers the work of the Global Fund for Community Foundations as an important civil society contribution to subnational governance in developing countries, examining the role of foundations in building capacity and capability in disadvantaged communities through a new approach grounded in an understanding of “community governance”. Overall the chapter argues for a broadening in the understanding of governance, from what governments do to encompassing how our communities come together to shape their own futures.

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