Mediterranean as a Supra-Regional Interaction Sphere During Late Prehistory: An Overview on Problems and Prospects

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Mehmet Özdoğan
Keyword(s):  
Regional Interaction

Formal and Informal Groups

2018 ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
Monica Herz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International System ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Regional Interaction ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Informal Groups

The chapter examines the idea and practice of regional governance during the last twenty years. Intergovernmental regional organizations provide the focus of the analysis as they often are the hub of regional interaction leading to the generation of rules. In order to understand the idea of regional governance, the chapter looks into the relation between this idea and three other processes taking place in the international system: the changing nature of sovereignty, globalization, and the challenges to nationally based representative democracy. The role of regional multidimensional organizations that perform similar tasks in the human rights is a focus in the humanitarian, democratic governance, development, and security spheres as a result of the diffusion of international governance practices.

scholarly journals Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1783) ◽  
pp. 20133382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Spengler ◽  
Michael Frachetti ◽  
Paula Doumani ◽  
Lynne Rouse ◽  
Barbara Cerasetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Seed Morphology ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Early Agriculture ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Regional Interaction ◽  
The Third ◽  
Central Eurasia ◽  
Mobile Pastoralists ◽  
Desert Regions

Archaeological research in Central Eurasia is exposing unprecedented scales of trans-regional interaction and technology transfer between East Asia and southwest Asia deep into the prehistoric past. This article presents a new archaeobotanical analysis from pastoralist campsites in the mountain and desert regions of Central Eurasia that documents the oldest known evidence for domesticated grains and farming among seasonally mobile herders. Carbonized grains from the sites of Tasbas and Begash illustrate the first transmission of southwest Asian and East Asian domesticated grains into the mountains of Inner Asia in the early third millennium BC. By the middle second millennium BC, seasonal camps in the mountains and deserts illustrate that Eurasian herders incorporated the cultivation of millet, wheat, barley and legumes into their subsistence strategy. These findings push back the chronology for domesticated plant use among Central Eurasian pastoralists by approximately 2000 years. Given the geography, chronology and seed morphology of these data, we argue that mobile pastoralists were key agents in the spread of crop repertoires and the transformation of agricultural economies across Asia from the third to the second millennium BC.

scholarly journals Regional Interaction Frameworks to Support Multi-Hazard Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction (With an Application to Guatemala)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel C. Gill ◽  
Bruce D. Malamud ◽  
Edy Manolo Barillas ◽  
Alex Guerra Noriega
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Matrix Form ◽  
Spatial Extent ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Regional Interaction

Abstract. Here we present an interdisciplinary approach to developing comprehensive, systematic and evidenced regional interaction frameworks to support multi-hazard approaches to disaster risk reduction. We apply this approach in Guatemala, developing regional interaction frameworks for national and sub-national (Southern Highlands) spatial extents. The regional interaction frameworks are constructed and populated using five evidence types: (i) publications and reports (internationally accessible) (93 peer-review and 76 grey literature sources); (ii) publications and reports (locally accessible civil protection bulletins) (267 bulletins from 11 June 2010 to 15 October 2010); (iii) field observations; (iv) stakeholder interviews (19 semi-structured interviews) (v) stakeholder workshop results (16 participants). These five evidence types were synthesised to determine an appropriate natural hazards classification scheme for Guatemala, with 6 natural hazard groups, 19 hazard types, and 37 hazard sub-types. For a national spatial extent in Guatemala, we proceed to construct and populate a regional interaction framework (matrix form), identifying 50 possible interactions between 19 hazard types. For a sub-national spatial extent (Southern Highlands of Guatemala), we construct and populate a regional interaction framework (matrix form), identifying 114 possible interactions between 33 hazard sub-types relevant in the Southern Highlands. We also use this evidence to explore networks of multi-hazard interactions and anthropogenic processes that can trigger natural hazards. We present this information through accessible visualisations to improve understanding of multi-hazard interactions in Guatemala. We believe that our regional interaction frameworks approach to multi-hazards is scalable, working at global to local scales with differing resolutions of information. Our approach can be replicated in other geographical settings, with regional interaction frameworks helping to enhance cross-institutional dialogue on hazard interactions, and their likelihood and potential impacts.

Regional heterogeneity and the trans-regional interaction of housing prices and inflation: Evidence from China’s 35 major cities

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (16) ◽  
pp. 3472-3492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huayi Yu ◽  
Yanfen Huang
Keyword(s):  
Housing Prices ◽  
Consumer Price Index ◽  
Housing Price ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Price Shocks ◽  
Monetary Aggregates ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Regional Interaction ◽  
Housing Price Dynamics

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyse the regionally heterogeneous responses of housing prices and inflation to the monetary aggregates shock and the trans-regional interaction of housing prices and inflation, which has seldom been discussed in previous literature. Using a GVAR (Globe Vector Autoregression) model, evidence based on China’s 35 major cities for this framework is provided. The results show that (1) the housing price shocks have weak positive influence on CPIs (consumer price index); (2) the housing price shocks, especially the shocks in first-tier cities and eastern cities, have strong positive influence on domestic housing price dynamics and housing prices of other cities; (3) monetary aggregates shock has strong influence on the housing prices of first-tier cities and eastern cities, while weak influence on that of central and western cities. CPIs are barely influenced by monetary aggregates shocks. The empirical results are in accordance with the theoretical explanation. Based on empirical results, this paper proposes policy recommendations for stabilising housing prices.

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