Documentary heritage in the Arab region: a regional survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
Anissa Harfouche
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
National Library ◽  
Regional Survey ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Natural Decay ◽  
Mapping Exercise

AbstractIn 2018, the UNESCO Office to the Gulf States and Yemen and its partner, Qatar National Library, launched a project aiming at supporting the preservation of documentary heritage in the Arab region. The Arab region is home to a unique and rich documentary heritage subject to risk due to natural decay, conflicts and instability. To support its preservation, this project had for objective to better understand the needs and challenges faced by documentary heritage institutions in the region though a mapping exercise and the dissemination of a survey.This article outlines the key outcomes of the survey including the situation of documentary heritage at the regional and national level, a brief review of legal frameworks protecting documentary heritage, the main obstacles and threats to documentary heritage preservation and the needs expressed by conservation practitioners in terms of capacity-building, professional development, infrastructure and support in additional areas such as policy and advocacy.

Applicability of management guidelines for surfing resources in California

Shore & Beach ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Edward Atkin ◽  
Dan Reineman ◽  
Jesse Reiblich ◽  
David Revell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
National Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Coastal Marine ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Surf breaks are finite, valuable, and vulnerable natural resources, that not only influence community and cultural identities, but are a source of revenue and provide a range of health benefits. Despite these values, surf breaks largely lack recognition as coastal resources and therefore the associated management measures required to maintain them. Some countries, especially those endowed with high-quality surf breaks and where the sport of surfing is accepted as mainstream, have recognized the value of surfing resources and have specific policies for their conservation. In Aotearoa New Zealand surf breaks are included within national environmental policy. Aotearoa New Zealand has recently produced Management Guidelines for Surfing Resources (MGSR), which were developed in conjunction with universities, regional authorities, not-for-profit entities, and government agencies. The MGSR provide recommendations for both consenting authorities and those wishing to undertake activities in the coastal marine area, as well as tools and techniques to aid in the management of surfing resources. While the MGSR are firmly aligned with Aotearoa New Zealand’s cultural and legal frameworks, much of their content is applicable to surf breaks worldwide. In the United States, there are several national-level and state-level statutes that are generally relevant to various aspects of surfing resources, but there is no law or policy that directly addresses them. This paper describes the MGSR, considers California’s existing governance frameworks, and examines the potential benefits of adapting and expanding the MGSR in this state.

scholarly journals Integrating Risk Reduction, Urban Planning and Housing: Lessons From El Salvador

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Christine Wamsler
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
National Level ◽  
Integral Model ◽  
Emergency Relief ◽  
Developmental Context ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Increasingly, attention has been given to the need to mainstream risk reduction in development work in order to reduce the vulnerability of the urban poor. Using El Salvador as a case study, the paper analyses the mainstreaming process in the developmental disciplines of urban planning and housing. The overall aim is to identify how the existing separation between risk reduction, urban planning and housing can be overcome and integration achieved. Since Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and especially after the 2001 earthquakes, not only relief and development organisations, but also social housing organisations have initiated a shift to include risk reduction in their fields of action in order to address the underlying causes of urban vulnerability. The factors that triggered the process were: 1) the negative experiences of organisations with non-integral projects, 2) the organisations' increased emphasis on working with municipal development, 3) political changes at national level, and more importantly, 4) the introduction and promotion of the concept of risk reduction by international and regional aid organisations. However, required additional knowledge and institutional capacities were mainly built up independently and internally by each organisation, and not through the creation of co-operative partnerships, thus duplicating efforts and increasing ineffective competition. Whilst positive experience has been gained through the implementation of more integral projects, the creation of adequate operational, organisational, institutional and legal frameworks is still in its initial stage. Unfortunately, four years after the 2001 earthquakes, emergency relief funding for post-disaster risk reduction is coming to an end without the allocation of resources for following up and consolidating the initial process. Based on the findings, an integral model is proposed which shows how mainstreaming risk reduction in urban planning and housing could be dealt with in such a way that it becomes more integrated, inclusive and sustainable within a developmental context.

The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
National Level ◽  
First Century ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
International Climate Change

Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, and has become one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. The radical changes which both developed and developing countries will need to make, in economic and in legal terms, to respond to climate change are unprecedented. International law, including treaty regimes, institutions, and customary international law, needs to address the myriad challenges and consequences of climate change, including variations in the weather patterns, sea level rise, and the resulting migration of peoples. This book provides an authoritative overview of all aspects of international climate change law as it currently stands, with guidance for how it should develop in the future. This book sets out to analyse the legal issues that surround this vitally important but still emerging area of international law. This book addresses the major legal dimensions of the problems caused by climate change: not only in the content and nature of the international legal frameworks, which need implementation at the national level, but also the development of carbon trading systems as a means of reducing the costs of meeting emission reduction targets. After an introduction to the field, the book assesses the relevant institutions, the key applicable principles of international law, the international mitigation regime and its consequences, and climate change litigation, before providing perspectives focused upon specific countries or regions.

scholarly journals The Legal Boundaries of ‘Public Purpose’ in India and South Africa: A Comparative Assessment in Light of the Voluntary Guidelines

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Hoops ◽  
Tagliarino
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
National Level ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Voluntary Guidelines

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) call for governments to clearly define the term ‘public purpose’ to allow for judicial review of the goals of expropriations of property. However, recent research indicates that national-level legal frameworks that govern expropriation decision-making not only vary greatly from country to country but also often fail to comply with the VGGT standards on expropriation. This creates the potential for unpredictable and, in some cases, arbitrary applications of expropriation law in practice. Focusing on legal norms and jurisprudence applicable to ‘public purpose’ decision-making in South Africa and India, this article provides a comparative analysis of these countries’ legal frameworks as means of ascertaining (1) the current legal boundaries to decisions on the expropriation’s goal; (2) whether these boundaries comply with the VGGTs; and (3) what these two countries can learn from one another in terms enacting legislation and regulations that comply with the VGGTs. To conduct this comparative analysis, we thoroughly examine constitutional provisions, relevant case law, legislation, regulations, and relevant secondary sources to highlight the current status of India’s and South Africa’s law on ‘public purpose’ and how they relate to the VGGTs. We conclude by distilling some key findings that can inform the decisions of expropriation lawmakers in both countries, especially in South Africa where a draft Expropriation Bill is currently being considered.

scholarly journals Continuing Professional Development for Doctors in Pakistan is need of the hour

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Ahsan Sethi ◽  
Gohar Wajid
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Postgraduate Medical Education ◽  
National Level ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
World Federation

In Pakistan, health professionals get their professional undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications after thorough training and assessment criteria as defined by their respective national regulatory bodies. These qualifications help them get registered and get a license for clinical practice in their respective domains. Any registrations and licenses are renewed by paying the prescribed fee without any requirements for reassessment or recertifications. Over the last few decades, health sciences have shown rapid advancements with the invention of new drugs and technologies. Due to this exponential increase in knowledge, no practitioner can hope to remain competent for more than a few years after graduation without a program of active learning. As such, a well-structured and regulated program of lifelong learning must be followed by all health professionals. To keep health professionals abreast with these changes and to ensure the maintenance of certain minimum competencies, there is a need for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to be implemented at the national level with strict regulatory compliance. According to World Federation for Medical Education (World Federation for Medical Education, 2015), Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a process of education and training commencing after completion of basic and postgraduate medical education, thereafter, continuing as long as the health professional is engaged in professional activities. CPD mainly implies self-directed and practice-based learning activities in addition to supervised education, and rarely involves supervised training for an extended period of time. The terms ‘Continuing Medical Education (CME)’ and ‘Continuing Professional Development (CPD)’ are often used synonymously. 

scholarly journals CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS’ ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TEACHERS AT BANDAR LAMPUNG CITY, INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Siti Robiyah ◽  
Koderi Koderi ◽  
Juhri Abdul Muin ◽  
Umi Hijriyah
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Junior High ◽  
National Level ◽  
Continuous Professional Development ◽  
Junior High Schools ◽  
Minimal Amount ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Self Development

The purpose of this study was to determine the continuous professional development which covers self-development, scientific publications, and innovative works on Islamic religious education teachers in Bandar Lampung city, Indonesia. This study employs the qualitative-descriptive approach with the teachers, principals, the chairperson of Islamic religious education Subject Teachers' Conference (MGMP), and the head of State Office of Education Bandar Lampung as the sources of data. The data collected through interviews, observations, and documentation. The data analysis techniques used were data triangulation through data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. This study discovers that 1) to develop themselves, the teachers join MGMP activities, training, workshops, seminars, and others, 2) for scientific publications in the form of scientific papers, the teachers participate in the national level competitions and workbooks writing although, in a minimal amount, 3) for innovative work, the teachers prepare the learning standards, learning guidelines, semester exam questions, syllabus development, lesson plan development, teaching materials development, editing blueprints of Islamic religious education questions although without continuous innovation. It recommended to foster self-development, scientific publications, and work innovation, PAI teachers in junior high schools should take part in training, seminars, and workshops, both independently and held by the education offices by taking into account good management theories, namely activities designed based on needs analysis, coordination with all institutions. The implementation of activities should have precise and measured outputs. An evaluation is also needed to find out whether the self-development, scientific publications, and innovative works have achieved or not. 

Terrorism and Its Policing

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Bantman
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
National Level ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
And Control ◽  
First World ◽  
Internal Level

Between its emergence in the 1870s and the beginning of the First World War, public perception of the anarchist movement and the theoretical and legal frameworks used to comprehend and control it underwent a dual process of criminalization and internationalization. The use of terrorism by anarchists was pivotal to these evolutions, as was its reception by alarmed populations and governments faced with unprecedented forms of political violence. Anarchism became increasingly identified as a political crime sanctioned by extensive laws at the national level and, at the internal level, by comprehensive protocols and extradition and deportation measures. These changes affected most European nations and the Americas similarly, making anarchism a clear instance of the globalization of militant politics. The “battle against international anarchism” was also a catalyst in the development of an international criminal system, as it accelerated the exchange of policing models and techniques.

Changing roles, changing realities: Australian art librarians in a brave new world

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Joye Volker
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
National Level ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
National Library ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
Parent Institution ◽  
Organisational Structures ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Art Schools ◽  
Improve Access

As we all cope with an e-everything world, libraries are moving to accommodate WOW (words on the web) as well as POP (print on paper) in their collections. This has led to a realignment in organisational structures, particularly in university contexts. This paper addressed two major issues: firstly the challenges that major institutional reorganisations in Australia have placed on universities and, in particular, on art schools; secondly the way these challenges may be met, based on actions and solutions to improve access to Australian visual arts information resources which followed from an extensive survey by the National Library of Australia in co-operation with ARLIS/ANZ. These results encourage art libraries to develop partnerships and networking with their parent institution and other libraries and cultural institutions on a national level.

scholarly journals A talented scholar and pedagogue (On the 90-th anniversary of Gertuda Gedrimovich)

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Natalya Gendina ◽  
Galina Sbitneva
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Marketing Activity ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
National Library ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Technical Literature ◽  
Teaching Activity ◽  
Outstanding Representative

The paper is devoted to anniversary of the talented scientist and the teacher G.V. Gedrimovich (St. Petersburg), the outstanding representative of the Leningrad school of sciences. Professional skills of G.V. Gedrimovich were formed in National Library of Russia named after M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin. Its teaching activity was connected with the Leningrad State Institute of Culture named after N.K. Krupskaya for many years. G.V. Gedrimovich was developer of the major training course "Bibliography of Technical Literature", she took active part in formation of the Leningrad school of studying documentary. In scientific community G.V. Gedrimovich is known as the talented mentor of young scientists. Under her management Master's theses from many institutes of culture and libraries of Russia and abroad are defended. G.V. Gedrimovich actively works in the system of professional development of library staff. It is one of the most authoritative authors of the collection "Technical Libraries of the USSR" (then "Scientific and technical libraries"), the initiator of a practical work for employees of libraries. Recently, G.V. Gedrimovich develops information maintenance of marketing activity of the enterprises, her efforts are directed to formation of information culture of experts in the field of management.

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