O5 * FREE ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 5: ALCOHOL-RELATED SOCIETY AND POLICY CHANGES IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Syrian immigration crisis has been ignored by advanced European countries and the heaviest burden is left to developing border countries. However this ignorance has resulted in more mass influx of immigrants illegally to the borders of European Union with a target of advanced Northern countries. To evaluate the European ignorance to this humanitarian crisis, first Turkey is evaluated as a transition point for all Asian and Middle Eastern immigrants dreaming to live in Europe. By a shocking extend of sea arrivals, Europe have noticed the humanitarian crisis and made a deal with main transition point for immigrants, Turkey. However this deal is a symbol of violation human rights and vaporisation of all European values. So refugee crisis and policy changes in Europe are covered briefly. In conclusion, this position of European countries is argued as related with accelerating social support to xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric in politics as to elective results in advanced EU countries.

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Open approach to rivers

Rivers and Sustainable Development ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190079024.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 242-275

Author(s):

S. Nazrul Islam

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

The United States ◽

European Countries ◽

Open Approach ◽

Policy Changes ◽

Country Level ◽

The World ◽

Levee System ◽

Recent Policy

Chapter 10 provides an overview of the Open approach, focusing on its merits, progress, and prospects and showing how it can be more conducive to sustainable development. It shows that the Open approach is not a passive approach but requires sustained activities along many dimensions, including both flood-proofing and flood-regulating measures. The chapter follows the progression of the Open approach. It discusses the reflection of this approach in the European Union’s Directive on Floods and its implementation. It takes note of country level initiatives in many European countries, such as the Netherlands’ “Room for River” project, that conform with the Open approach. The chapter then examines some recent policy changes in the United States regarding the Mississippi levee system that also reflect the Open approach. It also reviews the progress of the Open approach in other parts of the world.

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European Economic Crisis and Policy Changes of Parliament and Political Parties in European Countries

The Journal of Political Science & Communication ◽

10.15617/psc.2014.06.17.1.147 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

Author(s):

JongBub Kim

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

European Countries ◽

Policy Changes ◽

European Economic

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Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies

Journal of Economic Geography ◽

10.1093/jeg/lbaa035 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph-Simon Görlach ◽

Nicolas Motz

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Model ◽

A Priori ◽

Strategic Interaction ◽

European Countries ◽

Northern Europe ◽

Strategic Substitutes ◽

Policy Changes ◽

Strategic Complements ◽

Policy Choices ◽

Cross Country

Abstract Asylum policies are interdependent across countries: policy choices in one country can affect refugee flows into neighbouring countries and may provoke policy changes there, in an a priori unknown direction. We formulate a dynamic model of refugees’ location choices and of the strategic interaction among destinations that we fit to Syrian refugee migration to Europe. We find that south and southeastern European countries view recognition rates as strategic substitutes, whereas the same policies can be strategic complements in northern Europe. Our findings imply that regression frameworks which use cross-country variation to estimate the effects of recognition rates on immigration underestimate (overestimate) the effect if this policy is a strategic substitute (complement).

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Age, Policy Changes and Work Orientation: Comparing Changes in Commitment to Paid Work in Four European Countries

Journal of Population Ageing ◽

10.1007/s12062-010-9023-3 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (3-4) ◽

pp. 101-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Carl Hult ◽

Mikael Stattin

Keyword(s):

European Countries ◽

Work Orientation ◽

Paid Work ◽

Policy Changes

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Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20190063 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

pp. 723-729

Author(s):

Roslyn Gleadow ◽

Jim Hanan ◽

Alan Dorin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Computer Simulation ◽

Food Security ◽

European Countries ◽

Plant Interactions ◽

Plant Insect Interactions ◽

Native Habitat ◽

Insect Pollinators ◽

Insect Interactions

Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduction of agricultural monocultures, and the destruction of insect native habitat, are all potential contributors to this grave situation. Some researchers are working towards a future where natural insect pollinators might be replaced with free-flying robotic bees, an ecologically problematic proposal. We argue instead that creating environments that are friendly to bees and exploring the use of other species for pollination and bio-control, particularly in non-European countries, are more ecologically sound approaches. The computer simulation of insect-plant interactions is a far more measured application of technology that may assist in managing, or averting, ‘Insect Armageddon' from both practical and ethical viewpoints.

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