Cordon approach to rivers

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-241
Author(s):  
S. Nazrul Islam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
River Channels ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levee System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Parts

Chapter 9 presents the Cordon approach, describing its methods, reviewing its spread across the world, and analyzing its consequences. It discusses the general relationship between river channels and their floodplains and explains the nurturing functions that regular river inundations perform. The chapter then outlines the instruments of the Cordon approach, such as embankments, floodwalls, channelization, and canalization. It goes on to explain the relationship between the Cordon and the Polder approaches and offers a classification of cordons into different types. The chapter reviews the consequences of the Cordon approach, distinguishing between those for river channels and for floodplains. It provides an overview of the experience of the Cordon approach in different parts of the world, focusing on the United States, Europe, and India. It also presents two case studies of the Cordon approach: the Mississippi levee system in the United States and the Huang He River embankments in China.

Spanish-speaking Anarchists in the United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-102
Author(s):  
Susana Sueiro Seoane
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
The World ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter analyzes Cultura Obrera (Labor Culture), published in New York City from 1911 to 1927. Pedro Esteve, the primary editor, gave expression to his ideas in this newspaper and while it represented Spanish firemen and marine workers, it reported on many other workers’ struggles in different parts of the world, for example, supporting and collecting funds for the Mexican revolutionary brothers Flores Magón. This newspaper, as all the anarchist press, was part of a transnational network and had a circulation not only in many parts of the United States but also in Latin American countries, including Argentina and Cuba, as well as on the other side of the Atlantic, in Spain and various European countries.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Electric Pulse ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Free Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The telegraph wove its way across the ocean at a time when religion’s role in public life was commonplace. Since then, networks have become more vital to everyday life in easily perceptible ways while religion is considered a less overt part of so-called secular public culture in the United States. The epilogue proposes that the relationship of telegraphic networks to the networks that shape our world today is not causal or continuous but one of resonance in which some elements are amplified and some are damped. The protestant dreams for the telegraph in the nineteenth century—particularly the promise of global unity, the celebration of unprecedented speed and ubiquity, and the fantasy of friction-free communication—reverberate in dreams for the internet and social media today. In cries that the internet makes us all neighbors reverberates the electric pulse of the celebrations of the 1858 cable’s capacity to unite the world in Christian community. And yet, it is not a straight shot from then to now. Some elements have faded, particularly overt religious motifs in imaginaries of technology. The original power of public protestantism in the first network imaginaries continues to resonate today in the primacy of connection.

Forging an Anthropology of Neoliberal Fascism

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-40
Author(s):  
Adrienne Pine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Analytical Category

In the late teens, the rise of racist, xenophobic nationalism in the United States and around the world has been frequently labeled fascist in popular discourse, and is being increasingly discussed as fascism by scholars as well. In this article, drawing on case studies from Honduras and the United States, I argue that—despite Orwell’s warning that the term has lost its meaning—anthropologists can still productively engage fascism as an analytical category. An anthropological engagement of contemporary fascism must help to elucidate the strong links between neoliberal capitalism and today’s global militarized nationalism. It also requires that anthropologists reframe our work as strategy, from a position of somatic (not pragmatic) solidarity with structurally vulnerable people everywhere.

Editorial: Research and the School or Educational Psychologist

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
L.F. Lowenstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Psychologists ◽  
School Psychologist ◽  
The United States ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Educational Psychologist ◽  
The World ◽  
University Services ◽  
Different Parts

The terms ‘school psychologist’ and ‘educational psychologist’ will be used interchangeably, and in most instances the term ‘psychologist’ will refer to both male and female. There is obviously some difference in the use of the terms and in the functions of the educational psychologist and the school psychologist in different parts of the world. For example, in the United States, ‘educational psychologist’ is rarely used for those psychologists who are attached to non-university services and are regular visitors to schools and who carry out the day-to-day work of helping children attending schools. Instead, school psychologists in the United States carry out the function of advising teachers, testing or dealing with the educational or psychological problems of children in the classroom and doing other practical work.

Uncertain Times: The Reconstruction of China–US Relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Weixing CHEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Rise Of China ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trump Administration

The rise of China has shaken, to some extent, the pillars sustaining the US dominance in the world. Facing structural challenges from China, the United States has responded on three levels: political, strategic and policy. The Donald Trump administration has adopted a hard-line approach while attempting to engage China at the structural level. The China–US relationship is entering uncertain times, and the reconstruction of the relationship could take a decade.

Open approach to rivers

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.

scholarly journals Anti-corruption as one of the key vectors of state policy: world and Russian experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Alekseev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Main Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Significance ◽  
The Government

The purpose of the article is to study the anti-corruption policy in Russia and abroad, identify and characterize the main anti-corruption strategies. Comparative studies were chosen as the main method of scientific research, and case studies were used to analyze the anti-corruption strategies of a number of countries: the United States, great Britain, Germany, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, China, Japan and Singapore; in comparison with Russia. The causes of corruption are analyzed, and measures aimed at preventing it are identified. It is hypothesized that only by using various anti-corruption strategies in combination, it is possible to effectively resist corruption. Three main strategies are identified: systematic elimination of the causes of corruption, aimed at reducing the risks and losses from corruption; a strategy of war, based on the use of punitive measures against corrupt officials; a strategy of conscious passivity, when the government does not actually take measures to eliminate corruption. In Russia during the 90's and up to 2008. the strategy of conscious passivity was applied, then we switched to a strategy of systematic elimination of the causes that generate corruption. The theoretical significance of the research results presented in the article is a review of the world and Russian experience in countering corruption and the measures used, and an assessment of their effectiveness in fighting it.

scholarly journals Media Choice Proliferation and Shifting Orientations Towards News in the United States and Norway, 1995–2012

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiri Elvestad ◽  
Lee Shaker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Choice ◽  
International News ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Personal Media

Abstract Around the world, rapid media choice proliferation is empowering audiences and allowing individuals to more precisely tailor personal media use. From a democratic perspective, the relationship between the changing media environment and news use is of particular interest. This article presents a comparative exploration of citizens’ changing orientations towards local, national and international news in two very different countries, Norway and the United States, between 1995 and 2012. Prior research suggests that more media choice correlates with a decrease in news consumption. Our analysis shows a pattern of increasing specialization in news orientation in both countries. We also find that the strongest Norwegian trend is one of specialization while the strongest trend in the United States is one of disconnection. Altogether, the results illustrate how local conditions shape the effects of global technological developments.

scholarly journals UMA ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA INTERNACIONAL DA RELAÇÃO ENTRE DESIGUALDADE DE RENDA E SERVIÇO DOMÉSTICO AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME INEQUALITY AND DOMESTIC SERVICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Alexandre Barbosa Fraga ◽  
Elisa Alonso Monçores Viana
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Gini Index ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
The World ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Parts

Na bibliografia sobre o trabalho doméstico remunerado, uma pergunta continua de alguma forma em aberto: o que explica a variação na proporção de mão de obra ocupada no serviço doméstico de cada país? Entre as cinco hipóteses apresentadas pela Sociologia e pela Economia para responder a essa questão, a explicação pela desigualdade de renda já foi testada, apenas para os Estados Unidos, pelas sociólogas americanas Milkman, Reese e Roth (1998). De acordo com elas, um fator determinante do tamanho do emprego doméstico em certo lugar é o grau de desigualdade econômica ali existente. Este artigo objetiva verificar essa mesma hipótese, mas para um conjunto de 95 países de diversas partes do mundo. Por meio de um modelo de regressão, utilizando o método de Mínimos Quadrados Ordinários (MQO), é avaliada a relação entre o índice de Gini dos países e a proporção de mulheres ocupadas como trabalhadoras domésticas.ABSTRACT In the bibliography on paid domestic work, one question remains open: what explains variation in the proportion of the labor force employed in domestic service in each country? Among the five hypotheses presented by Sociology and Economics to answer this question, the explanation focused on income inequality has already been tested, only for the United States, by the American sociologists Milkman, Reese and Roth (1998). According to them, a crucial determinant of the extent of employment in paid domestic labor in a given location is the degree of economic inequality there. This article aims to verify the same hypothesis, but for a group of 95 countries from different parts of the world. Through a regression model, using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method, the relationship between the Gini index of the countries and the proportion of women employed as domestic workers is evaluated.

scholarly journals The Strategic Partners and Strategic Competitors between China and United States in the Period of Barack Obama Administration

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Nur Arif Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

This essay will consider a number of perspectives to determine whether the relationship between China and United States is strategic partnersor strategic competitors. During the Obama administration, the policy toward China oscillates between being strategic partners and strategic competitors since the first time he became President in January 2009 until the present time.  In this essay, I will argue that the relationship between China and the United States should be based on partnership rather than competition considering the strategic position of both countries in the world recently, especially in terms of economic cooperation. However, there is still a sense of competition between them, especially in military sectors. Sometimes, the relationship between them in this sector often brings the tense to their relationship. Keywords: Obama administration, policy, strategic partners, strategic competitors, relationship.

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