Evolution de la gestion des chablis ces 50 dernières années dans la région du Bas-Valais (essai)

2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Roland Métral

Trends in windthrow management during the last 50 years in Lower Valais (essay) A review on the measures taken in forests hit by storms during the last 50 years reveals the mind-set behind the evolution of management operations. In the 1960s, to remove all dead wood in a stand was perfectly normal due to timber prices. Between 1984 and 1990, vast sums of money were pumped into the improvement of forest structures facing the threat of a general forest dieback. As a consequence, only few of the windthrow areas caused by storm Vivian remained with no intervention. Vivian also marked the beginning of manifold research activities and practical terrain examination in windthrow gaps. Conclusions of this first research phase resulted in a critical assessment of the windthrow areas caused by Lothar in 1999, considering different goals than systematic removal of damage wood and the prevention of bark beetle outbreaks. Since the 1990s, retaining timber after windthrow has been lively discussed, as well as the maintenance of the protection function against natural hazards and opportunities for biodiversity. Several handbooks were developed and successfully used for the planning and defining of top priority measures in damaged forests that resulted from disturbances in 2011 and 2012 in Lower Valais. These recent disturbances together with the certainty that storms will recur led to the formation of a task force in the canton Valais, aiming to organize both logistics and funds, as well as to define management priorities regarding a next hazard.

Author(s):  
Garrett Hardin

Great is the power of words when manipulated by a master who has his finger on the public pulse. In the 1960s the Canadian Marshall McLuhan evidently tapped a major stream of consciousness when he proclaimed the coming of "the global village," a world in which nearly instantaneous communication would weld together the aspirations of mankind. A sharing world. A land of heart's desire. Unfortunately his image took no account of the effects of scale or the consequences of the rules of distribution. When these variables are plugged into the equation, the dream of a bucolic global village dissolves into a nightmare of global pillage. Humanity has now completed some political experiments that reveal the nightmare. How will our time be remembered a hundred years from now? It is at least plausible that the twentieth century will be commemorated as the era in which Marx's ideas were at last given a fair trial and found wanting. From the spring of 1917, when Lenin returned to Russia to stir things up, to the cataclysms of the autumn of 1989 was seventy-two years—the biblical lifetime of a man. Three generations. Quite enough time to allow Marxism in its various forms to reveal its inherent deficiencies. Yet, when the end came, almost everyone was surprised at the speed with which nearly 300 million people revealed their disillusionment and set about trying to put the pieces together into a better political pattern. We wonder of course why Marx's ideas were so resistant to the intellectual cold showers that beat against them for three score years and ten. The literary critic Lionel Trilling put his finger on a force that caused "intellectuals" to cling to the Left during the period between the two world wars. As Trilling expressed the-mind-set of these influential people: "One need not be actually for Communism; one was morally compromised, turned toward evil and away from good if one was against it."1 To use James Coleman's term, adopting the Marxist position was the most fashionable way to practice "conspicuous benevolence." Supporters of free enterprise were almost uniformly painted as promoters of unmitigated selfishness. Only one thread of Marxist thought need be followed here, a thread that is intimately involved in the theory of population.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Michelle Ann Abate ◽  
Sarah Bradford Fletcher

Since its release in 1963, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has been viewed from a psychological perspective as a literary representation of children's inner emotional struggles. This essay challenges that common critical assessment. We make a case that Sendak's classic picturebook was also influenced by the turbulent era of the 1960s in general and the nation's rapidly escalating military involvement in Vietnam in particular. Our alternative reading of Sendak's text reveals a variety of both visual and verbal elements that recall the conflict in South East Asia and considers the significance of the book's geo-political engagement.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Burton

Brainwashing assumed the proportions of a cultural fantasy during the Cold War period. The article examines the various political, scientific and cultural contexts of brainwashing, and proceeds to a consideration of the place of mind control in British spy dramas made for cinema and television in the 1960s and 1970s. Particular attention is given to the films The Mind Benders (1963) and The Ipcress File (1965), and to the television dramas Man in a Suitcase (1967–8), The Prisoner (1967–8) and Callan (1967–81), which gave expression to the anxieties surrounding thought-control. Attention is given to the scientific background to the representations of brainwashing, and the significance of spy scandals, treasons and treacheries as a distinct context to the appearance of brainwashing on British screens.


2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Ulvenblad ◽  
Henrik Barth ◽  
Jennie Cederholm* Björklund ◽  
Maya Hoveskog ◽  
Per-Ola Ulvenblad ◽  
...  

The importance of business model innovation (BMI) is widely recognized. BMI is especially important in the agri-food industry that faces enormous challenges as the demand for food increases worldwide. Much of the BMI research focuses on the technology and biomedical industries. Far less attention has been paid to the agri-food industry. This article is a systematic literature review of the BMI research in the agri-food industry. The article’s aim is to identify and categorize various barriers to BMI as described in the literature (in English) published in peer-reviewed journals between 1990 and 2014. The findings show a fairly even distribution among external and internal BMI barriers. Because the main barrier is the mind-set that is resistant to change, it is recommended the researchers and practitioners should focus more on the cognitive barriers to BMI in the agri-food industry.


2021 ◽  
pp. 125-147
Author(s):  
Loreta Vaičiulytė-Semėnienė

This article deals with the content of neighbour on the basis of the forms of the noun ‘neighbour’ (Lith. kaimynas). Efforts are made to strike a balance between the structural and the cognitive approach to its meaning. The sample base for the study consists of 700 published sentences sourced in the Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language (CMLL) compiled by the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.The study has revealed a neighbour to be someone who experiences a certain mental state, someone who, in his or her (un)favourable response to the environment, affects another person in a relatively close space. Emotionally charged, this effect shows a neighbour who is a nice or a bad person to live next-doors with. The (dis)harmony of attitudes, values, and actions grounded on an (un)favourable mind-set defines a dynamic coexistenceof neighbours, or a failure to coexist.When it comes to the perception of neighbour that shifts in time, what matters is the shared space of the neighbours that has its relative boundaries and is measured as a distance – the closeness resulting in the distinction between a close > distant neighbour; yet even more important is the camaraderie – the proximity of attitudes, values, and the actions that they define – something that the dictionary definitions of the word neighbour tend to omit – and the related gradational differences between a homey > strange neighbour. When it comes to building and maintaining proximity, it is the neighbour’s temper, polite and supportive interaction, and behaviour that favours another person, such as sharing things with them and all kinds of assistance, especially in need, that matters. As the mind-sets, values, and behaviours assimilate, the neighbours become one – they become homey to each other. And the axis of oneness grounded on favour in neighbourhood is God.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Geraldo Ceni Coelho

A publicação de revistas multidisciplinares dedicadas à extensão universitária é um fenômeno notável em vários países da América. Os periódicos mais antigos desta natureza são dos anos 1960, nos Estados Unidos, quando surgiu o Journal of Extension. No Brasil, foram detectadas 29 revistas multidisciplinares dedicadas à extensão universitária ainda em atividade, e as mais antigas entre elas foram iniciadas nos anos 1990. Porém, outras revistas com perfil editorial semelhantes foram detectadas e, embora descontinuadas, iniciaram na década anterior. A região Sul apresenta 12 (41%) das revistas em atividade, e a região sudeste nove (31%), o que indica uma distribuição geográfica desigual no país. O número de revistas multidisciplinares dedicadas à extensão universitária cresceu muito, praticamente triplicando nos últimos dez anos. Nas revistas brasileiras, há uma forte predominância de trabalhos publicados cujo conteúdo se refere a relatos de experiências de projetos de extensão. Poucos são os trabalhos oriundos da pesquisa na extensão universitária, ou em temas que possam subsidiá-la. A qualidade editorial da maioria das revistas apresenta aspectos a serem aperfeiçoados, destacando-se, o corpo editorial e a periodicidade. Palavras-chave: edição eletrônica, extensão universitária, periódicos.     Academic Journals on University Extension in Brazil Abstract: The publication of multidisciplinary journals dedicated to university extension is a remarkable phenomenon in several countries in the American continent. The oldest publications of this nature date back to the 1960s in the United States, when the first issue of the Journal of Extension was released. In Brazil, 29 multidisciplinary active journals dedicated to university extension can be detected, being the oldest among them released in the 1990s. Other journals with similar editorial profile were detected in the previous decade, however, these publications were later  discontinued. In the Southern region of Brazil there are 12 (41%) of the extension journals in activity, and in the Southeast region there are nine (31%), indicating an uneven geographical distribution in the country. The number of multidisciplinary journals dedicated to university extension has almost tripled over the last ten years. In the Brazilian journals, there is a strong predominance of publications whose content regarding experience reports of extension projects. A few are derived from research activities in university extension projects, or on topics that may relate to it. The editorial quality of most journals shows areas to be potentially improved, especially regarding the editorial board and the periodicity. Keywords: electronic edition, university extension, periodicals.   Las revistas académicas de extensión universitaria en Brasil Resumen: La publicación de revistas multidisciplinares dedicadas a la extensión universitaria es un fenómeno notable en muchos países de América. Las revistas más antiguas de esta naturaleza son de los años 60, en los Estados Unidos, cuando surgió el Journal of Extension. En Brasil, se detectaron 29 revistas multidisciplinares dedicadas a la extensión universitaria y que siguen activas, siendo las primeras iniciadas en la década de 1990. Sin embargo, se verificaron otras revistas con perfil editorial similar y, aunque discontinuadas, se iniciaron en la década anterior. La región sur de Brasil tiene 12 (41%) de las revistas de extensión en actividad, y la región sudeste tiene nueve (31%), lo que indica una distribución geográfica desigual en el país. El número de revistas multidisciplinares dedicadas a la extensión universitaria ha crecido hasta casi el triple en los últimos diez años. En las revistas brasileñas, hay un fuerte predominio de artículos cuyo contenido se refiere a informes de experiencias de proyectos de extensión. Son pocos los trabajos son derivados de la investigación en la extensión universitaria, o en temas que puedan subsidiarla. La calidad editorial de la mayoría de las revistas muestra áreas de mejora potencial, destacando el consejo editorial y la periodicidad. Palabras-clave: edición electrónica, extensión universitaria, publicaciones periódicas.


Author(s):  
Shelley Alden Brooks

During the counter-culture era of the 1960s and early 1970s, Big Sur became a magnet for hippies, back-to-the-land activists, and New Age visitors exploring the mind-expanding retreats at the Esalen Institute. Added to these arrivals were the more mainstream families flocking to the state parks and beaches, and wealthy new residents. Chapter 5 examines the arrival of these various admirers and their influence on Big Sur’s image and land management. This chapter also broadens the picture to examine the statewide impact of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The spill was a wakeup call to the state and the nation, and it reinforced the linkage between the quality of the environment and Americans’ quality of life. It spurred the passage of Proposition 20 in 1972 to protect California’s prized coastline. New state regulations required environmentally sensitive land management plans from all coastal counties. This chapter argues that Big Sur residents understood the importance (and accepted the irony) of coalescing as a vibrant community as they began to draft one of the most stringent antidevelopment plans in the state. Their sophisticated knowledge of land management helped retain this coastline’s distinction and their prized place within it.


Author(s):  
Tom Burns

‘Psychiatry under attack’ focuses on the contradictions inherent in psychiatry. The mind–brain relationship is the big issue in psychiatry. It would be simple if psychiatry were just about ‘brain diseases’, but psychiatry concerns ‘mental’ illnesses. While many mental illnesses involve disorders of the brain, not all brain diseases are mental illnesses. Psychiatry originally viewed mental illnesses as inherited weaknesses. However, Freud and his followers shifted the balance to ‘nurture’. The ‘anti-psychiatry movement’ of the 1960s and 1970s, led by Szasz, Foucault, and Laing, condemned psychiatry as confusing at best and an instrument of social oppression at worst. There is now less opposition to psychiatry though disquiet remains about aspects of its practice.


1998 ◽  
pp. 58-89
Author(s):  
Hellmut Schütte ◽  
Deanna Ciarlante

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