Toronto: Planning for Diversity, Inclusion and Urban Resilience

Recent waves of global migration have led to profound social, cultural, economic, political, physical, and environmental effects in metropolitan regions of major immigrant settlement. As noted in the World Migration Report, more scholars are exploring the relationship between migrants and cities.1 Cities play an important role in the processes of immigrant settlement and integration. Not only do they serve as reception areas for newcomers to live, work, learn, play, and socialize like other city inhabitants; they are also important places for building diverse, inclusive, resilient, and equitable communities in the long term. It has become imperative for municipalities to understand the dynamics and complexity of the global migration phenomenon and tackle the challenges and opportunities it presents locally. This report presents the key takeaways from Toronto’s planning practices as part of the Building Inclusive Cities initiative.

Toronto: planning for diversity, inclusion and urban resilience

10.32920/ryerson.14640003.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang

Keyword(s):

Urban Resilience ◽

Metropolitan Regions ◽

Global Migration ◽

Immigrant Settlement ◽

Long Run ◽

The World ◽

Recent waves of global migration have generated significant and unprecedented changes to metropolitan regions of major immigrant settlement. The impacts on these cities are profound, socially, culturally, economically, politically, physically, and environmentally. As the World Migration Report points out, increasing research has been drawn to the relationship between migrants and cities. [1] Cities are playing an important role in the processes of immigrant settlement and integration, because they are not only the reception areas for newcomers to live, work, learn, play, socialize like any other city inhabitants, but also important places for building diverse, inclusive, resilient, and equitable communities in the long run. It has become imperative for municipalities to understand the dynamics and complexity of the global migration phenomenon and tackle the challenges and opportunities it presents locally. This report highlights the key takeaways from Toronto’s planning practices as part of the Building Inclusive Cities initiative. [1]. Duncan, H. and Popp, I. 2017. Migrants and Cities: Stepping Beyond World Migration Report 1 2015’, in World Migration Report 2018, Geneva: IOM.

Toronto: planning for diversity, inclusion and urban resilience

10.32920/ryerson.14640003 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang

Keyword(s):

Urban Resilience ◽

Metropolitan Regions ◽

Global Migration ◽

Immigrant Settlement ◽

Long Run ◽

The World ◽

Recent waves of global migration have generated significant and unprecedented changes to metropolitan regions of major immigrant settlement. The impacts on these cities are profound, socially, culturally, economically, politically, physically, and environmentally. As the World Migration Report points out, increasing research has been drawn to the relationship between migrants and cities. [1] Cities are playing an important role in the processes of immigrant settlement and integration, because they are not only the reception areas for newcomers to live, work, learn, play, socialize like any other city inhabitants, but also important places for building diverse, inclusive, resilient, and equitable communities in the long run. It has become imperative for municipalities to understand the dynamics and complexity of the global migration phenomenon and tackle the challenges and opportunities it presents locally. This report highlights the key takeaways from Toronto’s planning practices as part of the Building Inclusive Cities initiative. [1]. Duncan, H. and Popp, I. 2017. Migrants and Cities: Stepping Beyond World Migration Report 1 2015’, in World Migration Report 2018, Geneva: IOM.

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior ◽

The Consumer Role for Sustainable Development

10.4018/978-1-7998-3115-0.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 325-341

Author(s):

Seda Yildirim

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Responsible Consumption ◽

The World ◽

Development Goals ◽

Set Up ◽

The term sustainable consumption is not only a behavior type in marketing and a just consumption behavior, it is more than this. Sustainable or responsible consumption behavior can change the world. Sustainable consumption concept has been investigated widely in the literature and factors that effecting sustainable consumption or being a green consumer has been investigated recently, too. But the relationship between sustainable development and consumer behavior isn't investigated sufficiently. After 2030 Sustainable Development Goals set up, responsibilities and roles have been an important issue to achieve sustainable development in the long term. In this point, this study aims to investigate the consumer role for sustainable development goals through sustainable consumption patterns and trends.

The Consumer Role for Sustainable Development

10.4018/978-1-6684-3885-5.ch047 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 872-888

Author(s):

Seda Yildirim

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Responsible Consumption ◽

The World ◽

Development Goals ◽

Set Up ◽

The term sustainable consumption is not only a behavior type in marketing and a just consumption behavior, it is more than this. Sustainable or responsible consumption behavior can change the world. Sustainable consumption concept has been investigated widely in the literature and factors that effecting sustainable consumption or being a green consumer has been investigated recently, too. But the relationship between sustainable development and consumer behavior isn't investigated sufficiently. After 2030 Sustainable Development Goals set up, responsibilities and roles have been an important issue to achieve sustainable development in the long term. In this point, this study aims to investigate the consumer role for sustainable development goals through sustainable consumption patterns and trends.

Is Guyana a new oil El Dorado?

The Journal of World Energy Law & Business ◽

10.1093/jwelb/jwz022 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 365-368

Author(s):

Luis Fernando Panelli

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

21St Century ◽

Presidential Elections ◽

Gdp Per Capita ◽

The Political ◽

Oil Exploitation ◽

The World ◽

Per Capita

Abstract The Co-operative Republic of Guyana has become one of the most interesting and dynamic oil producing countries in the world at the start of the 21st century. The country already holds 5 billion barrels of proved reserves, which will certainly grow with new discoveries. Exxon leads a consortium of four companies that have the concession of the Stabroek Block (Liza Field), where nine discoveries have been made so far. Five FPSOs will be operating in the future, one of which is due to arrive in Guyana before the end of 2019 and another is due for 2020. By then, the country will be producing 340,000 barrels a day. This production will double and then reach 1 million barrels a day before the end of the next decade. The challenges and opportunities regarding the Guyanese people are dire. The lack of proper infrastructure is certainly one of the biggest challenges. But it is important to stress that the oil proceeds will transform Guyana into the highest GDP per capita of South America. The political stage is also analysed, since political instability might raise concerns for long-term investors. The Venezuela–Guyana differences regarding the sovereignty of the Essequibo Region are again a cause for concern. Brazil is a key player in supporting the geopolitical stability of South America. Presidential elections will be held in 2019/2020: the dispute will probably be between the current President Granger and the Opposition candidate Irfaan Ali. Guyana has a lot to profit from the wealth brought by oil exploitation, but its people fear the risk of growing corruption.

Bee Representations in Human Art and Culture through the Ages

Art & Perception ◽

10.1163/22134913-bja10031 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-62

Author(s):

Kit S. Prendergast ◽

Jair E. Garcia ◽

Scarlett R. Howard ◽

Zong-Xin Ren ◽

Stuart J. McFarlane ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Natural Habitat ◽

Art Appreciation ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Ancient Egyptian ◽

Artistic Representations ◽

The World ◽

Art And Culture ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Brain

Abstract The field of bioaesthetics seeks to understand how modern humans may have first developed art appreciation and is informed by considering a broad range of fields including painting, sculpture, music and the built environment. In recent times there has been a diverse range of art and communication media representing bees, and such work is often linked to growing concerns about potential bee declines due to a variety of factors including natural habitat fragmentation, climate change, and pesticide use in agriculture. We take a broad view of human art representations of bees to ask if the current interest in artistic representations of bees is evidenced throughout history, and in different regions of the world prior to globalisation. We observe from the earliest records of human representations in cave art over 8,000 years old through to ancient Egyptian carvings of bees and hieroglyphics, that humans have had a long-term relationship with bees especially due to the benefits of honey, wax, and crop pollination. The relationship between humans and bees frequently links to religious and spiritual representations in different parts of the world from Australia to Europe, South America and Asia. Art mediums have frequently included the visual and musical, thus showing evidence of being deeply rooted in how different people around the world perceive and relate to bees in nature through creative practice. In modern times, artistic representations extend to installation arts, mixed-media, and the moving image. Through the examination of the diverse inclusion of bees in human culture and art, we show that there are links between the functional benefits of associating with bees, including sourcing sweet-tasting nutritious food that could have acted, we suggest, to condition positive responses in the brain, leading to the development of an aesthetic appreciation of work representing bees.

Beasts of Prey or Rational Animals? Private Governance in Brazil's Jogo do Bicho

10.31235/osf.io/se2jr ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Danilo Freire

Keyword(s):

Political System ◽

Political Life ◽

Private Governance ◽

The World ◽

Selective Incentives ◽

Jogo Do Bicho ◽

Costly Signals ◽

The Relationship ◽

Illegal Lottery

This article presents a rational choice account of Brazil's jogo do bicho ('animal game'), possibly the largest illegal lottery game in the world. In over 120 years, the jogo do bicho has grown from a local raffle to a multimillion-dollar business, and the game has played a major role in Brazil's cultural and political life. My analysis of the jogo do bicho has three goals. First, I examine the mechanisms that fostered the lottery's notable growth outside the boundaries of Brazilian law. Second, I investigate how the animal game financiers combine costly signals and selective incentives to induce cooperation from members of the community. Lastly, I discuss the relationship between the lottery sponsors and Brazilian representatives, particularly how the bicheiros exploit the fragmentation of Brazil's political system to advance their long-term interests. Keywords: Brazil; criminal organisations; gambling; jogo do bicho; private governanceJEL Codes: D72, K42, P26, P37, Z00DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/se2jrBibTeX entry:@misc{freire2019jogodobicho, title={{Beasts of Prey or Rational Animals? Private Governance in Brazil's \emph{Jogo do Bicho}}}, howpublished = {\url{https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/se2jr}}, publisher={SocArXiv}, author={Freire, Danilo}, year={2019}, month={Mar}}

Mass book digitization: The deeper story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v13i10.2101 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kalev Leetaru

Keyword(s):

Academic Community ◽

Metadata Management ◽

Popular Imagination ◽

Open Model ◽

Metadata Quality ◽

The World ◽

Google Books ◽

Open Content ◽

The Google Books and Open Content Alliance (OCA) initiatives have become the poster children of the access digitization revolution. With their sights firmly set on creating digital copies of millions upon millions of books and making them available to the world for free, the two projects have captured the popular imagination. Yet, such scale comes at a price, and certain sacrifices must be made to achieve this volume. With its greater visibility, most studies have focused on Google Books, addressing limitations of its image and metadata quality. Yet, there has been surprisingly little comparative work of the two endeavors, exploring the relationship between these two peers and their deeper similarities, rather than their obvious surface differences. While the academic community has lauded OCA's "open" model and condemned the proprietary Google, all is not always as it seems. Upon delving deeper into the underpinnings of both projects, we find Google achieves greater transparency in many regards, while OCA's operational reality is more proprietary than often thought. Further, significant concerns are raised about the long-term sustainability of the OCA rights model, its metadata management, and its transparency that must be addressed as OCA moves forward.

Aging Society and Decline Fertility: How to Respond?

Donald School Journal of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology ◽

10.5005/jp-journals-10009-1257 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 333-341

Author(s):

Asim Kurjak ◽

Ana Stavljenic Rukavina

Keyword(s):

Obstet Gynecol ◽

Age Groups ◽

Social Consequences ◽

Aging Society ◽

Younger Age ◽

The World ◽

Almost All ◽

Aging World ◽

ABSTRACT We are living in the time of aging of almost all societies in the world. There are at least two long-term causes of aging world and a temporary blip that will continue to show up in the figures for the next few decades. The first of the big reasons is that people everywhere are living far longer than they used to. A second and bigger cause of the aging of societies is that people everywhere are having far fewer children, so the younger age groups are much too small to counterbalance the growing number of older people. These facts will certainly turn the world into a different place. In this paper, we would like to stress the relationship between economic growth, aging and decline fertility as well as social consequences of both. How to cite this article Kurjak A, Stavljenic Rukavina A, Stanojevic M. Aging Society and Decline Fertility: How to Respond? Donald School J Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2012;6(3):333-341.