At Home or Abroad: Tuvaluans Shaping a Tuvaluan Future

<p>If development is to be sustainable, it is vital to plan and act with all possible futures in mind and for communities to be engaged and empowered so that development meets local needs. Throughout the international development community, there have been regular calls for people to act locally, but think globally. Yet, as challenges become more complex, it is no longer enough to simply think globally. Where possible futures involve losing one's land and country, people need to be able to participate in making a better future for themselves, their families and their communities beyond their own borders. Tuvalu is a country that faces multiple possible futures that may have severe impacts on its people, including the possibility of forced migration. As a country with many development needs, Tuvalu has created Te Kakeega II: National Strategies for Sustainable Development - 2005-2015, which acknowledges the need for participation and cross-sectoral collaboration. This thesis examines the mechanisms that exist to engage Tuvaluans in their development. It reviews whether Tuvaluans actually participate in these processes and whether there are any barriers to participation. It also investigates to what extent the mechanisms for participation are helping Tuvalu confront the contemporary and complex issue of climate change. People who are forced to migrate because of changes in their environment have no rights under international law and thus risk becoming disempowered. If Tuvaluans are forced to migrate because of climate change, they risk losing any gains they have made at home. Unlike many forced migration situations, Tuvaluans have time to participate in the preparations for such a future. To what extent are they enabled and empowered to do this? How, and who, do they think should prepare for this possible future?</p>

At Home or Abroad: Tuvaluans Shaping a Tuvaluan Future

<p>If development is to be sustainable, it is vital to plan and act with all possible futures in mind and for communities to be engaged and empowered so that development meets local needs. Throughout the international development community, there have been regular calls for people to act locally, but think globally. Yet, as challenges become more complex, it is no longer enough to simply think globally. Where possible futures involve losing one's land and country, people need to be able to participate in making a better future for themselves, their families and their communities beyond their own borders. Tuvalu is a country that faces multiple possible futures that may have severe impacts on its people, including the possibility of forced migration. As a country with many development needs, Tuvalu has created Te Kakeega II: National Strategies for Sustainable Development - 2005-2015, which acknowledges the need for participation and cross-sectoral collaboration. This thesis examines the mechanisms that exist to engage Tuvaluans in their development. It reviews whether Tuvaluans actually participate in these processes and whether there are any barriers to participation. It also investigates to what extent the mechanisms for participation are helping Tuvalu confront the contemporary and complex issue of climate change. People who are forced to migrate because of changes in their environment have no rights under international law and thus risk becoming disempowered. If Tuvaluans are forced to migrate because of climate change, they risk losing any gains they have made at home. Unlike many forced migration situations, Tuvaluans have time to participate in the preparations for such a future. To what extent are they enabled and empowered to do this? How, and who, do they think should prepare for this possible future?</p>

Esther und ihre Töchter. Geschlechterrollen und Wirtschaftstätigkeit jüdischer Frauen in der Vormoderne

This essay examines the commercial activities of Jewish women in the Franconian town of Kronach, a district seat in the northern part of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, in the early modern period. It focuses on the widow Esther (c. 1645–1727), a contemporary of the famous merchant woman Glikl bas Judah Leib in Altona. Esther’s business activities, which are documented for a period of more than four decades, included the sale of household goods and textiles as well as the marketing of agrarian products. In addition, she was involved in credit transactions and pawnbroking. Numerous contacts with town dwellers and country people demonstrate her involvement in Christian economic and credit networks. As the biographies of Esther’s daughters Ella and Jüdla show, married women also played central roles within households and working communities. They not only supported their husbands, but continued to run their businesses in their absence and engaged in trade on their own accounts.

Research of problems and prospects of state development in the pedagogical process

The purpose of the article is to analyze the features of the pedagogical process of problems and prospects for the development of state formation. The beginning of the third millennium is characterized by globalization of social development, rapprochement of nations, peoples, states, the transition of mankind from industrial to scientific and information technologies, high economic and technological systems, which are largely based on educational and intellectual potential. At the same time, the competition of regions, nations, states, and individual citizens is intensifying. State formation as a pedagogical process has common features and peculiarities for each country, people and society. Accordingly, state formation has its own characteristics. State formation is not just a process for the education system, but has the essential characteristics of the pedagogical and creative process, which absorbs an almost endless palette of conscious, unconscious and unconscious actions of the people and their elite. State formation is a historical process of state building, creation and development of its legal, political, economic, ideological, military, financial and other institutions and ensuring their functioning, which is extremely important in the modern education system. As a result, the main aspects of the pedagogical process of problems and prospects for the development of state formation were described

The role of names in the reconstruction of the linguacultural worldview of mushrooms

The article shows the role of names in the reconstruction of the linguacultural view of mushrooms. The large number of the names of mushrooms testifies to the practical importance of mushrooms for country people. Many of the names are polysemic and synonymic. In the analysis, the onomasiological basis of mushroom names plays a crucial role. Those names can be based on the appearance of mushrooms (e.g. lejek ‘funnel’, czerwieniak ‘the red one’), their properties (twardziok ‘the hard one’, słodzianka ‘the sweet one’), including their (in)edibility and poisonous properties (grzyb godzący ‘the edible mushroom’, truciciel ‘poisoner’, grzyb jadowity ‘the poisionous mushroom’), as well as the time and place where they grow (wrześniak ‘September mushroom’, dębowiec ‘oak mushroom’).

Robust Army Aviation in Nepal for Services to the Country, People and Organization

Aviation is an essential mode of transport service because of the mountainous terrain in Nepal. Different parts of the country cannot be connected through a wide range of road network. Further, Nepal’s diverse geographical features, ranging from high hills to low wetlands appropriate airport transport. Nepal Army Aviation unit has immensely contributed to the organizational operational flights, emergency aerial rescue, relief, humanitarian services and nation’s development with the limited resources and infrastructure during its fifty–five years of journey in the air. After the adoption of liberal sky policy by the Government of Nepal in 1992, the private airlines commenced commercial air operations. Prior to this Nepal Airlines and Nepal Army Aviation unit were only the two entities operating inside the domestic airspace of Nepal. Despite the number of private air operators, there are still not enough and abundantly available air assets to fulfill all the requirements of air services especially in emergency aerial rescue, quick disaster response humanitarian assistance and relief flights in a short notice. Furthermore, there is a scope for the civil–military partnership in the civil aviation fi eld for the Nepal Army Aviation. This article, in efforts to make the Army Aviation agile, nimble and adoptable force multiplier for enhanced national security, examines its contributions in the service of country, people and organization as a state–owned institution with supports from secondary data.

The Role of GİS in studying the urbanization`s impact on suburban land management in Ganja City

More than the half of world population, about 4, 4 billion were observed to move urbans compared to the country population after 2007 year.This moving still continues in the cities with more population. If urbanization was observed to be equal for the number of the city and country people in the last decades,urban life is expected to increase significantly till 2050 according to the World Urbanization Perspectives of UN. So, if the world population is predicted to be 9,8 billion, then 6,7 of these will be inhabited in urbans, but 3,1 billion will settle in the countries. Urbanization process is observed in Azerbaijan as other countries of the world.This process has started mainly since 1991, after getting independence.Urbanization in research city Ganja began to be formed at the same time with social-economical progress of our country. Key words: Urbanization, geospatial, GIS, sattelite images, map layer

Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland

During the early modern centuries, gunpowder and artillery revolutionized warfare, and armies grew rapidly. To sustain their new military machines, the European rulers turned increasingly to their civilian subjects, making all levels of civil society serve the needs of the military. This volume examines civil-military interaction in the multinational Swedish Realm in 1550–1800, with a focus on its eastern part, present-day Finland, which was an important supply region and battlefield bordered by Russia. Sweden was one of the frontrunners of the Military Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries. The crown was eager to adapt European models, but its attempts to outsource military supply to civilians in a realm lacking people, capital, and resources were not always successful. This book aims at explaining how the army utilized civilians – burghers, peasants, entrepreneurs – to provision itself, and how the civil population managed to benefit from the cooperation. The chapters of the book illustrate the different ways in which Finnish civilians took part in supplying war efforts, e.g. how the army made deals with businessmen to finance its military campaigns and how town and country people were obliged to lodge and feed soldiers. The European armies’ dependence on civilian maintenance has received growing scholarly attention in recent years, and Civilians and Military Supply in Early Modern Finland brings a Nordic perspective to the debate.

Duplex Sign Language Communicator

In this paper we are introducing a sign language converter which works as a duplex system as it can convert text to sign language as well as it can do a real time video to text conversion. It is basically a system that can be used by all people who know sign language as well as who are not familiar with it. The main aim of this system is to involve the specially abled people as much as possible to interact with others. Our system uses the basic NLP i.e. the Natural language Processing and algorithms like CNN classifier to make the implementation of this translator. Along with that this system focuses on the Indian Sign Language so that it can be used by our country people. The finger gestures are captured by the camera and using various machine learning algorithms the system will automatically translate the signs to the readable text, similarly in sign to text conversion, based on the data sets and various Machine learning algorithms the text will be converted to sign language.

Students’ Perception towards COVID-19 Vaccination Program in Bangladesh: A Study on University Students

After a long waited span, the whole world could see the ray of covid-19 vaccine to resist the planet to watch the death procession. But some country people especially the people of Bangladesh keep them aside to take the vaccination. This study aims to understand the perception towards the COVID-19 vaccination program in Bangladesh and the targeted subject is the university student as they are suffering highly depression nowadays. Higher education has been affected globally as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in 223 countries. Moreover, for this pandemic situation, the university students can not complete their graduation which binds them to enter their professional career. Alike all of the developed countries, as well as developing countries, Bangladesh, also considered vaccination as an effective measure to protect the peoples from the Covid-19 virus. This study targeted three psychological factors of the university students and surveyed 322 students from the different universities in Bangladesh to understand their perception regarding vaccines. Moreover, it is seen that most of the students doubt the effectiveness of the vaccine which interrupts them from taking the vaccine willingly.