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Whetting Beginning Qualitative Researchers’ Appetites: A Review Of Green And Thorogood’S Qualitative Methods For Health Research, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

Selecting texts for introductory qualitative research courses can be a challenge given the depth, breadth, and variety of contemporary qualitative inquiry. The new edition of Green and Thorogood’s Qualitative Methods for Health Research presents a great choice for professors teaching courses across the health care spectrum due to its authors’ ability to give students a diverse buffet designed to whet appetites and increase hunger for more qualitative research nourishment.

In Writing These Reflections, I Realize I Should Re-Read Goffman For New Insights On Contemporary Conflict Resolution Issues, Louis Kriesberg

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Dr. Louis Kriesberg, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University, wrote this memoir at the request of Dmitri Shalin and gave his permission to post the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives.

Tehran Events And Tiananmen Analogies

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

With so many references to Tiananmen showing up in the news, we wanted to take a quick break from our time away to recommend a couple of the best uses of 1989 analogies (if we weren’t on hiatus, we’d also look at some of the worst, and there have been some pretty bad ones). One powerful rumination on the relevance of China’s 1989 for thinking about Iran’s 2009 is by Andrew Leonard of the “How the World Works” blog at Salon.com:

He begins as follows:

“In the spring of 1989, the fax machine was China’s Twitter — the miracle technology …

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, June 21, 2009

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

Ddasaccident682, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

At 07:25 am the 21st of June 2009 while am working on 9 o’clock mine in section 4 Sabha 8, I was following all the procedures in the manual clearing and after I finished the first box I used the light rake first and when it was not responding to the hard ground I turned to the heavy rake to release the upper layer of the sand and grass, I pulled using the heavy rake then the accident happened suddenly while am working.

Municipal Voter Turn-Out In Ontario: An Analysis Of Community Theories And Their Application To A Prescription For Higher Voter Turn-Out In Municipal Elections, Stephen Chait

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines voter turnout as a proxy for civic engagement by applying the analytical lenses of Robert Putnam’s social capital theory and Richard Florida’s creative capital theory to test critical assumptions regarding the impact of size (population), diversity (immigration), creativity (education and employment), and mobility (length of residency) on voter turnout. A sample of 30 Ontario urban municipalities was analyzed based on data from the 2006 Census. The findings reveal that there is a negative correlation between voter turnout and population size and density; a negative correlation between voter turnout and non-official mother tongue and immigrant status; a negative …

A Confused Federalism, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Pakistan continues to suffer from ‘confused federalism’ where weak provincial and local bodies are unable to match the ability of the central government to mobilise resources or provide services. Provinces and districts where most interactions take place between citizens and the government have ended up with weak authority and inadequate financial resources but a heavy burden of responsibilities. The more remote federal government enjoys most of the authority, substantial financial resources and the main responsibilities of defence, communications and foreign affairs. Other responsibilities have been assumed along the way on the plea that the provinces do not have the capacity …

L'Accès À L'Information Scientifique À L'Ère Numérique: L'Approche De La Commission Européenne, Jean-François Dechamp

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Dmitri Shalin Interview With Jacqueline Wiseman About Erving Goffman Entitled "Having A Genius For A Friend", Jacqueline Wiseman

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

This conversation with Jacqueline Wiseman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, was recorded over the phone on December 15, 2008. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Wiseman corrected the transcript and gave her approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]” The interviewer’s questions are shortened in several places.

Climate Protection In The People’S Republic Of China, Bartosz Rakoczy

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Climate protection is one of the basic problems in the modern world. It is also a problem which should be solved in an all-world scale and not by each state separately. It does not mean, however, that individual states could not regulate issues concerning climate protection in their own legislation. Constitutional regulations play an important role in climate protection.

Climate protection in the constitution of the People’s Republic Of China is carried out on several plains. First, climate is protected as an environmental element to the use of which all citizens have the right. Public authorities ensure climate protection. Second, …

Embedding Climate Change In The Curriculum, John Willott

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Climate change presents significant scientific, technical, ethical and political challenges. Attitudes to climate change are a function of tradition and culture, and the prevailing discourses in society and the media. Educators have a key role in understanding these attitudes and promoting behavioural changes. However, the transdisciplinary nature of the issues can present a problem for staff and students alike. While it is relevant to many, or most, areas of the curriculum, traditional discipline and organisational boundaries, and the knowledge, skills and educational history of both staff and students, can prevent engagement. Examples include teaching the concepts in non-science courses, engaging …

Public Initiatives And Local Practices In China’S Response To Climate Change, Lei Xie

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

China is facing increasing environmental pressure, among which climate change is the most serious one. As many areas are still under development, the country’s vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change lies not only in its ecological aspect but also its social aspect. In particular, the country’s increasing energy demand has posed serious problem, as the country strongly relies on fossil-fuels. Dilemmas exist between development and increasing level of pollution. Local government, to realize its political credibility often permits environmental pollution happen and has been ineffective in local environmental governance.

Chinese environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGO), led by journalists, scientists …

Climate Change, The Traditional Chinese Calendar And Modernity, Rey Tiquia

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

This era of unpredictable and at times colossal global climactic weather changes place tremendous pressure upon the human internal environment to adapt to these dire changes in the external environment. It places tremendous pressure upon our inner Guardian Qi wei qi as well as the air or atmosphere da qi (which the Chinese Martial artist Lu Ji Tang refers to metaphorically as similar to our inner Guardian Qi).

In premodern China, climate change is always contingent upon time and the seasons i.e. the twelve two-hour periods, lunar month, seventy two pentads, twenty four solar periods, the four seasons, the year …

Sustainable Consumption And Production As Climate Change Mitigation Strategy For China, Patrick Schroeder

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

China’s greenhouse gas emissions currently stem mainly from sources related to industrial production and electricity generation. With accelerating speed of urbanisation and economic policies which aim to increase domestic consumption, over the next decade a major share of China’s emissions will be resulting from consumption related activities. This paper will discuss the current status of consumption in China and options of the integrated approach of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) for reducing emissions from the three consumption demand areas housing, mobility and food. In this context it discusses consumption trends and the growth of the global consumer class in China, …

China’S Dilemma In Climate Change Mitigation : The Energy Problem, Bo Miao, Graeme Lang

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

The vulnerability of China to the adverse impacts of rising global warming is outlined, including projected impacts on coastlines, agriculture, water supply, land degradation, and public health, since these are important reasons why China, partly for reasons of national security, is increasingly addressing the climate change problem in national and international discussions. This paper then profiles China’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and illustrates how the pressure from the international community, especially that from the US, would impel China to make more substantial contribution to global climate effort. After examining China’s coal-dominated energy mix, we review the current approaches undertaken by …

Rural Livelihoods And Vulnerability To Climate Hazards In Ningxia, Northwest China, Yue Li, Yanjuan Wu, Declan Conway, F. Preston, Erda Lin, Jisheng Zhang, Taoming Wang, Yi Jia, Qingzhu Gao, Shifeng, Hui Ju

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

This study addresses how climate affects the livelihoods of people living in agricultural communities in Ningxia, one of the five autonomous regions in China. The analysis formed part of a vulnerability assessment to contribute to the development of an adaptation strategy for the region. Data were collected through questionnaires and focus group discussions in nine villages, three located in each of three different agro-ecosystems in the region. The survey results showed that drought has been a major hazard impacting rural livelihoods. Farmers in all three agro-ecosystems showed differing levels of vulnerability; susceptibility was higher, for instance, in the middle arid …

Climate Change And Heatwaves : China’S Responsibility Before The Poor Elderly, José Azoh Barry

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

OBJECTIVE: To address the extent of China’s obligation toward the elderly – a growing segment of the population -- as more vulnerable to heat waves.

METHOD: Data handled are secondary and derived from a non-exhaustive review of a specialized scientific literature. The search for relevant publications was conducted from a multidisciplinary perspective.

RESULTS: Of the various sources of human influences on climate, two major ones related to heat waves appear to be urban designs and greenhouse gas emissions. The urban heat islands effects as local anthropogenic impacts on climate increase the need for air conditioning and demand for power consumption …

Land Use And Climate Change : Effects And Solutions At The Local Level, Mark Henderson

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

China is likely already seeing the effects of climate change. Further effects in the form of increased temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and rising sea levels could be catastrophic, making action at all levels an urgent priority. While much attention is rightfully paid to reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels, land management practices account for as much as a quarter of the net increase in greenhouse gasses. In China, urbanization is the most important and tractable phenomenon affecting the landscape, reducing carbon sequestration, as well as locking in transportation patterns that assume increasing fossil fuel use into the future. Developing systems …

Climate Change In Hong Kong : Observations And Projections, Edwin W. L. Ginn, T. C. Lee, K. Y. Chan

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

The Hong Kong Observatory has been making meteorological observations at its headquarters in Tsim Sha Tsui since 1884. Analysis of the extensive past records reveals that the temperature rise in Hong Kong during the past 125 years is in accord with the global rising trend. In last few decades anthropogenic influences, especially urbanization, have contributed significantly to the accelerated rising trend. A similar increasing trend is also observed for rainfall but the trend after 1947 is not statistically significant. Other observations such as increasing cloud amounts, decreasing total global solar radiation and rising sea level are all consistent with the …

Modeling China’S Climate Change Policy In A Post-2012 Framework : On The Perspective Of Reputation, Edward Xuedong Wang

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

The post-2012 world Climate Change scenario would heavily depend on China’s next steps on Climate Change Policy. The world could not coordinate their policies to slow global warming without China’s participation. However, China, the world’s largest GHG emitter with the rising energy demand, is reluctant to change its high-carbon economic development models by sticking to the concept of Climate Injustice. The Economic Cost and Climate Injustice are two major concerns Chinese government faces. This raises the issue of which approach would be most likely to stimulate and persuade China to take appropriate actions in the post-2012 climate regime.

This paper …

Are There Policy Tunnels For China To Follow?, Jan Kunnas, Timo Myllyntaus

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

According to the controversial “environmental Kuznets curve” –hypothesis (EKC), some pollution would follow an inverted U-curve related to incomes, increasing at low income levels and decreasing at high income levels. Mohan Munasinghe argues (in a gerschenkronian way): “that developing countries could learn from past experiences of the industrialized world by adopting measures which would permit them to ´tunnel´ through the EKC, providing a possibility to avoid the most serious damage to the environment by avoiding the peak before a downturn of the emissions...” In our presentation, which is based on a comparison of Denmark’s, Finland’s, Sweden’s and Switzerland’s carbon dioxide …

China's Renewable Energy Policy : From Project-Based To Strategic Policy Making: Cases Of Wind And Solar, Veronica Pei-Fei Chang, Hans Bruyninckx

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

China is challenged by the imbalance between rapid economic growth and lacking environmental protection. Economic growth and increasingly intensive use of energy are certainly the main causes of environmental degradation in China. However, the central state tries to find a way out of the energy-environment dilemma. In 2005, the Chinese president Hu Jin-Tao emphasized that renewable energy was “an indispensable measure to deal with the increasingly serious issues of energy and environment”. The following year, China's Renewable Energy Law took effect, indicating a turning point in the energy policy.

This paper investigates China’s wind and solar energy, because they both …

Ecological Localness And Legitimacy Of Science Policy : Mapping Climate Issue In Research Over China And Taiwan, Shih-Jung Chen

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

As science increasingly plays a vital role in global environmental governance, localness has become the focus in scientific interpretation of nature in terms of policy legitimacy and social communication. However, localness would not germinate until the issue of global change is linked locally, a social construction process which shapes the way of interpreting nature/society interaction and affects local ecological cognition. Localness thus indicates not only legitimacy but also an imperative for responsive actions in a society. It might be argued that although political consideration, with special respect to its stance in international negotiation, determines the extent to which national policy …

The Integrated Impacts Of Climate Change, Water Availability And Socio-Economic Development On China’S Food Production, Wei Xiong, Declan Conway, Erda Lin, Yinlong Xu, Hui Ju, Jinhe Jiang, Ian Holman, Yan Li

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Food production in China is a fundamental component of the national economy and driver of agricultural policy. Sustaining and increasing output to meet growing demand faces significant challenges including, climate change, increasing population, agricultural land loss, and competing demands for water. The integrated impacts of climate change, water availability, and other socioeconomic pressures on China’s food production are poorly understood. By linking crop and water simulation models and two scenarios of climate and socioeconomic change (downscaled from IPCC SRES A2 and B2) we demonstrate that under these scenarios out to 2050 the absolute effects of climate change alone are modest …

Predictability And China’S Legally Binding Goal Of Co2 Emissions In The Copenhagen Negotiation, Yuan Xu

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Two facts define China’s status in the global efforts of CO2 mitigation: China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest CO2 emitter. And as a developing country with low per capita emissions, China will grow into a much bigger one. Accordingly, in the coming Copenhagen negotiation, whether China will accept a legally binding goal is of great importance. China’s CO2 emissions in the past three decades are analyzed in this paper to distinguish two prominent features: abrupt changes and cycles. Abrupt changes break the past trend and make projections into the future unreliable. China has experienced two abrupt …

Asia-Pacific Partnership On Clean Development And Climate : China And International Climate Policy Beyond Kyoto, Christoph Holtwisch

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate [APP] of Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, USA and their new partner Canada is a new phenomenon in international climate policy and open for enlargement by other interested states. This nonlegally binding sustainable development Partnership connects climate protection and energy security for the first time in an international agreement. As a potential framework for the other 'parallel tracks' to the UN climate regime of Framework Convention on Climate Change [FCCC] and Kyoto Protocol [KP], the APP – which is still by far underfinanced – at its core is a political agreement …

Do All Roads Lead To Copenhagen? The Case Of China’S Participation In The Post-2012 Climate Change Regime, Ho-Ching Lee

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

Climate change is a global challenge and requires a global solution. In late 2007, governments adopted the Bali Roadmap, launching negotiations toward a new global climate agreement. Among nations with large CO2 emissions, only China, sustains a rapid economic growth dependent on the expanded use of carbon-intensive coal. The role of China in post- Kyoto climate negotiations is therefore critical to the international effort to combat climate change and global warming.

In fact, China ratified the UNFCCC in January 1993 and was among the first ten countries to become Convention Parties. Over the years, China has been actively participating in …

Looking Beyond : Changes For Climate Change, Changes For Development, Gerald Schmidt

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

In the climate debate, there is a stalemate when the discussion revolves around other's responsibility based on historical emissions and present (un)willingness to participate in international treaties justified by a necessary focus on development on the one side, and an unwillingness to act if the others do not also do so, based on concern about economic competitiveness, on the other side. The problem arises from a view that sees it as a basic necessity to first develop, get rich enough, and then clean up, as suggested in Kuznet's Curve, and about relative costs of alternative energy and production, respectively. Looking …

Liability For Climate Change : A Decentralized Approach To Long-Term Climate Policy, Detlef Sprinz

Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons

An international agreement on deep emission reductions is unlikely to materialize in the near future. What can be done if we wish to further an ambitious long-term climate policy goal? This article proposes a liability system that starts with at least one frontrunner and allows itself to be taken to court for the damages related to its emissions. Such a system will be fully upscalable to larger liability pools, and allows the rule of law to prevent dangerous climate change to a reasonable degree. Furthermore, I suggest strict proportionality as a distributional rule to provide powerful incentives to mitigate emissions. …

Library Book Riles Small Wisconsin Town, Anne-Marie Dorning

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.