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Assesses aspects of policy, program, and project recommendations made by Silvinconsult Ltd., an international consultancy firm, of fuelwood supply and demand in the drylands. Energy use and consumption, fuel acquisition, fuelwood transport, exchange, production and tree planting, and prospects.

The public demand for accountability of human services has been increasing in the United States. Despite the growing importance of public accountability as a special responsibility of social workers, little information is available in U.S. on how these pro fessionals react to the implementation of accountability programs. The survey reported in this paper was made to explore the attitudes of social workers in U.S. hospitals toward PSRO, a nationwide health care service review system. The paper presents a descriptive overview of significant aspects of American social workers' personal attitudes toward various issues of current concern about this accountability system.

chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part I Evolution, behavior, and learning -- chapter 2 Evolution and learning�the rise of behavioral plasticity -- chapter 3 Motivation and well-being -- chapter 4 Propagation of behavioral determinants -- part Part II Coordination, cooperation, and social welfare -- chapter 5 The significance of the group for the evolution of order and cooperation -- chapter 6 Welfare and evolution -- chapter 7 Conclusions.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore social studies from the moral perspective of an ethic of care. Care ethics considers not only the cognitive skills but also the affective dimensions of educative experiences for how they might forward an ethical ideal of caring.Design/methodology/approachThis case study was conducted in a second-grade classroom at a small, diverse, urban, independent K-8th grade elementary school. Data were gathered from six sources: notes from the participating second-grade teacher's planning meetings over the course of a two and a half month unit of instruction about genealogy; lesson plans and observation notes; interviews of participating teachers; interviews with participating students; surveys of students; and the second-grade teacher's reflective journal. The authors took a phenomenological approach to data analysis, examining the entire data set and conducting inductive interpretive coding to identify emergent themes.FindingsThe authors found that adopting the theoretical perspective of care ethics helped a novice elementary teacher revise his/her approach to social studies instruction. Care ethics led to the teacher coming to see himself/herself as a teacher of care ethics, focusing on dialogue over stories to teach caring in diverse contexts, and highlighting social aspects of the curriculum. The students' descriptions of their learning indicate that they perceived a larger purpose for their social studies lessons – in this case, participation in social life – and that this perception contributed to their engagement.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was conducted at one school site where the teachers enjoyed the intellectual freedom to infuse new perspectives such as care ethics into their curriculum. More research needs to be done to explore the feasibility of application of these ideas elsewhere.Practical implicationsImplications include how adopting an ethic of care provides a larger purpose for social studies that may deepen the educative experience, both for the teacher and for the students. Adopting an ethic of care in social studies might help cultivate students' inclination to act in more caring ways toward one another.Originality/valueThis paper addresses the overlooked ethical purposes of teaching social studies from a care ethics perspective.

Based on field research among participants and employees at a series of rap projects, this article examines the use of rap music in social integration work among ethnic mi- nority youth from the perspective of anthropology of music. By highlighting the spe- cific discursive formations around the expediency of the production of rap music as a non-formal educational resource, the article focuses on the personal, political and social aspects of freedom of speech and the ways in which these are negotiated by re- pressive tolerance within the projects. On this background, it is discussed how the so- cio-economic aims of the rap-as-resource industry affect the participants' expressions, and it is questioned whether the musical and personal agencies that are ideally offered by the projects are consistent with the actual freedom of action and expression that becomes available to the participants.

The economy arranges human activity in the sphere of the farming, it cannot do without notions settled on the basis of human nature and nature of society, because economic activity of a man is not only his attitude towards things, but first of all to other people as individual beings, and to their teams and social groups. Because economic activities belong to a group of human occurrences therefore their understanding requires knowledge of human nature and factors financially elusive belonging to psychology and ethics and having impact on the human behaviour. The research of these occurrences is based on lots of data, by no means statistical. In research of economic phenomena metaphysical notions about human nature are the most important, about its origin, destiny, selfesteem and mutual bound among people. In this way the range of political power cannot be determined by empirical research}. However , if considerations refer to the human nature and that of social coexistence, it can be qualified, what belongs to an individual and what to the state. In practice we can state different competences in this range. Let`s analyse 3 different ones in this range: the extreme liberalism, Christian ethics, and entire socialist Bolshevik etatism.

What is the social licence to operate, and what are its ethical risks and promises? This collection explores these questions from a range of perspectives. Since its first key uses in the late 1990s in application to operational risks for extraction industries, the idea of the 'social licence to operate' has proliferated. It has since been applied to myriad industries--including tourism, paper milling, banking, and aquaculture--and even to the work of scientists and government agencies. Yet what is the ethical status of this concept? It is easy to assume that the social licence to operate is a welcome tool to improve the ethics of profit-seeking enterprises, forcing them to genuinely respond to community and stakeholder concerns, or face operational risk if they do not. No doubt the social licence sometimes--perhaps even often--works in this way. Yet there is ethical risk as well as promise in the social licence. For the concept can be weaponised by stakeholders, taking operational legitimacy out of the hands of settled law and democratic institutions, and wedding it to shifting community attitudes. Conversely, the concept can be used as a rhetorical shield by industry, who can insist they possess a social licence even when engaging in fraught ethical practice. These conflicting uses give rise to a separate worry: that the social licence is too ambiguous to function as anything but a meaningless buzzword, a distraction from high ethical standards and strong governance regimes. This Collection interrogates these challenges, exploring in a range of contexts whether and how the social licence's ethical promise can be secured, and its risks mitigated.

'Abundance' examines the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before. It focuses on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, the book concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.

Introduction. Interrupting globalisation : heterotopia in the twenty-first century / Daan Wesselman, Irina Souch, and Simon Ferdinand -- Other spaces for the Anthropocene : heterotopia as dis-closure of the (un)common / Lieven de Cauter -- H is for heterotopia : temporalities of the "new nature writing" / Cathy Elliott -- Disruptive elders : enacting heterotopias of the riverbank / Mary Gearey -- Agricultural heterotopia : the Soybean Republic(s) of South America / Gladys Pierpauli and Mariano Turzi -- "Interesting and incompatible relationships" : force and form in Pedro Costa's Porous City / Adam Kildare Cottrel -- Heterotopia and perspective : towards a different imagining of landscape / Henrietta Simson -- Of tourists and refugees : the global beach in the twenty-first century / Ursula Kluwick and Virginia Richter -- Airbnb as an ephemeral space : towards an analysis of a digital heterotopia / Elham Bahmanteymouri and Farzaneh Haghighi -- New communication technologies and the transformations of space : lessons from Michel Serres' Thumbelina / Peter Johnson -- The prison as playground : global scripts and heterotopic vertigo in Prison escape / Hanneke Stuit -- Dramatic heterotopia : the participatory spectacle of Burning Man / Graham St. John -- Afterword / Kevin Hetherington.

pt. I. Indigenous mobile technology adoption and theoretical perspectives -- pt. II. Self-determination for indigenous people through mobile technologies -- pt. III. Mobiles for health, education and development -- pt. IV. Cultural and language revitalization through mobile technologies.

What position have television, radio and other electronic media come to occupy in people's day-to-day lives and social relationships? Shaun Moores offers answers to this and other questions, drawing on a range of his investigations and reflections on media and everyday life in modern society

Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: What This Book Is About -- Overall Purpose of the Work -- What This Book Is Not About -- What This Book Is About -- Conclusions and Future Outlook -- References -- 2: Moral Panic: Threat to the Social Order -- Background of the Concept -- Elements of the Moral Panic -- Moral Panic About Sex Offenders -- Actors in the Moral Panic About Sex Offenders -- The Media -- The Public -- Law Enforcement -- Politicians and Legislators -- Action Groups -- A Final Word -- References -- 3: Early Historical Treatment of Social Deviance