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This reader is an Open Educational Resource, meant to accompany a graduate or higher-level undergraduate university course in climate change resilience, adaptation, and/or planning. While the material is geared toward students in urban and regional planning, it may also be of interest to students of urban studies, public health, geography, political science, sociology, risk management, and others. Each section of this volume includes (1) an introductory summary, (2) a reading list with full text articles, (3) student exercises meant to enhance understanding and facilitate in-class discussion, and (4) additional discussion prompts or activities for instructors to use in class. The format of materials is intended to convey key concepts, while leaving ample space for student exploration, discourse, and creativity. Lessons may culminate in an applied, imaginative final project, a sample framework of which is provided at the end of Section VI. Print on Demand Standard print copy (paperback) Adopt/Adapt If you are an instructor adopting or adapting this PDXOpen textbook, please help us understand your use by filling out this form The student exercises and reading lists for each section are available as Microsoft Word files. Instructors who wish to make changes to these can do so in Word, and insert their own versions of these pages into the PDF. ; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/1030/thumbnail.jpg

Recently, several cases have been filed in North America and Europe alleging that fertility physicians inseminated former patients with their own sperm only to have this conduct come to light decades later when their unsuspecting adult children use direct-to-consumer genetic tests and learn that they are not biologically related to their fathers and often that they have multiple half-siblings. For instance, Donald Cline of Indianapolis, Indiana, has over sixty doctor-conceived children, with more continuing to come forward. Although these cases induce disgust, it has thus far proven difficult to hold these physicians legally accountable because their conduct falls within gaps in existing civil and criminal laws. This Article explores the legal contours of fertility fraud cases involving illicit physician inseminations, explaining why it falls through gaps in existing criminal and civil law and why it is essential to take whatever measures are necessary to hold physicians accountable. Part I discusses six physicians who have thus far faced criminal or civil charges for their conduct in North America and explores how artificial insemination has long been a stigmatized practice cloaked in secrecy. Part II discusses how fertility fraud violates various ethical and legal interests of female and male former patients and their doctor-conceived children. Part III assesses how Cline's illicit inseminations affected parents and progeny and how Cline's progeny learn of new genetic connections, what they think of Cline and his motivations, how they derive support from one another, their reactions to criminal proceedings against Cline, and why they regard a legislative "fertility fraud" bill as an ideal outcome. Part IV analyzes why it is difficult to hold physicians criminally and civilly liable under existing law, including excerpts from an interview with the prosecutor in the Cline case. Finally, Part V discusses successful efforts to overcome these difficulties through passing fertility fraud legislation in Indiana and Texas.

Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots' widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to reconstruct the Roman Empire's economy and society. Drawing on recent ideas in material culture, this book asks a radically new question: what was it about the pots themselves that allowed them to travel so widely and be integrated so quickly into a range of contexts and practices? To answer this question, Van Oyen offers a fresh analysis in which objects are no longer passive props, but rather they actively shape historical trajectories. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Purpose: This study was conducted to examine the impact of financial inclusion and banking performance in Indonesia. The study uses 4 financial inclusion indicators, among others: (i) the ratio of third-party funds to gross domestic income, (ii) the ratio of credit to gross domestic income, (iii) the number of ATMS, (iv) the number of branch offices. Design/methodology/approach: The purposive sampling method is used to select the research sample. The descriptive statistical test and hypothesis test is used to analyze the data using e-eviews program. This research uses the population of data from the National Banking annual report either go public or not during the year 2014 to the year 2018. The study assumed financial inclusion can increase bank performance. Findings: By conducting a regression analysis, researchers found that several indicators of financial inclusion can help improve banking performance using ROA and NIM ratios, as well as some indicators of financial inclusion that do not demonstrate its influence. The results of this study drove banking as one of the formal financial institutions to increase financial inclusion. Banks can earn more profit if financial inclusion increases Practical implications: These findings will be very helpful to government or management to maximize their firm performance using provides services that are able to accommodate the needs of the society, whether it has a small business (SME) and the overall economic development Originality/value: This article provides a new insight of some indicators of financial inclusion that do not demonstrate its influence to banking performance. ; peer-reviewed

Kindheitsforschung als Differenzforschung: Generationalisierende Praktiken -- Verkörperung(en) von Kindheit -- Das Generationenverhältnis als Verhältnis der organisierten Sorge, Erziehung und Bildung -- Praktiken (ethno)grafieren -- Körper-Kopplungen in Übergangspraktiken der Kindertagesstätte und Grundschule -- Schulkindsein verkörpern in Kindertagesstätte und Grundschule -- Übergangspraktiken in und zwischen Institutionen der (frühen) Kindheit. .

While child marriages are almost always the result of multiple interconnected factors, this Article will examine the existing evidence of a connection between the impacts of climate change and child marriage and analyze some of the research and monitoring gaps. Are existing climate change policies, as well as measures taken to reduce and eliminate child marriage, addressing this link? What are the human rights obligations of governments to protect girls from child marriage, including in times of disaster? Part I of the Article summarizes the current state of research about the causes and consequences of child marriage, followed by a review of the available research on connections between child marriage and climate change. It will examine the extent to which evidence has been gathered on this topic and assess the different ways in which impacts of climate change have been found to influence decisions regarding child marriage. It will argue that, while there are significant gaps in the research, there is growing evidence that climate change may exacerbate the rate of child marriage. Part II presents two country-specific case studies of the potential connection between climate change and child marriage in Bangladesh and Mozambique, two countries that are highly vulnerable to climate change and have rates of child marriage among the highest in the world. It also reviews laws and policies adopted by Bangladesh and Mozambique to cope with climate change and to reduce child marriage, and what lessons these efforts provide for other countries facing similar challenges. Part III reviews relevant obligations of governments under international human rights law and within the international climate change regime. In Part IV, the Article proposes measures to ensure that climate change mitigation efforts are grounded in an understanding of the gendered ways in which climate change affects women and girls, including through increased child marriage, and that anti-child marriage efforts take into account the impacts of climate change.

Alex Chávez's bold and engaging study of huapango arribeño in the everyday lives of Mexican migrants fills a void in anthropological and ethnomusicological scholarship. Based on his 2010 dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin, Sounds of Crossing is an anthropologically based study of how lived politics informs performance in the poetic genre of huapango arribeño, an understudied musical form that originated in the Mexican states of Guanajuato, Querétaro, and San Luis Potosí. Chávez argues that huapango arribeño is crucial in meeting everyday needs for intimacy, place, and belonging—"beyond culture, beyond illegality, and irrespective of geography; through it postnational subjectivities are fashioned and necessary, aquí (here), not allá (out there)" (54). His book includes colorful photographs from the everyday lives of performers and poignant transcriptions of conversations and songs, as well as musical notation—all of which add to his ethnography's depth and multiplicity, reaffirming his argument that his book is not so much the study of huapango arribeño as an object but as "an analytical lens into the contemporary experiences of Mexican migrants" (34).

Benefits arising from the use of finance information systems that include among others capability to offer improved timely and reliable accounts reports have been mentioned by many different scholars. The issue of successfully implementing and using the systems is however still a challenging problem especially in developing countries. A lot of critical success factors for implementation have been suggested, by different scholars but various organizations still fail to attain successful usage of their systems. This study therefore aimed at determining the factors that influence implementation of the finance information systems in the context of a developing country and how these factors impact usage of the systems. The study focused on Ugandan universities because at the time of the study, Ugandan government was in the process of embarking on a project of implementing a common finance information systems platform for all public universities in the country. This was after government's realization of a problem of non presentation of budgets to parliament for appropriation by various public universities, insufficient disclosure of internally generated funds, poor book keeping, and lack of standardisation in accounting policies, financial reporting and the classification of accounts.The study was conducted in three phases using a mixed methods approach. The first phase was exploratory in its setting and it was done to purposely find out factors that probably influence the implementation of finance information systems in a university setup. The study was carried out on a finance information system implementation that was done in Makerere University in Uganda between 2004 and 2007. Data was collected through interviews from people identified as key informants in relation to the implementation. Abreast with results from this study, the investigation was extended to a wider population that included seven universities in order to first of all establish whether the findings in the exploratory study could be galvanized, and secondly to find out the impact of the found factors on usage of the systems. Data was collected through a quantitative survey and the respondents comprised of accountants in the seven universities investigated.Finally, a third phase of the study was conducted to essentially find out circumstances in which the identified factors impact FIS usage. Nine factors were found to have influence on the finance information systems implementation in the Ugandan universities. These nine factors were merged into four broad factors and out of these four, three were found to have significant impact on usage of the systems.

Verlagsinfo: Wie überlebt man das Überleben? Zeitzeugeninterviews des Holocaust in ihrem historischen, institutionellen und medialen Kontext. Mehr als 70 Jahre nach Kriegsende wird eindringlicher denn je das Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft beschworen. Die Erinnerung an Krieg und Holocaust, so die Sorge, werde ohne die direkten Augenzeugen verblassen, sich in den endlosen Lauf der "kalten Geschichte" einreihen. Jan Taubitz zeigt, wie bereits vor mehr als 35 Jahren etliche Oral History Archive dieser Entwicklung mit der systematischen Aufnahme, Konservierung und Verbreitung zehntausender audio-visueller Interviews mit Überlebenden des Holocaust entgegentraten. Die Initiative ging von US-amerikanischen Museen, Archiven, Bibliotheken, Stiftungen und Graswurzelbewegungen aus. Somit drängen sich folgende Fragen auf: In welchem Verhältnis stehen die Zeugnisse zur amerikanischen Kultur sowie zu der von ihr hervorgebrachten Oral History? Wer waren die Hauptakteure? Welche Beziehungen lassen sich zu anderen, vor allem populären Darstellungen des Holocaust nachweisen? Wie wirkt sich der digitale Wandel auf die Zeugnisse aus? Und schliesslich: Können die Holocaust Oral Histories das Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft tatsächlich überwinden?