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Drawing lessons from research can help policy makers make better decisions. If a large and methodologically varied body of research exists, as with childhood obesity, this is challenging. We present new research and policy objectives for child obesity developed by triangulating user involvement data with a mapping study of interventions aimed at reducing child obesity. The results suggest that enhancing mental wellbeing should be a policy objective, and greater involvement of peers and parents in the delivery of obesity interventions would be beneficial. We conclude that exploiting the evidence base through triangulation is a useful and valid method.

Обґрунтовано, що перехід до сталого розвитку повинен забезпечити збалансоване розв'язання проблем соціально-економічного розвитку і зберігання природно-ресурсного потенціалу. Доведено необхідність збалансованості між економічною, соціальною та екологічною складовими стратегії сталого розвитку. Визначено, що без відповідних політичних рішень спрямованих на обережне поводження з природними ресурсами, забезпечення збалансованого та безвідходного виробництва, формування адекватних сучасному стану суспільства форм мислення та норм поведінки, а також без відпрацювання відповідних державних механізмів, Україна в найближчий перспективі не в змозі забезпечити впровадження концепції сталого розвитку. ; Throughout its existence and in the process of passing all the new stages of development, man has increased the scale of its impact on nature. Today they have reached the critical level at which nature loses its ability to self-healing. Awareness of the rapid depletion of minerals, the progressive degradation of other types of natural resources due to human economic activity, the threat of global environmental crisis is the basis for the practical implementation of the concept of sustainable development in different countries. At the present stage, the imbalance between political, social, technological, economic, environmental development necessitates the transition to a model of sustainable development for Ukraine. One of the most influential factors of sustainable development both at the state level and within individual territorial associations is the effective partnership of state and local authorities with the private sector and the population. And political decisions play the most important role in the effectiveness of this partnership.The main purpose of the article is to study the problematic issues of sustainable development in the context of their dependence on relevant policy decisions.The article substantiates that the transition to sustainable development should provide a balanced solution to the problems of socio-economic development and conservation of natural resource potential.The concept of human domination over nature and consumer attitude to it has already completely discredited itself. At the same time, sustainable development contributes to the prosperity and expansion of economic opportunities, improving the well-being and protection of the environment, meeting the modern needs of mankind, and protecting its interests in the future and offers the best way to improve people's lives around the world. However, without appropriate policy decisions aimed at careful management of natural resources, ensuring balanced and non-waste production, the formation of adequate to the current state of social forms of thinking and norms of behavior, as well as without working out appropriate state mechanisms, Ukraine will not be able to implement the concept of sustainable development, which, against the background of unresolved socio-economic problems, can lead to a deep crisis. ; Обосновано, что переход к устойчивому развитию должен обеспечить сбалансированное решение проблем социально-экономического развития и сохранение природно-ресурсного потенциала. Доказана необходимость сбалансированности между экономической, социальной и экологической составляющими стратегии устойчивого развития. Определено, что без соответствующих политических решений направленных на осторожное обращение с природными ресурсами, обеспечения сбалансированного и безотходного производства, формирование адекватных современному состоянию общества форм мышления и норм поведения, а также без отработки соответствующих государственных механизмов, Украина в ближайшей перспективе не в состоянии обеспечить внедрение концепции устойчивого развития.

Throughout its existence and in the process of passing all the new stages of development, man has increased the scale of its impact on nature. Today they have reached the critical level at which nature loses its ability to self-healing. Awareness of the rapid depletion of minerals, the progressive degradation of other types of natural resources due to human economic activity, the threat of global environmental crisis is the basis for the practical implementation of the concept of sustainable development in different countries. At the present stage, the imbalance between political, social, technological, economic, environmental development necessitates the transition to a model of sustainable development for Ukraine. One of the most influential factors of sustainable development both at the state level and within individual territorial associations is the effective partnership of state and local authorities with the private sector and the population. And political decisions play the most important role in the effectiveness of this partnership.The main purpose of the article is to study the problematic issues of sustainable development in the context of their dependence on relevant policy decisions.The article substantiates that the transition to sustainable development should provide a balanced solution to the problems of socio-economic development and conservation of natural resource potential.The concept of human domination over nature and consumer attitude to it has already completely discredited itself. At the same time, sustainable development contributes to the prosperity and expansion of economic opportunities, improving the well-being and protection of the environment, meeting the modern needs of mankind, and protecting its interests in the future and offers the best way to improve people's lives around the world. However, without appropriate policy decisions aimed at careful management of natural resources, ensuring balanced and non-waste production, the formation of adequate to the current state of social forms of thinking and norms of behavior, as well as without working out appropriate state mechanisms, Ukraine will not be able to implement the concept of sustainable development, which, against the background of unresolved socio-economic problems, can lead to a deep crisis. ; Обосновано, что переход к устойчивому развитию должен обеспечить сбалансированное решение проблем социально-экономического развития и сохранение природно-ресурсного потенциала. Доказана необходимость сбалансированности между экономической, социальной и экологической составляющими стратегии устойчивого развития. Определено, что без соответствующих политических решений направленных на осторожное обращение с природными ресурсами, обеспечения сбалансированного и безотходного производства, формирование адекватных современному состоянию общества форм мышления и норм поведения, а также без отработки соответствующих государственных механизмов, Украина в ближайшей перспективе не в состоянии обеспечить внедрение концепции устойчивого развития. ; Обґрунтовано, що перехід до сталого розвитку повинен забезпечити збалансоване розв'язання проблем соціально-економічного розвитку і зберігання природно-ресурсного потенціалу. Доведено необхідність збалансованості між економічною, соціальною та екологічною складовими стратегії сталого розвитку. Визначено, що без відповідних політичних рішень спрямованих на обережне поводження з природними ресурсами, забезпечення збалансованого та безвідходного виробництва, формування адекватних сучасному стану суспільства форм мислення та норм поведінки, а також без відпрацювання відповідних державних механізмів, Україна в найближчий перспективі не в змозі забезпечити впровадження концепції сталого розвитку.

AbstractResearch shows that information cues influence public opinion on international cooperation, yet it is unclear whether all cues are equally effective in the context of a global crisis. This paper sheds light on this issue by analysing how frames in public discourse influence support for multilateral vaccine cooperation during Covid‐19. Building on research on in‐group favouritism, decision‐making under uncertainty, and public support for multilateralism, the paper argues that frames emphasizing vaccine nationalism are more potent than those emphasizing international cooperation and that nationalist political identities moderate these framing effects. An original survey experiment in the United Kingdom confirms this argument and shows that public support for multilateralism is substantial but vulnerable. A vaccine nationalism frame reduces support for multilateralism, while an international cooperation frame has no effect. Moreover, 'Brexit identities' moderate this framing effect, with 'Leavers' being more susceptible to the detrimental effect of the vaccine nationalism frame than 'Remainers'.

We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that the partial franchise extension of 1935 resulted in significantly lower incumbency advantage, while the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1950 resulted in increased candidacy. Both these franchise extensions resulted in decreased voter turnout rates, suggesting that newly enfranchised voters are less engaged in the political process.

The frontiers reached by gene editing and their applications for animals, plants and humans raise numerous tricky issues, posing new and renewed challenges for constitutional law scholars. This paper focuses on the role that the public can play in decision-making processes aimed at regulating gene-editing technologies. Thus, it reflects on the opportunity to develop and enhance deliberative arenas, which guarantee a fuller participation of citizens in legislative choices that touch upon controversial scientific issues of general interest, in compliance with the principles of deliberative democracy

Few now doubt that successfully managing environmental challenges will be central to public policy in the coming century. Unless the international community can cope with transnational problems such as global warming, destruction of species and tropical rain-forests, depletion of oceanic fish stocks, and increasing water scarcity in arid regions, both domestic and international conflicts may easily arise. The problems of international environmental political economy pose increasingly pressing issues for analysts, policy makers, and citizens. Such concerns helped to motivate the project, "The Political Economy of International Environmental Cooperation," sponsored by the Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict and generously funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur foundation. The project supported University of California graduate students writing their Ph.D. dissertations on issues of international environmental cooperation. On concluding their dissertation research, the doctoral candidates presented policy papers at a workshop held in Santa Cruz, California. The student-organized workshop brought together these promising young scholars and policy analysts with various senior members of both the academic and international policy community. A key intellectual theme of the project was the (always difficult, always necessary) marriage of theory and policy. However varied the details of international environmental political economy may be, the core problem is always the same: how to induce self-interested, often myopic, decision makers to "do the right thing," or to behave in ways that minimize environmental damage and/or optimize the utilization of natural resources in the presence of external constraints. Addressing such problems is difficult enough within a polity; forging the transnational cooperation needed to cope with environmental issues confronts still greater obstacles. The papers in this policy paper offer an Aristotelian line-up of earth, fire, air, and water issues. The problems of optimal depletion of forests (Bobenrieth), managing global emissions and related global warming problems (Rich), water negotiations in two different regional settings (Carlisle and Williams), and issues of oceanic fisheries (Potter) all receive close, detailed attention. The volume concludes with an evaluation of their work from the perspective of a World Bank professional on the policy-making process. The result shows how the interaction of theory and empirical material can generate results helpful to policy makers. We hope that such close work between theoretically grounded, empirically rich policy analysts and professional decision-makers will become increasingly frequent in the years ahead.

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"Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation.
Thought of as a ""harem"" by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic and the political. Dara's role as an ethnic ""other"" among the royal concubines assisted the Siamese in both consolidating the kingdom's territory and building a local version of Europe's hierarchy of civilizations. Dara Rasami's story provides a fresh perspective on both the socio-political roles played by Siamese palace women, and how Siam responded to the intense imperialist pressures it faced in the late nineteenth century."