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The concept of sustainability is already applied in all industrial sectors. The fight against climate change therefore forces us to look for alternatives in the way we move. Different alternative fuels are discussed in this book: from liquid and gaseous biofuels to electricity. Moreover, waste to fuel processes are another option to produce a significant amount of fuels. In the spirit of this book, there is not only collecting different alternatives, but creativity is also promoted in the readers of this book, so that they take an active part of the solution necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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O livro agora publicado pretende contribuir para a reflexão em torno da problemática social medieva. O quadro urbano configura a escala de análise proposta aos autores, a Baixa Idade Média e a Península Ibérica, os seus âmbitos cronológico e espacial. Duas problemáticas transversais configuraram esta obra. Por um lado, a terminologia de identificação social e a definição dos conteúdos funcionais dos grupos sociais em contexto urbano. Na verdade, a variedade terminológica e a sua evolução entre os séculos XII e XV, em especial na Península Ibérica, coloca questões basilares ainda pouco discutidas ao nível da historiografia medieval. Decorrendo desta questão, um outro aspeto foi enfatizado: o dos processos de mobilidade social e de identificação desenvolvidos no contexto urbano deste período, no âmbito islâmico e cristão, atendendo, neste último caso, às especificidades de uma cronologia de pós reconquista, marcada pela definição de novos tecidos e de novas redes sociais. Uma perspectiva comparativa enforma esta problemática. Ao cotejo entre as realidades sociais de Al Andalus e da Hispânia cristã, numa escala mais global, a análise foca-se, depois, na comparação entre o reino português e o castelhano para, finalmente, se concretizar nas diferentes realidades dos concelhos portugueses. Esta gradação parece-nos, metodologicamente, a mais correta para obviar os muitos silêncios e dúvidas ainda existentes sobre estas problemáticas, através da discussão dos paralelismos e/ou diferenças que configuram as realidades urbanas numa mesma temporalidade.
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Pourquoi sommes-nous si avides de mobilité et de changement ? Pourquoi le repos est-il perçu comme illégitime et la surcharge de travail, la norme ? Pourquoi nous appelle-t-on constamment à être autonomes et proactifs ? Pourquoi la politique, la pédagogie, la justice ou le management se trouvent-ils valorisés par l'ajout du terme « participatif » ? Pourquoi la flexibilité et l'adaptabilité sont-elles érigées en vertus cardinales ? Pourquoi les frontières font-elles partout l'objet de luttes, que l'on veuille les abattre ou les fortifier ? Cet ouvrage sonde nos représentations de l'espace, du temps et de la mobilité, pour révéler l'ampleur du bouleversement de notre rapport au monde qu'elles produisent. Il en résulte l'émergence d'un « idéal mobilitaire », fondé sur une valorisation de la mobilité pour elle-même, et articulé en quatre impératifs : activité, activation, participation et adaptation. Bien au-delà du domaine des déplacements physiques, cette injonction à la mobilité étend son emprise sur la famille, le travail, les territoires nationaux, les genres, les sexes ou encore la prison, les redéfinissant profondément. Ce volume propose non seulement des clés pour mieux comprendre les représentations de la mobilité et les normes sociales qui en découlent, mais également une grille d'analyse élargissant considérablement le champ des études de la mobilité.
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Covid-19 has dramatically shown some of the limits of our cities. Labor market, tourism, service sector have suffered a backlash that can be read as an "explosion" of pre-existing inequalities. The slow and progressive process of recovery we are experiencing let us talk about a "post-Covid" phase, characterized by a forced coexistence with the coronavirus and its mutations, while the health emergency still affects the organization of urban life. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book provides a wide reflection on the multifaceted impacts of the pandemic on the city of Bologna. On the one hand, the chapters show how people are not "all on the same boat" in the pandemic context, with pre-existing inequalities and other vulnerabilities contributing to determine different individual experiences and outcomes. On the other hand, many authors illustrate how the socio-economic fabric of the city has given proof of resilience, with new perspective of social and territorial development in the fields of technological innovation and sustainable mobility.
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We work, travel, learn, seek, reflect, take part in dialogues, meet, discuss, and try to create a convivial atmosphere: this is the life story of the Arab Education Forum, and this is also how the story of this book started: from two seminars held three years apart, the idea of this book arose from an evident shortage of literature and knowledge about mobility as a tool for learning, dialogue, and artistic exchange and as a new-old paradigm around the Mediterranean basin. But what kind of knowledge, ideas and visions, do mobility practices generate? How does mobility, and its restrictions, produce and contrast the transformation and alteration of geographies, borders, territories, cities and conflict areas? How do mobility practices contribute to creating new narratives, cultural representations and counter-representations? How could cultural mobility contribute to a responsible and sustainable transformation of society? What are the impacts of mobility? What can be learned through the analysis of the relationship between mobility, art, education, intercultural dialogue, human rights and volunteerism? The present volume covers and reflects on these several crucial issues that shape the contemporary age, and provides some new and fresh perspectives about the challenges of mobility.
Social mobility. --- Social mobility --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology
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DC-2002 marks the tenth in the ongoing series of International Dublin Core Workshops, and the second that includes a full program of tutorials and peer-reviewed conference papers. Interest in Dublin Core metadata has grown from a small collection of pioneering projects to adoption by governments and international organizations worldwide. The greatest challenge of the current phase of metadata development is bringing together the diversity of local conventions, domain specific requirements, and different encoding conventions such taht cross-domain interoperability can be achieved. Il volume illustra l'evoluzione della città contemporanea e delle popolazioni residenti e non residenti che insistono sul tessuto urbano: dagli abitanti ai pendolari, dai city users agli uomini d'affari. In particolare vengono presentate le caratteristiche sociologiche di queste popolazioni, vengono analizzati i motivi di cooperazione e conflitto tra i vari gruppi, vengono studiate le politiche finalizzate al miglioramento della mobilità e le questioni metodologiche inerenti la misurazione delle popolazioni stesse. Particolare attenzione è rivolta al tema delle politiche temporali come strumento per il miglioramento della qualità della vita urbana.
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For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies -- of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants -- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices.
Consumption (Economics) --- Cosmopolitanism --- Social mobility
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Geoff Payne considers a wide range of dimensions of mobility and life chances to assess the causes and consequences of mobility as social and political processes, and challenges well-established opinions of politicians, pressure groups, the press, academics and the public.
Mobilite sociale --- Social mobility. --- Sociology --- Mobility, Social
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