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Karen Johnston, associate director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth, focuses on comparative research and teaching at the intersection of land use law and planning, environmental law, and sustainable development. She is responsible for developing the center’s Study Space Program, an international workshop focused on the legal, social and policy challenges of metropolitan growth. She also co-teaches the Urban Fellows course, an interdisciplinary, graduate-level w...

More Fun Than Fun: The Unlikely Stardom of the Naked Mole Rat 03/03/2021 I knew about the naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber) as a little curiosity in my field of research on social insects, the curiosity being that it is the only known eusocial (truly social) mammal, comparable in many ways to eusocial ants, bees and wasps. Imagine my surprise while browsing the internet when I came across a children’s book entitled Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by the American best-selling cre...

Diane Hirshberg is Professor of Education Policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. She also serves as Vice President Academic for UArctic, and sits on the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. Board and the International Arctic Social Sciences Association Council. Her research interests include education policy analysis, indigenous education, circumpolar education issues, and the role of education in sustainable development. She has studied the b...

Pakistan denying basic human rights to people of PoK, Gilgit-Baltistan: Activists Sun Online Desk 3rd February, 2021 08:09:09 People of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) are living under hell, like slaves, and are denied all forms of human rights, including freedom to practice religion of their choice, speak their language or follow their culture and customs, global human rights activists have said. At a panel discussion on Rhetoric vs Reality: Comparing Human Rights & ...

Highlights A panel discussion on Rhetoric vs Reality: Comparing Human Rights & Development in J&K and PoJK-GB was organised. A Pakistani activist spoke about havoc Pak has caused in Kashmir for 70 yrs. Activisit Arif Aajakia claimed that entire Gilgit-Baltistan has been mortgaged to China. NEW DELHI: People of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) are living under hell, like slaves, and are denied all forms of human rights, including freedom to practice religion of their ...

Activists allege denial of rights for PoK; Gilgit-Baltistan SECTIONS Last Updated: Jan 30, 2021, 05:35 PM IST Share Synopsis The event marked the release of the Hindi and Urdu versions of the study report Human Lives Matter: Comparative Study of Human Rights and Development in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Reuters NEW DELHI: People of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) are denied all forms of human rights, including freedom to prac...

Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide Begin There is no one single approach to reforming forest tenure practices for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. Rather, it involves taking advantage of opportunities that emerge in various institutional arenas, such as policy and law-making and implementation, government administration, customary or community-based tenure governance, or forest restoration at the landscape scale. The overall aim i...

Pakistan’s Secularism Question File Photo. Rizwan Tabassum—AFP Enlightenment and reasoning can help overcome the country’s pessimism, and marginalize the forces of backwardness, radicalization, extremism and terrorism People in Pakistan largely stopped thinking of secularism—as well as pluralism and liberalism—a long time ago, tolerating if not embracing the state’s status as an Islamic Republic. However, there remain voices who seek to consider it afresh, such as one highly respec...

DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0244 Introduction While it is certainly true that more academic studies have focused on the North American missions, in terms of their historical impact South American missions were just as important to the frontiers of Spain and Portugal’s American empires. The massive size alone of the frontier region, stretching from the upper reaches of the Amazon basin to the headwaters of the Paraná as well as stretching across the lower Southern Cone, meant numerous miss...

After more than a decade of working toward qualifying for payments under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions caused by Deforestation and Forest Degradation) scheme, Indonesia received its first results-based financial rewards last year. REDD+, a policy initiative recognized under the U.N. Paris Agreement in 2015, was created as a way to provide incentives to conserve tropical forests and curb planet-warming greenhouse gases that are emitted when they are cut down. Initially, it was conceived as a mar...