Why are we fat? Discussions on the socioeconomic dimensions and responses to obesity

This paper draws together contributions to a scientific table discussion on obesity at the European Science Open Forum 2008 which took place in Barcelona, Spain. Socioeconomic dimensions of global obesity, including those factors promoting it, those surrounding the social perceptions of obesity and those related to integral public health solutions, are discussed. It argues that although scientific accounts of obesity point to large-scale changes in dietary and physical environments, media representations of obesity, which context public policy, pre-eminently follow individualistic models of explanation. While the debate at the forum brought together a diversity of views, all the contributors agreed that this was a global issue requiring an equally global response. Furthermore, an integrated ecological model of obesity proposes that to be effective, policy will need to address not only human health but also planetary health, and that therefore, public health and environmental policies coincide.

Lowndes and Locke on the value of money

This paper was presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET).

Autrigones, caristios, várdulos y berones. Contribuciones historiográficas (1983-2003) relativas a su evolución en época prerromana y romana

[ES] Se presenta un balance historiográfico con las propuestas y debates relevantes, originados a partir de la información, revisada o relativa a nuevos hallazgos, transmitida para estos grupos de población en los testimonios directos, arqueológicos, epigráficos o numismáticos, así como en las referencias correspondientes a autores greco-latinos.

Teaching how to Look at and View Bodies within Literature

[EN] This paper focuses on how to initiate discussions of the regulatory gaze in primary school classrooms through the study of characters in literature. It specifically focuses on two renowned characters in Spanish literature: Xola (Bernardo Atxaga) and Iholdi (Mariasun Landa). These characters are composed of a chorus of looks which in turn also look. We shall carefully reflect upon these looks and discuss how we see others, how others see us, and how we would like others to see us.

Un proyecto de investigación para el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa oral de los futuros docentes

El V Seminario de "El aula como ámbito de investigación sobre la enseñanza y aprendizaje de la lengua" se celebró en la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), dando continuidad a los seminarios ya celebrados en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, en la Universidad de Valencia, en la Universidad de Valladolid y en la Universidad de Braga (Portugal).

Euskalaritzaren historiaren ikerketa-norabideak: zenbait proposamendu

[EN] The aim of this paper is to propose some lines of investigation and new methods that can be followed in order to increase our knowledge of the History of Basque Linguistics. The main claim put forward here is that we must profit from the new methodological innovations developed by the H istoriography of Linguistics since the 60's. In the first section, different aspects are mentioned of the relevance of the study of Basque Linguistic Historiography. The second section comments on the boom of the Historiography of Linguistics from the 60's, its causes and its consequences; furthermore, it reports on the methodological models emerged from the discussions since then (as shown in works by Koerner, Swiggers, and many others). The third section points out some difficulties and challenges of the study of the History of Basque Linguistics, and suggests both some priorities for that study and possible lines of investigation. In order to illustrate the different points made throughout the paper, the reader is referred, when possible, to examples chosen from recent investigations or from future topics of research.

Huerto urbano comunitario

El proyecto que se expone a continuación consiste en la creación de un Huerto Urbano Comunitario. Los criterios en los que se sustenta son; la soberanía alimentaria, el desarrollo comunitario y la sostenibilidad. Se pretende con él que los participantes adquieran formación y conciencia crítica sobre los modos de producción y consumo agrícola. Para ello se estimulará la implicación mediante dinámicas de grupo, charlas, proyecciones, excursiones, debates, etc. Sin olvidarnos en ningún momento del trabajo manual y todas las acciones necesarias para la creación del propio huerto.

Linking Reduced Deforestation and a Global Carbon Market: Impacts on Costs, Financial Flows, and Technological Innovation

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Households WTP for the Reliability of Gas Supply

26 p.