Integrating top down policies and bottom up practices in Urban and Periurban Agriculture: an Italian dilemma

The paper deals with some relevant and contradictory aspects of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Italy: the traditional exclusion of agricultural areas from the goals of territorial planning; the separation between top-down policies and bottom-up practices; the lack of agricultural policies at local scale. In the first part the paper summarises the weak relation between urban planning and agriculture, showing how in Italy this gap has been only partially overcome by new laws and plans. Moreover the paper focuses on how, due to the lack of suitable solutions coming from regional and local planning, a large number of vibrant initiatives were started by local stakeholders. In order to show the limitations and the potentialities of these various approaches, three peculiar experiences based on Milan, Turin and Pisa are presented. They give a cross-section of the variegated Italian situation, demonstrating that a major challenge in Italian context affects the fields of governance and inclusiveness.

Italian citizenship and the descendants of Italian citizens emigrated in Colombia. Removing a social injustice

Law is often the source of social discriminations, but, at the same time, it can be thekey to delete these social discriminations. The authors try to give an example of thisphenomenon, by analyzing the impact of the Italian citizenship���s rules over the descendantsof the Italian citizens emigrated abroad and, especially, in South America.Indeed, according to the former Italian law, only fathers could transmit iure sanguinisthe citizenship to their children: moreover, women automatically lost theItalian citizenship if they get a foreign citizenship by concluding a marriage witha foreign husband.These rules hardly discriminate the Italian women emigrated abroad and, especially,their descendants who were prevented to get the Italian���s citizenship.These discriminatory rules were finally deleted by the Italian Constitutional Courtin the Seventies and in the Eighties: however, the effects of those rules still persisted,since the decision of the Constitutional Court could not overcome the temporal��limit of the entry into force of the Constitution (01.01.1948) and, therefore, could not���cover��� the discriminatory facts occurred before that date.Finally in 2009, the Italian Supreme Court, by extending the effects ratione temporisof the decisions of the Constitutional Court, ���reopened the doors��� of the Italiancitizenship to a huge number of Italian citizenship born from Italian women beforethe 01.01.1948.Therefore, the authors focus on the social impact of this decision for all the potentialItalian citizens living in South America and try to assess its juridical effects overthe Italian law.

Prevalencia de s��ndrome de burnout en personal de los servicios de urgencias en una instituci��n prestadora de servicios de salud de baja complejidad de Neiva, 2014: estudio de corte transversal

Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia del S��ndrome de Burnout en personal de los servicios de urgencias en una instituci��n prestadora de servicios de salud de baja complejidad de Neiva. Antecedentes: El S��ndrome de Burnout es una respuesta inadecuada al estr��s laboral cr��nico cuyas caracter��sticas principales son: altos niveles de agotamiento emocional, despersonalizaci��n y baja realizaci��n personal. La prevalencia a nivel mundial de este s��ndrome en personal de salud var��a entre 2,2% y 69,2%. M��todo: estudio de corte transversal. A una muestra de 90 trabajadores (m��dicos, enfermeras y auxiliares de enfermer��a) en una Empresa Social del Estado de baja complejidad de la ciudad de Neiva se le aplic�� cuestionario auto administrado compuesto por dos instrumentos validados (Maslach Burnout Inventory y la Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Trabajo del Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo). Resultados: La prevalencia de S��ndrome de Burnout fue 3,3% (n=3) (niveles elevados en las tres caracter��sticas simult��neamente); 11,1% (n=10) de agotamiento emocional, 20% (n=18) despersonalizaci��n y 10% (n=9) baja realizaci��n personal. No se encontraron asociaciones estad��sticamente significativas entre las condiciones de empleo y trabajo con el S��ndrome en menci��n. Conclusi��n: Laborar en servicios de urgencias confrontan al trabajador a exigencias para el cumplimiento de su tarea, as�� como tambi��n a relaciones sociales estresantes. Factores como el grado de autonom��a y de control, el apoyo social en el trabajo, asociado a relaciones personales positivas y una alta funcionalidad familiar podr��an mediar como protectores o moduladores del S��ndrome de Burnout.

Reading fluency and morpho-lexical processing : developmental studies in Italian. 'Fluidez en la lectura y procesamiento morfolexical : estudios de desarrollo en Italia'.

Resumen en espa��ol

Italian Renaissance.

Describe este momento clave de la civilizaci��n europea y explica las causas de su aparici��n en Florencia hacia 1400, as�� como sus logros en el arte, la ciencia y la filosof��a, las intrigas de la ��poca, las rivalidades pol��ticas y art��sticas y los personajes principales y, por ��ltimo, los cambios que trajo, en primer lugar, a Italia y despu��s a Europa. Su contenido cumple con los objetivos del curr��culo nacional ingl��s para historia en la etapa 3 (Key stage 3).

'Maim��nides en el 850 aniversario de su nacimiento'.

T��tulo anterior de la publicaci��n : Bolet��n de la Comisi��n Espa��ola de la UNESCO

Suicidal ideation in Spanish and Italian lesbian and gay young adults : the role of internalized sexual stigma

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

The construction of a professional identity for special needs teachers in the Italian high school system : a study on the Naples area.

T??tulo, resumen y palabras clave tambi??n en espa??ol

Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of tense-aspect in L3 English : a proposal for the study of L2 to L3 transfer in the use of English simple past by L1 Italian / L2 Spanish classroom learners

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Romanian politics: struggling with the grass roots and digging for democracy. EPIN Commentary No. 11, 29 August 2012

Romania was on a good trajectory to meet the European standards in democracy. This process began before the country���s accession to the EU in 2007 and has continued since thanks to the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM). The recent political turmoil has put in danger this trajectory. 2012 will continue to remain a very difficult year for Romania, economically and politically, especially in light of the referendum���s result invalidating the suspension of the President and the upcoming parliamentary elections due to take place at the end of this year. Now is time to restore the process of strengthening Romania���s democratic institutions and rule of law. There are important roles to be played in this process both by the Romanian political class and the European institutions.