Access to the countryside of England and Wales: popular leisure; commodified culture

Risk and uncertainty are, to say the least, poorly considered by most individuals involved in real estate analysis - in both development and investment appraisal. Surveyors continue to express 'uncertainty' about the value (risk) of using relatively objective methods of analysis to account for these factors. These methods attempt to identify the risk elements more explicitly. Conventionally this is done by deriving probability distributions for the uncontrolled variables in the system. A suggested 'new' way of "being able to express our uncertainty or slight vagueness about some of the qualitative judgements and not From its modern origins, associated with the urbanising effect of industrialisation, walking has remained a popular form of outdoor recreation. It has, furthermore, remained an important site of class struggle, with the 'landless' seeking to establish their moral 'citizen' right to roam over open country in contradistinction to the 'landed', who have successfully limited this right to legally-defined public rights of way. In the face of declining farm incomes, however, farmers and landowners have, apparently, modified their attitudes towards public access, but only in return for compensation and management payments under grant schemes such as Countryside Stewardship and the Countryside Premium Scheme. With the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food now seeking to extend paid access arrangements to other grant schemes, as part of its response to the European Union's Agri-Environment Regulations, access 'rights' are assuming an increasingly commodified form, thereby questioning, if not undermining, the former citizen claims. For rather than being a benefit of citizenship, the existence of limited, often poorly maintained and inadequately signposted, public rights of way has tied inextricably the extension of legally-enforceable access to the needs of the landowners and farmers. At a time of falling prosperity in agriculture, therefore, they have now exercised their discretion by annexing the populism of consumer culture to reproduce the bourgeois liberal values of the market as a principal determinant of the extension of citizen rights of access to the countryside.

Why UK public lawyers need to be legal and political theorists

My aim in this article is to encourage UK public lawyers to engage with contemporary debates in legal, political and constitutional theory. My argument is motivated by three related concerns. First, there is an extricable link between these disciplines: behind every proposition of public law can be found a theory of law, govenment, the state and so on; secondly, public lawyers have historically neglected or fudged theory in their work; finally, a growing number of public lawyers are now using cutting-edge legal and political theories to fashion radical new understandings of the British constitution: other (more conservative-minded) public lawyers have no option, I argue, but to answer these new challenges. I illustrate my argument with reference to debates about Parliamentary sovereignty, the constitutional foundations of judicial review, political constitutionalism, and judicial deference.

Don’t trust your poll lead: how public opinion changes during referendum campaigns

Politicians call (or call for) referendums with increasing frequency. But how can they know they will win? Looking at the polls is not enough: opinion during referendum campaigns is often volatile. But this chapter shows that there are nevertheless some recurring patterns that allow us to make reasonable predictions in most cases.

For the public without the public

How is the notion of public interest operationalised in the regulatory practices of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB)? A fundamental objective in setting international accounting standards for both the private and public sector is to serve the ‘public interest’. Who or what constitutes ‘public interest’ however remains a highly complex and controversial issue. Private sector financial reporting research posits that users (of financial information) are used as a proxy for the ‘public’ and users are further refined to current and potential investors - a small proportion of the public. The debates surrounding public interest are even more contentious in public sector financial reporting which deals with ‘public’ (tax payers’) money. In our study we use Bourdieu’s notion of semi-homogenous fields to show how autonomous and heteronomous pressures from the epistemic community of the accounting profession and political/government interests compete for the right to define the public interest and determine how (by what accounting solutions) this interest is best served. This is a theoretical study grounded in the analysis of empirical data from interviews with the board members of the IPSASB. The main contribution of the paper is to further our understanding of the perceptions of the main decision makers from the ‘inner regulatory circle’ with regards to the problematic construct of public interest. The main findings suggest a paternal and un-reflexive attitude of the board members leading to the conclusion that the public have no real voice in these matters.

Public debt and the limits of fiscal policy to increase economic growth

Research that seeks to estimate the effects of fiscal policies on economic growth has ignored the role of public debt in this relationship. This study proposes a theoretical model of endogenous growth, which demonstrates that the level of the public debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio should negatively impact the effect of fiscal policy on growth. This occurs because government indebtedness extracts part of the savings of the young to pay interest on the debts of the older generation, who are no longer saving. Therefore, the payment of debt interest assumes an allocation exchange role between generations that is similar to a pay-as-you-go pension system, which results in changes in the savings rate of the economy. The major conclusions of the theoretical model were tested using an econometric model to provide evidence for the validity of this conclusion. Our empirical analysis controls for timeinvariant, country-specific heterogeneity in the growth rates. We also address endogeneity issues and allow for heterogeneity across countries in the model parameters and for cross-sectional dependence.

Courts as healthcare policy-makers: the problem, the responses to the problem and problems in the responses

This article starts by analysing healthcare litigation in Brazil by means of a literature review of articles that contribute with empirical findings on this phenomenon. Based on this review, I argue that health care litigation in Brazil makes the public health system less fair and rational. In the second part of this article, I discuss the three most overarching responses to control the level of litigation and its impact on the public health system: (i) the public hearing held by the Supreme Federal Court and the criteria the court established thereafter; (ii) the recommendations by the National Council of Justice aimed at building courts’ institutional capacity; and (iii) the enactment of the Federal Law 12.401/11, which created a new health technology assessment system. I argue that latter is the best response because it keeps the substantive decisions on the allocation of healthcare resources in the institution that is in the best position to make them. Moreover, this legislation will make the decisions about provision of health treatments more explicit, making easier for courts to control the procedure and the reasons for these decisions.

"Reforma urbana já"; "arroz, feijão, saúde e habitação" :A luta por moradia na grande João Pessoa

Our object of study in this work concerns to the movement of fight for the housing in the Great João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, and looks for to investigate the conditions and context of the occupations of building, public or private, for devoid populations that do not have where to live. Front to the absence of politics effective directed to the habitation or the cities, in a picture of unemployment and impoverishment of the population, the result of the habitation point of view, is the absolute lack of popular housings, the degradation of the cities and the growth of the number of homeless and also of its occupations. The urban occupations today represent a reply of these devoid populations that from an involvement with parties or Not Governmental Organizations, and social movements leave for the class action known by the occupation of abandoning public or private buildings. These occupations, even so initially if assume as pressure instrument or of visibility for attainment of housings, for the delay in obtaining the attention of the public agencies and a solution for the problem, becomes definitive or is drawn out per many years. E this if gives although the deficiencies, of the accumulation or families neither in an adequate, always precarious space nor in sanitary installations, that the necessary privacy does not allow. The study it consisted of an empirical research, through the participant comment and open and half-open interviews, and counted on the audiovisual register of two occupations, one in the downtown of João Pessoa City (old building of the INSS, in the Ponto dos Cem Réis) and other (Community of the Cajueiro), next to the Beach "Praia do Jacaré", in the city of Cabedelo.The choice of the Visual Anthropology as research instrument is on to a concern in better translating other ways of life, therefore the accomplishment of the video in allows them to know with more precision the reality where the citizens of the research live. We also use as methodological resource in the research the deepened interview, in intention to better understand the description of the way of life of the studied families and the movements of fight for the housing, particularly the MDM - Movement of Right for the Housing, and the MNLM- Nacional Movement of Fight for the Housing

A ação civil pública como meio de concretização do direito à saúde na Constituição de 1988

The work presented here is about aspects of the constitutional extension in which is the public civil action with the objective of verifying its aptitute in tutelaging subjective situations derived from fundamental rights, especially right to health assistance. Thus, it offers a clear analysis of the practical functioning of most aspects of the public civil action (lawsuit), with philosophical foundation and necessary doctrinaire to your comphehension. How it once was (history), how it could be (reform suggestion), how it is (current interpretation of the law) and how it should be (critic analysis of the microsystem of collective tutelaging of rights, its perspectives, as well as the efficacy of the public cilvil action about accomplishment of the right to health as supraindividual right). The objective is to analyse the main version of the theme (for instance: the impacts caused to the dissociation of the Procurations theory), so that it can be extracted the philosophy and the general theory, of the public civil action and collective tutelaging in general, pragmatically applicable to study purposes. With this theorical fountain, the reader will be in a more solid position, not only being able to understand the subtilities of the public civil action, but mainly being able to recognize its faults and present solid reform proposals and improvement. It is know that the Juridical Power (Procuration) does not allow any more inactivity about negating accession to health in its collective dimension (lato sensu: spread, collective stricto sensu and homogeneous individuals), being imputed to it novel usage that consolidates in the assumption of the role instrument set aside to be used by all with organized instancy of solution to collective conflicts in large sense. This happens, overall, because of the current justice politization, understood as juridical activism, connected to the struggle between the groups defending their interests and the acceptance of the constitution about solidifying the public politics of quality health

Women's contribution to equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

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From social innovation to public policy. Success stories in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Socio-economic vulnerability to natural disasters in Mexico: rural poor, trade and public response

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Identification of poisonous plants in the heart of public squares of ribeirão Preto SP

Toxic plants, many ornamentals, may be present in gardens, backyards, parks, vases, squares and vacant lots around the cities. Some of these plants are well known and exuberant, with strong color and decorative aspects, but when swallowed or handled, can cause severe intoxication specially in children. The main objective was to identify the poisonous plants found in public squares of Ribeirão Preto downtown, among five squares: XV de Novembro Square, Carlos Gomes Square, Bandeiras Square, Luís de Camões Square and Sete de Setembro Square. In this study, a literature review was performed in order to know the species that have been recorded as toxic plant. For the species in question, the common name and therapeutic indication were recorded. Over all evaluated squares toxic species were found. Sete de Setembro Square was the most frequent species in a total of seven toxical species. The most common species in the surveyed places were: Euphorbia pulcherrima, Buxus semprevirens and Dracaena fragrans, popularly known as Poinsettia, Boxwood and Cornstalk Dracaena, respectively. The importance of doing studies in urban squares is to improve care to ensure the afforestation process of the cities.

The rights-based approach to social protection in Latin America: From rhetoric to practice

This paper aims to contribute to developing the normative framework for rights-based social protection systems and discusses lessons learned in some emblematic programmes implemented in Latin America which have sought to advance a rights approach. The paper emphasizes the added value of the rights-based approach and describes the normative content of the right to social security. It then describes the basic elements of a rights-based approach and examines how it is operationalized in the design, implementation and evaluation of landmark social protection programmes in the region. The paper seeks to demonstrate that, despite the large gap that still exists between the rhetoric of a human rights approach and its implementation in specific policies, there have been significant achievements in some countries in Latin America. It argues that some of the good practices in the region can serve as policy examples to follow elsewhere. The paper concludes with a number of public policy recommendations with a view to consolidating the rights perspective in social protection programmes.

A Pedagogia da alternância na visão dos egressos da EFA de Porto Nacional - TO: a possibilidade de uma formação integral

Neste estudo analisamos como a Formação Integral dos Jovens, um dos pilares fins da rede de Centros Familiares de Formação por Alternância (CEFFA), vem se materializando na Escola Família Agrícola (EFA) de Porto Nacional e como se dá a participação de seus egressos nos diversos aspectos da vida social. A pesquisa baseia-se na abordagem qualitativa com perspectiva dialética, que aqui assume a forma de estudo de caso. Combinamos o uso da pesquisa bibliográfica com outros procedimentos metodológicos como a pesquisa documental, por meio da qual analisamos, entre outros, o Projeto Político e Pedagógico da EFA, relatórios, Leis da Educação e Pareceres. Realizamos, ainda, entrevistas do tipo semiestruturada com 14 egressos escolhidos, após a aplicação de um questionário respondido por 32 dos 103 estudantes que concluíram o Ensino Médio e o Ensino Profissionalizante na EFA, até o ano de 2006. Nos principais documentos da EFA de Porto Nacional, fica expressa a suposição de que a Escola pode contribuir para a Formação Integral de seus jovens, formando-os para a cidadania e construindo uma cultura de participação. A Educação do Campo, na história do Brasil, é um exemplo bem claro do descaso e da negação desse direito por parte do Estado brasileiro, no que diz respeito às políticas públicas para atender os povos do campo. É nesse vácuo da negação do direito, não só pelo próprio Estado, mas também, e principalmente, pelas classes dominantes de nosso país que nasce, no seio da sociedade civil de Porto Nacional, a Escola Família Agrícola, atendendo os jovens do campo daquela região. A EFA foi criada pela COMSAÚDE, uma instituição não-governamental, a partir de debates com as comunidades do campo de Porto Nacional e os Movimentos Sociais locais. Um dos objetivos da criação da Escola era o de atender os sujeitos do campo com uma Educação de qualidade e voltada para as especifidades dessa população, dando ênfase à Agricultura Familiar. A pesquisa concluiu que a Escola avança na medida em que trabalha o conhecimento a partir da leitura da realidade, à luz de outros conhecimentos e possibilidades no seu meio e que ela vem contribuindo para a Formação Integral e cidadã de seus jovens.

Memórias de saberes construídos no processo de se constituir professor em Vila Que Era (Bragança-Pará)

Este estudo apresenta registro e reflexões sobre a trajetória de formação docente de um professor do campo aposentado que atuou na década de 80 e 90 na Localidade de Vila Que Era, próximo ao Município de Bragança, nordeste do Estado do Pará, Brasil. Como fonte para recontar e relembrar parte de sua trajetória docente foi necessário rememorar as histórias de vida do sujeito em questão, sendo a memória um elemento revitalizador de lembranças. Para esse estudo foi preciso percorrer pela trajetória da Educação do Campo no Brasil, na perspectiva de visualizar se as políticas públicas que foram desenvolvidas atendem as necessidades desse segmento e de que maneira essas políticas contemplaram a formação continuada de professores no Brasil. Como objetivo geral, analisei como se deu a trajetória de formação docente de um professor do campo aposentado para conhecer saberes presentes nas suas práticas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa e para obtenção dos dados foi realizado trabalho de campo com entrevistas parcialmente estruturadas, com observação participante, para analisar através de narrativas do entrevistado que, ao relembrar as histórias de vida sua e da localidade, indicam o processo de constituir professor e traçar um perfil identitário do mesmo, levando em consideração a importância que esta localidade representa para seus moradores, haja vista que a mesma possui 400 anos de existência, e carrega consigo, uma enorme história de tradição religiosa e cultural. Para suporte teórico dialogamos com alguns teóricos que discutem sobre identidade, formação de professores, memórias, educação do campo como Almeida (2007), Brandão (1988), Boaventura (2004), Bosi (2004), Caldart, Josso (2004), Soares (2002), Freire (2005), Hall (2006) Chauí (2007) entre outros. Por fim, conclui que ao longo de sua trajetória docente o professor utilizou o ambiente, a cultura local, a tradição, os saberes prévios dos alunos como eixos norteadores na construção da sua prática educativa. Outra realidade constatada neste trabalho, foi a respeito da ausência de políticas públicas para atender as necessidades das escolas do campo e também a falta de formação de professores como prioridade para suprir as demandas do campo e oportunizar melhorias na educação de crianças, jovens e adultos.