Comparative Analyses of Child and Youth Services in Europe

This paper contains a comparative evaluation of the reactions of welfare states to the isomorphic pressures emanating from the European Union based on two case studies taken from the Child and Youth Welfare System. In the European Community different concepts of welfare policy exist. In the unification process every member state has to find answers to the pressure of assimilation invoked by the legislation. The objective of this explorative study is to show that countries can learn from each other in order to improve their own system of social services.

Determining the long-term changes in biodiversity and provisioning services along a transect from Central Europe to the Mediterranean

Climate, land use and fire are strong determinants of plant diversity, potentially resulting in local extinctions, including rare endemic and economically valuable species. While climate and land use are decisive for vegetation composition and thus the species pool, fire disturbance can lead to landscape fragmentation, affecting the provisioning of important ecosystem services such as timber and raw natural resources. We use multi-proxy palaeoecological data with high taxonomic and temporal resolution across an environmental gradient to assess the long-term impact of major climate shifts, land use and fire disturbance on past vegetation openness and plant diversity (evenness and richness). Evenness of taxa is inferred by calculating the probability of interspecific encounter (PIE) of pollen and spores and species richness by palynological richness (PRI). To account for evenness distortions of PRI, we developed a new palaeodiversity measure, which is evenness-detrended palynological richness (DE-PRI). Reconstructed species richness increases from north to south regardless of time, mirroring the biodiversity increase across the gradient from temperate deciduous to subtropical evergreen vegetation. Climatic changes after the end of the last ice age contributed to biodiversity dynamics, usually by promoting species richness and evenness in response to warming. The data reveal that the promotion of diverse open-land ecosystems increased when human disturbance became determinant, while forests became less diverse. Our results imply that the today’s biodiversity has been shaped by anthropogenic forcing over the millennia. Future management strategies aiming at a successful conservation of biodiversity should therefore consider the millennia-lasting role of anthropogenic fire and human activities.

Appel à la justice des nations et des rois, ou Adresse d'un citoyen français au congrès qui devait avoir lieu à Lunéville, au nom de tous les habitants de l'Europe que professent la réligion juive

par Michel Berr

Le juif errant d'aujourd'hui : et́ude sur l'eḿigration des Israélites de l'Europe orientale aux Etats-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord ; avec 40 tabl. statistiques et 9 diagr.

par L. Hersch

Théorie du judai͏̈sme appliquée `a la reforme des Israélites de tous les pays de l'Europe, et servant en même temps d'ouvrage préparatoire `a la version du Thalmud de Babylone

par L. A. Chiarini

Des juifs au dix-neuvième siècle ou considérations sur leur état civil et politique en Europe, suivis de la notice biographique des juifs anciens et modernes, qui se sont illustrés dans les sciences et les arts

par [Charles-Joseph] Bail

L' oppression des Juifs dans l'Europe orientale : les massacres de Kichinef et la situation des prolétaires Juifs en Russie

par Elie Eberlin

Musique réligieuse ancienne et moderne en usage dans les temples consistoriaux israélites de Paris : offices du sabbat et de toutes les fêtes ; cérémonies nuptiales et services divers ; récitations

Samue͏̈l David

Genre et protection sociale

L'histoire du genre, en pleine explosion, permet elle aussi de repenser la protection sociale, bien au-delà de la maternité, de la famille et du travail féminin

Lettres juives, ou correspondance philosophique, historique et critique entre un juif voyageur en differens Etats de L'Europe, et ses correspondans en divers endroits

[Jean Baptiste d'Argens]

L' Europe, le Congo et la Conférence Africaine de Berlin

Henri Cribier

Guglielmi, Nilda y Rucquoi, Adeline (coordinadoras) Derecho y Justicia: el poder en la Europa medieval. Droit et justice: le pouvoir dans l`Europe médiévale. Buenos Aires: IMHICIHU – CONICET, 2008. ISBN 978-987-23978-2-1. 264 pp.

Fil: Cuccia, Emiliano Javier.