From The Netherlands.

View from The Netherlands.

A Contribution from the Netherlands

Defenders of multiculturalism have been recently criticized for failing to address gender inequality in minority cultures. Multiculturalism would seem incompatible with a commitment to feminism. This article discusses two empirical cases that pose a problem for public policy in the Netherlands: a conflict over wearing headscarves (hijab) and requests for surgical hymen repair. These cases evoke...

the effect of traffic density on the accident externality from driving the case study of tehran

در این پژوهش به بررسی اثر افزایش ترافیک بر روی تعداد تصادفات پرداخته شده است. به این منظور 30 تقاطع در شهر تهران بطور تصادفی انتخاب گردید و تعداد تصادفات ماهیانه در این تقاطعات در طول سالهای 89-90 از سازمان کنترل ترافیک شهر تهران استخراج گردید و با استفاده از مدل داده های تابلویی و نرم افزار eviews مدل خطی و درجه دوم تخمین زده شد و در نهایت این نتیجه حاصل شد که تقاطعات پر ترافیک تر تعداد تصادفا...

Sustainable Community Planning: Lessons from the Netherlands

In 1990, the Dutch Government adopted a national plan to develop integrated and comprehensive policies that would respond on a national, regional, and local level to the need for improved environmental quality for the welfare of current and future generations. The program, called the National Environmental Policy Plan (NEPP), represented a bold effort to develop cooperation and shared responsib...

2d inversion of radiomagnetotelluric data for mapping waste disposal sites, an example from the netherlands

the radio magnetotelluric (rmt) method is one of the most widely used electromagnetic (em) methods which employs artificial time varying electric and magnetic fields at the surface of the earth for imaging conductivity. the radiomagnetotelluric method proposed by goldstein and strangway (1975) is based on measuring one set of horizontal electrical and perpendicular magnetic components. after th...