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Pharmacists' roles are evolving from that of compounders and dispensers of medicines to that of experts on medicines within multidisciplinary health care teams. In the developing country context, the pharmacy is often the most accessible or even the sole point of access to health care advice and services. Because of their knowledge of medicines and clinical therapeutics, pharmacists are suitabl...

Academic courses on interculturality have become a rapidly growing discipline in the West, where supranational bodies such as the EU and UNESCO promote intercultural education as a path towards improved global cultural relations. Through interviews with students who completed a university course on interculturality, this essay investigates the tenets of interculturality and problematises whethe...

In June 2013, Mount Fuji was nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Subsequently, a new system was piloted encouraging climbers to make a donation of 1000 JPY to help improve environmental conservation. This research is part of a larger study from 2008 to 2014 monitoring the characteristics and behaviour of Fuji climbers. Specifically, this paper investigates Japanese and international clim...

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1 University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Applied and Environmental Geology, Basel, Switzerland 2 UNESCO-IHE, Department of Water Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands 3 Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Commission of Glaciology, Munich, Germany 4 Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Snow and Glacier Hydrology Unit, Katmandu, Nepal 5 University of Freiburg, Institute of Hydrolo...

Acknowledgements The paper is based on the author’s Ph.D. thesis completed at Murdoch University, Western Australia, with Prof David Andrich principal supervisor and Assoc Prof Guanzhong Luo co-supervisor. The author wishes to acknowledge the extensive input and assistance of David Andrich in shaping the final draft of the manuscript, as well as his guidance, input and vision throughout the pro...

folklore, in fact, is community (or collective) intellectual property. literal of folklore, in present , is unknown and , to some what, vaguable. this filed of law is pay attention to on behafe of wipo and unesco . two kinds of protection is established by legislators. firstly (mainly) protection, that promoting a sui generis system, and secondary (substitute) protectiofolklore, in fact, is com...

a. “Consensus Statement on Dignity in Illness, Disability, and Dying and a Response to the UNESCO Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights” was the product of a Colloquium of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists (IACB), held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), June 26–30, 2005. b. An introduction to the consensus statement is provided here by William Sullivan,...

This paper was commissioned by the Global Education Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2016 report. It has not been edited by the team. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and should not be attributed to the Global Education Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The papers can be cited with the following reference: “Paper commis...