Abstract Providing heat is a key aspect of social life and necessity for comfort health in cold climates. Even though accounts large proportion worldwide carbon emissions the largest energy end-use, it has remained largely untouched by efforts to decarbonize. Efforts do so meet significant economic, social-psychological, technical political challenges. Much at stake. But what can make differenc...

The House of Public Participation in Health has been established to attract public participation as one of the principles of primary health care (PHC) and the missing link of socialization of the health system, with the participation of public mediators at both provincial and city levels. Members of the People's Participation Council are representatives of grassroots organizations at the provin...

The ongoing explosion of antibiotic-resistant infections continues to plague global and US health care. Meanwhile, an equally alarming decline has occurred in the research and development of new antibiotics to deal with the threat. In response to this microbial "perfect storm," in 2001, the federal Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance released the "Action Plan to Combat Antimicrob...

Scholarship on disaster response and recovery has focused local communities as crucial in developing implementing timely, effective, sustainable supports. Drawing from interviews with refugee leaders conducted during the spring summer of 2020 at onset COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines crisis activities refugee-led grassroots groups, specifically within Bhutanese Congolese a midwestern metr...

This paper examines the practices, performance, and perceptions of messaging platform Telegram as an actor in 2020 Belarus protests, using publicly available data from Telegram’s public statements, protest-related groups, media coverage. Developing a novel conceptualization actorness, we critically assess role protests examine whether is seen playing active Belarusian contentious politics. We f...

In this article we review three categories of American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) substance abuse prevention programs: (1) published empirical trials; (2) promising programs published and unpublished that are in the process of development and that have the potential for empirical trials; and (3) examples of innovative grassroots programs that originate at the local level and may have promise f...

Innovation and community action are two important areas of research and policy for sustainable development. Yet these two spheres of activity have not hitherto been linked. This paper builds a case for considering community action as a neglected, but potentially important, site of innovative activity. In so doing, the paper bridges a divide in a way that offers a novel theoretical approach to t...

(Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100081) [email protected] Abstracts: This system has, by the comprehensive use of various latest information technologies and active gateway technologies, linked the wireless communication network, fixed-line telephone network and the Internet network (Three Networks) together to real...