JT03358015 Complete document available on OLIS in its original format This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.

*Correspondence: Martí Rosas-Casals, Sustainability Measurement and Modelling Lab, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech, 1 Colom Street, Barcelona 08222, Spain e-mail: [email protected] Energy-related impacts and conflicts have been used to account for the emergence, maintenance, and collapse of complex societies. On the other hand in the last years, sustainability science has ...

For more than four decades, the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have been negotiating in an effort to find a solution to the Cyprus problem. The perspective, assumptions and hypotheses that underpin the respective approaches to the Cyprus problem disclose the general framework that renders understandable the impasse that has characterised the long history of negotiations on Cyprus. The Hels...

In his landmark work The Political Theory of a Compound Republic,* 1 the American political scientist Vincent Ostrom identified two theories of government which have contended in the intellectual and political history of modem civilisation. The first theory Ostrom associated with the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, although it can be traced back to ancient times. This is the ide...

This paper describes how feminist beliefs and values should influence nursing practice. Traditionally held patriarchal values are challenged, and the feminist tenets of gender equity, the basis for value to society and personal sovereignty are discussed. Drawing on experience as a nurse practitioner this writer gives examples of nursing practice that are grounded in feminist philosophy.

It is common to speak of “civilizational ideas”, but do they exist? For example, are the dośas of Āyurveda peculiarly Indian since they are a tripartite classification that is basic to the Vedic system of knowledge? Plato introduced a similar system based on three humours into Greek medicine, with a central role to the idea of breath (pneuma in Greek). But this centrality of breath (prān. a in ...

“The Rhetorics of Sovereignty: Representing Indian Territory in NineteenthCentury Newspapers and Journals” explores issues of Native American sovereignty in newspapers and journals published in and about places imagined as “Indian territory.” Each chapter of this project explores how Indian territories were identified by different reading publics as both “space” and “place,” as “empty” places o...

With globalization and widespread technological advances, new international issues have emerged that hold critical importance for transnational economic integration, state sovereignty, and the future of global governance. These issues notably affect the power, authority, sovereignty, and legitimacy of states as defined in the Westphalian system. Overall, the controversy over genetically enginee...

The implications of national sovereignty constitute a characteristic, and evolving, twentieth century problem. The nation-state, developed over previous centuries, has proved capable of horrific abuse; but at its best it has produced a legal, administrative, economic and financial framework in which its citizens have been able to prosper as never before. A natural counterpart of these developme...

The Moroccan state has long attempted to maintain tight control on “its” subjects living in Europe. Since the 1960s, the state has actively discouraged migrants’ social and political integration because this was seen as endangering the flow of remittances and creating political opposition from outside. However, the failure of these remote control policies and an ominous stagnation in remittance...