This contribution is part of the context studies on prospects eco-oriented territorial rebalancing involving settlement networks inland areas. These are characterised by contrast between socio-territorial disadvantage issues and opportunities to reuse physical resources within broader framework regeneration revitalisation local identities. In Italy, region Sardinia represents one most suitable ...

The match between employees and their vocations, jobs and organizations has been the focus of the majority of past person-environment fit research. The compatibility between individuals and their work team environments is a more recently recognized, but much less studied, type of fit. Person-team fit is conceptualized here along two fundamental dimensions of team environments: interdependence a...

Given the longstanding shortage of nurses in many jurisdictions, why could not nursing wages be raised to attract more people into the profession? We tell a story in which the status of nursing as a 'vocation' implies that increasing wages reduces the average quality of applicants attracted. The underlying mechanism accords with the notion that increasing wages might attract the 'wrong sort' of...

“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular on its potential connections with ethics. This essay draws on the work of the virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including alle...

This article addresses the sacredness of Ayahuasca from perspective global shamanic vocation. If encounters with are said to revitalize forms in contemporary societies, this is perhaps clearest cases where individuals understand themselves be called lead ceremonies. Recognizing scale shamanism, we compare facilitators ceremonies two societies discern differences and similarities how vocations e...