This paper reviews literature in and around new institutional economics to assess its contributions to, and limitations in, research on environmental decisionmaking and governance. The paper also proposes ways to increase the fruitfulness of new institutional approach for environmental research. The paper identifies the conceptualisation of environmental problems as instances of interdependence...

Risk for Ambulatory Disability as per the Class, Race, and Sex (CSR) Hypothesis Carlos Siordia1* & Hilario Molina II2 1 PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2 PhD, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Siordia was supported by grant numbers T32 AG000181 and U01 AG023744 from the National Institute of ...

The institutional Personal Learning Environment (iPLE) constitutes our vision of how Web 2.0 tools and services, and people arrangement and data sharing could be applied for delivering open, flexible, distributed and learner-centred learning environments to university members. Based on the iPLE, this paper explores a strategy that universities could follow in order to take advantage of the bene...

OBJECTIVE This study included 54-month-old children with a history of institutional care. Our goal was to: (1) examine differences in indiscriminate social behaviors in children with a history of institutional care compared with home-reared children; (2) test whether foster care reduces indiscriminate social behaviors in a randomized controlled trial; and (3) examine early predictors of indiscr...

Three approaches to the teaching of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) are identified, the Critical approach, the Pragmatic approach, and the Critical Pragmatic approach. Critical EAP is appealing pedagogically because of its restive questioning of discourse norms, although it can seem reactionary at times. By focusing on the acquisition of the same dominant norms, Pragmatic EAP has a clear go...