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Factors in the Development of Spatial Cognition in Boys and Girls

Assessing the Impacts of Biology and Navigational Experience

Mariah G. Schug

development of spatial cognition draws only on modern Western populations (e.g., Alexander 2006 ; Doyle et al. 2012 ), this article will focus on the naturalistic and cross-cultural experiences of children exploring their environments and how this may

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The Rule of Law as a Condition for Development Toward Sustainability

Toward a New Legally Oriented Environment at a Global Level

Giovanni Tartaglia Polcini

The Italian model of “confiscation” determines a severe loss of prestige and influence for mafias in their own environment, since it stops their capacity to condition the surrounding territorial socioeconomic realities. The Italian Development

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Andrew McCumber

relationship to nature and the environment. California’s drought was already a national news item on May 5, 2015, when Santa Barbara declared a Stage 3 drought 1 ( Welsh 2015 ), and the dry conditions have persisted since. I will argue that drought conditions

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Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

Medical Design Anthropology, Improvisational Practices and Future Imaginings

Jonathan Ventura and Wendy Gunn

to enhance it will either empower the user or help them avoid uneasy situations. That entails, for example, the option to wear whatever they want, regardless of their impairment. The world of design takes place within environments that undergo

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Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, and Katja Mäkinen

, interconnected in various ways. Nature, Environment, and Biodiversity Natural heritage is discussed in the data from the very beginning. In the 1970s, this discussion mainly focused on a perceived need to protect specific biotypes such as seas, forests, or

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Indulata Prasad

socioeconomic phenomenon of untouchability has mediated Dalits’ knowledge of their physical environment and their ability to survive in ways that mirror Black experiences of ecological discrimination based on race. In the epigraph above, Dalit poet Atholi taps

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Following, Othering, Taking Over

Research Participants Redefining the Field through Mobile Communication Technology

Nanneke Winters

crossed the Darién jungle between Colombia and Panama. Our on-again, off-again communication taught me to think differently about migrants’ navigation of this volatile social environment and the role of mobile communication technology in navigating it. I

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Introduction

Global Black Ecologies

Justin Hosbey, Hilda Lloréns, and J. T. Roane

communities in the Diaspora. This resonance has inspired us to collaborate in various formations, including a virtual dialogue about the environment for the People's Strike organization in July 2021, the Black Ecologies series at Black Perspectives , the

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Transformation and Continuity in Urban Space

The Smartphone as a Companion to Digital Teaching and Learning Processes in Extracurricular Learning Settings

Julian Zimmermann, Julian Happes, and Nadja Bergis

the past is perceived and interpreted at successive moments in time. This article asserts the need to integrate the urban living environment into history teaching in a more active way. Urban space is historically relevant in its entirety. In order to

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Human rights-based service delivery

Assessing the role of national human rights institutions in democracy and development in Ghana and Uganda

Richard Iroanya, Patrick Dzimiri, and Edith Phaswana

World Commission on Environment and Development: Our common future ( Brundtland Commission ). Retrieved from http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf . United Nations Center for Human Rights . ( 1995 ). National Human Rights Institutions: A