Monitoring international migration flows in Europe. Towards a statistical data base combining data from different sources

The paper reviews techniques developed in demography, geography and statistics that are useful for bridging the gap between available data on international migration flows and the information required for policy making and research. The basic idea of the paper is as follows: to establish a coherent and consistent data base that contains sufficiently detailed, up-to-date and accurate information, data from several sources should be combined. That raises issues of definition and measurement, and of how to combine data from different origins properly. The issues may be tackled more easily if the statistics that are being compiled are viewed as different outcomes or manifestations of underlying stochastic processes governing migration. The link between the processes and their outcomes is described by models, the parameters of which must be estimated from the available data. That may be done within the context of socio-demographic accounting. The paper discusses the experience of the U.S. Bureau of the Census in combining migration data from several sources. It also summarizes the many efforts in Europe to establish a coherent and consistent data base on international migration. The paper was written at IIASA. It is part of the Migration Estimation Study, which is a collaborative IIASA-University of Groningen project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The project aims at developing techniques to obtain improved estimates of international migration flows by country of origin and country of destination

Science for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Corporate Social Responsibilities, an Overview of Principles and Practices

[Excerpt] In this paper Dr. Murray, of the University of Melbourne, argues that the public discourse on Corporate Social Responsibility has evolved into a quite stylized debate which tends to focus on one particular facet of multinational economic behaviour. Namely the treatment of workers in manufacturing factories in the developing world producing goods for multinational enterprises with particular attention the manufacture of textiles, clothing and footwear. This has also brought with it renewed interest in the idea of the “sweatshop”, the concept of extreme exploitation of vulnerable workers in terms of living wages and dangerous working conditions. As a consequence more is known about this sector than just about any other, and theoretical work tends to deal with the subject of corporate selfregulation through the lens of the production and consumption of these arguably idiosyncratic goods. She argues that it is important to identify the potential distorting power of this emerging discourse and to broaden the attention to labour markets conditions in general

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Great Plains Research, Volume 22, Number 2, Fall 2012 (complete issue)

Reconsidering National Park Interpretation of the Great Plains and TransMississippi West • Robert Pahre Evaluating the Role of Latinidad and the Latino Threat in the State of Missouri • Joel Jennings and J.S. Onesimo Sandoval The Right Call: Baseball Coaches\u27 Attempts to Influence Umpires • Kevin Warneke and Dave Ogden Documenting Change at Upper Hamburg Bend: Nebraska\u27s First SideChannel Restoration • Brandon L. Eder and Gerald E. Mestl Initial Changes in Species Cover Following Savanna Restoration Treatments in Western Iowa • David A. McKenzie, Thomas B. Bragg, and David M. Sutherland Monitoring Standing Herbage of the Sands and Choppy Sands Ecological Vegetation Types in the Nebraska Sandhills • Daniel W. Uresk Review of Conspecific Attraction and Area Sensitivity of Grassland Birds • David R. W. Bruinsma and Nicola Koper New Distributional Records of Great Plains Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) • Paul O. Cooney and James A. Kalisch REVIEW ESSAY: An Atlas to Be Read from Cover to Cover • A review of Atlas of the Great Plains • Harm J. de Blij BOOK REVIEWS Hockensmith, John S. • Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West: Return of the Horse • Reviewed by Karen Dalke Brown, Mary Bomberger, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Charles R. Brown • Birds of Southwestern Nebraska: An Annotated Check-List of Species in the North and South Platte River Valleys and at Lake McConaughy • Reviewed by Wayne J. Mollhoff Adelman, Charlotte, and Bernard L. Schwartz • The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, An Illustrated Guide • Reviewed by Stephen L. Young Marchildon, Gregory P., ed. • Agricultural History: History of the Prairie West Series, Volume 3 • Reviewed by Bradford Rennie Freeman, David M.; Foreword by Robert Ward • Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons • Reviewed by Mary Bomberger Brown Bower, Shannon Stunden; Foreword by Graeme Wynn • Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba • Reviewed by Sterling Evans Waters, Michael R., Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson, et al.; Foreword by Michael B. Collins • Clovis Lithic Technology: Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas • Reviewed by Heather M. Rockwell. Arnn, John Wesley, III; Foreword by Tom D. Dillehay • Land of the Tejas: Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700 • Reviewed by Robert Cast Clark, Bonnie J. • On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado • Reviewed by Jason M. LaBelle Barker, Joanne • Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity • Reviewed by Jo Carrillo Regan, Paulette • Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada • Reviewed by Robyn Green Prussing, Erica • White Man\u27s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community • Reviewed by Paul Spicer Lehr, John, and David McDowell • Trailblazers: The Lives and Times of Michael Ewanchuk and Muriel (Smith) Ewanchuk • Reviewed by Denis Hlynka Pachirat, Timothy • Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight •Reviewed by Donald D. Stull. Pawley, Howard; Foreword by Paul Moist • Keep True: A Life in Politics • Reviewed by Kelly Saunders Sinner, George A Bud, and Bob Jansen; Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson • Turning Points: A Memoir • Reviewed by Stephen W. King Daum, Courtenay W., Robert J. Duffy, and John A Straayer, eds. • State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century • Reviewed by Robert R. Preuhs Hiler, Edward A, and Steven L. Bosserman • Together We Can: Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M • Reviewed by Theodore R. Alter NEWS AND NOTES ANNUAL INDE

Great Plains Research, Volume 22, Number 2, Fall 2012 (complete issue)

Reconsidering National Park Interpretation of the Great Plains and TransMississippi West • Robert Pahre Evaluating the Role of Latinidad and the Latino Threat in the State of Missouri • Joel Jennings and J.S. Onesimo Sandoval The Right Call: Baseball Coaches\u27 Attempts to Influence Umpires • Kevin Warneke and Dave Ogden Documenting Change at Upper Hamburg Bend: Nebraska\u27s First SideChannel Restoration • Brandon L. Eder and Gerald E. Mestl Initial Changes in Species Cover Following Savanna Restoration Treatments in Western Iowa • David A. McKenzie, Thomas B. Bragg, and David M. Sutherland Monitoring Standing Herbage of the Sands and Choppy Sands Ecological Vegetation Types in the Nebraska Sandhills • Daniel W. Uresk Review of Conspecific Attraction and Area Sensitivity of Grassland Birds • David R. W. Bruinsma and Nicola Koper New Distributional Records of Great Plains Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) • Paul O. Cooney and James A. Kalisch REVIEW ESSAY: An Atlas to Be Read from Cover to Cover • A review of Atlas of the Great Plains • Harm J. de Blij BOOK REVIEWS Hockensmith, John S. • Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West: Return of the Horse • Reviewed by Karen Dalke Brown, Mary Bomberger, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Charles R. Brown • Birds of Southwestern Nebraska: An Annotated Check-List of Species in the North and South Platte River Valleys and at Lake McConaughy • Reviewed by Wayne J. Mollhoff Adelman, Charlotte, and Bernard L. Schwartz • The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, An Illustrated Guide • Reviewed by Stephen L. Young Marchildon, Gregory P., ed. • Agricultural History: History of the Prairie West Series, Volume 3 • Reviewed by Bradford Rennie Freeman, David M.; Foreword by Robert Ward • Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons • Reviewed by Mary Bomberger Brown Bower, Shannon Stunden; Foreword by Graeme Wynn • Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba • Reviewed by Sterling Evans Waters, Michael R., Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson, et al.; Foreword by Michael B. Collins • Clovis Lithic Technology: Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas • Reviewed by Heather M. Rockwell. Arnn, John Wesley, III; Foreword by Tom D. Dillehay • Land of the Tejas: Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700 • Reviewed by Robert Cast Clark, Bonnie J. • On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado • Reviewed by Jason M. LaBelle Barker, Joanne • Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity • Reviewed by Jo Carrillo Regan, Paulette • Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada • Reviewed by Robyn Green Prussing, Erica • White Man\u27s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community • Reviewed by Paul Spicer Lehr, John, and David McDowell • Trailblazers: The Lives and Times of Michael Ewanchuk and Muriel (Smith) Ewanchuk • Reviewed by Denis Hlynka Pachirat, Timothy • Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight •Reviewed by Donald D. Stull. Pawley, Howard; Foreword by Paul Moist • Keep True: A Life in Politics • Reviewed by Kelly Saunders Sinner, George A Bud, and Bob Jansen; Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson • Turning Points: A Memoir • Reviewed by Stephen W. King Daum, Courtenay W., Robert J. Duffy, and John A Straayer, eds. • State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century • Reviewed by Robert R. Preuhs Hiler, Edward A, and Steven L. Bosserman • Together We Can: Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M • Reviewed by Theodore R. Alter NEWS AND NOTES ANNUAL INDE

Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal "enabling" ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book. With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat)

The Environmental Implications of Redistributive Land Reform

Acknowledgements Thank you to the two anonymous referees who commented on this piece. Conflict of interest The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.Peer reviewedPostprin