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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Graduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

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    Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the industrial revolution — as well as industrialisation under state-led socialism — the consequences of climate change are especially profound for the countryside and its inhabitants. The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings, highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It explores how different people — in relation to class and other co-constituted axes of social difference such as gender, race, ethnicity, age and occupation — are affected by climate change, as well as the climate adaptation and mitigation responses being implemented in rural areas. The book in turn explores how climate change – and the responses to it - affect processes of social differentiation, trajectories of accumulation and in turn agrarian politics. Finally, the book examines what strategies are required to confront climate change, and the underlying political-economic dynamics that cause it, reflecting on what this means for agrarian struggles across the world. The 26 chapters in this volume explore how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world and, in particular, the way agrarian struggles connect with the huge challenge of climate change. Through a huge variety of case studies alongside more conceptual chapters, the book makes the often-missing connection between climate change and critical agrarian studies. The book argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial

    2023-2024 Catalog

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    The 2023-2024 Governors State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog is a comprehensive listing of current information regarding:Degree RequirementsCourse OfferingsUndergraduate and Graduate Rules and Regulation

    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2022-2023

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    ETHICAL EVALUATION IN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: ART, ANIMAL-VISITOR INTERACTIONS AND EMERGENCIES IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION

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    Nell’attuale crisi globale della biodiversità è sempre più cruciale valutare le questioni eticamente rilevanti e considerare la natura pluralistica della conservazione della biodiversità. L'etica della conservazione fornisce strumenti per eseguire tali valutazioni e assistere nei processi decisionali. La tesi di questo dottorato di ricerca presenta studi in cui vengono utilizzati strumenti per eseguire valutazioni etiche e multidisciplinari per valutare progetti di conservazione e gestione della fauna selvatica. Pertanto, questo lavoro di dottorato mostra tre diverse aree di applicazione dell'etica della conservazione: Conservation ART, le interazioni animale-visitatore e le sfide nella gestione della fauna selvatica durante l'emergenza COVID-19. Nella prima sezione, la valutazione etica è stata applicata nel contesto del progetto BioRescue, in cui le tecnologie di riproduzione assistita (ART) sono utilizzate nello sforzo di salvare il rinoceronte bianco settentrionale (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) dall’estinzione. Le tecnologie di riproduzione assistita possono fare la differenza nella conservazione della biodiversità, ma la loro applicazione può sollevare questioni eticamente rilevanti che necessitano di essere affrontate. Pertanto, in primo luogo, è stata utilizzata la Matrice Etica (EM) per presentare un quadro per l'analisi etica dell'applicazione delle procedure ART nella conservazione. L'EM, anche se specificamente costruita attorno alle procedure di prelievo di ovociti (OPU) effettuate su rinoceronti bianchi, ha permesso di raggruppare i fattori eticamente rilevanti, identificare e valutare complessi scenari morali in cui diversi bisogni, interessi e preoccupazioni etiche possono entrare in conflitto e fornire infine un modello per la valutazione delle procedure ART in progetti che coinvolgono altre specie in via di estinzione. In seguito, viene presentato un nuovo strumento di valutazione etica (ETHAS) specificamente sviluppato per valutare l’applicazione delle procedure ART in conservazione, e vengono illustrati i risultati delle prime applicazioni. ETHAS, con le sue due liste checklist che lo compongono, permette di effettuare un'autovalutazione integrata, multilivello e standardizzata della procedura in esame, generando una classifica di accettabilità etica e consentendo l'attuazione di misure per affrontare o gestire eventuali problemi in anticipo. ETHAS, specificatamente customizzato per l'OPU e le procedure di fecondazione in vitro eseguite sul rinoceronte bianco settentrionale, hanno permesso di garantire un elevato standard delle procedure, migliorare alcuni aspetti della comunicazione tra i partner del progetto e migliorare lo strumento stesso al fine di essere applicato nel prossimo futuro ad altri contesti in cui le ART vengono utilizzate per la conservazione di altre specie di mammiferi. Nell'ultimo studio presentato nella prima sezione, la matrice etica, l'albero decisionale e il cubo di Bateson sono stati adattati per assistere nell'analisi etica di un complesso scenario relativo alla decisione se continuare o meno la raccolta di biomateriale sul più anziano dei due rimanenti rinoceronti bianchi settentrionali, Najin. Strutturando questi strumenti per implementare le diverse dimensioni di valore (ambientale, sociale e benessere animale) coinvolte nell'etica della conservazione, è stato possibile raccogliere pro e contro, confrontare le diverse opzioni e stabilire una soglia di accettabilità etica. L'applicazione degli strumenti è stata fondamentale per strutturare il processo decisionale e aiutare a raggiungere la decisione condivisa, ragionata e trasparente di sospendere Najin da qualsiasi ulteriore procedura di prelievo di ovociti. L'etica della conservazione può anche aiutare ad esplorare le questioni etiche riguardanti la gestione della fauna selvatica durante le interazioni animale-visitatore (AVI) che si svolgono nelle strutture zoologiche. A questo proposito, la Sezione 2In the global biodiversity crisis, it is increasingly crucial to evaluate ethically relevant issues and consider the pluralistic nature of biodiversity conservation. Conservation ethics provides tools to perform such evaluation and assist in the decision-making processes. This Ph.D. thesis presents studies in which ethical tools are used to perform ethical evaluation and multidisciplinary assessments to approach conservation projects and wildlife management. Three different areas of application of conservation ethics are discussed: Conservation ART, animal-visitor interactions, and challenges in wildlife management during the COVID-19 emergency. In the first area, ethical evaluation has been applied in the context of the BioRescue project, an international project in which assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) are used in the effort to save the endangered northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). Assisted reproductive technologies can make a difference in biodiversity conservation, but their application can raise ethical issues that need to be addressed. Therefore, firstly, an Ethical Matrix (EM) has been used to present a framework for the ethical analysis of the application of ART procedures in conservation. The EM, specifically built around the ovum pick-up (OPU) procedures carried out on white rhinoceros, allowed to collect ethically relevant factors to identify issues and value conflicts, evaluates complex moral scenarios where different needs, interests, and ethical concerns may conflict, and provides a template for the assessment of ART procedures in projects involving endangered species. Therefore, a new ethical evaluation tool (ETHAS) specifically developed to assess ART procedures in conservation is presented, and the first application results are reported. ETHAS, with its two checklists, provides an integrated, multilevel, and standardized self-assessment of the procedure under scrutiny, generating an ethical acceptability ranking and allowing for implementing measures to address or manage issues beforehand. ETHAS customized for OPU and in vitro fertilization procedures performed on the northern white rhinoceros allowed for ensuring a high standard of procedures, improving some aspects of the communication among the projects’ partners, and improving the tool itself, in order to be applied in the near future to other contexts in which ARTs are applied for the conservation of other mammal species. Finally, in the last study presented in the first section, the ethical matrix, decision tree, and Bateson’s cube have been adapted to assist in the ethical analysis of a complex conservation scenarios relative to the decision regarding whether or not to continue collecting biomaterial on the oldest of the two remaining northern white rhinoceroses. By structuring these tools to implement the different value dimensions (environmental, social, and animal welfare) involved in conservation ethics, it has been possible to gather ethical pros and cons, compare the different options at stake, and establish a threshold of ethical acceptability. The application of the tools was pivotal in structuring the decision-making process and helping reach the shared, reasoned, and the transparent decision to discontinue Najin from any further oocyte collection procedures. Conservation ethics can also assist in exploring the ethical issues concerning wildlife management during animal-visitor interactions (AVI). In this regard, Section 2 of this thesis presents studies concerning AVIs. Firstly, a participatory process has been followed with an Ethical Matrix to explore welfare and management issues related to AVIs. The inclusion of the stakeholders' perspectives allowed to record all the value demands concerning AVI and provide a map of the ethically relevant aspects involved. This map shows how the ethical acceptability of AVIs is linked to different relevant issues like animal welfare, education, and biodiversit

    Current issues of the management of socio-economic systems in terms of globalization challenges

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    The authors of the scientific monograph have come to the conclusion that the management of socio-economic systems in the terms of global challenges requires the use of mechanisms to ensure security, optimise the use of resource potential, increase competitiveness, and provide state support to economic entities. Basic research focuses on assessment of economic entities in the terms of global challenges, analysis of the financial system, migration flows, logistics and product exports, territorial development. The research results have been implemented in the different decision-making models in the context of global challenges, strategic planning, financial and food security, education management, information technology and innovation. The results of the study can be used in the developing of directions, programmes and strategies for sustainable development of economic entities and regions, increasing the competitiveness of products and services, decision-making at the level of ministries and agencies that regulate the processes of managing socio-economic systems. The results can also be used by students and young scientists in the educational process and conducting scientific research on the management of socio-economic systems in the terms of global challenges
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