A study about social exclusion in the area of Caudal in the Principality of Asturias (Spain)

En el artículo se describe y comenta una experiencia práctica de análisis del perfil de exclusión social en la comarca del Caudal del Principado de Asturias. A modo de introducción se comentan las principales funciones de los E.T.S.S., la normativa sobre exclusión más relevante y algunos datos significativos que permiten caracterizar dicha comarca. A continuación se hace un repaso teórico acerca de los conceptos de pobreza, marginación y exclusión social y se comentan las principales políticas de inclusión social en el ámbito nacional y especialmente en el Principado de Asturias. Por último, se describen los mecanismos de recogida de información en la elaboración de un perfil de exclusión social en el área y se comentan algunos aspectos significativos del mismo.___________________________________________________This article describes and analyses a practical experience on the study of social exclusion in the Area of Caudal in The Principality of Asturias (Spain). It presents the most important aims of the E.T.T.S., social exclusion legislation and some significant data about the Area of Caudal. It also includes a brief review on theoretical concepts such as poverty, social exclusion and marginalisation; and some comments on the main social-inclusion politics at the national and regional levels. The article concludes with a description of the methodology used to gather information about the social exclusion profile in the Area and a discussion of some significant aspects about it

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Role of the Spanish scientific community in the initial assessment and management of the environmental damages caused by the "Prestige" oil spill

Aceptado en "Marine Policy" el 23/03/2005The role of the Spanish scientific community in the initial assessment of the environmental and socioeconomic damages caused by the Prestige oil spill is analysed. A discussion of the reasons for the failures in the response of the scientific community is presented, highlighting that despite the existence of adequate human capital and infrastructures, failures were related to the weakness of the structures and organisational capacity of the scientific institutions and the public administration. Some developments for an effective response to future catastrophes are proposed: (1) oceanographic and ecological models, including scientific and local knowledge; (2) management systems for scientific information; (3) organisational and incentive systems to allow the creation of temporary, large and well-organised multidisciplinary teams; (4) protocols for rapid, ‘‘real-time’’, damage assessments; and (5) participation of different social groups (NGOs, fishers’ organisations, aquaculture industry or volunteer groups) in plans for the assessment and management of crise

Exclusion and neoliberalism in the education system: socio-educational intervention strategies for an inclusive education system

Not only numerous academic and empirical studies recognise the educational factor as decisive on life and work trajectories, but also its integrating potential and role in the promotion of social cohesion are widely acknowledged. The diversity of current societies, the economic situation and the impact of neoliberal policies represent new challenges for an inclusive education that should maintain its integrating potential, especially in countries such as Spain. This opens two unavoidable approaches and reflection spaces. The first one, regarding the fight against social inequality and the second one, focused on the construction of a socially sustainable educational model against the hegemonic neoliberal impact. Both levels of reflection are the pillars of an inclusive education system. This article combines an analytical and reflective approach to these issues recommending a series of intervention experiences and strategies for the construction of an inclusive educational model

Biopolitical devices of social integration: The business of education for the poor

Los programas de ingresos mínimos son actuaciones públicas esenciales en la lucha contra la pobreza en la Unión Europa. En este artículo pretendemos mostrar las características de las políticas de ingresos mínimos de lucha contra la pobreza y de las actuaciones formativas vinculadas a ellas en el caso de España. Partiendo de una estrategia analítica basada en los planteamientos de Michel Foucault, analizamos los discursos hegemónicos en estos programas de ingresos mínimos: el discurso social-liberal y el discurso neoliberal. Para ello utilizamos las nociones de racionalidad política y de la sintomatología social. A través de este análisis discursivo encontramos que, en las actuaciones de lucha contra la exclusión social, la educación se configura como una inversión individual para el fomento de la empleabilidad, como un elemento para reivindicar la responsabilidad individual del sujeto en su propio proceso de integración social y como un espacio susceptible de rentabilidad económica mediante su configuración como un cuasimercado educativo. A su vez, y este es uno de los principales resultados de este trabajo, se identifica un emergente discurso hegemónico en la lucha contra la pobreza. Un discurso fruto de la hibridación de los discursos social y neoliberal, que hemos denominado Educación como “santa neocruzada” contra la pobrezaThe minimum income programs are essential public actions in the fight against poverty in the European Union. In this article, we intend to show the characteristics of the minimum income policies for the fight against poverty and the training activities linked to them in the case of Spain. Starting from an analytical strategy based on the approaches of Michel Foucault, we analyze the hegemonic discourses in these minimum income programs: the social-liberal discourse and the neoliberal discourse. For this we use the notions of political rationality and the social symptomatology. Through this discursive analysis we find that, in the actions of struggle against social exclusion, education is configured as an individual investment for the promotion of employability, as an element to claim the individual responsibility of the subject in its own integration process social and as a space susceptible of economic profitability through its configuration as an educational quasi-market. In turn, and this is one of the main results of this work, an emergent hegemonic discourse is identified in the fight against poverty. A discourse resulting from the hybridization of social and neoliberal discourses, which we have called Education as a "neo-crippled saint" against povert

Nonlocal electron heat flux revisited

A known nonlocal model of electron heat flux, applying for (scale length/thermal ion-electron mean-free path) of order Z)1/2(e*/T)312, ionization number Z, large, and e*~ 6.5 T (the energy of electrons carrying most of the flux), is reconsidered. The large e*/T ratio simplifies the complete formalism. A simple flux formula, exact for both smooth and steep profiles, is given. Thermoelectric effects and other models are discussed