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Women, Equity and Participatory Water Management in Brazil
Public participation in resource management is regarded as a central pillar of sustain-
able development. Water management is a foremost example, and women globally are
prime users and protectors of water. Yet the effectiveness of participatory water man-
agement practices is seldom examined from a feminist perspective. This article estab-
lishes a methodological framework for such an inquiry, drawing on ecofeminist
theory and the Brazilian concept of ‘feminist transformative leadership’ to consider
gender, race and class aspects of participatory water management in Brazil.This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad
Women and Deliberative Water Management in Brazil
In this paper we consider some gender aspects of the evolution of water management in Brazil. In our work on women and water, we have been inspired by ecofeminist philosophy and the concept of 'feministThis research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad
Inertial-Hall effect: the influence of rotation on the Hall conductivity
Inertial effects play an important role in classical mechanics but have been
largely overlooked in quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, the analogy between
inertial forces on mass particles and electromagnetic forces on charged
particles is not new. In this paper, we consider a rotating non-interacting
planar two-dimensional electron gas with a perpendicular uniform magnetic field
and investigate the effects of the rotation in the Hall conductiv
Semiclassical back reaction around a cosmic dislocation
The energy-momentum vacuum average of a conformally coupled massless scalar
field vibrating around a cosmic dislocation (a cosmic string with a dislocation
along its axis) is taken as source of the linearized semiclassical Einstein
equations. The solution up to first order in the Planck constant is derived.
Motion of a test particle is then discussed, showing that under certain
circumstances a helical-like dragging effect, with no classical analogue around
the cosmic dislocation, is induced by back reaction.Comment: Published version, 4 pages, no figures, REVTeX4 fil
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