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Ecopopulism and environmental justice in eastern and south Europe
Presented at the Environmental justice in the Anthropocene symposium held on April 24-25, 2017 at the Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado. This symposium aims to bring together academics (faculty and graduate students), independent researchers, community and movement activists, and regulatory and policy practitioners from across disciplines, research areas, perspectives, and different countries. Our overarching goal is to build on several decades of EJ research and practice to address the seemingly intractable environmental and ecological problems of this unfolding era. How can we explore EJ amongst humans and between nature and humans, within and across generations, in an age when humans dominate the landscape? How can we better understand collective human dominance without obscuring continuing power differentials and inequities within and between human societies? What institutional and governance innovations can we adopt to address existing challenges and to promote just transitions and futures?I am dealing in this paper with the question of environmental and climate (in)justices in Eastern and South Europe (ESE). At first, I will refer the theoretical pillars of environmental justice and my statement is that there is an expanding sphere concerning environmentalism which has grounded the theory of climate justice. The environmental justice has been expanded to climate justice, because it increasingly addressed that the environmental and social conditions provide for individual and community needs and functioning and justice depends on the environmental conditions. It has been put forward here that populism could bring closer the importance of environmental and climate related disasters to the people’s everyday lives and experience. In the next part of this paper the connection of climate justice and social problems in ESE has been analyzed. The investigation elaborated here is based on a very important initiative called Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) and its Environmental Justice Atlas. I will focus on two main environmental and climate injustice caused challenges: the first one is the situation of the Roma communities in ESE, and the second one is the emerging case of fuel or energy poverty. It has been raised here that an elitist populist regime, for instance in Hungary, how can damage the case of environmental and climate justice with instituted biopower. I will conclude this paper that we need to (re)enhance the social nature of environmental problems and this will strengthen the environmental consciousness in ESE. The relating discourse of environmental and climate justice in ESE is need to be based on environmental identities constructed on ethnical and social solidarity. Finally, we should have a look on the biopolitical structure of modern State
Evaluation of the 2009 European Parliament Elections in Hungary
The 2009 elections for the European Union have been special for several reasons: on the one hand the world has been struggling with an economic crisis; on the other hand the Hungarian government has been in crisis since 2006.As for the second one, the opposition “converted” the elections to a referendum held on the recent work of the government. The predictions of the public opinion polls proved to be adequate: after sending nine representatives fi ve years ago, the Socialist Party this year could only get four places. Nevertheless the predictions of the opinion polls proved to be unpunctual, because only one-two places were expected to be taken by the far right party Jobbik. It succeeded in getting even three places though. (Only 31,36 % of the citizens voted, which also ‘deformed’ somewhat the situation.) The biggest opposition party Fidesz (56,36 %) received fourteen mandates, which could have been awaited because of the weakness of the government. The question remains though, how can Fidesz handle the far right voters, because Jobbik doesn’t want to belong to a big right-wing conglomerate. The tendencies mentioned above predict the rearrangement of the current Hungarian party system, namely the potential appearance of the far right powers. Although the Socialist party sustained a defeat at the elections and parallel to this the right wing could improve their strength, the elections did not turn to a domestic referendum: Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai was not forced to resign, moreover the minority governing Socialist fraction approved (with the votes of their former coalition partner) the laws most important for handling the crises after the defeat
A tecto-thalamo-nucleus caudatus rendszer anatómiai, élettani és funkcionális vizsgálata házimacskában és makákó majomban = Analysis of the Tecto-Thalamo-Caudate Nucleus System in the feline and macaque brain: Anatomy, Physiology, Function, and Possible Evolutionary Significance
Morfológiai kísérleteinkben igazoltuk a tecto-thalamo-corticalis tengely (colliculus superior (CS)-nucleus suprageniculatus (Sg)-anterior ectosylvius kéreg (AES)) és a bazális ganglionok anatómiai kapcsolatát. A substantia nigra pars reticularisból (SNr) érkező afferensek a Sg-ban kapcsolódnak át a nucleus caudatus (NC) felé. Hasonló módon a Sg az átkapcsoló állomás a CS-ból érkező afferensek és az AES kéreg között. Igazoltuk továbbá az AES asszociációs kéregrészből a NC-hoz futó direkt vizuális pályát is. Az egysejt aktivitások és a mezőpotenciálok keresztkorrelációs analízise is a NC és a felszálló tectofugális vizuális rendszer szoros kapcsolatát mutatta, amiben döntő szerepe van a hátsó thalamus Sg magjának. A felszálló tectofugalis rendszer időbeli és térbeli vizuális tulajdonságainak vizsgálatával igazoltuk, hogy a CS-ban, a NC-ben, a Sg-ban és az AES kéregben levő neuronok hatékony időbeli és térbeli szűrőként működnek az alacsony térbeli és magas időbeli frekvenciadoménen belül. Megszerkesztettük továbbá a NC neuronok spatio-temporalis spectralis receptív mezőit és igazoltuk a térbeli vizuális információ megosztott populációs kódját a NC-ban. Eredményeink szerint a felszálló tectofugális rendszer és a vele szoros kapcsolatban levő bazális ganglionok közös szereppel bírnak a mozgások és a sebesség érzékelésében, aktivitásuk a mozgások során bekövetkező szenzoros változásokat is tükrözi, és így hozzájárulnak a szenzomotoros működések koordinálásához. | In our morphological experiments we established the existence of anatomical connections between the superior colliculus (CS)- suprageniculate nucleus (Sg)- anterior ectosylvian cortex (AES) tecto-thalamo-cortical axis and the basal ganglia. Afferentation from the reticular part of the substantia nigra (SNr) is relayed toward the caudate nucleus (CN) via Sg. Likewise, Sg is a relay for afferentation of CS origin toward AES. A direct visual pathway from AES to CN has also been described. A cross-correlation analysis of single unit activity and local field potentials revealed a strong connection between CN and the ascending tectofugal visual system, in which Sg plays a major role. Through the analysis of the temporal and spatial visual response characteristics we verified that neuron sin CS, CN, Sg and AES act as temporal and spatial filters in the low spatial and high temporal frequency domain. The spatio-temporal spectral receptive field of CN neurons has been determined and the existence of distributed population coding within CN has been established. Our results suggest that the ascending tectofugal system and the basal ganglia detect motion and speed in strong interconnection, and their activity also reflects sensory changes during motion, therefore, they jointly support the coordination of sensorimotor functions
Reconstruction of binary matrices from fan-beam projections
The problem of the reconstruction of binary matrices from their fan-beam projections is investigated here. A fan-beam projection model is implemented and afterwards employed in systematic experiments to determine the optimal parameter values for a data acquisition and reconstruction algorithm. The fan-beam model, the reconstruction algorithm which uses the optimization method of Simulated Annealing, the simulation experiments, and the results are then discussed in turn
BERÜHRUNGSLOSE DREHMOMENTENMESSUNG FÜR EXTREM KLEINE MOMENTE
A precision instrument for the measurement of extremely small torques is shown in this
article. This apparatus works without loading the measured system, based on the principles of
the electrodynamics
The first synthesis of 3-deoxyoripavine and its utilization in the preparation of 10-deoxyaporphines and cyprodime
The synthesis of 3-deoxyoripavine (7) was realized as a novel
and promising intermediate towards the synthesis of the
important class of dopaminergic and/or serotonergic 10-
deoxyaporphines and the special pharmacological tool µ opioid
antagonist cyprodime. Generally, the preparation of these
valuable biologically active compounds was achieved in
remarkable yields
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