In philosophy, a quality (from Latin qualitas) is an attribute or a property. In contemporary philosophy the idea of qualities, and especially how to distinguish certain kinds of qualities from one an ...
According to Lombardo (2005), and Charlesworth (2005) it is reasonable to identify a few requirements and principles that make it possible to recognize gender mainstreaming:Gender equalityThis require ...
In relation to hazards and disasters, vulnerability is a concept that links the relationship that people have with their environment to social forces and institutions and the cultural values that sust ...
The concept of intersectionality came to the forefront of sociological circles in the late 1960s and early 1970s in conjunction with the multiracial feminist movement. It came as part of a critique of ...
Main article: Effects of global warmingThe projected effects for the environment and for civilization are numerous and varied. The main effect is an increasing global average temperature. The average ...
The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over long periods of time, regardless of cause. Accordingly, fluctuations ...
Climate change is a lasting variation in the global climate in response to natural and/or human factors. Climate change, and more specifically global warming, can cause glaciers to melt and sea levels ...
The Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) were introduced in the 1995 Human Development Report with growing international recognition for the importance of el ...
In 1995 in the Human Development Report commissioned by the United Nations Development Program set-out to create two new measurement indices for measuring development. Their aim was to add to the Huma ...
The GDI is often considered a “gender-sensitive extension of the HDI” (Klasen 245). It addresses gender-gaps in life expectancy, education, and incomes. It uses an “inequality aversion” penalty, w ...
GEM was first developed in 2002 and was tried and tested by thirty community-based organizations. Since then, hundreds of people have become involved in GEM's development including: people who develop ...
APC was founded in 1990 by:Institute for Global Communications (IGC), San Francisco;GreenNet, London;IBASE, Rio de Janeiro;Nicarao, Managua;Pegasus Networks, Byron Bay;Web Networks, Toronto;NordNet, S ...
The idea of an international organization for food and agriculture emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century, advanced primarily by the US agriculturalist and activist David Lubin. In May–June ...
World Conference on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990)The delegates of the conference adopted the World Declaration on Education for All.World Education Forum (Dakar, Senegal, 2000)In 2000, t ...
Indigenous education refers to the inclusion of indigenous knowledge, models, methods and content within formal and non-formal educational systems. Often in a post-colonial context, the growing recogn ...
