1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910416497403321

Autore

Finiguerra Anna

Titolo

Vulnerable Solidarities: Identity, Spatiality and the Contentious Politics of Migration / / Anna Finiguerra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genève, : Graduate Institute Publications, 2020

ISBN

2-940600-17-1

Soggetti

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Political Science  Public Admin. & Development

International Relations

Political Science

Public Administration

Social Work & Social Policy

migration and refugees

migration policy

Schengen Agreement

non-state actors and civil society

democracy

governance

nationalism

humanitarian action

immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Although there has been a wide range of political responses to migration in Europe, scholarly analyses have shown that state and humanitarian responses have regardless done little to foster the integration of mobile people into host societies, resulting instead in a politics of exclusion. Resistance to such policies has taken the form of independent camps and solidary spaces. Although most analyses of



informal camps agree on their emancipatory potential, the same studies have revealed that these realities can also reproduce existing relations of power. Are solidary spaces conducive to participatory politics? If so, how do activists and migrants construct their own identities in the struggle, and how do they translate them into practice? What power dynamics are re-inscribed in their action? My research will attempt to answer these questions through a case study of Ventimiglia, a town at the Franco-Italian border, and the waves of solidarity activism that have taken place there from 2015 to the present. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master’s dissertations.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910674024803321

Autore

Bergeron Yves

Titolo

Fire Regimes : Spatial and Temporal Variability and Their Effects on Forests / / Yves Bergeron, Sylvie Gauthier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 421 pages)

Disciplina

634.92

Soggetti

Forest management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Fire regimes (occurrence, cycle, severity, size, etc.) are key factors in many forest ecosystems, as they are often critical drivers of forest composition, dynamics, and ecosystem processes. Fire regimes vary in space and time according to climatic, physical and biological factors. A better understanding of the interacting factors controlling fire regimes may contribute to improving fire and forest management and their future projection in the context of global change. Knowledge of how fire regimes affect natural landscapes is also used in forestry as a



template to manage the forest for wood production. This approach, keeping biodiversity and ecological processes associated with natural fire regimes, may also help in maintaining forest productivity and resilience in the face of climate change. This Special Issue aims to synthesize current understanding of factors affecting fire regime characteristics, to present recent research on fire regimes and their effects on forest ecosystems, and to illustrate how this knowledge could be translated into forest or fire management strategies in the context of global change.