1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452575503321

Autore

Rindler Schjerve Rosita

Titolo

European Multilingualism : Current Perspectives and Challenges / / Rosita Rindler Schjerve, Eva Vetter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-282-13433-7

9786613806918

1-84769-736-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Multilingual Matters

Disciplina

306.44/6094

306.446094

404.2094

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Europe

Linguistic minorities - Europe

Language policy - Europe

Second language acquisition - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. European Multilingualism: Political Scope -- 2. European Multilingualism as a Field of Research -- 3. The LINEE Project -- 4. European Multilingualism Beyond LINEE -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a broad sociolinguistic perspective on major questions of political and cultural Europeanization. It is concerned with European multilingualism as it actually results from the intersecting endeavour of policy making and scientific research. This volume argues that the EU must overcome the major discrepancies of its linguistic diversity politics by developing into a multiple inclusive society beyond the nation-state in order to seriously unfold European multilingualism as a political goal. Expanding on the theoretical and methodological



approaches developed within the EU project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), this book further focuses on the LINEE key variables of European multilingualism i.e. 'culture', 'discourse', 'identity', 'ideology', 'knowledge', 'LPP', 'multi-competence', and 'power & conflict'. Against this background, this study argues for reconceptualising European multilingualism on the basis of an integrative and multi-focal approach.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785088103321

Autore

Pickford Andrew T. W.

Titolo

Road user charging and electronic toll collection / / Andrew T.W. Pickford, Philip T. Blythe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Artech House, , ©2006

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2006]

ISBN

1-58053-859-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Artech House ITS series

Altri autori (Persone)

BlythePhilip T

Disciplina

388.1/14

Soggetti

Electronics in transportation

Motor vehicles - Automatic location systems

Tolls

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Road User Charging and Electronic Toll Collection; Contents vii; Acknowledgments xv; Chapter 1 Introduction to Road User Charging 1; Chapter 2 Road User Charging and Toll Collection 11; Chapter 3 Technology Options for Charging 49; Chapter 4 Technology Options for Enforcement 97; Chapter 5 Vehicle Detection and Classification 133; Chapter 6 Central System 161; Chapter 7 Assembling the Pieces 195; Chapter 8 Case Studies 243; Chapter 9 Future Developments 293; Glossary 333; About the Authors 349; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is your road map to today's technologies, systems, regulatory issues, and pricing schemes for electronic toll collection and road-user charging. This authoritative book lets you cut through the maze of



available solutions and design options, so you can match the right technology to your policy needs. It clearly steers you through pricing and traffic management principles to easily establish and evolve policies and pricing schemes. The book also provides you with easy-to-follow end-to-end steps in system planning, technology selection, procurement and operations.nnThis practical resource teaches you ways to implement an effective enforcement regime, while obeying laws on user privacy and balancing costs with returns. You find expert guidance on the charging process and technologies, vehicle classification, standards and regulatory environments, and back-office operations. The book presents case studies and best practice examples from around the world showing successful local, regional, and cross-border policies for tolling, road use pricing and traffic demand management. The book provides not only a valuable information source for government officials and industry staff but also an essential reference text for postgraduate and undergraduate students alike.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910768456103321

Autore

Villanueva Ulfgard Rebecka

Titolo

Mexico and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda : Unsustainable and Non-Transformative / / by Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031447280

303144728X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Collana

Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America, , 2569-1333

Disciplina

338.97207

Soggetti

Sustainability

International relations

International economic relations

International Relations

International Political Economy'

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Framing Mexico's Unsustainable and Non-transformative Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with López Obrador -- Chapter 2: People-centered Development: SDG1 in Focus -- Chapter 3: Planet-centered Development: SDG7, SDG9, and SDG15 in Focus -- Chapter 4: Peace-centered Development: SDG16 in Focus -- Chapter 5: Conclusions and Future Research Avenues.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how and why Mexico's approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico's "Fourth Transformation". Approached as a super mantra revolving around "Republican Austerity" and "First, the poor", it provides original analysis of structural and conjunctural challenges facing Mexico as regards People-, Planet-, and Peace-centered development. The book reveals the promise "First, the poor" is inconsistent with data on Mexico's poverty reduction (SDG1). Despite record-high spending on social programs and unmatched coverage, the recent tendency of improvement in tackling poverty is rather ambiguous from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. The book covers access to clean energy (SDG7), resilient infrastructure and sustainable industrialization (SDG9), and safeguarding biodiversity (SDG15) by examining three megaproject case studies: the oil refinery Dos Bocas, the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the Maya Train, generating concern with the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainable development. The prospects for an 'enabling environment' for SDG implementation are hampered by persistently high levels of homicides and impunity (SDG16). Turning Mexico's Armed Forces into 'first development partner of choice' is problematized as regards their reach in infrastructure megaprojects and social welfare programs, in the overall context of the 'de-risking state' favoring private capital. The result, as determined by Villanueva Ulfgard, has led Mexico further astray from sustainable and transformative development. Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard is Associate Professor in International Studies at the Instituto Mora, Mexico City.