Download or read book La opci n por los pobres an lisis critico de sus posibilidades y limitaciones en un mundo globalizado written by Castro and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El hilo conductor de este capítulo es el análisis crítico de las posibilidades y limitaciones de la opción por los pobres, en el contexto de un mundo globalizado. Sin embargo, el abordaje metodológico y teórico del tema merece algunas acotaciones. En este sentido, algunos interrogantes saltan a la vista: cuando nos referimos a las potencialidades de la opción por los pobres en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, ¿nos encontramos frente a un fenómeno cuyo significado y trascendencia se agota solamente, desde y a través de la reflexión puramente teológica? ¿Qué tan pertinente es hoy el discurso de la liberación, en tanto lectura crítica e integral de la pobreza y de la exclusión social? ¿Podría hablarse de un desgaste de la praxis liberacionista a la luz de los cambios recientes en la conducción doctrinal y dogmática de la Iglesia católica? Desde la Iglesia oficial, ¿existe, en este momento, un discurso alternativo al de la Teología de la Liberación en lo que respecta, específicamente, al compromiso evangélico de lucha contra la injusticia, la pobreza y la exclusión social? ¿Qué importancia crucial tiene este escrutinio hoy, tanto para las comunidades eclesiales de base como para la jerarquía vaticana? ¿En qué medida se puede hablar de un discurso evangélico de la liberación secularizado? ¿De qué se trata todo este ejercicio analítico y crítico con respecto a la opción por los pobres? ¿Frente a qué tipo de cuestionamiento estamos: teológico, sociológico o ideológico?
Download or read book A Revolutionary Faith written by Raúl E. Zegarra and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious commitments can be a powerful engine for progressive social change, and in this new book, Raúl E. Zegarra examines the process of articulation of religious beliefs and political concerns that takes place in religious organizing and activism. Focusing on the example of Latin American liberation theology and the work of Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Zegarra shows how liberation theology advocates have been able to produce a new balance between faith and politics that advances an agenda of progressive social change without reducing politics to faith or faith to politics. Drawing from theologian David Tracy's method of critical correlation, the book focuses on key historical, philosophical, and theological shifts that have allowed liberation theologians to produce a new interpretation of the relationship between faith and politics in the Christian tradition, especially when issues of social justice are at stake. The book further approaches liberation theology's contributions to theorizing social justice through an unconventional path: a critical dialogue with the work of philosopher John Rawls. This dialogue, as Zegarra contends, allows us to see more clearly the contributions of liberation theology to the cause of progressive social change. Ultimately the book stands between "public religion" and "public reason," offering something of a blueprint for theological innovation and for how to remain committed to one's faith while respecting and defending the core values of democracy.
Download or read book La opci n por los pobres en la era de la globalizaci n written by Juan Diego Ortiz Acosta and published by Universidad de Guadalajara. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sobre la opci n por los pobres written by Leonardo Boff and published by Editorial Abya Yala. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opción por los pobres : síntesis doctrinal / Julio Lois / - Opción de los pobres y Dios de los pobres / Jorge Pixley / - Opción de los pobres y seguimiento de Jesús / Jon Sobrino / - Opción de los pobres y espiritualidad / Pedro Casaldáliga / - Opción de los pobres, ¿preferencial y no excluyente? / José María Vigil / - Opción de los pobres y geopolítica / Giulio Girardi / - Opción de los pobres, conflicto social y amor a los enemigos / Albert Nolan / - Opción de los pobres y vida religiosa / Víctor Codina / - Opción de los pobres y teología de la liberación / Leonardo Boff.
Download or read book Pobreza written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Qu queda de la opci n por los pobres written by José María Vigil and published by . This book was released on 1993* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El equipo de análisis y reflexión teológica presenta este estudio sobre un tema importante desde nuestros criterios y prioridades: la opción por el pobre, histórica, bíblica y teológicamente analizada por José María Vigil.
Download or read book La verdad no escuchada written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “IRENE argumenta de forma convincente que el situar los derechos humanos en el foco de la lucha para la erradicación de la pobreza nos ayudará a lograr esa meta.” Kofi Annan, ex secretario general de Naciones Unidas, prólogo de esta edición “La pobreza constituye la peor crisis mundial de derechos humanos y este libro plantea de un modo contundente no solo por qué debemos cambiar las cosas, sino también cómo podemos hacerlo.” Mary Robinson, ex presidenta de Irlanda y alta comisionada de la ONU para los derechos humanos “Lectura obligada para quien pretenda verdaderamente acabar con la pobreza: KHAN defi ende que ninguna solución funcionará a menos que empodere a los pobres del planeta para que tracen su propio futuro.” Hernando de Soto, miembro de la Comisión para el Empoderamiento Legal de los Pobres “Una crítica bien argumentada del pensamiento dominante sobre el desarrollo y la pobreza. El lenguaje evita la jerga académica, sin dejar de ser conceptualmente riguroso y preciso.” Sakiko Fukuda Parr, catedrática de Asuntos Internacionales en The New School A pesar del crecimiento económico que ha tenido lugar prácticamente en cada rincón del mundo durante la última década, millones de seres humanos viven todavía en la pobreza. IRENE KHAN afi rma que los análisis económicos no proporcionan un retrato completo y que las soluciones económicas no pueden, por sí solas, acabar con el problema. Con un razonamiento persuasivo, que se nutre de sus experiencias personales y de casos reales documentados alrededor del globo, KHAN percibe la pobreza como la peor crisis mundial de derechos humanos porque atrapa a las personas en un círculo vicioso de privaciones, inseguridad, exclusión e imposibilidad para hacerse oír. Sostiene que el empoderamiento de los pobres constituye el principal desafío y llama urgente y apasionadamente a la acción para defender los derechos humanos en la lucha contra la pobreza. IRENE KHAN ha sido la primera mujer y la primera persona de origen asiático en ocupar el cargo de secretaria general de Amnistía Internacional. Ha recibido numerosos y prestigiosos premios por su liderazgo en el ámbito de los derechos humanos y su trabajo para acabar con la violencia contra las mujeres, incluido el Premio de la Paz de Sidney, en 2006. Vive entre Londres, Reino Unido, y Dacca,
Download or read book Qualitative Choice Analysis written by Kenneth Train and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two significant research areas in an interdependent fashion. It is first of all a comprehensive but concise text that covers the recently developed and widely applicable methods of qualitative choice analysis, illustrating the general theory through simulation models of automobile demand and use. It is also a detailed study of automobile demand and use, presenting forecasts based on these powerful new techniques. The book develops the general principles that underlie qualitative choice models that are now being applied in numerous fields in addition to transportation, such as housing, labor, energy, communications, and criminology. The general form, derivation, and estimation of qualitative choice models are explained, and the major models - logit, probit, and GEV - are discussed in detail. And continuous/discrete models are introduced. In these, qualitative choice methods and standard regression techniques are combined to analyze situations that neither alone can accurately forecast. Summarizing previous research on auto demand, the book shows how qualitative choice methods can be used by applying them to specific auto-related decisions as the aggregate of individuals' choices. The simulation model that is constructed is a significant improvement over older models, and should prove more useful to agencies and organizations requiring accurate forecasting of auto demand and use for planning and policy development. The book concludes with an actual case study based on a model designed for the investigations of the California Energy Commission. Kenneth Train is Visiting Associate Professor in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Economic Research at Cambridge Systematics, Inc., also in Berkeley. Qualitative Choice Analysisis included in The MIT Press Transportation Studies Series, edited by Marvin L. Manheim.
Download or read book Optimal Regulation written by Kenneth Train and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimal Regulation addresses the central issue of regulatory economics - how toregulate firms in a way that induces them to produce and price "optimally." It synthesizes the majorfindings of an extensive theoretical literature on what constitutes optimality in various situationsand which regulatory mechanisms can be used to achieve it. It is the first text to provide aunified, modern, and nontechnical treatment of the field.The book includes models for regulatingoptimal output, tariffs, and surplus subsidy schemes, and presents all of the material graphically,with clear explanations of often highly technical topics.Kenneth E. Train is Associate AdjunctProfessor in the Department of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. He is also Principal of the firm Cambridge Systematics.Topics include: Thecost structure of natural monopoly (economies of scale and scope). Characterization of firstandsecond-best optimality. Surplus subsidy schemes for attaining first-best optimality. Ramsey pricesand the Vogelsang-Finsinger mechanism for attaining them. Time-ofuse (TOU) prices and Riordan'smechanisms for attaining the optimal TOU prices' Multipart and self-selecting tariffs, and Sibley'smethod for using self-selecting tariffs to achieve optimality. The Averch-Johnson model of howrate-of-return regulation induces inefficiencies. Analysis of regulation based on the firm's returnon Output, costs, or sales. Price-cap regulation. Regulatory treatment of uncertainty and its impacton the firm's behavior. Methods of attaining optimality without direct regulation (contestability,auctioning the monopoly franchise.)
Download or read book Gender Women and Health in the Americas written by Elsa Gómez Gómez and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ending Child Poverty written by Combat Poverty Agency and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on 2005 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics written by Chi-Sing Man and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his voluminous and in?uential writings, editorial activities, organi- tional leadership, intellectual acumen, and strong sense of history, Clifford - brose Truesdell III (1919–2000) was the main architect for the renaissance of - tional continuum mechanics since the middle of the twentieth century. The present collection of 42 essays and research papers pays tribute to this man of mathematics, science, and natural philosophy as well as to his legacy. The ?rst ?ve essays by B. D. Coleman, E. Giusti, W. Noll, J. Serrin, and D. Speiser were texts of addresses given by their authors at the Meeting in memory of Clifford Truesdell, which was held in Pisa in November 2000. In these essays the reader will ?nd personal reminiscences of Clifford Truesdell the man and of some of his activities as scientist, author, editor, historian of exact sciences, and principal founding member of the Society for Natural Philosophy. The bulk of the collection comprises 37 research papers which bear witness to the Truesdellian legacy. These papers cover a wide range of topics; what ties them together is the rational spirit. Clifford Truesdell, in his address upon receipt of a Birkhoff Prize in 1978, put the essence of modern continuum mechanics succinctly as “conceptual analysis, analysis not in the sense of the technical term but in the root meaning: logical criticism, dissection, and creative scrutiny.
Download or read book Water Reuse written by Metcalf & Eddy, Inc., an AECOM Company and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Integrated Approach to Managing the World's Water Resources Water Reuse: Issues, Technologies, and Applications equips water/wastewater students, engineers, scientists, and professionals with a definitive account of the latest water reclamation, recycling, and reuse theory and practice. This landmark textbook presents an integrated approach to all aspects of water reuse _ from public health protection to water quality criteria and regulations to advanced technology to implementation issues. Filled with over 500 detailed illustrations and photographs, Water Reuse: Issues, Technology, and Applications features: In-depth coverage of cutting-edge water reclamation and reuse applications Current issues and developments in public health and environmental protection criteria, regulations, and risk management Review of current advanced treatment technologies, new developments, and practices Special emphasis on process reliability and multiple barrier concepts approach Consideration of satellite and decentralized water reuse facilities Consideration of planning and public participation of water reuse Inside This Landmark Water/Wastewater Management Tool • Water Reuse: An Introduction • Health and Environmental Concerns in Water Reuse • Technologies and Systems for Water Reclamation and Reuse • Water Reuse Applications • Implementing Water Reuse
Download or read book A New roadmap for the Man and the Biosphere MAB Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible written by Michael Lieb and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history of interpretation. In doing so it locates the dominant historical-critical scholarly paradigm within the history of interpretation, rather than over and above it. At the same time, the breadth of material and hermeneutical issues that reception history engages with questions any narrow understanding of the history of the Bible and its effects on faith communities. The challenge that reception history faces is to explore tradition without either reducing its meaning to what faith communities think is important, or merely offering anthologies of interesting historical interpretations. This major new handbook addresses these matters by presenting reception history as an enterprise (not a method) that questions and understands tradition afresh. The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible consciously allows for the interplay of the traditional and the new through a two-part structure. Part I comprises a set of essays surveying the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular key biblical passages or books with due regard for the specificity of their social, cultural or aesthetic context. These case studies span two millennia of interpretation by readers with widely differing perspectives. Some are at the level of a group response (from Gnostic readings of Genesis, to Post-Holocaust Jewish interpretations of Job); others examine individual approaches to texts (such as Augustine and Pelagius on Romans, or Gandhi on the Sermon on the Mount). Several chapters examine historical moments, such as the 1860 debate over Genesis and evolution, while others look to wider themes such as non-violence or millenarianism. Further chapters study in detail the works of popular figures who have used the Bible to provide inspiration for their creativity, from Dante and Handel, to Bob Dylan and Dan Brown.
Download or read book Biological Wastewater Treatment written by Mogens Henze and published by IWA Publishing (International Water Assoc). This book was released on 1881 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For information on the online course in Biological Wastewater Treatment from UNESCO-IHE, visit: http://www.iwapublishing.co.uk/books/biological-wastewater-treatment-online-course-principles-modeling-and-design Over the past twenty years, the knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment have advanced extensively and moved away from empirically-based approaches to a first principles approach embracing chemistry, microbiology, physical and bioprocess engineering, and mathematics. Many of these advances have matured to the degree that they have been codified into mathematical models for simulation with computers. For a new generation of young scientists and engineers entering the wastewater treatment profession, the quantity, complexity and diversity of these new developments can be overwhelming, particularly in developing countries where access is not readily available to advanced level tertiary education courses in wastewater treatment. Biological Wastewater Treatment addresses this deficiency. It assembles and integrates the postgraduate course material of a dozen or so professors from research groups around the world that have made significant contributions to the advances in wastewater treatment. The book forms part of an internet-based curriculum in biological wastewater treatment which also includes: Summarized lecture handouts of the topics covered in book Filmed lectures by the author professors Tutorial exercises for students self-learning Upon completion of this curriculum the modern approach of modelling and simulation to wastewater treatment plant design and operation, be it activated sludge, biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal, secondary settling tanks or biofilm systems, can be embraced with deeper insight, advanced knowledge and greater confidence.
Download or read book Gender Care and Economics written by Jean Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radical critique of mainstream, Marxist and feminist economic theories, ranging from the classical liberal economics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the feminist debates about domestic labour and patriarchy in the late twentieth century. It explores the increasing importance of household care relations, especially childcare, in shaping the domestic labour process. Trends in household gender relations and working patterns in Britain are explored in the context of political ideas and policies regarding the state, the economy, gender and care.
