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PIMA BULLETIN NO 47 APRIL 2023 - SPECIAL ISSUE Honouring Chris Duke

This Special Issue of the PIMA Bulletin is to recognise and honour Chris Duke, who has stepped down as founding PIMA Bulletin Editor, after seven years. Under Chris' watch 45 Issues of the PIMA Bulletin have been published. An outstanding achievement. They are all archived and easily accessible on the PIMA website www.pimanetwork.com/bulletins. They are an amazing resource for all scholars, activists, practitioners of ALE within lifelong learning perspectives and approaches.

Education and the Quality of Thought about Urban Problems - The Urban Lens Newsletter

“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them". 
Albert Einstein

In addition to environmental issues such as global warming, several important sets of problems face urban America.  For one, housing affordability is a major challenge in more than a few urban areas, as are high levels of crime and violence, racial and social inequality, traffic congestion, limited public transportation options, inadequate infrastructure and income inequality.

15-minute cities: responding to the conspiracy theorists | Policies for Places

Oxford and Canterbury, 2 historic cities among several others in the UK who are developing policies to introduce a 15-minute city approach to their future development plans, are running into a barrage of criticism from conspiracy theorists who claim that such proposals amount to ‘environmental lockdown’ designed to confine people to within a certain distance from their homes, and a plot to attack personal freedoms.

What's a City to Do? (About Global Warming) | The Urban Lens Newsletter

Until recently, international and national agencies have played the most visible roles in dealing with global warming.  International and national agencies funded decades of scientific research that transformed our understanding of Earth’s climate systems. The United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is now the most authoritative source of scientific consensus about global warming.  The IPCC’s most recent Synthesis Report (AR6), released just last month, begins with the following statement:

NEP-SOC 2023-04-10, nine papers

In this issue we feature 9 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

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