DSpace Collection:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/7512024-03-29T01:57:10Z2024-03-29T01:57:10ZExploring connections between social innovation, grassroots processes and human development: an analysis of alternative food netwoks in the city of Valencia (Spain)Pellicer Sifres, Victoriahttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/1624432018-03-20T01:56:49Z2018-03-19T12:15:38ZTítulo: Exploring connections between social innovation, grassroots processes and human development: an analysis of alternative food netwoks in the city of Valencia (Spain)
Autor: Pellicer Sifres, Victoria
Resumen: This paper explores the contribution that the Capability Approach (CA) and Grassroots Innovation (GI) literature can make to the area of Social Innovation (SI). The paper takes four concurrent dimensions of the SI literature (agents, purposes, drivers and processes) and cross‐fertilises them with the bottom‐up, people‐driven character of GI, and the concepts of agency, deliberative democracy and conversion factors from the CA. The result is the creation of a novel framework that we call grassroots social innovation for human development.
The paper uses a case study, organic food buying groups in the city of Valencia,
and examines them from an additional normative and evaluative perspective provided by the framework. The analysis shows the potentiality of the grassroots social innovation
for human development framework to illustrate the elements that an SI process should include in order to contribute to human development. 2018-03-19T12:15:38ZAgents, interactions, and economic laws: An analytical framework for understanding
different economic theoriesMuñoz, Félix-FernandoEncinar, María-IsabelCañibano, Carolinahttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/1623552018-03-17T01:54:29Z2018-03-16T13:07:12ZTítulo: Agents, interactions, and economic laws: An analytical framework for understanding
different economic theories
Autor: Muñoz, Félix-Fernando; Encinar, María-Isabel; Cañibano, Carolina
Resumen: This paper provides an analytical framework allowing the accommodation, comparison and classification of different economic theories and schools of economic thought. We provide the basic analytical elements to address the explanatory potential of economic models as well as a criterion for scientific progress. The starting point is that in “modern economic theory”, each particular theory –and all models derived- share a common structure. This common structure is formed by a set of statements S1 which characterize the agent (its properties and modes of interaction) and its action (including choice) space; a set of statements S2 regarding the economic behavior of the characterized agent, and a set of economic laws L which are logical co-implications of the systematic application of S2 over S1. This set or system of statements = {1, 2, } forms a theory. It is possible to address the explanation of new economic phenomena or processes by developing new economic models or theories T. This exercise is made possible by adding properties, qualifications or new information to the statement systems S1 and S2
that lead to new laws L. The approach proposed is useful for classifying different economic theories as illustrated by an analysis and characterization of the Neoclassical, Austrian and Keynesian theoretical frameworks.2018-03-16T13:07:12ZWhy researchers publish in non-mainstream journals: Training, knowledge bridging, and gap-fillingChavarro, DiegoTang, PuayRafols, IsmaelRafols, Ismaelhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/1617662019-12-18T14:09:49Z2018-03-07T11:07:46ZTítulo: Why researchers publish in non-mainstream journals: Training, knowledge bridging, and gap-filling
Autor: Chavarro, Diego; Tang, Puay; Rafols, Ismael; Rafols, Ismael
Resumen: In many countries research evaluations confer high importance to mainstream journals, which are considered to publish excellent research. Accordingly, research evaluation policies discourage publications in other non-mainstream journals under the assumption that they publish low quality research. This approach has prompted a policy debate in low and middle-income countries, which face financial and linguistic barriers to access mainstream journals. A common criticism of the current evaluation practices is that they can hinder the development of certain topics that are not published in mainstream journals although some of them might be of high local relevance. In this article, we examine this issue by exploring the functions of non-mainstream journals in scientific communication. We interviewed researchers from agricultural sciences, business and management, and chemistry in Colombia on their reasons to publish in non-mainstream journals. We found that non-mainstream journals serve the following functions: 1) offer a space for initiation into publishing (training); 2) provide a link between articles in mainstream journals and articles read by communities with limited access to them (knowledge-bridging); 3) publish topics that are not well covered by mainstream journals (knowledge gap-filling). Therefore, publication in non-mainstream journals cannot be attributed only to ‘low scientific quality’ research. They also fulfil specific communication functions. These results suggest that research evaluation policy in low and middle-income countries should consider assigning greater value to non-mainstream journals given their role in bridging and disseminating potentially useful and novel knowledge.2018-03-07T11:07:46ZProducción científica en consumo de cannabis y tabaco a través de la Web of ScienceOsca-Lluch, Juliahttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/1615732018-03-03T01:55:44Z2018-03-02T09:57:13ZTítulo: Producción científica en consumo de cannabis y tabaco a través de la Web of Science
Autor: Osca-Lluch, Julia
Resumen: El consumo de tabaco, alcohol y otras drogas constituye un problema prioritario en salud pública, ya que comporta niveles alto de morbilidad y mortalidad prevenibles (King, Wold, Tudor-Smith y Harel, 1996). Además de las consecuencias a largo término, los efectos a corto plazo del consumo entre los jóvenes son importantes y se asocian con diversos daños, violencia y suicidio, embarazo adolescente, enfermedades de transmisión sexual y problemas de salud mental (Bauman y Phongsavan, 1999).
Entre las drogas ilegales, el cannabis es la substancia más ampliamente consumida en España y la mayoría de los países europeos y la que se asocia con una edad más temprana de primer consumo experimental (Amado, Arce e Isorna, 2014). El uso de cannabis, sustancia psicoactiva bajo control internacional, está generalizado en todo el mundo y sus consecuencias sobre la salud han preocupado y preocupan a la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), ya que el consumo de cannabis produce diversos efectos nocivos agudos y crónicos en la salud (Quiroga, 2000, Contreras et al., 2016).
Descripción: Proyecto ÉVICT: Grupo de trabajo para el estudio y abordaje de políticas de control de policonsumo de cannabis y tabco en España.2018-03-02T09:57:13Z