Teaching teachers in effectual entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education is seen by all kind of people to be important for economic growth. Teaching entrepreneurship needs another approach. Active learning and the constructivism is mostly seen as essential. Other elements that are influencing the teaching process are the competences, the culture and the teacher. So the teacher must be capable of using other methods and theory as he is used to. Effectuation, constructivism and andragogy are the key elements for the training of entrepreneurial teachers. From that perspective there has been made an education program that will start in September 2013 for teachers at universities of applied science. Until that time there are being held some minor experiments on parts of the program

Valuation of Green Walls and Green Roofs as Soundscape Measures: Including Monetised Amenity Values Together with Noise-attenuation Values in a Cost-benefit Analysis of a Green Wall Affecting Courtyards

Economic unit values of soundscape/acoustic effects have been based on changes in the number of annoyed persons or on decibel changes. The normal procedure has been the application of these unit values to noise-attenuation measures affecting the noisier façade of a dwelling. Novel modular vegetation-based soundscape measures, so-called green walls, might be relevant for both noisy and quieter areas. Moreover, their benefits will comprise noise attenuation as well as non-acoustic amenity effects. One challenge is to integrate the results of some decades of non-acoustic research on the amenity value of urban greenery into design of the urban sound environment, and incorporate these non-acoustic properties in the overall economic assessment of noise control and overall sound environment improvement measures. Monetised unit values for green walls have been included in two alternative cases, or demonstration projects, of covering the entrances to blocks of flats with a green wall. Since these measures improve the noise environment on the quiet side of the dwellings and courtyards, not the most exposed façade, adjustment factors to the nominal quiet side decibel reductions to arrive at an estimate of the equivalent overall acoustic improvement have been applied. A cost-benefit analysis of the green wall case indicates that this measure is economically promising, when valuing the noise attenuation in the quieter area and adding the amenity/aesthetic value of the green wall

Aspectos sociales de la migración internacional: consideraciones preliminares

Incluye BibliografíaEl estudio de la migración internacional ha resurgido en la última década por la importancia que ésta adquiere en un mundo de economía globalizada, en el cual el desplazamiento de los factores de producción se intensifica rápidamente, involucrando también al traslado de personas. Tales movimientos poblacionales tienen enormes repercusiones sociales y económicas, obligando las instancias públicas a tomar decisiones nuevas. En este trabajo se hace un balance de algunos temas relacionados con los impactos sociales de la migración internacional, entre los que se cuentan: las migraciones internacionales y la globalización; la importancia relativa de los factores demográficos como causas de la dinámica migratoria; las cadenas migratorias, las remesas y el desarrollo de comunidades de origen; la selectividad migratoria, la xenofobia y la discriminación, y la relación entre salud reproductiva, equidad de género y migración internacional