Social Science sites of the week Archive

  Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week    The UK Government’s research evaluation system encourages a higher quantity and lower quality of work from academics,  according to a paper published this week  Read the. document on the  Queen Mary University of London website   see more reports on higher education on our scoop.it page   https://www.scoop.it/topic/higher-education-news-for-libraries-and-librarians       UK government is  creating a “hostile environment” towards campaigners, charities and other civil society bodies.   according to The latest  Civicus Monitor , which tracks the democratic and civic health freedom of over 190 nations worldwide.       Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT)  i s now online via the Stanford Libraries  and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice. website. ...

Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites of the week INFORM Climate Change Risk Index   INFORM Climate Change (europa.eu)   INFORM, which is a collaboration of the IASC Reference Group on Risk, Early Warning and Preparedness and the European Commission, has published the INFORM Climate Change Risk Index, which quantifies the impacts of climate change on the future risk of humanitarian crises and disasters. It looks at  environmental and  socio economic vulnerabilities and applies calculations and risk projections. The projections are applied at different timeframes (2022, 2050, 2080) to calculate the Change in risk and the Vulnerability gap – the level of vulnerability reduction or coping capacity increase required for a country to preserve its current level of risk. Full methodology is provided on the website       Economía LACEA,  from the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association Now open acces...