6. For a recent review of data on Arab education and analysis of causes of poor performance, see Hicham Alaoui and Robert Springborg, The Political Economy of Education in the Arab World. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2021
7.https://www.rienner.com/title/The_Political_Economy_of_Education_in_the_Arab_World
8.Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east- 8703377
9.http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2020/Dec-11/515271-majority-of-lebanese-believe-in-a-secular-state-survey.ashx
Endnotes - Human Dignity Brief
1. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Article 1. Retrieved from: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c1.htm
2. Samuel, Moyn. “Why are philosophers invoking the notion of human dignity to revitalize theories of
political ethics?”, 16 October 2013. Retrieved from: https://www.thenation.com/article/dignitys-due/ Gerald Doppelt. Review of Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs, Harvard University Press, 2011. Retreived from: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25427-justice-for-hedgehogs/; and Jeremy Waldron. “Is Dignity the Foundation of Human Rights?”, Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper Series, Working Paper No. 12-73, January 2013. Retrieved from: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2196074.
3. Ibid.
Endnotes - Bioregionalism
1. Benko, G.B, “Regional Science: evolution over thirty years,” 700.
2. Ibid.
3. Comments on James J. Parsons, “’On Bioregionalism’ and ‘Watershed Consciousness,’” The Professional Geographer, February 1985, Volume 37/Number 1, 67.
4. Sale, Kirkpatrick. Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985), 138; citing F.J. Turner, The Significance of Sections in American History, Holt, 1932, reprint 1950); The United States, 1830-50, Holt, 1935, reprint 1958; American Sociological Society Papers, Vol. II, 1908; and see, Bennet, James D. Fredrick Jackson Turner (Twayne, 1975).
5. Comments on James J. Parsons, “’On Bioregionalism’ and ‘Watershed Consciousness,’” The Professional Geographer, February 1985, Volume 37/Number 1, 67.
6. Sale, Kirkpatrick. Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985), 141.
7. Ibid, 46-147; citing National Resources Planning Committee, Regional Factors in National Planning and Development, 2 December 1935, U.S. Government Printing Office, containing the Report of the Technical Committee on Regional Planning, October 1935.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid; quoting Frederic J. Osborn.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Benko, G.B, “Regional Science: evolution over thirty years,” 702, 703, 706.
13. See: Oakeshott, Michael. “Rationalism in Politics,” Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (New York: Basic Books, 1962).
14. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioregionalism
15. Parsons, James J. “’On Bioregionalism’ and ‘Watershed Consciousness,’” The Professional Geographer, February 1985, Volume 37/Number 1, 4.
16. Alexander, Donald. “Bioregionalism: Science or Sensibility?”, Environmental Ethics, Vol. 12, Summer 1992, 163-164., Summer 1992, 163-164.
17. Parsons, James J. “’On Bioregionalism’ and ‘Watershed Consciousness,’” The Professional Geographer, February 1985, Volume 37/#1,4. 3737/Number 1, 4.
18. Alexander, Donald. “Bioregionalism: Science or Sensibility?”, Environmental Ethics, Vol. 12, Summer 1992, 163-164.
19,. Parsons, James J. “’On Bioregionalism’ and ‘Watershed Consciousness,’” The Professional Geographer, February 1985, Volume 37/Number 1, 4.
20. Ibid, 2; citing Berg, Peter. “Strategies for Reinhabiting the Northern California Bioregion,” Seriatim: The Journal of Ecotopia, 1(3) (1977), 2-8.
21. Erisman, Fred. “The Changing Face of Western Literary Regionalism,” The Twentieth-Century West: Historical Interpretations, ed. Gerald D. Nash and Richard Etulain (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989), 389; citing Mumford, Lewis. “Regionalism and Irregionalism,” Sociological Review 19 (October 1927): 285.
22. Parsons, James J. “’On Bioregionalism’ and ‘Watershed Consciousness,’” The Professional Geographer, February 1985, Volume 37/Number 1, 4.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. The term “deep ecology” was apparently coined by Norwegian philosopher Arne Ness in 1973. See: Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992), 217. Gore is correct to note that “many Deep Ecologists of today seem to define human beings as a alien presence on the earth.” Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance, op cit, 217.
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