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Hospitals' Community Benefits.

The Question of Fair Benefits in International Research.

Access to Medicines and Corporate Social Responsibilities of the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Corporate Social Responsibility of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Solidaristic Terms.

In this paper we present a first attempt to represent the social behavior of actors in a resource sharing context in such a way that different forms of solidarity can be detected and measured. We expect that constructing agent-based models of water-related interactions at the interface of urban and rural areas, and running social simulations to study the occurrence and consequences of solidary behavior, will produce insights that may eventually contribute to water and land resource management practice. We propose a typology for solidary behavior, present the agent-based architecture that we are using, show some illustrative results, and formulate some questions that will guide our future work.

The 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, also called the Great Sichuan Earthquake or Great Wenchuan Earthquake, was the strongest quake in terms of magnitude to hit China since the 1950s. It killed 90,000 people, injured 375,000 more, and left over 4.8 million people homeless. But, it also created a strong bond within the Chinese nation and led to a wave of solidarity. The case discusses what solidarity is and what solidarity means in different types of communities (families, schools, local businesses, or nations).

Spain and Portugal have established cooperation mechanisms to manage their shared water resources in order to avoid any potential conflict. Cooperation is clearly reflected in the 1998 Albufeira Convention, which provides a legal framework to regulate all transboundary basins between both countries to protect surface water and groundwater, as well as the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems that depend on them for the sustainable use of water resources. The 1998 Albufeira Convention establishes as one of the uses of the Tagus Basin Gthe transfer of water interbasin such as the Aqueduct Tagus-Segura (ATS). According to this Convention, the management of water uses and the right to use water shall be addressed to guarantee the sustainable use of water that is already established. The ATS is a use guaranteed and protected under international water law. The analysis of the ATS in the context of the international legislation to mitigate water scarcity, and droughts provides the strategies to promote resilience to climate change and the impacts of drought conditions in the society in a sustainable manner while ensuring the fundamental rights.