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- Corporate social responsibility: a challenge for the donor community
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As corporate social responsibility (CSR) increases in large corporate organisations, a genuine approach to sustainable development is often best achieved through the supply chain. This is directly applicable to North-South supply chain interactions (priva ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:47
- Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections
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This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations b ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Unethical ethics? Applying research ethics in Uzbekistan
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There are a number of serious ethical challenges and problems posed in conducting development research in a poor country. It is argued here that the best way to ensure that research is ethical is to apply three foundation principles. By focusing on self-d ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Post-hoc review of involuntary resettlement issues in two power generation projects
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Two energy development projects were examined as the basis of recommending improvements in how resettlement issues are handled. One of these illustrated the [INS: following :INS] problems: lack of a proper communication channel from the implementing body ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Negotiating power: community media, democracy, and the public sphere
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Given the centrality of communication to society, who ‘owns’ the media, who gets to speak on behalf of whom, and to what end are critical issues. The regression of ‘mainstream’ media from ‘watchdogs’ of democracies to ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:43
- The Colonizer and the Colonized
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Author: Memmi, Albert, introduced by Jean-Paul Sartre and with a new introduction by Nadine Gordimer Publisher: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:49
- Fair Weather? Equity Concerns in Climate Change
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Author: Tóth, Ferenc L. Issue: Volume 9, Num ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 18:20
- Health Policy: An Introduction to Process and Power
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Author: Walt, Gill Issue: Volume 5, Number 4 ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-09 19:47
- Whose lives are worth more? Politicising research safety in developing countries
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This article develops the ‘safety–emotion–power’ nexus and highlights the role of emotion in research by politicising the unequal power relationships between researchers and NGO staff members in defining danger and negotiating sa ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-07 18:12
- Identifying barriers to GIS-based land management in Guatemala
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The development of a cadastral system for the Republic of Guatemala was one of the priorities of the 1997 Peace Accord that ended 30 years of civil war. While uncertainty of land ownership and land title are contentious issues, the development of a nati ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:52
