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From Contingency Management to Transformative Climate Risk Adaptation? Analysis of Private Sector Agency in Navigating Complex Climate Risk Realities

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing complexity and severity of cross‐border climate risks characterised by non‐linear impact chains and deep uncertainty questions the capacity of environmental governance to tackle these problems effectively and in a just manner. To increase the efficiency of climate action, the private sector has been called upon to leverage market ...
Päivi Tikkakoski, Sirkku Juhola
wiley   +1 more source

Against the tide of depoliticisation: The politics of research governance [PDF]

, 2017
Research has identified a general trend towards depoliticisation. Against this trend, we identify opportunities for politicisation through the international emergence of a research governance tool: ‘responsible research and innovation’ (RRI).
Hartley, S., Pearce, W., Taylor, A.
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The “Magic” of Conflict: How Participatory Governance Can Enable Transformative Climate Adaptation

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many cases, addressing climate risks requires transformative climate adaptation (TCA) that goes beyond small adjustments to existing systems. While scholars increasingly argue that participatory governance is key and should embrace conflict rather than push for consensus to enable TCA, this assumption remains underexplored.
Dore Engbersen, Robbert Biesbroek, Catrien J. A. M. Termeer   +2 more
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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
wiley   +1 more source

Formal and informal systems of VET: implications for employee involvement [PDF]

, 2009
The age-old conundrum embodied in the skills challenge is this: if it is accepted that skills are a good thing, then why is it that the uptake of skills development practices, through, for example, training and lifelong learning agenda, are not ...
Chan, Paul, Moehler, Robert
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
wiley   +1 more source

Participation, Neoliberalism and Depoliticisation of Public Action

SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2017
The article argues that political elites – using participation as tools for depoliticisation strategies – seek to obtain the trust of the economic elite and, at the same time, to shield policy making from the unpopular consequences of neoliberal policies.
Giulio Moini
doaj   +1 more source

''With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility'': Democracy, the Secretary of State for Health and Blame Shifting Within the English National Health Service [PDF]

, 2018
The English National Health Service (NHS) has suffered from a democratic deficit since its inception. Democratic accountability was to be through ministers to Parliament, but ministerial control over and responsibility for the NHS were regarded as myths.
Adorno T., Alderwick H, Ashworth J., Blyth M., Collins B., Committee of Public Accounts, Cooper L, David I Benbow, Davis J, Day P, Day P, Department of Health, Department of Health, Dixon A, Dobson F., Edwards B, Edwards B., Edwards B., England N., Filippon J, Foot M., Gainsbury S., Goddard M, Greer S, Greer S, Griffiths R., Ham C, Ham C., Harvey D., Hay C., Health Committee, Health Committee, Himmelstein D, Hogg C., Holder H, Hutton W., Jameson F., Jenkins S., Jenkins S., Jenkins S., Johnson A., Lafond S, Lewis R., Lister J., Lister J., Lister J., Longley D., Mackenzie W., Maybin J, McCartney M., Merrison A., Miller P, Mohan J., Moyes W, Nandy L., Navarro V., Owen D., Peckham S., Pollock A, Pollock A, Public Administration Committee, Stevens S., Timmins N., Timmins N., Timmins N., Toynbee P   +65 more
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Ingerid S Straume and J F Humphrey (eds.), Depoliticization: The Political Imaginary of Global Capitalism (Malmö: NSU Press, 2011)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2012
Capitalism’s constancy, despite the global economic crisis, prompts this topical nine essay volume to examine the present status of politics and its relation to the economy.
Stuart Winchester, Stuart Winchester, Stuart Winchester, Stuart Winchester   +3 more
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