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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

From climate change to occupational risks: the vulnerability of the fisheries sector to climatic accidents

With the increase in global average temperature due to climate change, a large number of workers are exposed to high-temperature working environments.
Alsaleh, Mohd, Abdul-Rahim, A. S., Xia, Tian   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

The costs of poor safety in the workplace [PDF]

, 1997
Over the last two years we have conducted research on the costs of accidents in the workplace, monitoring 14 firms in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) over a 12 week period in 1995, and 11 firms in Northern Ireland (NI) over a 12 week period in 1996. Using
Jacobson, David, Mottiar, Ziene
core   +2 more sources

Cancer care and survival in relation to centralisation of Irish cancer services: an analysis of National Cancer Registry data 1994-2015

, 2019
In this report, data collected by the National Cancer Registry are used to provide descriptive statistics on place of treatment, proportions treated and survival for cancer patients in Ireland from a perspective of ten years following the start of the ...
National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI)
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Leaders' Functional Specialization and Responses to Institutional Shifts during Crises: Evidence from the Pandemic

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Prior studies on crisis management often highlight the adaptiveness of generalist leaders, whose diverse functional experiences allow for flexible and innovative responses. However, we propose that in situations where crises lead to abrupt shifts in dominant institutional pressures, leaders with specialized functional backgrounds potentially ...
Yidi Guo, Danqing Wang, Shuo Chen
wiley   +1 more source

El subregistro potencial de accidentes de trabajo en el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social Potential under-registration of occupational accidents in the Mexican Institute of Social Security

Salud Pública de México, 2004
OBJETIVO: Evaluar el potencial subregistro de casos de accidentes de trabajo atendidos en el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Estudio transversal llevado a cabo en México con información a escala nacional proveniente de 27 ...
José Santiago Salinas-Tovar, Pablo López-Rojas, María Oralia Soto-Navarro, David Efraín Caudillo-Araujo, Francisco Raúl Sánchez-Román, Víctor Hugo Borja-Aburto   +5 more
doaj  

Cancer in Ireland 1994-2014: Annual Report of the National Cancer Registry

, 2016
This is the 21st annual statistical report of the National Cancer Registry. The report summarises cancer incidence, mortality and survival in Ireland for the period 1994 to 2014.
National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI)
core  

Cancer in Ireland 1994-2005: a summary [PDF]

, 2006
National Cancer Registry, Ireland ...
National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI)
core