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Navigating the Rapids: How Non‐Governmental Organization Managers Develop Strategic Adaptation to Repressive Political Environments

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes?
Charles Kaye‐Essien, Shahjahan Bhuiyan, Ghadeer Ali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of high nature value farming systems in Europe: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, drivers, innovations and future prospects

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Farming systems of high natural and cultural value represent approximately 30% of farmlands in the European Union and are associated with a high species and habitat diversity and/or the presence of species of European conservation concern. This study aims to synthesize the existing knowledge on the assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Elsa Varela, Marion Jay, Lukas Flinzberger, Chaima Mobarak, Tobias Plieninger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study of learning, knowledge and processes of reflection within the Worker Education Project [PDF]

, 2010
There are over a million women domestic workers in South Africa who are largely overworked,underpaid, unprotected, and undervalued and who are entrenched in a system that denies and reduces the value of their work and their skills.
Abrahams, Nazli
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The mediating effect of stigma on the relationship between fear of disease progression and social alienation in patients with haematological malignancies

Hematology
Objective: To explore the mediating effect of shame in patients with malignant haematological diseases between fear of disease progression and social alienation.Methods: Recruiting 310 patients with haematological malignancies as the research population,
Dan Shi, Run Li, PeiXin Chen, JiaQing Zhong, KuiLi Wang, Dan Wang, HuiJuan Zhu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover while also maximising the benefits of forests for people and improving community engagement with the process of ...
Sarah Greenwood, Elisa Fuentes‐Montemayor, Catherine Cowie, James Levine, Piran C. L. White, Michael Wilson, Sandra Engstrom   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Crime, Gender and Policing: The Role of Women Officers in Addressing Gender‐Based Violence in India

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether an increased presence of women in Indian police forces results in enhanced justice for victims of gender‐based crimes and improves the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of the police. It employs focus group discussions and qualitative system dynamics modelling to examine the dynamics of women in law ...
Kandaswamy Paramasivan, Thangatur Sukumar Hariharan, Nabila Khan, S. Thejaswin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation from Israel [PDF]

, 2007
This research reports on a mounting body of evidence that has pointed to a growing distancing from Israel of American Jews, most pronounced among younger Jews, and explores critical questions behind their presumably diminished attachment to ...
Ari Y. Kelman, Steven M. Cohen
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Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
wiley   +1 more source