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The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector [PDF]
, 2011 In a time of fiscal austerity in government, the pay levels for senior civil servants have come under increasing scrutiny. Sandy Pepper finds that despite the public’s seeming opposition to high pay in the public sector, there are no easy fixes, and that
Pepper, Alexander
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Review: Wicked Environmental Problems [PDF]
Electronic Green Journal, 2013 Review: Wicked Envrionmental ...
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth +2 more
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Revisiting the Afterlife: The Inadequacies of Heaven and Hell [PDF]
, 2015 This paper deals with some of the ambiguities that are associated with the intermediate and final states after death. Whereas many in the church have dismissed these concepts as myths of the ancients, this discussion shows how the grounding of such ...
Davis, Christopher P
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Governing cyber security through networks : an analysis of cyber security coordination in Belgium [PDF]
, 2015 While governments develop formal and informal structures or 'networks' to promote collaboration between governmental departments and agencies, there remains uncertainty on how to set up and develop cyber security networks. The latter is demonstrated when
Rondelez, Rafaël
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Beyond Compliance: Corporate Governance and the Paradox of Gender Equality: Evidence From EU Firms
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality is central to the European Union's sustainability and corporate governance agenda. While recent EU regulations have intensified expectations around board gender diversity (BGD) and social disclosure, the organisational drivers through which governance quality translates into ...
Suzan Dsouza +2 more
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Universal Robots as ‘Solutions’ to Wicked Problems: Debunking a Robotic Myth, Late breaking abstract, HRI’11, Lausanne, Switzerland. [PDF]
, 2011 Mobile Life ...
Cramer, Henriette, Jacobsson, Mattias
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Education for Problems of Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cynefin framework for decision‐making categorizes problem environments into simple (known knowns), complicated (known unknowns), complex (unknown unknowns), and chaotic (unknowables). Simple and complicated problem environments enable best and good solutions, but complex and chaotic problem environments require emergent and novel solutions.
Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
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Changing Nigerian cultures: two films against witchcraft and an impossible dialogue [PDF]
, 2017 The prominent place of witchcraft in Nollywood films produced in the 1990s is widely acknowledged, and has prompted a number of comments from critics.
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates critical success factors for managing multi‐actor research partnerships for sustainable food systems along their lifecycle. Such partnerships coordinate both internal activities and manage externally funded projects. Drawing on evidence from case studies and workshops with diverse experts, the study identifies critical ...
Mechthild Donner +5 more
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