The main purpose of this article is to consider macro level theories for understanding the urge for reform as well as the process of societal change both in general terms, and more specifically within the energy sector. The aim is also to consider the energy sector in a wider context and analyse...

Purpose - The literature on corporate responsibility (CR) increasingly recognizes the importance of leadership in support of organizational change. This is particularly the case when CR provides the basis for the business contribution to sustainable development, which is understood to involve...

Sustainability is a contested term, and has much in common with justice and liberty in meaning very different things to different people. Typically it is the vision of the developed North that has dominated. This paper describes some of the results of a long-term research project based in Kogi...

Sustainability is a contested term, and has much in common with justice and liberty in meaning very different things to different people. Typically it is the vision of the developed North that has dominated. This paper describes some of the results of a long-term research project based in Kogi...

In 1991, development economist and American public intellectual Albert O. Hirschman wrote the <i>Rhetoric of Reaction </i>[1]. In this book, which was prescient of more contemporary popular books such as Naomi Klein’s <i>The Shock Doctrine</i> [2] and James C. Scott’s <i>Seeing Like a State</i> [3], Hirschman...

Financial products are unstandardized and subject to a great deal of uncertainty. They tend to concentrate geographically because of the reduction in information costs resulting from close contacts. Concentration leads to economies of scale and encourages external economies. Great financial...

Partners identified the following strengths and challenges of New York’s tobacco control program: • The experience and leadership of the DOH TCP Director was a major strength of the program. • Clean indoor air efforts throughout the state were also a strength. • Partners...

Partners identified the following strengths and challenges of New York’s tobacco control program: • The experience and leadership of the DOH; TCP Director was a major strength of the program. • Clean indoor air efforts throughout the state were also a strength. •...

Executive Summary Raising the price of cigarettes is one of the most effective interventions to prevent and reduce cigarette use. Local, state, and federal governments can change the price of cigarettes by raising or lowering cigarette excise taxes and by implementing and enforcing minimum price...