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Role and potential of community-based organisations in the implementation of the national programme to combat desertification in Namibia
Brandt, Hartmut (contributor) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001609746
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Community entrepreneurship in deprived neighbourhoods : comparing UK community enterprises with US community development corporations
Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British … community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469674
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From autonomy to subordination? : relations between the state and the representations of interests on the German labor market
Moszyński, Michał - 2018
The main aim of the article is to assess the functioning and outcomes of tripartite structures of cooperation consisting of trade union federations, employers' organizations and the state in Germany on the background of the evolution of the welfare state. In the historical description, which was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996705
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Market and state in socio-economic order : a brief review of theories
Jurczuk, Anna E.; Pysz, Piotr - 2018
The purpose of this paper is to present the views of various schools of economic thought on the sources of the institutional order of economies. The premises of the theories of constituted and spontaneous economic orders are taken as the criteria on the basis of which the sources of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996707
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Conserving crop genetic resources on smallholder farms in Hungary : institutional analysis
Bela, Györgyi; Pataki, György; Smale, Melinda; … - 2004
focuses on the institutional aspects of the research project on on-farm conservation of crop genetic resources in three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602576
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Flexible short-term power trading : gathering experience in EU countries
Neuhoff, Karsten; Batlle, Carlos; Brunekreeft, Gert; … - 2015
Abstract EU power market design has been focused on facilitating trading between countries and for this has defined interfaces for market participants and TSOs between countries. The operation of power systems and markets within countries was not the focus of these developments. This may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294101
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Institutional issues on disaster risk reduction and management
Domingo, Sonny N. - 2017
, stakeholder participation, and community preparedness and protection. DRRM tenets have to be internalized, imbedded, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820290
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Dancing to the tune of democracy : agents negotiating power to decentralise water management
Subramanian, Saravanan V. - 2009
The current debate on decentralisation offers a partial and polarised view on the sharing of power to manage water. Drawing New Institutionalism as applied in the social and ecological sciences, the paper argues that decentralisation represents a complex adaptive process, wherein agents draw...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206366
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Metabolized-water breeding diseases in urban India : socio-spatiality of water problems and health burden in Ahmedabad
Subramanian, Saravanan V.; Mavalankar, Ganesh Vasudev; … - 2014
Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and socio political issues associated with the flow. However, there is dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure as a hybrid of social and material construct facilitates disease emergence. The paper brings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357939