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there is a one-to-one mapping between a given family of social communities and the existence of a particular (unique …
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Viewed as a key to strengthening accountability, citizen empowerment alone is not enough to guarantee quality public service. It must go hand in hand with better governance. This report highlights two factors that have improved governance and public service provision in developing Asia: (i)...
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This paper offers a review of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) agendas currently being publicly addressed by the UK's top ten internet service providers (ISPs). The paper begins with a brief outline of the problems associated with growing internet usage and this is followed by a...
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communities from this country, the most important aspects of education and mass-media in the Romanian language, the church and … services held in Romanian, the status of the Romanian communities in Bulgaria - legal framework but also the main … recommendations for supporting the Romanian communities in Bulgaria. …
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Communities around the world have increasingly come to demand more involvement in decision making for local mining … communities. Five lessons for earning a SLO emerged from this analysis: (1) context is key; (2) a social licence to operate is … built on relationships; (3) sustainability is a dominant concern for communities; (4) local benefits provision and public …
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Vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone; it also resides in the resilience of the system experiencing the hazard. Resilience (the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances, such as natural disasters, so as to retain essential structures, processes and feedbacks)...
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This essay elaborates the common insight that “strong” communities respond more successfully to serious threats than … “weak” communities and it claims that the successful communities will have better population health rates. It nominates an …-solving capacity and t is one or more existential threats. The community is the locus of causality and it is assumed that communities …
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This research aims to investigate the role of communities in disaster recovery and in building resilience to answer the … recovery planning, public service continuity plans, and relocating people from disaster-prone communities to safer areas as …
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The extent to which body mass index (BMI) varies between small areas or neighborhoods in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) remains unknown. Further, whether such variation is reflective of characteristics of individuals living in these neighborhoods is also not clear. We estimated the...
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Forest Stewardship Council certification aims to use markets to promote socially and environmentally responsible forest management, with a core principle of social “equity”. Yet there is no comprehensive framework for defining and assessing “equity”, nor is there a methodology for...
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