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This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of 'gender experts' working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development. Developed through a series of conversations convened by the book's editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals – specialists and experts, researchers, organizational focal points – deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and development, science and technology, and gender and women's studies more broadly.

Discusses the George W. Bush administration's preparation and entry to the White House, project support from Pew Charitable Trusts, and assessments of the effectiveness of the transition; 11 articles. Partial contents: The White House interview program, by Martha Joynt Kumar; Nomination forms online, by Terry Sullivan; The Bush transition in historical context, by John P. Burke; The real invisible hand: presidential appointees in the administration of George W. Bush, by G. Calvin MacKenzie; Relations with Congress, by Norman Ornstein and John Fortier.

The current study is based on the review of literature to analyses how independence, expertise and experience of audit committees can influence the quality of financial reporting. After studying a vast and diverse range of literature pertaining to the audit committees and governance issues, an effort has been made through this study to demonstrate several aspects of independence of audit committee, for example, informativeness, CEO's power, frequency of meetings, substitutability and complementarity with alternative corporate governance mechanisms, directors' share ownership, earning management etc. Similarly a wide range of literature based on utility of financial and accounting knowhow and experience of audit committee members has been reviewed. An attempt is made to establish association litigation risk that the firm faces and market reaction, to the firm's appointment of audit committee members with accounting and financial expertise and experience. This study also includes the various aspects of audit committee in India, based on regulations, corporate governance reforms and the limited number of empirical research findings. Lack of independence, expertise and experience of audit committees have rendered them less effective in performing their oversight functions. The Companies Bill (2009), a major governance reform, has not become an 'Act' as it is delayed due to political apathy, and at the same time some interim reforms have eroded the independence of audit committees even further. There is ad-hocism and vagueness in reference to corporate governance reforms in general and auditing process in particular. ; peerReviewed

"Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post-World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War"--

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the case of the cross‐border RCE Rhine‐Meuse established as the first Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development in Europe. RCE Rhine‐Meuse is an initiative of two institutions of higher education in the South of The Netherlands, but reaching out to the German and Belgian border regions.Design/methodology/approachThe case of the RCE Rhine‐Meuse is used to give a comprehensive description of the building of a multi‐national and multi‐stakeholder collaboration network aiming at knowledge dissemination on education for sustainable development. The regional approach is complementary to the global approach behind the RCE network.FindingsThe development of the RCE Rhine‐Meuse over the last two years, shows the development of a functional RCE as described by United Nations University. A regional network for collaboration in the field of learning for sustainable development is created. The governance of the RCE is stable and the activities create an added value to the development of the region.Practical implicationsThe case of the RCE Rhine‐Meuse does not provide a blue‐print for setting up an RCE like network. What the case of the RCE Rhine‐Meuse does show, is the influence of the regional context on the development of the RCE. In addition, the RCE Rhine‐Meuse does provide general notions that can be of use for other regions that want to establish an RCE.Originality/valueThe case of the building of the oldest RCE in Europe over the period 2004‐2008 provides the first comprehensive overview of the creation of a new mechanism that is focussing on knowledge transfer to further regional sustainable development.

International audience ; À l'heure des débats autour de la post-vérité et autres crises de la rationalité, il y aurait concomitamment une crise de l'expertise remettant en cause la crédibilité des savoirs officiels. Gil Eyal, professeur à Columbia University, chercheur en Science and Technology Studies (STS) et sociologie politique, apporte sa pierre à l'édifice dans un contexte politique états-unien très marqué par l'administration Trump et son offensive contre les scientifiques. En promouvant une sociologie de l'expertise, Gil Eyal se distancie de la sociologie des professions pour incorporer des actrices et acteurs plus variés, mais aussi pour étudier les agencements qui font l'expertise, au-delà des expert·es.