The environment: a shared interest for Palestinians and Israelis
In: Palestine-Israel journal of politics, economics and culture, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 9-14
ISSN: 0793-1395
In: Palestine-Israel journal of politics, economics and culture, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 9-14
ISSN: 0793-1395
In: Palestine-Israel journal of politics, economics and culture, Band 5, Heft 1: Focus on environment, S. 9-14
ISSN: 0793-1395
World Affairs Online
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 39, Heft 6, S. 704-717
ISSN: 0016-3287
In: Futures, Band 39, Heft 6, S. 704-717
In: Economic and industrial democracy, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 401-429
ISSN: 1461-7099
The Danish slaughterhouse industry is known for its Tayloristic organization of work, poor industrial relations with frequent wild cat strikes, and a hazardous work environment. However, a few slaughterhouses show big differences in sickness absenteeism, labour turnover and frequency of strikes. These slaughterhouses were studied in order to understand the latitude for cooperation and improvement of the psychosocial work environment. The results revealed that three out of four slaughterhouses studied have moved from a culture based on conflicts and opposing interests to a culture based on mutual trust and respect, thus developing social capital. Developing trust between production managers and shop stewards was the key to the new situation. This happened without jeopardizing the traditional roles of management representatives and shop stewards. The study indicates that there are possibilities of improvement of working conditions under a Taylorized regime based on collaboration between local management and workers. An important factor explaining the results is the strong position of the workers and their unions in the slaughterhouse sector and the general acceptance of unions in the Danish society.
In: Computer supported cooperative work
In: Third world planning review: TWPR, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 97
ISSN: 0142-7849
In: Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers Tekniska Högskola N.S., 2176
In: Issues in Business Ethics 22
This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.
This report summarizes what CED calls its "unfinished agenda." At the top of this list are heath care reform, controlling our budget, trade, and savings deficits, reforming our entitlement programs, and investing in new infrastructure such as early education, sustainable energy, and the environment. We are pleased to have the financial support of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to underwrite our efforts to enlist more American business leaders to support this reform agenda.
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In: OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Band 9, Heft 1
ISSN: 1091-3734
Nursing practice models provide the structure and context to organize the delivery of care. Shared governance is a model of nursing practice designed to integrate core values and beliefs that professional practice embraces, as a means of achieving quality care. Shared governance models were introduced to improve nurses' work environment, satisfaction, and retention. The purpose of this article is to review representative published evidence of shared governance and to evaluate whether shared governance has lived up to its promise and potential. Theoretical and empirical evidence will be examined and discussed in an attempt to answer whether shared governance, as an organizational form of nursing practice, has achieved the positive outcomes it intended.
2012 Fall. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; National security and sustainable development paradigms shape national goals, priorities and policy in shared protected areas. The two paradigms define the physical, economic, social, and political infrastructure of shared protected areas through competing frameworks of national interests and environmental protections. This comparative study builds on international thinking about the relationship between sustainable development to answer the hypothesis that national security impacts most the environmental pillar of sustainable development. The research methodology is a triangulation of comparative document analysis with qualitative and quantitative interviews for a rich description of the two paradigms in two shared protected areas. Sustainable development is assessed in the four park conservation management plans using the Lockwood and Kothari traditional versus emergent sustainable development indicators as independent variables and the organizing framework. The impacts of national security doctrine, policy and projects are systematically assessed on sustainable development in the parks. This research formalizes one step toward the study of national security and sustainable development and the challenges of developing environmental protections in a national security environment.
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This paper examines whether trade relationships facilitate resolution of international environmental spillovers. Trade might promote cooperation by providing opportunities for implicit side payments, allowing linkage between nvironmental and trade concessions, providing direct leverage over other countries' production, or instilling a perception of shared goals. Using data from the UN's Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) on water quality in international rivers, the paper examines the influence of bilateral trade on pollution in rivers that cross international borders. In equations with country fixed effects, the paper finds evidence of lower water pollution in rivers shared between countries with more extensive trade.
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In: Urban planning and environment
In: Environment & planning: international journal of urban and regional research. C, Government & policy, Band 20, Heft 5, S. 741-756
ISSN: 0263-774X