Search Results - subject:"MODERNISATION"

Ecological modernisation as bureaucracy – organic food and its certification in the UK and India

Toke, David; Raghavan, Sukanya - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 3, pp. 313-326

This paper seeks to analyse ecological modernisation using a focus on how bureaucracy contributes to constituting … ecological modernities in the case of organic food trade in the UK and India. Ecological modernisation is a way for business to … classic criticisms of ecological modernisation that it is merely ameliorating unsustainable growth, but it is also reducing …

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The Modernisation of Social Housing in England

Malpass, Peter; Victory, Ceri - In: European Journal of Housing Policy 10 (2010) 1, pp. 3-18

wider applicability. Modernisation is a contested term that has been used in a number of different ways in relation to …th century public housing model and a contemporary social housing model, with modernisation defined as the process of …

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Editorial[: Rural Change and the Revalorisation of Rural Property Objects]

Laschewski, Lutz; Penker, Marianne - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 8 (2009) 1, pp. 1-13

Property regimes shape the social relations, in particular, social settings, and represent an important element for external intervention and sustainable rural development. The introduction recalls common aspects and specific conceptualisations of property analysis in the field of economics,...

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Note sous Cour de cassation, troisième Chambre civile, 23 juin 2009, Époux Beillevaire contre SCP Chastel Alain et Toulbot Nathalie, pourvoi numéro 08-18.507, arrêt numéro 857, F-D

Monéger, Joël - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

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Failure as a Precondition for Success - the Transformation of East German Agriculture Revisited

Eva, Barlösius; Claudia, Neu - In: Eastern European Countryside 15 (2009) -1, pp. 37-60

concepts of transformation, transfer of institutions and delayed modernisation, are first considered. Afterwards the … "order of time". This implied a devaluation and ignorance of whatever was not in line with the concept of modernisation. …

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Informal Cross-Border Trade and Trade Facilitation Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lesser, Caroline; Moisé-Leeman, Evdokia - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2009

The informal sector still constitutes an important part of developing country economies. In Africa, it is estimated to represent 43 percent of official gross domestic product (GDP), thus being almost equivalent to the formal sector. While this phenomenon may provide short-term solutions to poor...

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Constituting leadership via policy: Sweden as a pioneer of climate change mitigation

Sarasini, Steven - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 14 (2009) 7, pp. 635-653

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The role of the Asia Pacific Partnership in discursive contestation of the international climate regime

McGee, Jeffrey; Taplin, Ros - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 9 (2009) 3, pp. 213-238

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Failure as a Precondition for Success - the Transformation of East German Agriculture Revisited

BarlÃ¶sius Eva; Claudia, Neu - In: Eastern European Countryside 15 (2009) -1, pp. 37-60

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Impacts of modernisation on traditional food resource management and food security on Eauripik atoll, Federated States of Micronesia

Scourse, Andrew; Wilkins, Corinne - In: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production … 1 (2009) 2, pp. 169-176

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