This paper uses evidence from focus groups with consumers in England to consider how consumers understand and evaluate a range of proxies or intermediary organisations that offer assurance about food and consumer products, particularly voluntary certification schemes. This addresses the current...

This paper studies how anglers in northern England invoke models of equilibrium and 'the balance of nature' in making sense of the water environments where they regularly fish, and how they use these models as norms or ideals when designing environmental management, alongside an emphasis on...

This paper uses evidence from focus groups with consumers in England to consider how consumers understand and evaluate a range of proxies or intermediary organisations that offer assurance about food and consumer products, particularly voluntary certification schemes. This addresses the current...

Keywords: Consumers; Trust; Knowledge; Food assurance; Scepticism; Certification schemes

KEY WORDS: Salmon management, Scotland, animal geographies, quantification, knowledge

In this paper the relationship between leverage, performance and a firm’s ownership structure is investigated. It is an exploratory study based on listed firms in China, that is all firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 1999 to 2005. The results of an empirical...

In 2007, the Vietnamese securities market had a total market capitalization of VND 500 trillion (US$31.25 billion), equal to 43.7 per cent of national GDP, double the figure in 2006 and 15 times higher than in 2005. The number of listed companies increased to 249 (138 on the Ho Chi Minh City...