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Environmental Advocacy: Insights From East Asia, Mary Alice Haddad Jul 2017

Environmental Advocacy: Insights From East Asia, Mary Alice Haddad

Mary Alice Haddad


Environmental advocacy in East Asia takes place in a context where there are few well-funded professional advocacy organisations, no viable green parties, and governments that are highly pro-business. In this advocacy-hostile environment, what strategies are environmental organizations using to promote better environmental outcomes?  Using an original database of environmental organizations and interviews with activists and officials throughout the region, this paper investigates which strategies are most common and compares them to the advocacy strategies found in the United States.  It finds, perhaps surprisingly, that (a) environmental organizations across East Asia employ similar advocacy strategies even though they are operating in …

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Designing The New American University: A Review, Philip Shapira Jul 2015

Designing The New American University: A Review, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

This paper reviews Designing the New American University, by Michael M. Crow and Willam B. Dabars (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2015). The paper probes the New American University model detailed in the book and implemented at Arizona State University.

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Legislative Regulation Of Surrogacy And Reproductive Technology, Marjorie Maguire Shultz Feb 2013

Legislative Regulation Of Surrogacy And Reproductive Technology, Marjorie Maguire Shultz

Marjorie M. Shultz

No abstract provided.

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Reproductive Technology And Intent-Based Parenthood: An Opportunity For Gender Neutrality, Marjorie Maguire Shultz Feb 2013

Reproductive Technology And Intent-Based Parenthood: An Opportunity For Gender Neutrality, Marjorie Maguire Shultz

Marjorie M. Shultz

United States. Some emphasis on the Baby M case.

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Moving Up In The New Economy: Career Ladders For U.S. Workers, Joan Fitzgerald Apr 2012

Moving Up In The New Economy: Career Ladders For U.S. Workers, Joan Fitzgerald

Joan Fitzgerald

[Excerpt] This book is about restoring the upward mobility of U.S. workers. Specifically it is about the one workforce-development strategy that is currently aimed at exactly that goal – the strategy of creating (or re-creating) not just jobs but also career ladders. Career-ladder strategies aim to devise explicit pathways of occupational advancement.

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