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1 January 2003
Published by: Earthscan
Drawing on their extensive research in three countries, Keeley and Scoones show how environmental knowledge is constructed by the interplay of politics and science, generating beliefs and policies.
1 January 2003
Asian Politics in Development' adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White: the state, civil society, welfare and globalisation.
1 January 2003
Published by: Zed Books
Constitution drafting has always been undertaken with explicit political purposes in mind. But the process has never been more ambitious, or more difficult, than today as politicians and experts seek to negotiate institutions that will foster stability and order on a democratic basis in countries torn by violent conflict.
1 January 2003
Published by: Zed Books
Democratic institutions in the post-Cold War era have come to be regarded as the only legitimate forms of governance. Elections have seemingly replaced coups as the main mechanism for changing rulers, and there remain very few overtly military governments.
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
The regulation of biotechnology products at the national and international level inevitably involves private sector companies. Biotechnology firms are, in many ways, the 'street-level bureaucrats' of biotechnology, those expected to enforce and implement government regulations regarding biotechnology products.
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
China's rural health services are experiencing problems associated with the transition to a market economy. The cost of care has risen rapidly and arrangements for local health insurance have collapsed. Government health budgets have lagged behind the rise in costs.
1 January 2003
Participation', 'Empowerment', 'Partnership' - these are often heard concepts in the development discourse. As Andrea Cornwall critically traces attributed meanings, arguments and practices through the past decades, she simultaneously puts forward arguments as to whether and when they actually contain seeds for change.
1 January 2003
The report focuses on the specific sectors and issues such as the agricultural sector in Tanzania and Mozambique, and draws out recommendations for how to improve the gender sensitivity of the PRS process.
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
This paper asks what regulation actually means in practice in the post-economic reform context of India, taking the case of biosafety regulation and Bt cotton as a case. The last few years have been a test case for such regulations, culminating in the formal approval of Bt cotton for commercial production in 2002. The paper explores various dimensions of regulation - narrow and broad, 'front end' and 'back end', technical and political.
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
This paper considers the challenges entailed in applying the principles and methods of public participation to national and international policy processes. It draws on evidence from the field of biotechnology policy and biosafety regulation in Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zimbabwe.
