Making civil society work : contracting, cosmopolitanism and community development in Tanzania
Civil society ; Development ; Empowerment ; Non-governmental organization ; Rural area ; Rural community ; Tanzania ; Volunteering
Realising this development donor civil society template in the forms of organisations demands specific kinds of work through which civil society comes to be enabled as an actor in development. This work can be characterised as contracting
, volunteering, and scalar work. The paper examines the scope and constitution of civil society work in two rural districts of Tanzania.
Content analysis ; Development strategy ; Hungary ; Information ; Information society ; Regional development ; Technological innovation
A. examines the information society and regional development documents, and is looking for the answer to the question whether regional operational programs adopt the objectives of the information society development strategy or not ? To examine
Attitude ; Behaviour ; Drought ; Ecology ; Impact ; Local knowledge ; Society ; Society-environment relationship ; Water management
in a global setting examines the historical record from early human society through to present concerns to explore how and why attitudes to drought have changed and why the mitigation of its impacts has become more difficult. To offer a more lasting strategy
in which modern societies operate. Both will have to ensure that their cooperative strategies for drought management will be understood and supported by the public. – (HC)
Beyond world risk society? A critique of Ulrich Beck’s world risk society thesis as a framework for understanding risk associated with human activity in outer space
This paper examines the risks generated by human activity in outer space, exploring the possibility of extending Ulrich Beck’s ‘world risk society’ thesis beyond the globe. Through the case studies looking at (1) the use of nuclear power in space
Indonesia ; Islam ; Muslims ; Sexuality ; Society ; Status of women ; Veiling ; Woman
for reform that culminated in the fall of Suharto in 1998. This aspect of social rebellion was then exploited by a new islamist elite who instituted themselves as censors in a society wrapped in the virtue of religion. The unconventional dimension
of the process of symbolic reappropriation of Western capitalism in a globalized society. - (GL)
De Cappelle Brooke was a well-known British traveller and scientist who was a founder member of the Travellers’ Club, a fellow of the Royal and Linnean societies, a founder of the Raleigh Club, and one of the founders and first council members
of the Royal Geographical Society (established in London in 1830). He was also a member of the Societe de Geographie in Paris, and was widely regarded as an authority on Scandinavia, especially its northern parts. - (HC)
Countryside ; Demographic change ; Development ; Energy source ; Environmental change ; Globalization ; Impact ; Localism ; Poland ; Rural area ; Rural society ; Technological innovation ; Twenty-first century
, growth of information and knowledge-based society. The picture of Poland’s rural areas in about forty years probably will not witness any radical changes but a thesis could be formed here, that it will be more diverse, more active and more attractive
Globalization ; Large city ; Right to the city ; Urban geography ; Urban policy ; Urban social movement ; Urban society ; Urbanization
an urban society, but of planetary urbanization. Today, four decades on, Asimov's extraterrestrial universe seems closer to home than ever, and closer to Lefebvre's own terrestrial prognostications : planetary urbanization is creating a whole new spatial
The transition period and the opening towards market economy revealed very significant – so far politically hidden – differentiation in the society. This differentiation has been edging along trichotomy. It includes the development differences
differentiate excessively. Practically speaking, the public education system is in a declining period – different hierarchy level regions and training facilities, lack of normal and inclusive development of society and not properly functioning economic
Civil society ; Cultural studies ; Czech Republic ; Democracy ; Marxism ; Neo liberalism ; Plural society ; Prague ; Right to the city ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urban environment ; Urban policy
This paper refers to Marxist urban theory and the concept of the right to the city to demonstrate that in democratic societies alternative non-profit uses of space for cultural purposes are important and create diverse, vibrant, progressive
Cultural studies ; Fifteenth Century ; Flood ; Floodplain ; Middle Ages ; Poetry ; Society-environment relationship ; Stream ; United Kingdom ; Wales
The paper presents an analysis of the poetry of G. Glyn, one of the most prominent Welsh poets of the medieval period, in order to gain an insight into Welsh society's perception of the fluvial environment and ways in which it appropriated rivers
of settlement, cultivation and travel. An analysis of historical cultural attitudes to the fluvial landscape may provide evidence of such adaptation and resilience by societies of the past.
Doing NGO work : the politics of being ‘civil society’ and promoting ‘good governance’ in Cambodia
Cambodia ; Civil society ; Clientelism ; Community ; Governance ; Non-governmental organization ; Political geography ; Role of the State ; Rural area ; Village
transparent and opened for public debate. The analysis is structured around the themes of internationalization, competitiveness, risk prevention and the functioning of society, all of which are regarded as the key rationales of neoliberalized border governance.
The A. presents a vision of the Mazovian village in the year 2050. Particular attention was paid to the internal development factors, especially those associated with the society, economy and space (infrastructure and environment). The study