Biocultural Diversity Working Group
Biocultural Diversity
Professionals and community members involved in biocultural diversity work will find a place to share experiences, text and multimedia resources, as well as a space to share thoughts and dialog through online forums.
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Created: Sep 02, 2008
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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Updated: 17 days ago
Is democracy good for economic growth?
Nilofar
PGDM, IIM Shillong, India.
KRITYANAND UNESCO CLUB,
Jamshedpur, India.
Abstract
The relationship between democracy and economic...
Country: India
Areas: Finance Policies and Institutions, Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Globalization Impacts, International Debt, Global Governance, EmploymentType: Article - Author: Ms Nilofar
Updated: 3 months ago
The Better World Handbookis the definitive
guide for the average person wanting to make a positive difference in
th...
Areas: Fair Trade, Gender Equality, Arms Trading, Rights and Equality of LGBT, Globalization Impacts, Socially Responsible Investment, Worker Rights, Living Wages, Peace and Peace Building, Petroleum in the Environment ...
Type: Book - Author: Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson
Type: Book - Author: Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson
Updated: 4 months ago
“A bad system produces bad situations in which people act badly
without even necessarily knowing why . . . if enough people absorbed
this argument, we might find ourselves in a better polity . . . ...
Areas: Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Corporate Ethics, Responsible Business Practices, Socially Responsible Investment, Democracy and Civil Society, Democracy Education, Democratic Participation, Democratic Reform, Access To Education, Education ...
Type: Book - Author: Marjorie Kelly
Type: Book - Author: Marjorie Kelly
Updated: 4 months ago
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative marked an important advance in international debt relief strategies, providing for the first time a framework for reducing to sustainable lev...
Areas: Poverty Alleviation, Distributive and Economic Justice, International Debt
Type: White Paper - Author: unknown
Type: White Paper - Author: unknown
Updated: 4 months ago
The Great Turning traces the roots of Empire to ancient times and charts the long evolution of its favored instruments of control, from monarchies and bureaucracies to the multinational institution...
Areas: Community Resources, Natural Resource Conservation, Conservation and the Commons, Community Participation, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Democracy and Civil Society, Democratic Participation, Democratic Reform, Women's Civic Participation, Good Governance ...
Type: Book - Author: David C. Korten
Type: Book - Author: David C. Korten
Updated: 5 months ago
(A rising threat as the high tide of privatisation ebbs: linking water to microcredit. Below, an excerpt from a paper I did that's very critical of Yunus ultraneoliberal philosophy.)Yunus unveils B...
Country: Bangladesh
Areas: Water Quality and Health, Environmental Justice, Green Banking and Insurance, Microfinance, Microcredit, Sustainable Agriculture, Poverty Alleviation, Urban Communications, International Debt, Climate Justice ...Type: White Paper - Author: Patrick Bond
Updated: 5 months ago
In this cautiously optimistic 9-minute video, John Cavanagh looks at the history of economic globalization. He believes we are emerging from a “dark age” of the 1980s and 1990s, which saw the rise ...
Areas: Finance Policies and Institutions, Corporate Ethics, Fair Trade, Democracy and Civil Society, Trade Balance, Transnational Corporations, International Debt, Globalization Impacts
Type: Video - Author: John Cavanagh
Type: Video - Author: John Cavanagh
Updated: 6 months ago
This comprehensive 22-page paper presents several approaches to community development, in the form of Complementary Currency and Micro-Enterprise Development. By examining money issues and curren...
Areas: Economic Development, Community Enterprise, Community Participation, Currency Exchange, International Debt, Informal Economy
Type: Other - Author: Henk van Arkel
Type: Other - Author: Henk van Arkel
Updated: 7 months ago
People who are dedicated to the ethos that WiserEarth embodies should watch this movie.Zeitgeist The Movie is a film by Peter J. exploring the relationship
between Christianity, the September 11 at...
Areas: Corporate Ethics, Finance Policies and Institutions, Fair Electoral Process, Human Rights and Natural Law, Globalization Impacts, Government Oversight and Reform, Worker Rights, Living Wages, Democratic Participation, Human Rights and Civil Liberties ...
Type: Video - Author: Producer: Peter Joseph
Type: Video - Author: Producer: Peter Joseph
Updated: 7 months ago
With so much debate surrounding poverty reduction in Africa leading up to the 2005 G8 Summitt in Gleneagles, Scotland, how helpful was Bono and Geldof's Live 8 televised musical protest? Did it co...
Areas: Poverty Alleviation, Militarism and Violence, International Debt, Arts Activism
Type: White Paper - Author: Virginia Rodino
Type: White Paper - Author: Virginia Rodino