This book is in part a search for the place of the individual in those public services I call street-level bureaucracies. These are the schools, police and welfare departments, lower courts, legal services offices, and other agencies whose workers interact with and have wide discretion over the dispensation of benefits or the allocation of public sanctions
Indonesia is an extraordinarily large and diverse nation. Its 6,000 inhabited islands, spread over a huge area, are home to 210 million people and more than 300 linguistic groups. Unlike other large populous nations, however, government in Indonesia has remained highly centralised through decades of authoritarian rule. A quiet upheaval is now underway in Indonesia. Successive goverments, prompt…
This issue of Focaal is the result of a PhD research seminar on Social security, law and socioeconomic change which was held in Wageningen and Rotterdam in the autumn of 1992. It was jointly organized by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, of the Department of Agrarian Law, Agricultural University Wageningen (AUW), and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann of the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Erasmu…
Modernity and capitalism are two different and autonomous historical processes. The sociocultural paradigm of modernity emerged between the sixteenth and the end of the eighteenth century, before industrial capitalism became dominant in today's core countries. From then on, the two historical processes converged and interpenetrated each other, but in spite of that, the conditions and the dynami…
Meliputi makalah-makalah berikut yang dipresentasikan pada Konferensi tentang Konservasi dan Pembangunan: Menerapkan Strategi Konservasi Dunia, yang diselenggarakan pada bulan Juni 1986, Ottawa dan Kongres Ekologi Internasional Keempat, yang diselenggarakan pada bulan Agustus 1986, Syracuse, NY: Pengaturan kelembagaan untuk pengelolaan sumber daya pedesaan: rezim milik bersama; Sumber daya alam…
Buku ini menjelaskan bahwa bencana Lapindo bukan bencana alam, tetapi bencana akibat kecerobohan manusia.
Laporan tahunan yang dikeluarkan oleh Ford Foundation yang berisi kegiatan-kegiatan yang telah dilakukan di tahun 2002
Panduan ini merupakan hasil dari proses kolaboratif di mana anggota SEANAFE telah memanfaatkan pengalaman mereka dari pendidikan agroforestri, pengembangan kurikulum, serta penelitian dan pengembangan agroforestri.