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Fred Gale - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Tropical Timber Trade Regime - The Tropical Timber Trade Regime
1998Co-Authors: Fred GaleAbstract:List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Used The Tropical Rainforest Crisis International Regimes: A Conceptual History A Neo-Gramscian Approach to International Regimes Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation The Tropical Timber Trade The International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983 State Coalitions Contesting the Tropical Timber Trade Regime Industry and Civil Society Organizations Contesting the TTTR The Politics of Regime Creation: Normative Content Eco-Certification and Labelling as Compliance Mechanisms The ITTO Mission to Sarawak Explaining Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation Appendix Bibliography Index
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The Tropical Timber Trade Regime - The Tropical Timber Trade Regime
1998Co-Authors: Fred GaleAbstract:List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Used The Tropical Rainforest Crisis International Regimes: A Conceptual History A Neo-Gramscian Approach to International Regimes Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation The Tropical Timber Trade The International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983 State Coalitions Contesting the Tropical Timber Trade Regime Industry and Civil Society Organizations Contesting the TTTR The Politics of Regime Creation: Normative Content Eco-Certification and Labelling as Compliance Mechanisms The ITTO Mission to Sarawak Explaining Tropical Deforestation and Rainforest Degradation Appendix Bibliography Index
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The Politics of Regime Creation: Normative Content
The Tropical Timber Trade Regime, 1998Co-Authors: Fred GaleAbstract:In the previous two chapters, I described and analysed the four global coalitions that represented the interests of producing-and consumingcountry governments, the tropical timber industry and the environmental movement at the ITTC. These coalitions debated and negotiated, formally and informally, the Normative structure, procedures and compliance mechanisms of the tropical timber trade regime at biannual meetings of the ITTO. Situated within different interpretative frameworks, each global coalition construed the nature of ’reality’ in the tropical timber trade issue area differently, drew different conclusions from the same evidence and proposed different solutions to the problems of tropical deforestation and rainforest degradation.
Jonathan Aldred - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Justifying precautionary policies: Incommensurability and uncertainty
Ecological Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Jonathan AldredAbstract:When decisions are taken in conditions of Keynesian or Knightian uncertainty, and when there is a threat of serious or irreversible environmental damage, the Precautionary Principle is often recommended to guide decision-making. However, the Precautionary Principle has been widely criticised. In response to these criticisms, a qualitative version of the Precautionary Principle is developed which draws its Normative Content from a blend of formal decision theory and political philosophy. It is argued that precautionary action can be justified by some flexible combination of uncertainty and incommensurability. The ‘greater’ the uncertainty, the ‘less’ incommensurability is required to justify precautionary action, and vice versa. Throughout the paper, the arguments are explored using the example of climate change decision problems.
Michael J Rovito - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Normative Content and health inequity enculturation a logic model of men s health advocacy
American Journal of Men's Health, 2013Co-Authors: James E Leone, Michael J RovitoAbstract:Epidemiologic studies and related literature consistently report that males have fewer years of life expectancy than females. Moreover, males experience fewer quality years of life in that they tend to live with greater rates of morbidity such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes among other conditions. Causal evidence traditionally highlights the role of biology in determining the life course for males. However, emerging literature suggests that social determinants of health play a more central role in male morbidity and mortality, and thus contribute to health inequities between the sexes. The purpose of this article is to explore core concepts of social determinants of health as they pertain to male health inequities and provide a systematic conceptualization of how society has become encultured to view these inequities as “Normative.” Strategies to improve male health are discussed using a logic model to illustrate male health advocacy in the face of the social climes of encultured health inequities.
James E Leone - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Normative Content and health inequity enculturation a logic model of men s health advocacy
American Journal of Men's Health, 2013Co-Authors: James E Leone, Michael J RovitoAbstract:Epidemiologic studies and related literature consistently report that males have fewer years of life expectancy than females. Moreover, males experience fewer quality years of life in that they tend to live with greater rates of morbidity such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes among other conditions. Causal evidence traditionally highlights the role of biology in determining the life course for males. However, emerging literature suggests that social determinants of health play a more central role in male morbidity and mortality, and thus contribute to health inequities between the sexes. The purpose of this article is to explore core concepts of social determinants of health as they pertain to male health inequities and provide a systematic conceptualization of how society has become encultured to view these inequities as “Normative.” Strategies to improve male health are discussed using a logic model to illustrate male health advocacy in the face of the social climes of encultured health inequities.
O. Flores Baquero - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Influence of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Normative Content in Measuring the Level of Service
Social Indicators Research, 2017Co-Authors: O. Flores Baquero, J. Gallego-ayala, R. Giné-garriga, A. Jiménez-fernández. Palencia, A. Pérez-foguetAbstract:Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) have been consolidated as relevant frameworks to measure different levels of services. It is essential to move forward with specific initiatives that interpret the Content of these human rights and operationalize them through specific metrics. However, some critical issues emerge in attempting this. Different approaches are proposed in this article to tackle this challenge: (1) utilizing a participatory technique to discuss the relative importance of the Normative criteria to define water and sanitation services, (2) defining a short list of key indicators to measure the different dimensions of HRWS, and (3) assessing the impact of different weighting systems in the constructing an aggregated index, which has been proposed as a useful tool to monitor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) from a rights perspective. Two municipalities (in Mozambique and Nicaragua) were selected as initial case studies. The results suggest that there is a common understanding among the experts about prioritization of the HRWS criteria. Differences in the relative importance given to the HRWS criteria can be explained due to the particularities of the local context. Further, the research suggests that expert opinions may be partially conditioned by targets and indicators proposed at the international level. Although the influence of weighting techniques on aggregated measures and their utilization in the decision-making process are limited, this methodology has a great potential for adapting specific WASH metrics to different regional, national, and/or local contexts taking into account the HRWS Normative Content.
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The Influence of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Normative Content in Measuring the Level of Service
Social Indicators Research, 2016Co-Authors: O. Flores Baquero, J. Gallego-ayala, R. Giné-garriga, A. Jiménez-fernández. Palencia, A. Pérez-foguetAbstract:Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) have been consolidated as relevant frameworks to measure different levels of services. It is essential to move forward with specific initiatives that interpret the Content of these human rights and operationalize them through specific metrics. However, some critical issues emerge in attempting this. Different approaches are proposed in this article to tackle this challenge: (1) utilizing a participatory technique to discuss the relative importance of the Normative criteria to define water and sanitation services, (2) defining a short list of key indicators to measure the different dimensions of HRWS, and (3) assessing the impact of different weighting systems in the constructing an aggregated index, which has been proposed as a useful tool to monitor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) from a rights perspective. Two municipalities (in Mozambique and Nicaragua) were selected as initial case studies. The results suggest that there is a common understanding among the experts about prioritization of the HRWS criteria. Differences in the relative importance given to the HRWS criteria can be explained due to the particularities of the local context. Further, the research suggests that expert opinions may be partially conditioned by targets and indicators proposed at the international level. Although the influence of weighting techniques on aggregated measures and their utilization in the decision-making process are limited, this methodology has a great potential for adapting specific WASH metrics to different regional, national, and/or local contexts taking into account the HRWS Normative Content.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
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Measuring disparities in access to water based on the Normative Content of the human right
Social Indicators Research, 2015Co-Authors: O. Flores Baquero, A. Jiménez Fdez. De Palencia, A. Pérez FoguetAbstract:Measuring access to water in the Sustainable Development Goals era involves taking into account the human rights framework. Therefore, its Content should be considered to conceptualize the level of service through adequate indicators and to follow-up inequities reduction at global, national and local level. This research develops and tests a methodology to measure intra-community disparities based on human right to water Normative criteria through a stratified sampling, splitting households served by community based organizations and those self-provided. This approach implies considering much reduced populations, thus special care needs to be taken with sample sizes and uncertainty of estimators. The proposed methodology is practical to locate and accurately characterize minority sectors within rural communities and allows moving beyond central-tendency estimators. It implies higher costs for field data collection than traditional approaches, but this can be assumed given the relevance of the approach from a human rights perspective, which calls for adequate tools for equity-oriented policy making at local level. The research point out how results might be used to shape decision-making processes.