This geographically wide-ranging edited collection, featuring 12 original contributions from anthropologists, legal scholars, geographers and management accountants, provides a much-needed critical response to the recent proliferation of extractive industry ‘best practice’ standards for interaction with indigenous people. As Andrew Barry notes in his erudite afterword, the World Bank’s own Oper...

BACKGROUND Access to appropriate, affordable, acceptable and comprehensive primary health care (PHC) is critical for improving the health of Indigenous populations. Whilst appropriate infrastructure, sufficient funding and knowledgeable health care professionals are crucial, these elements alone will not lead to the provision of appropriate care for all Indigenous people. This systematic litera...

BACKGROUND The inequality in health outcomes between Indigenous (Throughout the paper, the term Indigenous will be used to represent both Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander Australians.) and non-Indigenous Australians continues to be a major public health issue. Chronic conditions are responsible for the majority of the gap in life expectancy for this population. Evidence suggest...

agricultural sustainability refers to the ability of a cropping system to produce, without causing irreversible damage tothe ecosystem. there is an increasing need to view cropping systems and identify management practices in a holisticindicator-based impact assessment. the main objective of this study was to compare and rank the cropping systems of themarvdasht plain in fars province; in order...

This paper attempts to address the issue of how we respond to the happenings of natural disasters under the modern world. If natural disasters can be a symbol of nature, this paper could also be an enquiry of “what nature is about?”. The Morakot typhoon occurred in Taiwan in 2009 and the reconstruction process by the inflicted sectors are the case examined. A participatory action research is ad...

Abstract: Scientific research that purports to evaluate Indigenous fire regimes in the absence of ethnographically contextualized ecological data runs risk exacerbating blame game and providing evidence support distorted narratives advanced by anti-Indigenous advocates. Spatial analysis scars territories can be an effective tool for characterizing cultural terms distribution frequency, especial...

the issue of sustainable development has been widely acknowledged and spread rapidly after united nations conference on environment and development in rio in 1992. considerable attention is given to urban settlement areas. thus, role of urban development is seen as a challenging issue under circumstances. outcomes of the current patterns of world population growth and industrial development are...

BACKGROUND Integrating theory when developing complex quality improvement interventions can help to explain clinical and organizational behavior, inform strategy selection, and understand effects. This paper describes a theory-informed interactive dissemination strategy. Using aggregated quality improvement data, the strategy seeks to engage stakeholders in wide-scale data interpretation and kn...