A recurring theme in international political economy is that responsibility for regulation is moving from the public to the private sphere, particularly from states to globally integrated markets. One of the clearest cases of this is multinational corporations (MNCs) increasingly adopting codes of conduct for the impact of their activities, including environmental impacts. MNCs also produce rep...

Supermarkets have been criticized by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for pricing tactics that trigger overpurchase, which may subsequently lead to food waste. Some retailers responded abolishing price promotions. However, is it the macro-level of market structure, or micro-level consumer, blame waste? With an outset in consumer responsibilization theory and through 24 in-depth qualitative ...

Strong evidence now supports the notion that organophosphate pesticides damage the fetal brain and produce cognitive and behavioral dysfunction through multiple mechanisms, including thyroid disruption. A regulatory ban was proposed, but actions to end the use of one such pesticide, chlorpyrifos, in agriculture were recently stopped by the Environmental Protection Agency under false scientific ...

In New Zealand environmental management is essentially the responsibility of land managers. Management decisions affect both production/productivity and the environment. However, responsibility for ensuring positive environmental outcomes falls on both local (Regional) and Central Government, and both they and international agencies such as the OECD would wish to monitor and report on changes. ...

in what follows, the author has dealt with the relation between the necessary being as an unchangeable essence and his changeable and unchangeable attributes. neither is the ascription of any changeable attribute impossible for god nor is the ascription of any kind of unchangeable attribute possible. as the change of genitive attributes does not demand the change in the essence, it is possible ...

In this paper we discuss the problenl of ascribing beliefs to an agent, given partial knowledge of his beliefs. The particular kind of ascription we are interested in we call explanatory ascription, since it ascribes beliefs to an agent as a means of explaining the beliefs we already know he has. We explore two approaches to explanatory ascription. In the first, we develop a model of belief cal...

There is increasing social and political awareness of the importance of developing environmental responsibility at a corporate level. When focusing on issues of responsibility, large companies are frequently perceived to be more responsible for driving climate change and resource depletion. However, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly to the use of resources such as mat...