While issues such as clean production and energy efficiency are still central in sustainable development discourse, attention is increasingly on patterns of consumption at multiple levels in society. This opens new opportunities and responsibilities for design research, as we shift from a focus on product lifecycles to people’s lifestyles. It also requires further understanding the ‘social sust...

In the European Economic Area the home country supervises the activities of its banks, wherever they are operating via branches or across borders, while the host country handles the stability of its financial system and problems stemming from failure or distress. We address two main problems related to the conduct and co-ordination of these two responsibilities. First, the introduction of the e...

The main urban issue that sub-Saharan Africa is facing is rapid growth in its urban population without the urban governance structures in place that can meet their responsibilities and manage the change. This has created very large deficits in infrastructure and service provision which exposes much of the urban population to high levels of risk. Without competent, effective and accountable urba...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to contribute to aligning higher education towards meeting the challenge of global sustainability. Design/methodology/approach – The barriers to sustainability are juxtaposed against the resources, responsibilities and potential of higher education. Ideas from several models and from within several disciplines are integrated to construct a framework through th...

One of the most crucial challenges to Nigeria’s ailing fiscal federalism is the inability of states to raise, retain and manage revenue. Revenue bases at both national and sub national levels are small, volatile and monolithic. But it seems Nigeria suffers the most at its subnational levels. Sub national governments in the country perennially complain of lean resource base relative to their hug...

A lack of trust in the information exchanged via social media may significantly hinder decisionmaking by community members and emergency services during disasters. The need for timely information at such times, though, challenges traditional ways of establishing trust. This paper, building on a multi-year research project that combined social media data analysis and participant observation with...

The Resources and Shaping Forces (RSF) model is developed from a case study in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, using modified grounded theory. It provides a conceptual framework for identifying, describing and analysing livelihood and natural systems at the community level, and helps link the principles of sustainable livelihoods to those of community development. The shaping forces set of instituti...

Adoption of a comprehensive model for self-management support (SMS) in pediatric care has the potential to improve health outcomes and to reduce utilization, costs, and caregiver burden. Self-management is “the daily activities that individuals undertake to keep illness under control, minimize its impact on physical health status and functioning, and cope with the psychosocial sequelae of the i...

The purposes of this communication are 1) to call attention to several problematic issues related to the use of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for pain control and 2) to consider strategies for correcting existing problems and averting additional problems in the future. Specific problems within two general areas of difficulty are identified, and proposed solutions to these problems...

INTRODUCTION In low-income and underserved populations, financial hardship and multiple competing roles and responsibilities lead to difficulties in lifestyle change for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. To improve CVD prevention behaviors, we adapted, pilot-tested, and evaluated a problem-solving intervention designed to address barriers to lifestyle change. METHODS The sample consist...