This paper examines management of change in SMEs in Malaysia during the time when the country was experiencing the Asian financial crisis. The types of changes investigated include change in objectives, change in work force, change in work practices, and change in strategies. The results clearly indicate that the SMEs carried out many organizational changes in response to the financial crisis. ...

"Paganism not only holds a solution to our environmental crisis ... it can bring about a revolution in the way our culture makes sense of reality. For Paganism puts us back in touch with the body; by reconnecting our wordy analytical culture with the physical self, Paganism brings us back to the Earth" (Harris, 1995: 149). Stirring stuff, certainly, but does the rhetoric hold? Though I first sp...

In this paper we consider the conflicts between two traditions of political ecology. The two traditions might be crudely characterised as physicalist and culturalist. The first is apparent in much of the work in ecological economics in particular, but also in the materialist left and more practically in conservation policy. It is concerned with the physical and biophysical conditions for human ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, methyl tertiary-butyl ether (“MTBE”) became the petroleum industry’s gasoline additive of choice to replace tetra-ethyl lead. MTBE fuel blends were viewed as an environmental boon; MTBE signiacantly reduces emissions of smog-producing air pollutants and can be produced relatively cheaply. Yet by the end of the 1990s, MTBE had leaked from tens of thousands of underground ...

The efficiency at which governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are able to respond to a crisis and provide relief to victims has gained increased attention. This emphasis coincides with significant events such as tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and environmental disasters occuring during the last decade. Crowdsourcing applications such as Twitter, Ushahidi, and Sahana have pro...

security building processes after world war ii, were under the influence of realistic thoughts. this was considered a reaction to idealistic and institutional approaches. critical school attempted to criticize classical and structural realism. new security theoreticians emphasize on extended subjects and diverse threats and believe it to be beyond the competition of countries. they believe that...

in this study we investigated the impacts of population increase on life quality, with a special focus on its impact on the natural resources and environmental issues. this analysis was conducted using data over a 16 year period. since water is one of the most important factors contributing to the growth and development of countries, the increase in population size, industry sector growth, urba...