Radical dietary shifts in many developed and developing nations are supplanting traditional patterns of eating with a Western diet high in animal products and refined carbohydrates and low in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. In China, for example, consumption of animal products increased by nearly 40% between 1989 and 1997,1 and fastfood sales more than doubled between 1999 and 2005.2 Furt...

Marine heatwaves can have devastating impacts on marine species and habitats, often with flow-on effects to human communities livelihoods. This is of particular importance Pacific Island countries that rely heavily coastal ocean resources, for which projected increases in future heatwave (MHW) frequency, intensity, duration could be detrimental across the region. In this study, we investigate M...

Since the late 1980s, major changes have taken place in the global political economy. As a result of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the end of the Cold War, the expansion of global trade, and other factors, numerous countries have begun moving towards more open political and economic systems. Accompanying these political and economic changes has been a corresponding liberalization of nationa...

Current findings on gender and age differences in health trajectories in later life are equivocal and largely based upon data derived from Western developed nations. This study examines gender and age variations in the trajectory of functional status among older adults in Taiwan, a non-Western newly industrialized society. Data came from a sample of some 3500 Taiwanese aged 60 and over, initial...

Twenty years ago, on the eve of the first of the great post-BrettonWoods recessions, unemployment did not appear to be a major problem for advanced economies. Among what would later be dubbed the G-7 nations, the United States had the highest unemployment rate at 5.5 percent; but very little of this unemployment was long-term, and the extent of short-term unemployment could be rationalized as t...

Investments in IS/IT represent a substantial portion of many firms’ corporate capital spending. As globalization progresses, many such investments are being deployed across nations and world regions. Cross-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine the success or failure of IT systems and projects. Despite the intensive investigation for two decad...

For much of the 20 th century, the informal economy in advanced western nations was depicted as a leftover from an earlier mode of production and disappearing from view. In recent decades, however, with the recognition that it persists and is even growing, it has been variously re-theorized as either a direct by-product of late capitalism, an alternative to formal work or a complement to the fo...

In the process of modernization, western societies became more individualistic. Ever since there have been claims that this development will create an unlivable society. Humans would need a Gemeinschaft and would wither in Gesellschaft. This classic idea lives in present day 'communitarism' and inspires pleas for the strengthening of moral bonds and preserving the welfare state. This paper repo...

In 1989 the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was ratified by all but two of its members, the United States of America and Somalia. The CRC has been hailed as a victory for the children’s rights movement and according to The International Save the Children Alliance (1999: 5) “over the past ten years it has helped to establish an internationally accepted framework for th...