Essays about: "Wildavsky"

Found 3 essays containing the word Wildavsky.

  1. 1. Risk & Policy: The relevance and influence of Aaron Wildavsky’s book Searching for Safety in the safety discourse.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Hans Nagtegaal; [2024]
    Keywords : Wildavsky; Resilience; Anticipation; Cultural Theory; Global Safety; Political Science; Safety Discourse; Social Power; Economy of Safety; Net Benefit; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The main finding of this thesis is that the relevance and influence of Aaron Wildavsky’s book Searching for Safety in today’s safety discourse is limited although Wildavsky may be considered to be the linking pin between RE, HRO and NAT. The safety discourse may benefit from Wildavsky’s work in political science: I.e. READ MORE

  3. 2. What is the Wonder? An ethnography of 'rewilding' at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Elizabeth Cornelia Aardenburg; [2017]
    Keywords : land reform; conservation; indigenous people; traditional authority; cultural theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : ‘Rewilding’, or the return of degraded lands to a state of ‘wilderness’, is a bold attempt to resolve the world’s ecological challenges. It however does not address the division between nature and society, which lies at the core of the issues. READ MORE

  4. 3. Budgeting for gold or profit? A case study on budget uses within a Swedish elite ice hockey organisation

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Johan Hanström; Caroline Lundström; [2015]
    Keywords : Budgeting; Institutional complexity; Professional sport; Ice hockey;

    Abstract : This paper explores, through a single-case study, the budget uses and roles of budgeting within a professional ice hockey organisation that encompasses different and sometimes diverging logics. We identify a sport and a managerial logic to enable an exploration of how different logics affect budget uses and roles of budgeting within the case organisation. READ MORE