Essays about: "role of power and politics in organisation"

Found 4 essays containing the words role of power and politics in organisation.

  1. 1. Examining Conservation Narratives : An Environmental Discourse Analysis of WWF Madagascar

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Félice Rubin; [2024]
    Keywords : Conservation; Discourse; Deforestation; Community management; Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Hegemony; Baselines; Environmental History; Miljövård; diskurs; avskogning; samhällsförvaltning; biodiversitet; ekosystemtjänster; hegemoni; miljöhistoria;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the conservation narratives of Madagascar the ambiguity of forest cover and deforestation estimates, and the difficulty in deconstructing the narratives linked to the idea of a once fully forested island. In particular, shifts in the conservation debate are related to the discursive power of a large-scale international NGO, the WWF. READ MORE

  3. 2. Addressing the risk of maladaptation in Social Protection: The case of World Food Programme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Helene Lykke Strøbech; Andreia Bordon Rosa; [2020]
    Keywords : Maladaptation; Social Protection; Climate Change; Climate Change Adaptation; Pathways; Vulnerability; Adaptive Capacity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The need to adapt to climate change has been widely acknowledged as a challenge expanding beyond the discrete realm of adaptation initiatives. Accordingly, social protection has received growing attention due to its potential to promote adaptive capacity, whilst partly addressing both direct and indirect drivers of vulnerability to climate change. READ MORE

  4. 3. Women’s Participation in the Burmese Ethnic and Student Oppositional Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Emelie Svensson; [2015]
    Keywords : Burma; Myanmar; Social Movement; Ethnic and Student Oppositional Movement; Student and Youth Organisation; Feminist Standpoint Theory; Women’s Participation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The official notion of women in Burma is that they are equal to men but happy with their non- political domestic role in society. This notion undermines the work and struggle done by women in the oppositional movement. READ MORE

  5. 4. European Security and Foreign Policy in a post-Cold War era. A study of France, Germany and Great Britain

    University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Thomas Langlois; [2005]
    Keywords : CFSP; Security; Foreign Policy; NATO; Unipolar World; Cooperation; National Interests;

    Abstract : During the Cold War era, the edifice of the world configuration was built on a bipolar structure. The security of west European countries was not only important in the eyes of the Europeans but also in the American ones. But the end of this era in 1989-91 also put an end to this world structure and brought it into a unipolar one. READ MORE