Stewart D. Friedman and Jeffrey H. Greenhaus
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195112757
- eISBN:
- 9780199848737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112757.003.0009
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Strategy
What the author endorses in this chapter are integration and conflict reduction between family and work. Strengthening the alliance between work and family needs understanding, and it requires ...
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What the author endorses in this chapter are integration and conflict reduction between family and work. Strengthening the alliance between work and family needs understanding, and it requires options. At present, corporate and social policies in general don't support options because they are rooted largely on outmoded gender role stereotypes, employment models, and cultural values that started in the days of a different workforce demography — with dad at a job away from home, mom back with the kids, and the boss keeping a close eye on employees to make sure they were producing great results. Every aspect of the action agenda is based on the assumption that greater diversity in options is necessary and that providing this diversity is in line with the needs of business.Less
What the author endorses in this chapter are integration and conflict reduction between family and work. Strengthening the alliance between work and family needs understanding, and it requires options. At present, corporate and social policies in general don't support options because they are rooted largely on outmoded gender role stereotypes, employment models, and cultural values that started in the days of a different workforce demography — with dad at a job away from home, mom back with the kids, and the boss keeping a close eye on employees to make sure they were producing great results. Every aspect of the action agenda is based on the assumption that greater diversity in options is necessary and that providing this diversity is in line with the needs of business.
John D. C. Linnell, John Odden, and Annette Mertens
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- December 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199558520
- eISBN:
- 9780191774546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558520.003.0014
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology, Ecology
Depredation, which often occurs wherever livestock and large carnivores with an appropriate body size ratio occur together, can represent significant losses for some producers, become a welfare ...
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Depredation, which often occurs wherever livestock and large carnivores with an appropriate body size ratio occur together, can represent significant losses for some producers, become a welfare problem for livestock, and fuel wider conflicts between humans and carnivores. There are many potential ways to reduce depredation on livestock, and an integrated approach that involves actions focused on both the carnivores and on the livestock, as well as economic instruments, is usually needed. The most successful husbandry approaches involve traditional herding systems (shepherds, guarding dogs, and night-time enclosures) or electric fences. It is crucial to consider the management of depredation within the context of the diverse socioeconomic objectives that livestock herding can have, including meat, milk, and wool production; rural policy; tradition; and maintenance of grazing-dependent habitats, with their associated biodiversity and aesthetic values.Less
Depredation, which often occurs wherever livestock and large carnivores with an appropriate body size ratio occur together, can represent significant losses for some producers, become a welfare problem for livestock, and fuel wider conflicts between humans and carnivores. There are many potential ways to reduce depredation on livestock, and an integrated approach that involves actions focused on both the carnivores and on the livestock, as well as economic instruments, is usually needed. The most successful husbandry approaches involve traditional herding systems (shepherds, guarding dogs, and night-time enclosures) or electric fences. It is crucial to consider the management of depredation within the context of the diverse socioeconomic objectives that livestock herding can have, including meat, milk, and wool production; rural policy; tradition; and maintenance of grazing-dependent habitats, with their associated biodiversity and aesthetic values.
Dana Burde
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169288
- eISBN:
- 9780231537513
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169288.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its state-building efforts. This book shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both ...
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Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its state-building efforts. This book shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programs. It also reveals how dominant humanitarian models that determine what counts as appropriate aid have limited attention and resources toward education, in some cases fueling programs that undermine their goals. For education to promote peace in Afghanistan, the book argues that we must expand equal access to quality community-based education and support programs that increase girls' and boys' attendance at school. Referring to a recent U.S. effort that has produced strong results in these areas, the book commends the program's efficient administration and good quality, and its neutral curriculum, which can reduce conflict and build peace in lasting ways. Drawing on up-to-date research on humanitarian education work amid conflict zones around the world and incorporating insights gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the book recalculates and improves a popular formula for peace.Less
Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its state-building efforts. This book shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programs. It also reveals how dominant humanitarian models that determine what counts as appropriate aid have limited attention and resources toward education, in some cases fueling programs that undermine their goals. For education to promote peace in Afghanistan, the book argues that we must expand equal access to quality community-based education and support programs that increase girls' and boys' attendance at school. Referring to a recent U.S. effort that has produced strong results in these areas, the book commends the program's efficient administration and good quality, and its neutral curriculum, which can reduce conflict and build peace in lasting ways. Drawing on up-to-date research on humanitarian education work amid conflict zones around the world and incorporating insights gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the book recalculates and improves a popular formula for peace.
