development’ in South Africa, including the Constitution, NEMA and relevant case law. In your criticism you must refer to the article of Jacklyn Cock entitled ‘Green Capitalism’ or Environmental Justice? A critique of the Sustainability Discourse’ (available Online), as well as your own views on the possible use and abuse of the
and an alternative to the culture of war and violence. It promotes the means of dialogue; develop mutual understanding and negotiation among people. Besides, the declaration depicts that a culture of peace is linked to the principles of freedom, justice, democracy, tolerance, solidarity and sustainable development. The development of this culture helps to change the attitudes and behavior of people and cultivate the way for peace, prevent violence and ignorance that have caused many conflicts throughout
The justices of the Indian supreme court, therefore, functioned in a very technocratic manner ,hesitant (like their British counterparts) “to assume wider powers for the court”. Most members of the court during the 1950s and 1960s believed that the Nehru government
In recent years, there is a common concern about 'environmental injustice' which is increased by globalisation. According to Widawsky (2008), the propensity of developed countries which are wealthy and industrialised export their wastes to developing countries is a typical example of international environmental injustice. In addition to this impact on the environment of developing countries, globalization also affects their traditional cultures. According to Ye (2010), Spring Festival is the most
Organizations, like Monsanto, that provide technology that improves human lives have a moral obligation to society (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). Monsanto can best fulfill their moral obligation while protecting society and the environment from potential negative consequences of their product by using the dimensions of social responsibility (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). The dimensions of social responsibility include economic and legal responsibility, ethical responsibility, and Philanthropic responsibility
financial interdependence has been identified by the United Nations Development Programme as a driver of the upward trend in income inequality within and between countries. The neoliberal promise of economic efficiency, growth, technical progress and justice according to Walden Bello has failed to address the societal problems of poverty, income inequality, unemployment, uneven distribution of the means of production and wealth accumulation. Development therefore appears more skewed towards the developed
Chapter 1 : Introduction Cities in developing countries face similar challenges in attempting to cope with the phenomenon of rapid urbanisation. Their ability to cope with such challenges is largely contingent upon their limited resources and the institutional framework in which they operate. Social organisations, cultures, administrative traditions, planning conventions and political dynamics vary considerably from city to city, and country to country. When we talk about Egypt considering the rapid
Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND A REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE There have been extensive studies that deal with describing the meaning of a word or a phrase by considering the words in which they co-occur. Such process is commonly called collocation. Collocations are described to be sequences of lexical items that would usually occur together (Cruse, 1986) and that the meaning of it lies on the words that appear next to it (Firth, 1968). More so, collocation has been multifariously defined since it was
experience both benefits and costs as a result of immigration as citizens would require or contribute additional resources upon relocating. Most persons migrate as a result of three main objectives which include: economic opportunity, cultural freedom, environmental comfort and not to mention
Introduction Biopiracy is a problem faced by developing countries whereby national corporations, industries and government organizations make use of their natural resources without recompensing the countries from which the resources are taken from. These developing countries are rich in biodiversity and offer potential for corporations to make money. This is why these countries are a target. These corporations exploit the naturally occurring biological or genetic material, and may place patents