Global citizens

In ebook "Food biotechnology in ethical perspective (Second edition)" Thompson’s unique and insightful approach to addressing the risks and questions of public acceptability associated with novel technology stands as a model for anyone interested in technological innovation and social change. The book should be of interest to scholars and citizens interested in the Internet or nanotechnology, while it remains an essential resource for understanding the twists and turns of debate over the role of molecular genetics in the transformation of the global food system.

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Ebook "Climate change and sustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production" brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food. Tools are suggested for teaching agricultural and food ethics. Intended to serve as a stimulating collection that will contribute to debate and reflection on the sustainable future of agriculture and food production in the face of global change.

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Ebook "Global accountabilities: Participation, pluralism, and public ethics" is treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations.

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Ebook "National currencies and globalization: Endangered specie?" provides for the efficient allocation of resources, the possibilities which this creates for financial crises and traders who act as agents removed from the concerns of national citizens have come to symbolize the phenomenon, hopes and fears of ‘globalization’.

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This study applied the phenomenological design method with a semi-structured interview as a main tool of data collection. Analysis from interviews with 9 student teachers revealed that participants mostly referred to the “value” dimension of global citizenship.

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Chapter 16 - Defining ethics and corporate social responsibility in the international marketplace. After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: The cost of doing bad business, ethics and the law, the MNC as good corporate citizen, can a company afford not to be ethical? the fight against corruption and bribery, government ant-corruption and bribery enforcement, anti-corruption /ethics policies of firms, global corporate citizenship.

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Urban expansion is a global phenomenon. The study explored causes of urban sprawl and solutions for promoting sustainable urban development in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, a case study in Pleiku city in the context of rapid urbanization. The semi-quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used to collect the data including the questionnaire, focus group discussion (FGD), descriptive statistics and stakeholder analysis (SA) method.

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In this paper we discuss the direction of applying ICT on the basis of constructivism theory when teaching philosophy in order to soften abstract philosophy knowledge and help students study this subject more efficiently.

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Organizations that aspire to be economically viable as well as socially and environmentally responsible global citizens, need to understand what sustainability means and how to institutionalize its principles. This paper posits that some of the underlying reasons for slow progress are lack of full understanding of the required knowledge and its systemic nature, as well as potentially insufficient knowledge management processes.

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As the global society continues to move toward a knowledge-based economy, successful political economies are required to evolve and adapt not only to contemporary markets but also to the changing wants and needs of their citizens.

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India has always been known as the land that portrays culture and traditional vibrancy through its conventional art and craft. Embroidery is said to be the oldest and beautiful way of surface enhancement. Though, the revival of traditional kasuti embroidery needs to be paired with ways to find new and modern-day expression in harmony with the needs and ends of future citizens of the world, despite the fact valuing the tradition.

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Embroidery is one of oldest and beautiful way of surface ornamentation. However, the revival of traditional kasuti embroidery needs to be twinned with ways to find new and contemporary expression in harmony with the needs and aspirations of future citizens of the world, while valuing the traditional. There is also a need to enhance understanding and to provide necessary support for professional marketing and adaptation to global demands as the craft moves into the new era.

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The growing relevance of global citizenship forces governments to rethink the procedures of conducting foreign policy and to acknowledge the plurality of actors in international relations. Besides being a target group of public diplomacy, citizens themselves constitute actors. They form associations or serve as small-scale ambassadors when exchanging thoughts and ideas with people from other countries and cultures. Thus, citizens have to be seen as a crucial factor in public diplomacy that has to be recognised in both the academic analysis of public diplomacy and the practice of the concept.

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In January 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton articulated a powerful vision of the Internet as promoting freedom and global political transformation and rewriting the rules of political engagement and action. Her vision resembles that of others who argue that new media technologies facilitate participatory politics and mass mobilization, help promote de- mocracy and free markets, and create new kinds of global citizens. Some observers have even suggested that Twitter’s creators should receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the 2009 Iranian protests.

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The Shares have not been and will not be offered for sale or sold in the United States of America, its territories or possessions and all areas subject to its jurisdiction, or to United States persons, except in a transaction which does not violate the securities laws of the United States of America.

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This publication is the output of an Expert Group Meeting / capacity development workshop organized by the Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in partnership with the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Association for Public Administration (KAPA) as part of the 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government: Towards Participatory and Transparent Governance.

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E-tribes or virtual communities: whatever one chooses to call them, at least one thing seems assured. With 51 per cent of Internet users using the Web daily, and exponential global growth rates for new users, prodigious growth in the quantity, interests, and influence of virtual communities is guaranteed. Unlikely to replace physical encounters, or information from traditional media, online interactions are becoming an important supplement to social and consumption behavior.

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Americans have always cherished our privacy. From the birth of our republic, we assured ourselves protection against unlawful intrusion into our homes and our personal papers. At the same time, we set up a postal system to enable citizens all over the new nation to engage in commerce and political discourse. Soon after, Congress made it a crime to invade the privacy of the mails. And later we extended privacy protections to new modes of communications such as the telephone, the computer, and eventually email.

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Ecology studies interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment in nature and is also concerned with the effects that organisms have on the inanimate environment. It is concerned with not only what kind of air a species must have but also what effect that species has on the air. This book is not an elementary ecology textbook. A textbook would be longer and more didactic.

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The globalization of information¡Xsatellite TV, internet, phone and fax¡Xserve to enhance citizens¡¦ awareness of their rights, obligations, options and alternatives and strengthens demands for greater accountability from the public sector. However, the power of accountability is significantly reduced if citizens are unable to measure their government¡¦s performance in a meaningful way, which is precisely the topic of this timely book.

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