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Policy Outcomes in Southeast Asia
Asian societies are entering a new era of decentralized governance of forests.
The authority to make decisions on forest management has shifted to lower levels
of government and, in some cases, to the local people themselves. But can governments
simply `decentralize` authority away from the center, or are there certain core
elements necessary to achieve sustainable management and conservation of forests
in a decentralized world?
This book argues that policy solutions to resource dilemmas faced by forest-accessing
rural communities must be flexible, and should allow for local dynamics and
innovations to take place. Presenting case studies from Bhutan, India, Indonesia,
Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, this volume investigates how decentralization is
affecting local stakeholders and their management of forest resources.
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Author: Edward L Webb; Ganesh P Shivakoti
Publisher: SAGE India
ISBN: 9788178299594
Format: .pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2
Release: December 2007
322 pages
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The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought
The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a prime Rorschach test for political thought. Whether praising Athens’s government as the legitimizing ancestor of modern democracies or condemning it as mob rule, commentators throughout history have revealed much about their own notions of politics and society. In this book, Jennifer Roberts charts responses to Athenian democracy from Athens itself through the twentieth century, exploring a debate that touches upon historiography, ethics, political science, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, and educational theory.
Author: Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400821327
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Release: October 2011
426 pages
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An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The direct, humorous, and provocative style of this work, which tackles the subject of humour with a vast array of vivid examples encountered on every page, will certainly appeal to the contemporary reader.
Vladimir Propp takes various forms of laughter in literature and real life and addresses questions such as the comic of similarity, the comic of difference, parody, duping, incongruity, lying, ritual laughter, and carnival laughter. The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.
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Author: Vladimir Propp; Jean-Patrick Debbèche; Paul J. Perron
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN: 9781442697201
Format: .pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2
Release: November 2009
224 pages
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