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Foreclosing the future : the World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction
\"Foreclosing the Future shows how the World Bank's failure to address the challenges of the 21st Century has implications for everyone in an increasingly interdependent world. Rich depicts how the World Bank is a microcosm of global political and economic trends--powerful forces that threaten both environmental and social ruin. Rich shows how the Bank has reinforced these forces, undercutting the most idealistic attempts at alleviating poverty and sustaining the environment, and damaging the lives of millions\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Foreclosing the future : the World Bank and the politics of environmental destruction
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades.But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does just the opposite.
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To Uphold the World
In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who converted to Buddhism on the heels of a bloody war, yet his empire rested on a political system that prioritized material wealth and amoral realpolitik. This system had been perfected by Kautilya, a statesman who wrote the world's first treatise on economics. In this powerful critique of the current wave of globalization, Rich urgently calls for a new global ethic, distilling the messages of Ashoka and Kautilya while reflecting on thinkers from across the agesfrom Aristotle and Adam Smith to George Soros.
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The Job Engagement Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Form in English and French
The original 18-item Job Engagement Scale (JES18) operationalizes a multidimensional hierarchical conceptualization by Kahn (1990) of the investment and expression of an individual’s preferred self in-role performance. Encompassing three dimensions (i.e., physical, cognitive, and emotional), job engagement is a known predictor of organizational performance and personal outcomes. Using a sample (N = 7185) of military and civilian personnel nested within 60 work units in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Canadian Department of National Defence (DND), we developed and cross-validated a 9-item short-form (the JES9) of the original JES18 in English and French. Results demonstrated that both linguistic versions of the JES9 and JES18 yielded comparable psychometric properties. The scales also displayed measurement invariance as a function of participants’ sex (male/female), employee type (civilian/regular force/primary reserve), and role (supervisor/employee). Finally, the associations between scores on the JES9 and the JES18 and a series of covariates (i.e., employees’ psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness, burnout, and turnover intentions) were assessed. Collectively, results highlight the strong psychometric soundness of the English and French versions of the JES9 and the JES18 for organizational practitioners and academics.
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The relation between age-0 rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) abundance and winter discharge in a regulated river
We identified and experimentally tested a dischargeabundance relation that predicted, based on the mean river discharge in the second half of winter (15 January 31 March), the spring abundance of age-0 rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a section of the Henrys Fork of the Snake River, Idaho, with complex bank habitat. We also considered a competing hypothesis in which autumn abundance determined spring abundance. We established that large abundances of age-0 trout were present in autumn (34 000 81 000) and lower abundances remained in spring (8000 15 000). Winter loss of age-0 trout was initiated in January. Spring abundance in 19961998 was related to autumn abundance (r
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> 0.99) and mean discharge in the second half of winter (17.122.8 m
3
·s
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; r
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> 0.99) but not mean discharge in the first half of winter (15.121.1 m
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·s
1
; r
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= 0.11). We experimentally maintained a high discharge (2021 m
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·s
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) in the second half of winter in 1999 to test model predictions. Autumn abundance failed to predict spring abundance (observed = 11 109; predicted = 6822; 95% prediction interval = 46698975). However, the dischargeabundance model accurately predicted spring abundance (predicted = 11 980; 95% prediction interval = 10 728 13 231). Higher discharge in the second half of winter may have provided more bank habitat at a critical time for survival.
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The ‘Art’ of Copyright
This is the 31st Manges lecture, and I am honored to be the first private practitioner to deliver it. Copyright law is rich in its constitutional and legislative heritage, in its doctrinal underpinnings, and in its interplay with other important legal and social regimes and norms.This complex heritage has been honored—and its contours provocatively discussed—by prior Manges lecturers spanning the federal judiciary, members of Congress, three Registers of Copyright, numerous scholars in the field—including Bob Gorman, and international copyright experts, among others.An important dimension of this copyright matrix not yet explored in this setting is the central role practicing attorneys have played in the continuing evolution of copyright law.Whereas the pace of legislative change in copyright law is glacial, its evolution via court decision and evolving commercial practice is continual. And it is the practicing bar: who are confronted with myriad real world, time sensitive applications of this body of law; who create the factual records and who brief and argue the legal issues that undergird judicial decisions in the field; who negotiate complex license agreements in reliance on understandings of copyright law with broad consequences for the dissemination of works of creative expression; and who, like Horace Manges, represent the spectrum of affected parties and industries in the halls of Congress, before the Copyright Office, Justice Department, Office of the Solicitor General, and other relevant federal agencies on all matters relating to copyright.Not limited to copyright, those of us in private practice tend to take our cases— and usually our clients—as we find them. In my own experience, applied to the copyright sphere, this intellectual flexibility has had enormous advantages. I say this because, to be effective counselors and advocates, copyright practitioners need fully to appreciate the balancing act that is copyright law.*This is a transcript of the 31st Annual Horace S. Manges Lecture delivered by R. Bruce Rich on March 26, 2018. Mr. Rich is a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and currently co-heads the firm’s Intellectual Property/Media practice.
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The Emperor's New Clothes: The World Bank and Environmental Reform
The discrepancy between the World Bank's (WB) environmental rhetoric & its failure to institutionalize environmental reforms is examined. The WB's increase of its environmental staff in the late 1980s & issuance of a series of environmental research papers are outweighed by WB-financed ecological failures; disillusionment with WB environmental reforms has increased over the last decade. It is argued that a lack of coordination between the WB's operations staff policy & those of the planning & research divisions, contradictory pressures of member governments, & a multilateral system of global economic development have thwarted WB efforts to respond to international pressures for environmental reform. Nongovernmental organizations must increase their pressure on the WB to become a vehicle of sustainable development worldwide. L. Baker
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The Multilateral Development Banks, Environmental Policy, and the United States
Means for the U.S. to encourage increased attention within the multilateral development banks to sound management of the environment and natural resources are examined. The structure and operation of the banks are outlined, and the environmental significance of their activities is assessed. Recent evidence is reported of the adverse environmental impacts of projects planned and financed by the banks. The U.S. can promote environmental conservation through foreign assistance policy and government influence on the banks. Emphasis is placed on improving policies implemented by the world bank.
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