Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South

From global ‘North–South’ to local ‘Urban–Rural’: A shifting paradigm in climate governance?

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2015.09.009 2212-0955/ 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: National Institute of Urban Affairs, Core 4B, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, India. Tel.: +91 11 24 24617517. E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected] (M. Sethi). 1 MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program. Mahendra Sethi a,d,⇑, ...

North–north, North–south, and South–south Relations

Grey theory, VIKOR and TOPSIS Approaches

Abstract This author introduces the concept of Stepwise Strategy Approach (SSA) for dealing with a number of problems arises in the current age of technology. This new idea is combined with the knowledge of Grey Theory for adding flexibility to decision making process. Grey theory is useful for grasping the ambiguity exists in the utilized information and the fuzziness appears in the human judg...

The North-South Knowledge Divide: Consequences for Global Environmental Governance

A time for new north–south relationships in global health

The modern concept of globalization in health care and clinical research often carries a positive message for the "Global South" nations of Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. However, bioethical abuse of participants in clinical trials still exists in the Global South. Unethical studies directed by the "Global North", formed by the medically advanced nations in North America, Western Eur...