New technologies are critical to enhancing agricultural productivity and reducing poverty in many developing countries. While public-sector investment in research has historically driven technological change in agriculture, recent trends suggest that the public sector’s role may not be as significant in the future. There is much optimism about the private sector’s capacity to deliver new techno...

■ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multiscalar character of many of the most pressing environmental problems, conventional debates focused on pure modes of gov...

The Australian workplace has emerged as an important venue for influencing the health of employees through regulations and behaviour change programs. Recent surveys have highlighted a growth in this activity but the effectiveness of these programs in changing unhealthy work practices and policies is questionable. The need for strengthening programs by stronger designs and evaluation, and addres...

conclusions regarding the control of aggressive behaviors, paying attention to male, young students living in dormitory, especially in non-governmental universities has the highest priority. results a total of 381 (47.2%) male and 428 (52.8%) female students participated in the study. mean (sd) age of the respondents was 21.79 (2.86) years. overall mean aggression score (sd) in the students was...

background public and private health sectors both play a crucial role in the health systems of low- and middleincome countries (lmics). the tuberculosis (tb) control strategy in india encourages the public sector to actively partner with private practitioners (pps) to improve the quality of front line service delivery. however, ensuring effective and sustainable involvement of pps constitutes a...

introduction: private health care providers (pps) considered a major gateway to the health services for tb (tuberculosis) patients. however, tb management practices by pps is inadequate. national tb program need to collaborate with private health care providers. this paper is aimed to provide a comprehensive management program for public private mix (ppm) in tb dots (directly observed treatment...

This article makes the case for greater collaboration and communication between scholars and practitioners of information communications technology (ICT) for development projects and for the use of multi-methodological, cross-disciplinary approaches to understand what will make for more successful endeavors in this important arena, the necessity of which is reflected in the widespread use of pu...