This article focuses on what is meant by human resource development and how the world currently treats human resources. It examines the notion of ‘development’ as generated in an economic paradigm and delineates its impact on human beings in different societies. Further, it explores the processes of globalization that are operating at unprecedented levels and how they impact on human resource d...

The world today is said to be a “global village”. However, this village is, rather than a culturally homogeneous community, a world of diverse cultures. In this globalized world, how different cultures interact with each other and with globalizing forces in general is crucial to their survival and to their reinvention. This essay is intended to provide a critical examination of various existing...

This article discusses the question of identity through the globalized emergence of tourism. Tourism is a result of an unavoidable cultural contact with positive and negative effects. A contact of two different identities, that of tourist and the host, can bring numerous changes to the local community, but can also affect the tourists’ interpretation of the destination. Here we can frequently e...

Women’s involvement in collective struggles for environmental quality has surged in recent years, as has research focusing on this phenomenon. Consistent with this research, a feminist lens is useful in revealing a model of community struggle that features women’s activities and strategies to expose environmental insult. I use a case study of community protest in Hermosillo, a city in the Mexic...

Editorials 212 Access to sufficient safe food is a basic requirement for human health. Ensuring food safety and security in a highly globalized world presents increasingly difficult, and often under-appreciated challenges, for governments, commercial organizations and individuals alike. The risks of unsafe food are substantial , but can be difficult to quantify. Diarrhoeal diseases – both foodb...