This is a review of an MIT Press book, Computers and Design in Context, edited by M. Kyng and L. Mathiassen (1997). The contributing authors shape an international research agenda based on conceptual tools forged through more than two decades of workplace computerization. The authors report attempts to extend old models such as end-user computing, end-user tailoring, participatory design, and s...

Queensland Mining has a strong focus on safety performance, but risk management of health, including Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) continues to have a lower priority. The reliance on individual screening of workers and lower level approaches such as manual handling training is part of the coal mining 'culture'. Initiatives such as the New South Wales and Queensland Mining joint project to de...

Participatory modes of development, in general and community-based forest management in particular, have been widely accepted as a better alternative to traditional management paradigms, which have been discredited for being too expert-driven, centrally planned, and essentially top-down with strong adherence to principles of rationality. Recently however, participatory approaches have also rece...

aim and background: appropriate and comprehensive response to problems and needs of mental health services requires to employ participatory approaches. therefore, this literature review study aimed to assess interprofessional collaboration as one of the beneficial methods of delivering mental health services. methods and materials: in this review study, data was collected by searching electroni...

consequences of environmental issues for have significantly affected on human life aspect, such as livelihood, nutrition, access to water and health. most of these aspects are human rights issues which associated with environmental. in recent years, concerns about human rights violations due to the unhealthy environment are growing. environmental planning approaches and tools have not developed...

globalization, more than a concept, is a process in which developing of sciences, technologies of production and information have changed many sides of life and brought some different approaches to them. among these phenomena, power relations have significantly changed. levels and aspects of development have interaction with other changing concepts and sometimes reject the patterns of moderniza...