Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel – as where large tracts of land are acquired not just for ‘more efficient farming’ or ‘food security’, but also to ‘alleviate pressure on forests’. In other cases, however, environmental green agendas are the core drivers and goals of grabs – whether linked to biodiversity conservation, biocarbon sequestration, biofuels, ecosystem services, ecotourism or ‘offsets’ related to any and all of these. In some cases these involve the wholesale alienation of land, and in others the restructuring of rules and authority in the access, use and management of resources that may have profoundly alienating effects. Green grabbing builds on well-known histories of colonial and neo-colonial resource alienation in the name of the environment – whether for parks, forest reserves or to halt assumed destructive local practices. Yet it involves novel forms of valuation, commodification and markets for pieces and aspects of nature, and an extraordinary new range of actors and alliances – as pension funds and venture capitalists, commodity traders and consultants, GIS service providers and business entrepreneurs, ecotourism companies and the military, green activists and anxious consumers among others find once-unlikely common interests. This collection draws new theorisation together with cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings, and links critical studies of nature with critical agrarian studies, to ask: To what extent and in what ways do ‘green grabs’ constitute new forms of appropriation of nature? How and when do circulations of green capital become manifest in actual appropriations on the ground – through what political and discursive dynamics? What are the implications for ecologies, landscapes and livelihoods? And who is gaining and who is losing – how are agrarian social relations, rights and authority being restructured, and in whose interests?

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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

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Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment

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The State of Homelessness in Canada 2013

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SUMMARY The Health Promoting School (HPS) and Comprehensive School Health Program (CSHP) initiatives have been proposed as a means of going beyond some of the limitations associated with health promotion initiatives aimed at schoolaged children. This involves moving beyond practices that rely mainly on classroom-based health education models, to a more comprehensive, integrated approach of health promotion that focuses both on child-youth attitudes and behaviors, and their environment. Despite the tremendous potential of these initiatives in terms of health and educational gains, only rarely are they actually put into practice. This article briefly reviews the features of these initiatives, as well as the extent of their implementation and current benefits. Against that backdrop, the authors identify some issues to consider and propose four conditions with a view to achieving broader practical application of these approaches. These issues, which are discussed from the standpoint of potential avenues of further study and courses of action, relate to the comprehensive, integrated nature of the intervention, the school/family/community partnership, political and financial support from policy makers, and, finally, evaluative research as a support to implementation.

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Comprehensive approaches to school health promotion: how to achieve broader implementation?

This study reports data about the real story behind the current trend of mandated interorganizational collaboration of health and human service agencies. By means of qualitative design (N-22), public health managers were interviewed about the extent and nature of their collaborative efforts in the Healthy Babies, Healthy Children (HBHC) Program in Ontario, Canada. Using a conceptual framework of resource exchange theory, this study found that relational processes specifically: (a) previous relationships with other agencies and (b) interpersonal relations namely: informality, local community, open communication and resolving conflicts were the reasons for successful collaborations. Implications are directed toward: health and social planners, administrators, board members, funding bodies and policy-makers. The study offers new knowledge about a subject which has received minimal attention in the literature.

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Electronic advocacy is an emerging and exciting development in social work that requires both practitioners and educators to learn technology-based approaches to promoting social justice in the twenty-first century. Social software (often called “free software”) offers increased technological opportunities for nonprofit organizations concerned with advocacy and social justice. Social work educators and practitioners have been slow to adopt information technology (IT). This article suggests a need for integration of traditional and electronic advocacy models for practice in the twenty-first century. Failure to incorporate technology-based approaches into the curriculum puts social workers at risk of practicing with outmoded knowledge and skills in an increasingly cyber-active world.

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Technology-Based Approaches to Social Work and Social Justice

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Information technology and evidence-based social work practice

Program evaluators are well versed on the difficulties and complexities involved in assessing programs in single-human-service organizations. This article describes a model that was effective in evaluating an inter-organizational program, the Family Violence Services project, which was administered collaboratively by two agencies in southwestern Ontario. The model included a sequential planning and implementation process, and much collaboration between the evaluation team, the. staff, and administrators of the project. The evaluation strategy was a qualitative-naturalistic one and utilized a conceptual framework derived from the literature oil inter-organizational relations. The article speaks to a distinct void in the literature on evaluating inter-organizational approaches to service delivery. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by the Canadian Evaluation Society) Domestic Violence Intervention Intervention Program Social Services Domestic Violence Treatment Treatment Program Treatment Effectiveness Evaluation Program Effectiveness Program Evaluation Canada Foreign Countries 07-00

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The story behind the story of collaborative networks -- relationships do matter!

Technology-Based Approaches to Social Work and Social Justice

Privatization. Property and the remaking of nature‐society relations ‐ Edited by Becky Mansfield

Information technology and evidence-based social work practice

Evaluating Interorganizational Approaches to Service Delivery: A Case Example of the Family Violence Service Project in Kent County, Ontario