Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Qualitative Research Methods: A Health Focus

Abstract There is a growing acknowledgement that micro-credit programs have potential for equitable and sustainable development. However, my anthropological research on the micro-credit program of the Grameen Bank shows that bank workers are expected to increase disbursement of loans among their members and press for high recovery rates to earn profit necessary for economic viability of the institution. To ensure timely repayment in the loan centers bank workers and borrowing peers inflict an intense pressure on women clients. In the study community many borrowers maintain their regular payment schedules through a process of loan recycling that considerably increases the debt-liability on the individual households, increases tension and frustration among household members, produces new forms of dominance over women and increases violence in society.

Micro-credit initiatives for equitable and sustainable development : who pays?; a case study of the Grameen Bank Program in rural Bangladesh

Global forest resources assessment 2000 : main report

Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

Actor-centred power: The driving force in decentralised community based forest governance

https://zenodo.org/record/3952486/files/Covid-19-induced%20visitor%20boom%20in%20forests.pdf

COVID-19-induced visitor boom reveals the importance of forests as critical infrastructure

The fragmented land use administration in Indonesia - analysing bureaucratic responsibilities influencing tropical rainforest transformation systems.

From governance to government: The strengthened role of state bureaucracies in forest and agricultural certification

The objectives of this review article are, firstly, to provide an overview of the literature on the main characteristics of what is referred to as the international forest regime and secondly, based on this, to review explanations for fragmentation as its core characteristic. A third aim of the article is to propose fields for future policy-oriented research on global forest governance, the international forest regime and its fragmentation. The article discusses different strands of literature and academic views on the existence and main characteristics of an international forest regime. It regards the recent notion of an international forest regime complex to be a fruitful topic for future research proposals and finds that fragmentation is its analytical core characteristic. In addition, the article reviews partial explanations for the great relevance of fragmentation in the case of the forest regime complex. It discriminates between domestic factors and causes as opposed to those resulting from the international system. Based on the review, the article suggests, lastly, fields for future research on global forest governance, the international forest regime complex and its fragmentation.

Lukas Giessen

Papers

Actor-centred power: The driving force in decentralised community based forest governance

COVID-19-induced visitor boom reveals the importance of forests as critical infrastructure

The fragmented land use administration in Indonesia - analysing bureaucratic responsibilities influencing tropical rainforest transformation systems.

From governance to government: The strengthened role of state bureaucracies in forest and agricultural certification

Reviewing the Main Characteristics of the International Forest Regime Complex and Partial Explanations for its Fragmentation