Greening British Businesses

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Curtis Ziniel ◽  
Tony Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Business Development ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Ethical Business ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Business Sectors

This article examines relationships between a new wave of radical green activism and an increase in greening businesses in Britain. We examine the spread of the movement through the formation of businesses implementing more environmentally sustainable practices. Our empirical data, combined with Office for National Statistics data, are drawn from both the supply and the demand side of the economy. Our analysis tests key individual-level determinants (education, energy conscientiousness, localism) and area-level determinants (party politics, population density). Our findings indicate the main factors in determining the growth of the ethical marketplace. We draw conclusions about relationships between environmental social movements and SME business sectors. Our results have implications for research on ethical business development and consumerism and for literature on social movements and political geography.

Populism From Below and Social Movements: A Case of Zimbabwe’s #ThisFlag Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110345
Author(s):  
Theophilus Tinashe Nenjerama ◽  
Shepherd Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Analyse Data

This study examines a new wave of populisms arising in the digital era using Pastor Evan Mawarire’s #ThisFlag movement: What are they, and how do they express themselves? How does the hegemony react to them? Non-mainstream, digitally born movements, especially in dictatorships, are dismissed by the political elite as ill-mannered disruptors whose political interventions are detrimental. To analyse the cleric’s populism and its meaning to the Zimbabwean body politic, we use three specific themes: (a) personality and influence of movement leader(s); (b) populist communication and messaging; and (c) recreating an involved citizenry. We used digital ethnography to gather and analyse data.

The Withered ‘Greening’ of British Politics: A Study of the Ecology Party

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Rüdig ◽  
Philip D. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
European Countries ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Green Party ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Green Parties ◽  
Group Integration ◽  
History Of

Britain appears to be largely removed from the new political tide of ‘green’ parties that is currently sweeping other West European countries. This article will put forward some explanations for this ‘stillborn’ character of ‘green’ party politics in Britain. A detailed scrutiny of the history of the Ecology Party will be provided. It will be argued that the relative weakness of the Party is mainly due to its'failure to attract the support of ‘new social movements’. Particular attention will be paid to the British political system's ability to deal with middle-class protest movements by a mixture of issue suppression and group integration.

scholarly journals Operationalising the health aspects of sustainable diets: a review

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elly Mertens ◽  
Pieter van’t Veer ◽  
Gerrit J Hiddink ◽  
Jan MJM Steijns ◽  
Anneleen Kuijsten
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Dietary Quality ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Sustainable Diets

AbstractObjectiveShifting towards a more sustainable food consumption pattern is an important strategy to mitigate climate change. In the past decade, various studies have optimised environmentally sustainable diets using different methodological approaches. The aim of the present review was to categorise and summarise the different approaches to operationalise the health aspects of environmentally sustainable diets.DesignConventional keyword and reference searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Knowledge and CAB Abstracts. Inclusion criteria were: (i) English-language publication; (ii) published between 2005 and October 2015; (iii) dietary data collected for the diet as a whole at the national, household or individual level; (iv) comparison of the current diet with dietary scenarios; and (v) for results to consider the health aspect in some way.SettingConsumer diets.SubjectsAdult population.ResultsWe reviewed forty-nine studies that combined the health and environmental aspects of consumer diets. Hereby, five approaches to operationalise the health aspect of the diet were identified: (i) food item replacements; (ii) dietary guidelines; (iii) dietary quality scores; (iv) diet modelling techniques; and (v) diet-related health impact analysis.ConclusionsAlthough the sustainability concept is increasingly popular and widely advocated by nutritional and environmental scientists, the journey towards designing sustainable diets for consumers has only just begun. In the context of operationalising the health aspects, diet modelling might be considered the preferred approach since it captures the complexity of the diet as a whole. For the future, we propose SHARP diets: environmentally Sustainable (S), Healthy (H), Affordable (A), Reliable (R) and Preferred from the consumer’s perspective (P).

scholarly journals A MULTI-CRITERIA FRAMEWORK FOR OFFICE TENANTS' PREFERENCES AT OFFICE BUILDINGS

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Mohd ADNAN ◽  
Md Nasir DAUD ◽  
Muhammad Najib MOHAMED RAZALI
Keyword(s):  
Office Buildings ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Business Sectors

In order to mitigate the anticipated oversupply of office space, it is necessary to gauge the preference of office occupiers, namely tenants of purpose built office buildings, since these tenants form the indicator of demand for space. In this study, a multi-criteria decision making method (MCDM) – the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) procedure was employed to analyse the relative importance of the main factors chosen by the main sectors of tenants at top grade office buildings in Kuala Lumpur city centre. This study had identified the elicitation of experts’ opinion and tenants’ selection comprises twenty-six important factors for office occupation in Kuala Lumpur city centre, grouped under four main categories: Location, Lease, Building and Financial/Cost. This study then employed AHP to assess the relative importance placed on each category, revealing the varying patterns of preferences when tested on tenants from three main business sectors occupying top grade office buildings. The findings showed that, between the three sectors (Finance/Banking, ICT & Media and Oil & Gas), differences in preference were only slight for most factors but were significant for a few. The findings from this study are insightful in informing decisions on future office provision, particularly in the context of working towards satisfying office tenants’ requirements.

scholarly journals Why Do Agricultural Cooperative Mergers Not Cross the Finishing Line?

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1173
Author(s):  
Elena Meliá-Martí ◽  
Natalia Lajara-Camilleri ◽  
Ana Martínez-García ◽  
Juan F. Juliá-Igual
Keyword(s):  
Process Management ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Cooperative Groups ◽  
Agricultural Cooperative ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Discriminant Analyses ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
Business Sectors

Mergers have played a relevant role in the business development of many agri-food cooperatives and have led to the consolidation of large cooperative groups which are leaders in their respective business sectors. However, many of the merger processes undertaken fail: some are aborted at the negotiation stage, and others are not approved by members. These failures entail financial and social costs due to frustrated expectations and the time invested in the negotiation process. The objective of this paper is to establish the economic, socio-cultural, organisational and process management factors that underlie this outcome. A survey was conducted among the directors and administrators of a sample of Spanish agri-food cooperatives that had participated in merger processes which were aborted at the negotiation stage or were not approved by their members. Factor and discriminant analyses established the aspects which had the greatest impact on the failure of the merger processes. Far from being economic factors, these analyses reveal that defensive localisms, a lack of commitment to the merger on the part of members and directors, and communication failures were more significant.

scholarly journals Impacts of Reopening Strategies for COVID-19 Epidemic: A Modeling Study in Piedmont Region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Pernice ◽  
Paolo Castagno ◽  
Linda Marcotulli ◽  
Milena Maria Maule ◽  
Lorenzo Richiardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
The Government

Abstract Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), is a highly transmittable virus. Since the first person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was reported in Italy on February 21 st , 2020, the number of people infected with SARS-COV-2 increased rapidly, mainly in northern Italian regions, including Piedmont. A strict lockdown was imposed on March 21 st until May 4 th when a gradual relaxation of the restrictions started. In this context, computational models and computer simulations are one of the available research tools that epidemiologists can exploit to understand the spread of the diseases and to evaluate social measures to counteract, mitigate or delay the spread of the epidemic. Methods This study presents an extended version of the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed-Susceptible (SEIRS) model accounting for population age structure. The infectious population is divided into three sub-groups: (i) undetected infected individuals, (ii) quarantined infected individuals and (iii) hospitalized infected individuals. Moreover, the strength of the government restriction measures and the related population response to these are explicitly represented in the model. Results The proposed model allows us to investigate different scenarios of the COVID-19 spread in Piedmont and the implementation of different infection-control measures and testing approaches. The results show that the implemented control measures have proven effective in containing the epidemic, mitigating the potential dangerous impact of a large proportion of undetected cases. We also forecast the optimal combination of individual-level measures and community surveillance to contain the new wave of COVID-19 spread after the re-opening work and social activities. Conclusions Our model is an effective tool useful to investigate different scenarios and to inform policy makers about the potential impact of different control strategies. This will be crucial in the upcoming months, when very critical decisions about easing control measures will need to be taken.

scholarly journals Impacts of reopening strategies for COVID-19 epidemic: a modeling study in Piedmont region

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Pernice ◽  
Paolo Castagno ◽  
Linda Marcotulli ◽  
Milena Maria Maule ◽  
Lorenzo Richiardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Infection Control Measures ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
The Government

Abstract Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), is a highly transmittable virus. Since the first person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was reported in Italy on February 21st, 2020, the number of people infected with SARS-COV-2 increased rapidly, mainly in northern Italian regions, including Piedmont. A strict lockdown was imposed on March 21st until May 4th when a gradual relaxation of the restrictions started. In this context, computational models and computer simulations are one of the available research tools that epidemiologists can exploit to understand the spread of the diseases and to evaluate social measures to counteract, mitigate or delay the spread of the epidemic. Methods This study presents an extended version of the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed-Susceptible (SEIRS) model accounting for population age structure. The infectious population is divided into three sub-groups: (i) undetected infected individuals, (ii) quarantined infected individuals and (iii) hospitalized infected individuals. Moreover, the strength of the government restriction measures and the related population response to these are explicitly represented in the model. Results The proposed model allows us to investigate different scenarios of the COVID-19 spread in Piedmont and the implementation of different infection-control measures and testing approaches. The results show that the implemented control measures have proven effective in containing the epidemic, mitigating the potential dangerous impact of a large proportion of undetected cases. We also forecast the optimal combination of individual-level measures and community surveillance to contain the new wave of COVID-19 spread after the re-opening work and social activities. Conclusions Our model is an effective tool useful to investigate different scenarios and to inform policy makers about the potential impact of different control strategies. This will be crucial in the upcoming months, when very critical decisions about easing control measures will need to be taken.

The Inter- and Intra-Party Politics of Moral Policy: Free Voting and Abortion Reform in Uruguay

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Reuterswärd
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Party Line ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
Party Characteristics

Abstract Moral policies such as abortion are often up to the conscience of individual legislators who can vote against the party line without sanctions. While free votes might jeopardize reform, party leaders can enforce discipline to achieve policy objectives. This article develops a framework to explain legislative behavior on abortion. It highlights how individual-level religiosity and party characteristics—voter linkage mechanisms and elite-base ties—shape votes on proposed bills. Analyzing three attempts to decriminalize abortion in left-governed Uruguay, this article highlights party variables beyond ideology and sheds more light on the puzzle of Latin America’s slow progress on reproductive rights.

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