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This title was first published in 2003. Until recently, planning
and development in the Caribbean have been "top-down", "centre-out"
and "expert-led". For a few years now, though, the region has bowed
to the global trend and has experimented with participatory
planning methods. Participatory planning is heralded by much of the
development community as the most appropriate alternative strategy
to the traditional approaches. In this volume, a range of experts
drawn from the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States
review the current achievements and future prospects for genuinely
participative planning in the Caribbean region at the beginning of
the 21st Century. Bringing together a wide range of case studies
from both the insular Caribbean as well as mainland Central and
South America, the book examines issues such as protected area
planning, sustainable development councils, gender and development,
inner-city redevelopment and community empowerment.
Forget all the expensive MBA handbooks, bin your application forms
to Insead, Harvard and LBS, and read this cult guide instead. From
the Introduction: The desire to get ahead in business is stimulated
at an early age. Remember that intoxicating moment when you first
managed to get Mayfair and Park Lane, built hotels on each, and
sent your opponent headlong into bankruptcy when he landed on one
after the other? Remember the thrill when you bartered a rusty
Swiss penknife for your friend's father's Rolex? It's a fact that
the very best childhood memories tend to be materialistic,
competitive and exploitative - in short, capitalist. Recapturing
those thrills is more elusive in the real game of business. It's a
tough world out there, the rules are strictly enforced, and the
competition's a little sharper than when you skittled Granny out of
the game with some shrewd double-sixes. If you want to be a
high-flier in today's business world, you've got to have a good
grasp of the fundamentals - like how to talk and how to look - and
at least have a nodding acquaintance with peripheral matters like
finance and marketing. Otherwise, in no time at all, you'll find
yourself surrounded by colleagues babbling in tongues you don't
understand and leapfrogging you on their way to the top. This book
is aimed at executives who have neither the time nor the
inclination to read orthodox - that is, expensive and leadenly
theoretical - business books. It sorts the nuggets from the sludge
and discards the stuff you don't need to know. Quite a lot has been
discarded. Just as it takes 250 tons of ore to produce one carat of
diamond, so we have reduced the study of business to its essence.
Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as
Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including
Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings together leading
writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an
interdisciplinary contemporary critical overview. They argue that
context is central to the practice of environmental planning in
this region. Rather than focusing on a deterministic colonial
geography and history, the contributors propose that, whilst a wide
range of foreign planning influences can be felt in different
contexts, environmental planning emerges in specific settings,
through the fluid interaction between local and global relations of
power. A number of chapters explore the effects of external
discourses upon the region, while others examine discourses on
Western-style democracy and tourism. Other important themes covered
include participatory planning, urban planning, physical
development planning, pest management, sustainable development,
water pollution, conservation and ecotourism.
Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as
Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including
Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings together leading
writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an
interdisciplinary contemporary critical overview. They argue that
context is central to the practice of environmental planning in
this region. Rather than focusing on a deterministic colonial
geography and history, the contributors propose that, whilst a wide
range of foreign planning influences can be felt in different
contexts, environmental planning emerges in specific settings,
through the fluid interaction between local and global relations of
power. A number of chapters explore the effects of external
discourses upon the region, while others examine discourses on
Western-style democracy and tourism. Other important themes covered
include participatory planning, urban planning, physical
development planning, pest management, sustainable development,
water pollution, conservation and ecotourism.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Personal autonomy is often lauded
as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics. Though the claim
that there is an important relationship between autonomy and
rationality is often treated as uncontroversial in this sphere,
there is also considerable disagreement about how we should cash
out the relationship. In particular, it is unclear whether a
rationalist view of autonomy can be compatible with legal judgments
that enshrine a patient's right to refuse medical treatment,
regardless of whether the reasons underpinning the choice are known
and rational, or indeed whether they even exist. Jonathan Pugh
brings recent philosophical work on the nature of rationality to
bear on the question of how we should understand personal autonomy
in contemporary bioethics. In doing so, he develops a new framework
for thinking about the concept of autonomy, one that is grounded in
an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and
rational desires have to play in it. Pugh's account allows for a
deeper understanding of d the relationship between our freedom to
act and our capacity to decide autonomously. His rationalist
perspective is contrasted with other prominent accounts of autonomy
in bioethics, and the revisionary implications it has for practical
questions in biomedicine are also outlined.
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