David Humphreys
Biographic Data
| ID | 5559315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Humphreys |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Humphreys |
| SIGNATURE | HUMPHREYS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0879-4074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The impact of equity factors on receipt of timely appropriate care for children with suspected malaria in eastern Uganda
The findings from this study help to identify the role and importance of two key equity determinants on care seeking and treatment receipt for fever in children. Whilst results should be interpreted within the limitations of data and context, further studies have the potential to assist policy makers to target inequitable social and spatial variations in health outcomes as a key strategy in ending preventable child morbidity and mortality
Overdose among mothers
An investigation of music analysis by the application of grammar-based compressors
Many studies have presented computational models of musical structure, as an important aspect of musicological analysis. However, the use of grammar-based compressors to automatically recover such information is a relatively new and promising technique. We investigate their performance extensively using a collection of nearly 8000 scores, on tasks including error detection, classification, and segmentation, and compare this with a range of more t…
A framework for analysing contextual factors shaping forest-poverty dynamics
Making sense of the evidence in population health intervention research
To effectively tackle population health challenges, we must address the fundamental determinants of behaviour and health. Among other things, this will entail devoting more attention to the evaluation of upstream intervention strategies. However, merely increasing the supply of such studies is not enough. The pivotal link between research and policy or practice should be the cumulation of insight from multiple studies. If conventional evidence sy…
Placing children and adolescents at the centre of the Sustainable Development Goals will deliver for current and future generations
Child health is taking the back seat in development strategies. In summarising a newly released collaborative report, this paper calls for a novel conceptual model where child health takes centre stage in relation to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. It lays out five principles by which renewed effort and focus would yield the most benefit for children and adolescents. These include: re-defining global child health in the pos…
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Pedagogies of Change
This article presents some examples of teaching on environmental studies from recent Open University modules that encourage students to evaluate their role in responding to what should be seen as the greatest public welfare challenge of our age; global environmental degradation. This calls for a public education endeavour in its broadest sense, one involving not just the academy and students but the global public. Some universities in the UK have…
Introduction to the Annual Review
Designing stakeholder learning dialogues for effective global governance
A growing scholarship on multistakeholder learning dialogues suggests the importance of closely managing learning processes to help stakeholders anticipate which policies are likely to be effective. Much less work has focused on how to manage effective transnational multistakeholder learning dialogues, many of which aim to help address critical global environmental and social problems such as climate change or biodiversity loss. They face three c…
Longitudinal association between change in the neighbourhood built environment and the wellbeing of local residents in deprived areas
Overall, we found some evidence that living in neighbourhoods experiencing higher levels of physical change worsened wellbeing in local residents. However, we found a stronger negative relationship in those with lower financial security and a positive relationship in those with higher financial security. This is one of few studies exploring the longitudinal relationship between the environment and health
Forest governance in the Anthropocene
Rights of Pachamama
Bottom–up
The shipbuilding industry was an important sector of the UK economy in its golden age before the First World War but the only estimates of its value are based on an analysis made 60 years ago when information was limited or difficult to access. In contrast, data from Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and the archives of UK shipbuilders and shipowners now provides a rich source of statistics. Using cluster analysis, nine passenger and cargo ship types …
Forest Politics
'An important and timely book' from the Foreword by Stanley Johnson 'A complete and absorbing history of a decade of intense international politics offers many insights for future negotiators of sustainable solutions' Stephen Bass, International Institute for Environment and Development 'Skillfully navigates the jungle of forest politics, leaving us in no doubt that the verbal commitment to save the world's forests has yet to be translated into a…
These issues aren’t talked about at home”
Providing adolescents with comprehensive SRH information can have life-long protective benefits, however there are important content gaps in information currently provided in Vanuatu. The broad range of sources preferred by adolescents highlights the need to strengthen information provision through multiple channels to reach in and out-of-school youth and respond to individual needs and contexts
Environmental Policies and NGO Influence
1. NGOs and their Influence on Environmental Policies in Africa: a Framework Alan Thomas 2. Land Degradation and Sustainable Resource Management in an African Context David Humphreys and Susan Carr 3. NGO Influence at the International Negotiating Committee for a Convention to Combat Desertification: Perspectives from Zimbabwe and Nigeria Susan Carr, Alan Thomas, Enoch Okpara, Roger Mpande and David Humphreys 4. Challenging Maize: The Role of NGO…
Climate change and deforestation
Using a multilevel approach to analyse the case of forest conflicts in the Terai, Nepal
From Corporate Social Responsibility to the Democratic Regulation of Transnational Corporations
This publication examines the role of transnational corporations in governance and critically evaluates the dominant self-regulatory approach of corporate social responsibility (CSR). By placing the onus for change on the corporation, CSR represents an agent-led approach to a systemic problem, and as such it is flawed. After distinguishing between the ideas of CSR and corporate accountability, the latter of which emphasises the answerability of t…
Nightlife and crime
Discourse as ideology
The United Nations Forum on Forests
Research into National Forest Programmes in a European context
Forest negotiations at the United Nations
Discourse as ideology
Rights of Pachamama
Climate change and deforestation
Using a multilevel approach to analyse the case of forest conflicts in the Terai, Nepal
A framework for analysing contextual factors shaping forest-poverty dynamics
Forest negotiations at the United Nations
Designing stakeholder learning dialogues for effective global governance
A growing scholarship on multistakeholder learning dialogues suggests the importance of closely managing learning processes to help stakeholders anticipate which policies are likely to be effective. Much less work has focused on how to manage effective transnational multistakeholder learning dialogues, many of which aim to help address critical global environmental and social problems such as climate change or biodiversity loss. They face three c…
Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system
(1997). “Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations. Global Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 339-357
The lean years politics in the age of scarcity
Research into National Forest Programmes in a European context
Regime theory and non‐governmental organisations
(1996). Regime theory and non‐governmental organisations: The case of forest conservation. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 34, NGOs and Environmental Policies: Asia and Africa, pp. 90-115
Nightlife and crime
The global politics of forest conservation since the unced1
The mistrust between North and South which was a feature of the forest negotiations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) has since slowly given way to a new co‐operative spirit. Following the failure of the UNCED to produce a Global Forests Convention several new international initiatives on forest conservation have emerged. This study describes these processes and analyses their significance. It is argued that …
Profile 1 - The Global Compact
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
The United Nations Forum on Forests
Forest governance in the Anthropocene
Labour's approach to planning
Since 1964 the Labour Party has been closely associated with the development in government of a conception of planning which gives pride of place to economic rather than representative opinion. Although ofneo‐liberal inspiration, its adoption by Labour is by no means circumstantial but is historically embedded in social democratic ideology concerning economic organisation. This convergence with neo‐liberalism is especially notable for its tendenc…
The lean years politics in the age of scarcity
The Esoteric Structure of Bach's Clavierubung III
The Esoteric Structure of Bach's Clavierubung III
David Humphreys's "Life of General Washington" with George Washington's "Remarks
Regime theory and non‐governmental organisations
(1996). Regime theory and non‐governmental organisations: The case of forest conservation. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 34, NGOs and Environmental Policies: Asia and Africa, pp. 90-115
The global politics of forest conservation since the unced1
The mistrust between North and South which was a feature of the forest negotiations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) has since slowly given way to a new co‐operative spirit. Following the failure of the UNCED to produce a Global Forests Convention several new international initiatives on forest conservation have emerged. This study describes these processes and analyses their significance. It is argued that …
Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system
(1997). “Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations. Global Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 339-357
Something Borrowed
The report of the intergovernmental panel on forests
Forest negotiations at the United Nations
Profile 1 - The Global Compact
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
Research into National Forest Programmes in a European context
The United Nations Forum on Forests
Discourse as ideology
From Corporate Social Responsibility to the Democratic Regulation of Transnational Corporations
This publication examines the role of transnational corporations in governance and critically evaluates the dominant self-regulatory approach of corporate social responsibility (CSR). By placing the onus for change on the corporation, CSR represents an agent-led approach to a systemic problem, and as such it is flawed. After distinguishing between the ideas of CSR and corporate accountability, the latter of which emphasises the answerability of t…
Nightlife and crime
Using a multilevel approach to analyse the case of forest conflicts in the Terai, Nepal
Environmental Policies and NGO Influence
1. NGOs and their Influence on Environmental Policies in Africa: a Framework Alan Thomas 2. Land Degradation and Sustainable Resource Management in an African Context David Humphreys and Susan Carr 3. NGO Influence at the International Negotiating Committee for a Convention to Combat Desertification: Perspectives from Zimbabwe and Nigeria Susan Carr, Alan Thomas, Enoch Okpara, Roger Mpande and David Humphreys 4. Challenging Maize: The Role of NGO…
Climate change and deforestation
Forest Politics
'An important and timely book' from the Foreword by Stanley Johnson 'A complete and absorbing history of a decade of intense international politics offers many insights for future negotiators of sustainable solutions' Stephen Bass, International Institute for Environment and Development 'Skillfully navigates the jungle of forest politics, leaving us in no doubt that the verbal commitment to save the world's forests has yet to be translated into a…
These issues aren’t talked about at home”
Providing adolescents with comprehensive SRH information can have life-long protective benefits, however there are important content gaps in information currently provided in Vanuatu. The broad range of sources preferred by adolescents highlights the need to strengthen information provision through multiple channels to reach in and out-of-school youth and respond to individual needs and contexts
Bottom–up
The shipbuilding industry was an important sector of the UK economy in its golden age before the First World War but the only estimates of its value are based on an analysis made 60 years ago when information was limited or difficult to access. In contrast, data from Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and the archives of UK shipbuilders and shipowners now provides a rich source of statistics. Using cluster analysis, nine passenger and cargo ship types …
Rights of Pachamama
Forest governance in the Anthropocene
Political science (22 works) · Economics (19 works) · Business (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works)