Andrew Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3274-3311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Fractured or Reconfigured? A Review of the Debate on U.S. Corporate Elite Unity
This paper re‐evaluates the debate between the corporate dominance thesis and the more recent “fractured elite” thesis. The fractured elite thesis, argued by Mizruchi (2013), posits that the American corporate elite has become increasingly fragmented since the late 20th century. This argument draws heavily on evidence from the U.S. board interlock network, which shows a decline in overall cohesion, the diminishing centrality of major banks, and t…
Methods That Support the Validation of Agent-Based Models
Validation is the process of determining if a model adequately represents the system under study for the modelâ€TMs intended purpose. Validation is a critical component in building the credibility of a simulation model with its end-users. Effectively conducting validation can be a daunting task for both novice and experienced simulation developers. Further compounding the difficult task of conducting validation is that there is no universally acc…
International development and disaster risk reduction research
Infectious disease risk communication and engagement using puppetry and related approaches for improving handwashing with soap in an informal settlement of Nairobi
Handwashing with soap (HWWS) has been estimated to have the potential to prevent 35% of the 704,880 deaths per year caused by diarrhoeal infectious diseases (UN Millennium Project, 2018), its wider risk reduction influence subsequently accentuated in times of COVID-19. However, this depends on place specific risk communication that leads to behaviour change, particularly amongst children in economically poor neighbourhoods. A study centred on fiv…
Usefulness of disease surveillance data in enhanced early warning of the cholera outbreak in Southwest Cameroon, 2018
In general, routine IDSR data was not a reliable way of providing early warning of the 2018 cholera outbreak because of incomplete and late reports. Nonetheless, reduced conflict intensity correlated with increased timeliness and completeness of data reporting. The IDSR was substantially challenged during the crisis, and erroneous data generated by the DHIS 2 significantly undermined the efforts and resources invested to control the outbreak. The…
Change in cyclone disaster vulnerability and response in coastal Bangladesh
The number of deaths owing to tropical cyclones in Bangladesh has significantly reduced. Category 4 Cyclone Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007 caused 147,000 and 4,500 deaths respectively, whereas Category 1 Cyclone Mora in 2017 resulted in six. Face‐to‐face interviews with 362 residents, participant observation, and focus‐group discussions answer a research question about how change in coastal areas has contributed to this outcome. The study conside…
Patterns of Global Democracy Promotion
Despite the long-recognized role of international organizational networks in spreading global norms, including democracy, democracy-promoting international nongovernmental organizations (DINGOs) remain understudied. This visualization addresses this gap by plotting nations' degree centrality within various DINGO networks over time from 1981 to 2015, thereby quantifying, for the first time, the configuration of nonstate democracy promotion network…
Finding Core Members of Cooperative Games Using Agent-Based Modeling
Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a powerful paradigm to gain insight into social phenomena. One area that ABM has rarely been applied is coalition formation. Traditionally, coalition formation is modelled using cooperative game theory. In this paper, a heuristic algorithm, which can be embedded into an ABM to allow the agents to find a coalition, is described. Our heuristic algorithm combines agent-based modeling and cooperative game theory to help …
Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene
Dr Bernard Siambabala Manyena 1968-2018
Many readers of this journal lost a great colleague and friend with the untimely passing of Dr Bernard on 27 April this year.Academic, practice, policy and community embedded groups have been commenting extensively on this warmest of achievers.His legacy through workplace, love for people and wider influences will be ongoing indefinitely.Dr Siambabala Bernard Manyena was born in Binga District of Zimbabwe.An online comment that appeared in the wa…
Flood vulnerability and relocation readiness in Zimbabwe
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine vulnerability conditions to flood disasters in Tokwe-Mukorsi community, Zimbabwe and identifies the barriers that constrained the community from relocating to safe sites. Design/methodology/approach Using a questionnaire survey, field observations and interviews, the paper examines the biophysical and social vulnerability of the Tokwe-Mukorsi community, Zimbabwe, as well as the barriers that prevent…
The Persian Royal Tent and Ceremonial of Alexander the Great
From 330 b.c . Alexander transformed his court by adopting a number of court personnel and practices from the Achaemenids. This included the adoption by the king of a mixed Persian and Macedonian royal costume, proskynēsis , Persian spear-bearers and certain Persian officers, such as the chiliarch and the chief usher (εἰσαγγελεύς). But Alexander also used an imposing tent and an audience style modelled on that of the Great King. It is my intentio…
An approach for measuring social vulnerability in context
Understanding the complexity of vulnerability to disasters, including those triggered by floods, droughts and epidemics is at the heart of disaster risk reduction. Despite its importance in disaster risk reduction, there remains a paucity of approaches that contribute to our understanding of social vulnerability that is hidden in dynamic contextual conditions. The study demonstrates an accessible means to assessing the spatial variation of social…
A Study of the Simple Geometrical Relationship of the Main Monuments of Giza and a Possible Connection to Stars
There have been many books and articles written with the purpose of trying to express an underlying master plan for the major pyramids of the Giza plateau. In this paper, a simple yet accurate geometrical layout, which also includes the Sphinx monument, is demonstrated with the aid of a well-known and widely used computer program. Furthermore, the positions of stars may be added to the same program, enabling the correlation of star positions to p…
Everyday health security practices as disaster resilience in rural Bangladesh
Health security is a relatively new concept in terms of how it is practised in disaster-prone locales. We observed 10 rural households in Bangladesh for four months using informal interviews, field diaries, and observation. The findings suggest that the everyday practises of health security involve the capabilities of “caring for themselves” in resource-constrained contexts. Understanding how households care for themselves prior to and during dis…
A Call to Arms
Standards are as old as civilization itself and they are vital to human development. Standards touch almost every part of our lives, from the water we drink to the language used to write this article. A sign of a good standard is one that we do not notice. Good standards exist and so do processes and organizations to create and maintain them. As agent-based modeling and simulation matures as a methodology, a discussion of standards applicable to …
The Modern Pronunciation of the Classical Proper Name “Hephaestion” in English Literature
The Classical name “Hephaestion,” which is the proper name of Alexander the Great’s general and the Greek grammarian of the 2nd century AD, has had a most peculiar, and confusing, history in modern
The Divinity of the Pharaoh in Greek Sources
It has long been known that the Egyptian pharaoh was regarded as divine in Egyptian culture. He was the son of Re and the mediator between the gods and humankind. During the royal coronation, he was transformed into a manifestation of the god Horus. He could be referred to as a ntr (‘divine being’, ‘god’), and was regularly described in inscriptions as ‘the good god’ or ‘perfect god’ ( ntr nfr ). By the New Kingdom period, the king's divinity was…
Alexander's Visit to Siwah
This paper presents a new analysis of Alexander the Great's journey to Siwah. I conclude that Callisthenes' fragmentary account of the episode is better than other sources; that the Vulgate account of Alexander's acclamation as "son of Ammon" in a greeting is a fiction of Cleitarchus and that Alexander was acclaimed as son of Ammon in response to a specific question to the high priest
Dealing with the Grey Contours
The categorization of displaced people is grounded in criteria enshrined by international and regional conventions as well as receiving states' asylum and immigration policies. However, drawing distinctions between displaced people remains a controversial issue because the causes of displacement are more diverse than the categories assigned. Whilst various categories confer different rights and entitlement, the forcibly displaced are often oblige…
Linking disaster and development
This edition of Environmental Hazards provides a critical look at some of the salient challenges and opportunities in linking disaster reduction and development. The long recognised relationship be
Hardened institutions and disaster risk reduction
Recent research on business resilience demonstrated that there are groups of institutions that require ‘Hardening©’. This paper uses a series of models to exemplify how this might be explained. These institutions can be shown to operate in a new and challenging global context that is summarised by the ‘Godfear Model©’ and in a new risk context that is summarised by the ‘Gray Model©’. The means of operating within these contexts is defined by the …
Local-level governance of risk and resilience in Nepal
This paper explores the circumstances in which communities may effectively reduce risks. It draws on the example of two 'Risk and Resilience Committees' (RRCs) that were established in Nepal as part of an action research project: one in Panchkhal in the central region, operating as a community-based organisation (CBO); and the other in Dhankuta in the eastern region, embedded in municipal government. In-depth interviews were conducted with RRC me…
Indigenous indicators of health security in relation to climatic disasters in Bangladesh
Health is a core aspect of human security. Meanwhile human security is considered to reduce disaster risk. However, despite this logically derived association, we could find no studies that provide evidence of how people residing in the world's most environmentally at risk locations view health as a defence against disasters. This article therefore draws on findings from our research showing how people at risk of major climatic events in Banglade…
Applications of the disaster risk reduction approach to migration influenced by environmental change
Forming a security community
At its Ninth Summit in October 2003 the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced its intention to create an ASEAN Community based upon three pillars: ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN Security Community and an ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. A year later ASEAN established the Vientiane Action Programme to realise this goal. The official discourse of community building is complemented by a vibrant academic debate over whether ASEAN'…
Cyclone disaster vulnerability and response experiences in coastal Bangladesh
For generations, cyclones and tidal surges have frequently devastated lives and property in coastal and island Bangladesh. This study explores vulnerability to cyclone hazards using first‐hand coping recollections from prior to, during and after these events. Qualitative field data suggest that, beyond extreme cyclone forces, localised vulnerability is defined in terms of response processes, infrastructure, socially uneven exposure, settlement de…
Self-care as a response to diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh
Local-level governance of risk and resilience in Nepal
This paper explores the circumstances in which communities may effectively reduce risks. It draws on the example of two 'Risk and Resilience Committees' (RRCs) that were established in Nepal as part of an action research project: one in Panchkhal in the central region, operating as a community-based organisation (CBO); and the other in Dhankuta in the eastern region, embedded in municipal government. In-depth interviews were conducted with RRC me…
An approach for measuring social vulnerability in context
Understanding the complexity of vulnerability to disasters, including those triggered by floods, droughts and epidemics is at the heart of disaster risk reduction. Despite its importance in disaster risk reduction, there remains a paucity of approaches that contribute to our understanding of social vulnerability that is hidden in dynamic contextual conditions. The study demonstrates an accessible means to assessing the spatial variation of social…
Exploring the meaning of health security for disaster resilience through people's perspectives in Bangladesh
The Office of Chiliarch under Alexander and the Successors
This article examines in detail the Persian court chiliarchy under Alexander and the Successors. The office was not identical with the equestrian chiliarchy and had no fundamental administrative duties. Its significance should be sought in the broad changes in Alexander's court when he became the new king of Asia
The Palace Revolution
This study is an analysis of the plot against Domitian and the accession of Nerva. The conspiracy was a small palace plot best explained with reference to disaffection in the court. The praetorian guard had a major role in the accession of Nerva, and the conspirators tried to minimize any interference from the senate. Cette étude analyse le complot contre Domitien et l'accession de Nerva. La conspiration était un petit complot de palais qu'on peu…
Health ecology and environmental management in Mozambique
Alexander and the Persian Court Chiliarchy
The Persian court office of chiliarch under Alexander and the Diadochs is a difficult and controversial subject. A. Meeus has recently proposed that there was never any court chiliarchy under Alexander and the Diadochs. This view can be questioned. The idea that Alexander adopted a court chiliarchy from the Achaemenids is a plausible inference from the data in the ancient sources, including Diodorus 18.48.4-5 and Cornelius Nepos (Conon 3.2-3). Wh…
The Royal Costume and Insignia of Alexander the Great
Alexander’s proclamation as King of Asia was not a claim to be the new king of Persia or the new Great King. Alexander’s empire was one above and beyond the local kingship of Persia, and this “revisionist” interpretation of Alexander’s kingship requires a new assessment of Alexander’s reconfigured royal costume. Alexander rejected the upright tiara (the symbol of Achaemenid kingship) and the “Median” (or riding) dress, such as the kandys and anax…
Vulnerability to coastal cholera ecology
The Divinity of the Pharaoh in Greek Sources
It has long been known that the Egyptian pharaoh was regarded as divine in Egyptian culture. He was the son of Re and the mediator between the gods and humankind. During the royal coronation, he was transformed into a manifestation of the god Horus. He could be referred to as a ntr (‘divine being’, ‘god’), and was regularly described in inscriptions as ‘the good god’ or ‘perfect god’ ( ntr nfr ). By the New Kingdom period, the king's divinity was…
Alexander's Visit to Siwah
This paper presents a new analysis of Alexander the Great's journey to Siwah. I conclude that Callisthenes' fragmentary account of the episode is better than other sources; that the Vulgate account of Alexander's acclamation as "son of Ammon" in a greeting is a fiction of Cleitarchus and that Alexander was acclaimed as son of Ammon in response to a specific question to the high priest
Indigenous indicators of health security in relation to climatic disasters in Bangladesh
Health is a core aspect of human security. Meanwhile human security is considered to reduce disaster risk. However, despite this logically derived association, we could find no studies that provide evidence of how people residing in the world's most environmentally at risk locations view health as a defence against disasters. This article therefore draws on findings from our research showing how people at risk of major climatic events in Banglade…
Applications of the disaster risk reduction approach to migration influenced by environmental change
Environment, Health and Population Displacement
Environmental Influences on the Distribution of the Incidence of Cholera
Cholera continues to cause widespread suffering in many parts of the world. Previous research has mainly described modes of transmission and has correctly indicated the role of predisposing socio-economic conditions in affected areas. Little field research has been carried out, however, in endemic zones, on the contribution of physical characteristics in environmental reservoirs which prolong the survival time or increase the toxigeneity of Vibri…
Patterns of Global Democracy Promotion
Despite the long-recognized role of international organizational networks in spreading global norms, including democracy, democracy-promoting international nongovernmental organizations (DINGOs) remain understudied. This visualization addresses this gap by plotting nations' degree centrality within various DINGO networks over time from 1981 to 2015, thereby quantifying, for the first time, the configuration of nonstate democracy promotion network…
The Persian Royal Tent and Ceremonial of Alexander the Great
From 330 b.c . Alexander transformed his court by adopting a number of court personnel and practices from the Achaemenids. This included the adoption by the king of a mixed Persian and Macedonian royal costume, proskynēsis , Persian spear-bearers and certain Persian officers, such as the chiliarch and the chief usher (εἰσαγγελεύς). But Alexander also used an imposing tent and an audience style modelled on that of the Great King. It is my intentio…
Dealing with the Grey Contours
The categorization of displaced people is grounded in criteria enshrined by international and regional conventions as well as receiving states' asylum and immigration policies. However, drawing distinctions between displaced people remains a controversial issue because the causes of displacement are more diverse than the categories assigned. Whilst various categories confer different rights and entitlement, the forcibly displaced are often oblige…
Health Ecology
Positions Wanted
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, anticipates a non-tenure track position at the rank of instructor in anthropology beginning
Environmental Influences on the Distribution of the Incidence of Cholera
Cholera continues to cause widespread suffering in many parts of the world. Previous research has mainly described modes of transmission and has correctly indicated the role of predisposing socio-economic conditions in affected areas. Little field research has been carried out, however, in endemic zones, on the contribution of physical characteristics in environmental reservoirs which prolong the survival time or increase the toxigeneity of Vibri…
Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) Exploring the Limits
This paper examines the recently created ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) to determine its effectiveness as a means of promoting greater economic cooperation within ASEAN and protecting the ASEAN states' trade interests. Reasons given for the formation of AFTA, previous attempts at regional cooperation and the terms of AFTA itself will be examined. The problems faced in implementing the agreement will be considered and the question of the utility of …
Environment, Health and Population Displacement
Health Ecology
The Office of Chiliarch under Alexander and the Successors
This article examines in detail the Persian court chiliarchy under Alexander and the Successors. The office was not identical with the equestrian chiliarchy and had no fundamental administrative duties. Its significance should be sought in the broad changes in Alexander's court when he became the new king of Asia
Health ecology and environmental management in Mozambique
Vulnerability to coastal cholera ecology
Friendships and Romance in Emerging Adulthood
Socio‐economic and environmental origins of cholera epidemics in Mozambique
The origins of cholera incidence in Africa are socio‐economic and environmental. Moreover, the nature of Vibrio cholerae transmission and survival presents a persistent risk of cholera. The Infectious Disease Risk Management Program (IDRM) in Mozambique confronted this in one of the recent most cholera‐prevalent locations of the world. The first phase of the program suggests that recognizing the complexity of cholera is crucial to its effective m…
Self-care as a response to diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh
Forming a security community
At its Ninth Summit in October 2003 the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced its intention to create an ASEAN Community based upon three pillars: ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN Security Community and an ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. A year later ASEAN established the Vientiane Action Programme to realise this goal. The official discourse of community building is complemented by a vibrant academic debate over whether ASEAN'…
Design and development of a stated choice experiment for interdependent agents
Sigerus and Satur
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Disaster and Development
Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying demand for a fuller understanding. Evidence of disaster and development progressing together has attracted increased institutional attention. This…
The Palace Revolution
This study is an analysis of the plot against Domitian and the accession of Nerva. The conspiracy was a small palace plot best explained with reference to disaffection in the court. The praetorian guard had a major role in the accession of Nerva, and the conspirators tried to minimize any interference from the senate. Cette étude analyse le complot contre Domitien et l'accession de Nerva. La conspiration était un petit complot de palais qu'on peu…
Disaster and Development
Exploring the meaning of health security for disaster resilience through people's perspectives in Bangladesh
Cyclone disaster vulnerability and response experiences in coastal Bangladesh
For generations, cyclones and tidal surges have frequently devastated lives and property in coastal and island Bangladesh. This study explores vulnerability to cyclone hazards using first‐hand coping recollections from prior to, during and after these events. Qualitative field data suggest that, beyond extreme cyclone forces, localised vulnerability is defined in terms of response processes, infrastructure, socially uneven exposure, settlement de…
Indigenous indicators of health security in relation to climatic disasters in Bangladesh
Health is a core aspect of human security. Meanwhile human security is considered to reduce disaster risk. However, despite this logically derived association, we could find no studies that provide evidence of how people residing in the world's most environmentally at risk locations view health as a defence against disasters. This article therefore draws on findings from our research showing how people at risk of major climatic events in Banglade…
Applications of the disaster risk reduction approach to migration influenced by environmental change
Are You Serious to Ask Me about Who Owns Wildlife?’ Politics of Autonomy over Wildlife Resources in the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
This article describes how a participatory action research project, the Zambezi Valley Advocacy Project, assisted the process of improving the autonomy of communities over wildlife management issues in the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. The project was based on the assumption that negligible conservation and development benefits realised from wildlife resources were both a policy and a management problem of the Communal Areas Management Programme for …
Alexander the Great and the Office of Edeatros
After 330 BC, Alexander implemented a set of court reforms, one of which was the introduction of the edeatros (“taster”). Despite the arguments of J.N. Kalléris, there is a reasonable case to be made that the edeatros was an office taken from the Great King’s court. Rather than a simple “taster”, however, the edeatros came to oversee the sumptuous banquets Alexander now regularly held. Ptolemy was appointed to this position, and, like Hephaestion…
The Royal Costume and Insignia of Alexander the Great
Alexander’s proclamation as King of Asia was not a claim to be the new king of Persia or the new Great King. Alexander’s empire was one above and beyond the local kingship of Persia, and this “revisionist” interpretation of Alexander’s kingship requires a new assessment of Alexander’s reconfigured royal costume. Alexander rejected the upright tiara (the symbol of Achaemenid kingship) and the “Median” (or riding) dress, such as the kandys and anax…
Alexander and the Persian Court Chiliarchy
The Persian court office of chiliarch under Alexander and the Diadochs is a difficult and controversial subject. A. Meeus has recently proposed that there was never any court chiliarchy under Alexander and the Diadochs. This view can be questioned. The idea that Alexander adopted a court chiliarchy from the Achaemenids is a plausible inference from the data in the ancient sources, including Diodorus 18.48.4-5 and Cornelius Nepos (Conon 3.2-3). Wh…
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