John W Seaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Seaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaman |
| SIGNATURE | SEAMAN J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1620-3534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critical Raw Materials, Economic Statecraft and Europe’s Dependence on China
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) holds a dominant position along wide swaths of critical mineral and technology value chains that are necessary for achieving Europe’s decarbonisation policy goals. Many fear that the PRC will pursue increasingly coercive measures to leverage its supply chain advantage in pursuit of broader geopolitical objectives. Examining three mineral groups in which Beijing has enhanced supply chain restrictions in 2023, n…
Storylines for decision-making: Climate and food security in Namibia
Storylines are plausible descriptions of past or future events and can be used to characterize uncertainty through discrete possible futures. They thereby bridge the gap between global-scale future projections and local-scale impacts, providing decision-makers with useful information about potential impacts in multivariate systems despite large swathes of missing data. Here we demonstrate the storyline approach using the case of household food se…
With or without emotions: How does history matter for family business survival
With or without emotions: How does history matter for family business survival
Rare Earths: Future Elements of Conflict in Asia
China's sudden suspension of rare earth exports to Japan in September 2010 represented the opening of a new front in the international competition for natural resources. As the demands of the global economy change, the international demand for rare earths, which are used in a diverse range of high-tech industries, has also increased. As China is currently the largest rare earths exporter, its actions in regulating rare earths exports will directl…
Making Exchange Entitlements Operational: The Food Economy Approach to Famine Prediction and the RiskMap Computer Program
The effect of production failure or some other shock on household income and food supply depends upon: (a) the pattern of household income, and (b) its ability to compensate for any deficit which may have occurred, for example, by the sale of assets or finding additional paid employment. The corollary is that the prediction of the likely effect of some event on the future state of the economy or food supply of a population of households requires …
Hobbes and the Liberalization of Christianity
Hobbes regarded traditional Christianity as one of the leading threats to the preservation of civil peace. This article argues that he responded to this threat by developing an innovative reinterpretation of Christianity designed to tame it from within. This reinterpretation involved the reshaping of leading Christian doctrines around the same liberal principles that underlie his conception of political authority, the natural law principles of eq…
Malnutrition in Emergencies: How Can We Do Better and Where Do the Responsibilities Lie
Over many years, the international relief system has been repeatedly criticised in terms of slowness of response, poor inter-agency co-ordination, and technical incompetence on a larger or smaller scale. Notwithstanding many initiatives to improve co-ordination and other aspects of international relief performance, relief failures, including epidemic malnutrition, continue to occur. The reasons for these failures are discussed from the perspectiv…
Relief, Rehabilitation and Development: Are the Distinctions Useful
Although there is currently much interest in the ‘Relief?Development Continuum’ this has no generally accepted definition or practical meaning. It is suggested that the phrase can have meaning only from a defined perspective and from a definition of the words ‘relief’ and ‘development’. As there are many perspectives, the ‘Relief?Development Continuum’ has many meanings with very different practical implications. Resumé Aide d'urgence, réhabilita…
Famine Mortality in Africa
The evidence of African famine mortality is briefly reviewed in terms of: (1) the probable biological effects of given conditions of food shortage, displacement, exposure to disease and other risks; (2) the observed effects of actual famine and food crisis on mortality. The evidence from both sources is weak, but it is possible to conclude that the large variation in mortality observed between different situations chiefly reflects the very differ…
The Micronutrient Fortification of Refugee Rations to Prevent Nutritional Deficiencies in Refugee Diets
Refugee rations, particularly those in Africa, are essentially made up of cereals, legumes, oil and a small quantity of sugar. On such a diet, numerous deficiency diseases including scurvy, pellagra and beri-beri have been reported. This paper argues that one possible strategy to alleviate these problems is food fortification. Food fortification may be defined as ‘a process whereby one or more nutrients are added to foods to maintain or improve t…
Population and disaster
Journal Article Population and disaster Get access Population and disaster.Edited By John I. Clarkeet al. Oxford: Blackwell. 1989. 292pp. Index. (Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series.) £40.00. ISBN 0 631 16682 3. John Seaman John Seaman 1Save the Children Fund (UK) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 1991, Page 161, https://doi.org/10.2…
Famine early warning systems: Victims and destitution
Journal Article Famine early warning systems: victims and destitution Get access Famine early warning systems: victims and destitution. By Peter Walker. London: Earthscan. 1989. 196pp. Index. Pb.: £6.95. ISBN 1 85383 047 X. John Seaman John Seaman 1Save the Children Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 592–593, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623114 Publ…
Hobbes on Public Charity & the Prevention of Idleness: A Liberal Case for Welfare
Few scholars would regard Hobbes as a champion of the welfare state. Indeed, his welfare policies are commonly seen as harsh at worst and paternalistic at best. This article, however, offers another reading of Hobbes on welfare, one that leads not only to a different interpretation of his views on welfare but also to an unusual understanding of Hobbes's theory of the social contract and of inalienable rights
Meeting NeedsDavid Braybrooke Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. xi, 344
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II. Thomas Paine: Ransom, Civil Peace, and the Natural Right to Welfare
A Reply to Professor Replogle
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On Retrieving Macpherson's Liberalism
This article contends that the ethical principle underlying C. B. Macpherson's attempted retrieval of liberal democracy embodies two ontologies, a liberal ontology of self-governance and a humanist ontology of developmental man. The presence of the latter ontology is shown to reveal a fundamental weakness in Macpherson's thought: it justifies a type of political authority destructive of what he values in liberal democracies. The article concludes…
Death and injury resulting from sudden-onset disasters
Food and nutrition
Principles of health care
The Effects of Disaster on Health: A Summary
Disaster and the Small Dwelling, Oxford, April 1978
Markets and Famines in the Third World
Unlimited Acquisition and Equality of Right: A Reply to Professor Lewis
In a recent article, “An Environmental Case Against Equality of Right,” Professor Lewis argues for no less than the complete rejection of those highly-prized liberal values upon which much of the institutional framework of Western societies has been built, the values of civil peace, unlimited acquisition, and equality of right. This radical recommendation is urged on the basis of the mundane and, until very recently, much-ignored problem of envir…
Markets and Famines in the Third World
Rare Earths: Future Elements of Conflict in Asia
China's sudden suspension of rare earth exports to Japan in September 2010 represented the opening of a new front in the international competition for natural resources. As the demands of the global economy change, the international demand for rare earths, which are used in a diverse range of high-tech industries, has also increased. As China is currently the largest rare earths exporter, its actions in regulating rare earths exports will directl…
Famine early warning systems: Victims and destitution
Journal Article Famine early warning systems: victims and destitution Get access Famine early warning systems: victims and destitution. By Peter Walker. London: Earthscan. 1989. 196pp. Index. Pb.: £6.95. ISBN 1 85383 047 X. John Seaman John Seaman 1Save the Children Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 592–593, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623114 Publ…
Making Exchange Entitlements Operational: The Food Economy Approach to Famine Prediction and the RiskMap Computer Program
The effect of production failure or some other shock on household income and food supply depends upon: (a) the pattern of household income, and (b) its ability to compensate for any deficit which may have occurred, for example, by the sale of assets or finding additional paid employment. The corollary is that the prediction of the likely effect of some event on the future state of the economy or food supply of a population of households requires …
Malnutrition in Emergencies: How Can We Do Better and Where Do the Responsibilities Lie
Over many years, the international relief system has been repeatedly criticised in terms of slowness of response, poor inter-agency co-ordination, and technical incompetence on a larger or smaller scale. Notwithstanding many initiatives to improve co-ordination and other aspects of international relief performance, relief failures, including epidemic malnutrition, continue to occur. The reasons for these failures are discussed from the perspectiv…
Population and disaster
Journal Article Population and disaster Get access Population and disaster.Edited By John I. Clarkeet al. Oxford: Blackwell. 1989. 292pp. Index. (Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series.) £40.00. ISBN 0 631 16682 3. John Seaman John Seaman 1Save the Children Fund (UK) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 1991, Page 161, https://doi.org/10.2…
Hobbes on Public Charity & the Prevention of Idleness: A Liberal Case for Welfare
Few scholars would regard Hobbes as a champion of the welfare state. Indeed, his welfare policies are commonly seen as harsh at worst and paternalistic at best. This article, however, offers another reading of Hobbes on welfare, one that leads not only to a different interpretation of his views on welfare but also to an unusual understanding of Hobbes's theory of the social contract and of inalienable rights
II. Thomas Paine: Ransom, Civil Peace, and the Natural Right to Welfare
L. T. Hobhouse and the Theory of “Social Liberalism
L. T. Hobhouse and the théorie du libéralisme social Le « libéralisme social » de L. T. Hobhouse est considéré comme ayant inauguré un changement important à l'intérieur de la tradition libérale, en remplaçant la croyance aux bienfaits du laisser-faire économique par celle d'une économie de marché régularisée et orientée vers le bien-être. On considère aussi généralement qu'il a effectué ce changement sur la base d'une éthique de l'harmonie socia…
Famine Mortality in Africa
The evidence of African famine mortality is briefly reviewed in terms of: (1) the probable biological effects of given conditions of food shortage, displacement, exposure to disease and other risks; (2) the observed effects of actual famine and food crisis on mortality. The evidence from both sources is weak, but it is possible to conclude that the large variation in mortality observed between different situations chiefly reflects the very differ…
Principles of health care
Hobbes and the Liberalization of Christianity
Hobbes regarded traditional Christianity as one of the leading threats to the preservation of civil peace. This article argues that he responded to this threat by developing an innovative reinterpretation of Christianity designed to tame it from within. This reinterpretation involved the reshaping of leading Christian doctrines around the same liberal principles that underlie his conception of political authority, the natural law principles of eq…
Relief, Rehabilitation and Development: Are the Distinctions Useful
Although there is currently much interest in the ‘Relief?Development Continuum’ this has no generally accepted definition or practical meaning. It is suggested that the phrase can have meaning only from a defined perspective and from a definition of the words ‘relief’ and ‘development’. As there are many perspectives, the ‘Relief?Development Continuum’ has many meanings with very different practical implications. Resumé Aide d'urgence, réhabilita…
On Retrieving Macpherson's Liberalism
This article contends that the ethical principle underlying C. B. Macpherson's attempted retrieval of liberal democracy embodies two ontologies, a liberal ontology of self-governance and a humanist ontology of developmental man. The presence of the latter ontology is shown to reveal a fundamental weakness in Macpherson's thought: it justifies a type of political authority destructive of what he values in liberal democracies. The article concludes…
Unlimited Acquisition and Equality of Right: A Reply to Professor Lewis
In a recent article, “An Environmental Case Against Equality of Right,” Professor Lewis argues for no less than the complete rejection of those highly-prized liberal values upon which much of the institutional framework of Western societies has been built, the values of civil peace, unlimited acquisition, and equality of right. This radical recommendation is urged on the basis of the mundane and, until very recently, much-ignored problem of envir…
Macaulay and the Whig TraditionJoseph Hamburger Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1976, pp. xiii, 274
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L. T. Hobhouse and the Theory of “Social Liberalism
L. T. Hobhouse and the théorie du libéralisme social Le « libéralisme social » de L. T. Hobhouse est considéré comme ayant inauguré un changement important à l'intérieur de la tradition libérale, en remplaçant la croyance aux bienfaits du laisser-faire économique par celle d'une économie de marché régularisée et orientée vers le bien-être. On considère aussi généralement qu'il a effectué ce changement sur la base d'une éthique de l'harmonie socia…
The Effects of Disaster on Health: A Summary
Disaster and the Small Dwelling, Oxford, April 1978
Markets and Famines in the Third World
Food and nutrition
Principles of health care
Death and injury resulting from sudden-onset disasters
On Retrieving Macpherson's Liberalism
This article contends that the ethical principle underlying C. B. Macpherson's attempted retrieval of liberal democracy embodies two ontologies, a liberal ontology of self-governance and a humanist ontology of developmental man. The presence of the latter ontology is shown to reveal a fundamental weakness in Macpherson's thought: it justifies a type of political authority destructive of what he values in liberal democracies. The article concludes…
A Reply to Professor Replogle
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Meeting NeedsDavid Braybrooke Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. xi, 344
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
II. Thomas Paine: Ransom, Civil Peace, and the Natural Right to Welfare
Famine early warning systems: Victims and destitution
Journal Article Famine early warning systems: victims and destitution Get access Famine early warning systems: victims and destitution. By Peter Walker. London: Earthscan. 1989. 196pp. Index. Pb.: £6.95. ISBN 1 85383 047 X. John Seaman John Seaman 1Save the Children Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 592–593, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623114 Publ…
Hobbes on Public Charity & the Prevention of Idleness: A Liberal Case for Welfare
Few scholars would regard Hobbes as a champion of the welfare state. Indeed, his welfare policies are commonly seen as harsh at worst and paternalistic at best. This article, however, offers another reading of Hobbes on welfare, one that leads not only to a different interpretation of his views on welfare but also to an unusual understanding of Hobbes's theory of the social contract and of inalienable rights
Population and disaster
Journal Article Population and disaster Get access Population and disaster.Edited By John I. Clarkeet al. Oxford: Blackwell. 1989. 292pp. Index. (Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series.) £40.00. ISBN 0 631 16682 3. John Seaman John Seaman 1Save the Children Fund (UK) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 1991, Page 161, https://doi.org/10.2…
The Micronutrient Fortification of Refugee Rations to Prevent Nutritional Deficiencies in Refugee Diets
Refugee rations, particularly those in Africa, are essentially made up of cereals, legumes, oil and a small quantity of sugar. On such a diet, numerous deficiency diseases including scurvy, pellagra and beri-beri have been reported. This paper argues that one possible strategy to alleviate these problems is food fortification. Food fortification may be defined as ‘a process whereby one or more nutrients are added to foods to maintain or improve t…
Famine Mortality in Africa
The evidence of African famine mortality is briefly reviewed in terms of: (1) the probable biological effects of given conditions of food shortage, displacement, exposure to disease and other risks; (2) the observed effects of actual famine and food crisis on mortality. The evidence from both sources is weak, but it is possible to conclude that the large variation in mortality observed between different situations chiefly reflects the very differ…
Relief, Rehabilitation and Development: Are the Distinctions Useful
Although there is currently much interest in the ‘Relief?Development Continuum’ this has no generally accepted definition or practical meaning. It is suggested that the phrase can have meaning only from a defined perspective and from a definition of the words ‘relief’ and ‘development’. As there are many perspectives, the ‘Relief?Development Continuum’ has many meanings with very different practical implications. Resumé Aide d'urgence, réhabilita…
Hobbes and the Liberalization of Christianity
Hobbes regarded traditional Christianity as one of the leading threats to the preservation of civil peace. This article argues that he responded to this threat by developing an innovative reinterpretation of Christianity designed to tame it from within. This reinterpretation involved the reshaping of leading Christian doctrines around the same liberal principles that underlie his conception of political authority, the natural law principles of eq…
Malnutrition in Emergencies: How Can We Do Better and Where Do the Responsibilities Lie
Over many years, the international relief system has been repeatedly criticised in terms of slowness of response, poor inter-agency co-ordination, and technical incompetence on a larger or smaller scale. Notwithstanding many initiatives to improve co-ordination and other aspects of international relief performance, relief failures, including epidemic malnutrition, continue to occur. The reasons for these failures are discussed from the perspectiv…
Making Exchange Entitlements Operational: The Food Economy Approach to Famine Prediction and the RiskMap Computer Program
The effect of production failure or some other shock on household income and food supply depends upon: (a) the pattern of household income, and (b) its ability to compensate for any deficit which may have occurred, for example, by the sale of assets or finding additional paid employment. The corollary is that the prediction of the likely effect of some event on the future state of the economy or food supply of a population of households requires …
Rare Earths: Future Elements of Conflict in Asia
China's sudden suspension of rare earth exports to Japan in September 2010 represented the opening of a new front in the international competition for natural resources. As the demands of the global economy change, the international demand for rare earths, which are used in a diverse range of high-tech industries, has also increased. As China is currently the largest rare earths exporter, its actions in regulating rare earths exports will directl…
With or without emotions: How does history matter for family business survival
With or without emotions: How does history matter for family business survival
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