Ben Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4867095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | BEN TAYLOR |
| AFFILIATIONS | Agora |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1089-6886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessing the Contribution to Market System Change of the Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia
An impact evaluation of a pro-poor market system development programme, ‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’ (M4P), poses several methodological issues for evaluators. M4P interventions intend to change the contextual conditions in which stakeholders take business decisions so that it triggers change processes in the wider social system and ultimately benefits poor people. An impact evaluation design for such a programme thus needs to be robust eno…
Systems, Sapiens, and Systemic Change in Markets
Systemic change is universally desirable and poorly defined. This article seeks to refine a practitioner-developed framework – Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond (AAER) – for conceptualising systemic change, and offers case studies to demonstrate its utility in planning for and measuring such change. To do so, the article firstly seeks to define the nature of a system and the components of change within that system. It also discusses the relevance of beh…
Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries
There is growing recognition of the potential of large-scale forest restoration in the Amazon as a ‘nature-based solution’ to climate change. However, our knowledge of forest loss and recovery beyond Brazil is limited, and carbon emissions and accumulation have not been estimated for the whole biome. Combining a 33 year land cover dataset with estimates of above-ground biomass and carbon sequestration rates, we evaluate forest loss and recovery a…
Serious games for serious crises
Accidents and Emergencies
“Accidents and Emergencies: Welfare and Safety in Europe and North America, c.1750–2000”9–11 September 2013, Oxford, UK Ben Taylor (bio) A three-day conference titled “Accidents and Emergencies: Welfare and Safety in Europe and North America, c.1750–2000” and organized by Mike Esbester (University of Portsmouth) and Tom Crook (Oxford Brookes University) was recently held at Oxford Brookes University. With funding from Oxford Brookes, the Centre f…
International journalism
On 13 November 2010, the Guardian newspaper carried an article – ‘A tale of two herds’ – about ‘plans for an enormous super dairy, home to 8,000 cows’ (Lewis and Vidal, 2010). The article explored concerns about ‘intensive farming which has almost totally separated food and nature’, and contrasted the scale of the proposed farm with a herd of 44 cows tended by a Hare Krishna community on a farm in Hertfordshire. Producing much lower yields than t…
Uber jeden Ausdruck erhaben und schon
The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of the number of deaths caused by risk factors is needed for health policy and priority setting. Our aim was to estimate the mortality effects of the following 12 modifiable dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors in the United States (US) using consistent and comparable methods: high blood glucose, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and blood pressure; overweight-obesity; high dietary trans fatty acids and sa…
Food and Cultural Studies
What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become a significant and coherent area of inquiry for cultural studies and the social sciences.Food and Cultural Studies re-examines the interdisciplinary…
Food writing and food cultures
In spite of a growth in sociological and cultural analyses of food practices, little attention has been paid to food writing and cookery books. This article will seek to rectify this by analysing the work of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson. We argue that their work not only belongs to a predominantly male tradition of gastronomic writing, but that it also seeks to salvage certain forms of female domesticity. While this represents a break with tr…
Food writing and food cultures
In spite of a growth in sociological and cultural analyses of food practices, little attention has been paid to food writing and cookery books. This article will seek to rectify this by analysing the work of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson. We argue that their work not only belongs to a predominantly male tradition of gastronomic writing, but that it also seeks to salvage certain forms of female domesticity. While this represents a break with tr…
Food writing and food cultures
In spite of a growth in sociological and cultural analyses of food practices, little attention has been paid to food writing and cookery books. This article will seek to rectify this by analysing the work of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson. We argue that their work not only belongs to a predominantly male tradition of gastronomic writing, but that it also seeks to salvage certain forms of female domesticity. While this represents a break with tr…
Food and Cultural Studies
What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become a significant and coherent area of inquiry for cultural studies and the social sciences.Food and Cultural Studies re-examines the interdisciplinary…
The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of the number of deaths caused by risk factors is needed for health policy and priority setting. Our aim was to estimate the mortality effects of the following 12 modifiable dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors in the United States (US) using consistent and comparable methods: high blood glucose, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and blood pressure; overweight-obesity; high dietary trans fatty acids and sa…
International journalism
On 13 November 2010, the Guardian newspaper carried an article – ‘A tale of two herds’ – about ‘plans for an enormous super dairy, home to 8,000 cows’ (Lewis and Vidal, 2010). The article explored concerns about ‘intensive farming which has almost totally separated food and nature’, and contrasted the scale of the proposed farm with a herd of 44 cows tended by a Hare Krishna community on a farm in Hertfordshire. Producing much lower yields than t…
Uber jeden Ausdruck erhaben und schon
Accidents and Emergencies
“Accidents and Emergencies: Welfare and Safety in Europe and North America, c.1750–2000”9–11 September 2013, Oxford, UK Ben Taylor (bio) A three-day conference titled “Accidents and Emergencies: Welfare and Safety in Europe and North America, c.1750–2000” and organized by Mike Esbester (University of Portsmouth) and Tom Crook (Oxford Brookes University) was recently held at Oxford Brookes University. With funding from Oxford Brookes, the Centre f…
Serious games for serious crises
Old-growth forest loss and secondary forest recovery across Amazonian countries
There is growing recognition of the potential of large-scale forest restoration in the Amazon as a ‘nature-based solution’ to climate change. However, our knowledge of forest loss and recovery beyond Brazil is limited, and carbon emissions and accumulation have not been estimated for the whole biome. Combining a 33 year land cover dataset with estimates of above-ground biomass and carbon sequestration rates, we evaluate forest loss and recovery a…
Assessing the Contribution to Market System Change of the Private Enterprise Programme Ethiopia
An impact evaluation of a pro-poor market system development programme, ‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’ (M4P), poses several methodological issues for evaluators. M4P interventions intend to change the contextual conditions in which stakeholders take business decisions so that it triggers change processes in the wider social system and ultimately benefits poor people. An impact evaluation design for such a programme thus needs to be robust eno…
Systems, Sapiens, and Systemic Change in Markets
Systemic change is universally desirable and poorly defined. This article seeks to refine a practitioner-developed framework – Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond (AAER) – for conceptualising systemic change, and offers case studies to demonstrate its utility in planning for and measuring such change. To do so, the article firstly seeks to define the nature of a system and the components of change within that system. It also discusses the relevance of beh…
Political science (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Livelihood (2 works) · OpenAccess (2 works)