Governments and communities have made strong progress in the past ten years in preparing and reducing the risk communities face to disaster. The Hyogo Framework for Action ─ Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters 2005-2015 was created by United Nations to guide and inform disaster preparation and risk reduction. The Hyogo Framework for Action is presently a subject of international discussion as nations reflect on their progress and provide feedback on the shape of any subsequent
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The UBD fever By NILDA R. SUNGA‚ Ph.D. Director for Academic Affairs‚ Angelicum College‚ Quezon City July 11‚ 2010‚ 12:23pm UBD means Understanding by Design‚ an educational framework whose main objective is to promote quality teaching and learning and whose main goal is to develop enduring understandings that are transferable to life. UBD has‚ indeed‚ taken the country by storm. Everybody seems to be in the know. Teachers have attended UBD seminars conducted by educational entities‚ both public
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Introduction It is well acknowledged that fair trade works to re-embed commodity chains in a framework of social and ecological responsibility. By having a business model that embodies the principles of fair trade‚ Cafedirect coffee presents an alternative to the prevailing model of international trade and agricultural production (Raynolds‚ 2009)‚ and the success of Cafedirect has made a significant contribution to the mainstreaming of fair trade in the UK (Nicholls and Opal‚ 2005). Critically
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1 ETHICS 1.1 Defining ethical behaviour Ethics is a philosophical term derived from the Greek word "ethos" meaning character or custom (Sims‚ 1992). Ethical behaviour is behaviour that is morally accepted as good and right‚ as opposed to bad and wrong (Wood‚ Zeffane‚ Fromholtz & Fitzgerald‚ 2006). An ethical dilemma requires a person to make a choice between competing sets of principles based on how morally good and right as opposed to how bad and wrong they are (Wood et al.‚ 2006). While striving
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Why Conceptual Framework is considered to be a Normative theory? Do we need conceptual framework? Discuss. A conceptual framework of accounting can be considered to be a normative theory of accounting. A conceptual framework makes prescriptions in regards to what the objectives of accounting are‚ what qualitative characteristics general-purpose financial information should possess‚ how the elements of accounting should be defined and when they should be recognised and how the elements of accounting
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The IASB’s Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting I am from England‚ and here in the UK‚ unlike most countries‚ our system of government has no comprehensive written constitution. Many countries do have such constitutions and in these circumstances the laws of the land are shaped and influenced by the constitution. Now while the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is not a country it does have a sort of constitution‚ in the form of the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting
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1. It is about corporate takeover and liquidation business and it is common practice in real business world‚ but why is it so problematic? What moral issues emerge in the movie? Answer: Yes‚ it is about corporate takeover. There is a corporate raider‚ Garfield Investment‚ who wants profit by buying the New England Wire and Cable’s stocks and selling it on higher price. They knew that the company is not making profit because of the lowest product demand which is competing with new technologies product
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An Act relating to employment. [1st June 1957.] PART I - PRELIMINARY 1. Short title and application (1) This Act may be cited as the Employment Act 1955. (2) This Act shall apply to West Malaysia only. 2. Interpretation (1) In this Act‚ unless the context otherwise requires -- "agricultural undertaking" means any work in which any employee is employed under a contract of service for the purposes of agriculture‚ horticulture or silviculture‚ the tending of domestic animals and poultry or the
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this guideline need been renamed “bio biological frameworks principle with underscore that An child’s identity or science may be an fundamental surroundings powering her change. ” those Acquaintanceship those centre from claiming components in the child’s maturing. “Biology‚ Similarly as substantially fast family/community environment‚ and the societal scene fills What’s more steers as much change.” Transforms alternately conflict
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believe in them • authority: tells us what to do‚ what goal to achieve. You follow someone in authority because you have to Check out: TED talk ’How great leaders inspire action’ by Simon Sinek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4 - examples: Apple‚ Martin Luther King‚ the Wright Brothers – why did they achieve what they did‚ when they’re not the best at what they do? Why are they able to inspire when others fail? - They all think‚ act and communicate in the same way – which is the
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