Book Review: Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector

Review of Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector, by Feyda Sayan-Cengiz. Palgrave MacMillan, 201

Book Review: \u3cem\u3eWomen and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History\u3c/em\u3e

Review of Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History, by Nazan Maksudya. Berghahn Books, 201

Sustainability in Action: Local Applications for Public Administration

Public administration has moved beyond speaking of sustainability as a norm or a philosophy towards implementation and action. Lessons learned from sustainable development practice must now be documented and shared to increase the positive impact of sustainability initiatives. This series of papers offers that opportunity, with a special focus on local government applications of sustainability

Book Review: Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making

Book Review: Deitz, T., & Stern, P. C. (Eds.). (2008). Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making. Washington, DC: National Academies Press

Signs of the times: Environmental sustainability, citizens, leadership, and social justice

This article presents an introduction to the this issue, which focuses on incorporating concepts of environmental sustainability into public administration

The Value of Care: Measuring Caring Labor in Non-Profit Organizations

Redistribution of care and provision of caring labor has been the responsibility of government and charitable organizations in the United States and is largely and traditionally provided by women workers and volunteers. This presentation reports outcomes of a CART 2005 Small Grant project, which explores how “care” can be measured and incorporated in economic decision making of non-profit organizations in three states. It reports outcomes from presentation of the research findings in Abu Dhabi, United Emirates at the 2006 Women as Global Leaders conference