publications : john devlin

Below are the selected publications of John Devlin.

Selected publications:

books

John F. Devlin, and Ted Zettel (eds.). 1999. Ecoagriculture: Initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. 348p.

chapters in books

Yap, Nonita T., John F. Devlin, C. C. Wu, and S. Ton. 2007. Corporate Environmental Innovations and Public Policy: Case Studies from Taiwan. In Saeed Parto and B. Herbert-Copley (eds.) Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation: Developing Workable Solutions. Tokyo: United Nations University Press/IDRC.

Available online: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-105261-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Devlin, John F. (1994) "The New World Disorder: Towards Managed Trade and Economic Partnership for the Next Century," in L.A. Swatuk and T.M. Shaw, (eds.) The South at the End of the Twentieth Century (London: Macmillan; New York: St.Martin’s, 1994)

Doern, G. Bruce and John F. Devlin (1988) "The Farm Credit Corporation and the Federal Business Development Bank" in Allan Tupper and G. Bruce Doern, Privatization, Public Policy and Public Corporations in Canada (Halifax: Institute for Research on Public Policy)

Lithwick, N.H. and John F. Devlin, (1984) "Economic Development Policy: A Case Study in Underdeveloped Policy Making" in A. Maslove (ed.) How Ottawa Spends 1984: The New Agenda (Toronto: Methuen)

published in refereed journals

Devlin, J. F., Nonita T. Yap, and Robert Weir. (2005). Public Participation in Environmental Assessment: Case Studies on Legislation and Practice. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 16(3): 487-500.    Abstract: http://www.cjds.ca/articles/v26n3_devlin_e.html

Devlin, John F. and Nonita T. Yap (1994) "Sustainable development and the NICs: Cautionary

Tales for the South in the New World (Dis)Order," Third World Quarterly, Vol.15,No.1, pp.47-60

Devlin, John F. and Nonita T. Yap (1993) "Structural Adjustment Programmes and the UNCED

Agenda: Explaining the Contradictions," Environmental Politics Vol.2, No.4,Winter, pp.65-79

conference papers 

Devlin, John F. 2006. Why Environmental Assessment is Failing: Political Contention, Public Participation and the Limits of Democratization. 20th International Political Science Association World Congress – Is Democracy Working?. Fukuoka, Japan: July 9 to 13, 2006.

Devlin, John F. (2005) “Canadian Development Policy: The Potential and Efficacy of the Good

Governance Agenda.” A paper prepared for the conference Canadian Foreign Policy Under Review, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario, November 3-5, 2005

Devlin, John F. (2005) “Democracy and Failed Development: Exclusionary Politics in the

Philippines.” Paper presented to the Canadian Association for Studies in International Development, London, Ontario, June 3, 2005

Devlin, John F. and Nonita T. Yap (2005) “Participation, Negotiation and Contention: Environmental Assessment Cases and a Research Agenda.” Paper presented to the Canadian Consortium of Area Studies Learned Societies Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 29, 2005.

Yap, Nonita T. and John F. Devlin (2005) “Globalizing Participatory Environmental Impact Assessment: Comparing Legislative Regimes.” Paper presented to the Canadian Consortium of Area Studies Learned Societies Conference, Montreal, Canada,April 29, 2005.

Devlin, J. F. 2004. “State Created Social Capital: The Case of Ontario Agriculture”. International Rural Sociology Association, Rural Policy Working Group. Trondheim, Norway: July 29, 2004.

Devlin, John F. (2004) “The State as Social Capital: Organizational Dimensions of Development

Transformation” Paper presented to the Canadian Association for Studies in International  Development, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 3.

Devlin, J. F., Nonita T. Yap and Robert Weir. 2003. Good Governance and Environmental Impact Assessment: Case Studies in Practice. 2003 International Rural Network Conference. Inverness, Scotland: June 22-27, 2003.

Devlin, J. F. 2003. Democratization, Development and Rural Structure. Presented at the CASID Conference, Halifax May 28, 2003,

Devlin, John F. (2001) “Sustainable Rural Communities and Comparative Historical Method”. Paper presented to the second annual conference of the University of Guelph Rural Studies Program, In Search of…Sustainability, Rurality and Community, Guelph, October 12.

Fuller, Anthony, J. Devlin, L. A. Small and B. Johnson. (2000). "Sustainable livelihoods in rural Canada." Issues Affecting Rural Communities, Proceedings of the Rural Communities & Identities in the Global Millennium International Conference, J. C. Montgomery and A. D. Kitchenham, eds., Malaspina University-College, May 1-5, 2000. Malaspina, B.C.: Malaspina University-College, 150-159. (Paper presented by Dr. Fuller)