Dipak Raj Pant

• SLC, BA, MPhil, PhD
• Professor at University Carlo Cattaneo

Environmental quality makes good business sense, particularly in remote and marginal contexts like Armenia. Certain enforceable environmental quality standards may prove to be crucial in order to create a distinct place brand that can penetrate the upper niche of global markets. The aim of place branding should be to draw visitors and investors, to...

Comprehension of the phenomenon of ‘waste’ in the global arena in general, and as an issue of international cooperation in particular, needs to be analyzed from many different perspectives. The current work is a modest contribution from the interdisciplinary perspective of anthropology and economics which combines an ethnographic approach (field su...

The historically inhabited marginal terrains, the extreme human habitats at the edge of Anthroposphere, provide unique opportunity to study sustainability and human adaptation in adverse topographic and climatic conditions. The native communities, their traditional livelihoods iand their contemporary transition and plight in the rural-wilderness in...

For more than two decades, my side-job (outside the university), has been to provide advisory services to the executives of industrial and commercial organizations, to public agencies and non-governmental organisms. This side-job has provided opportunities to survey many different human habitats, socio-cultural contexts and economic organizations;...

VALUES: pro Nature, pro Humanity, pro Culture, pro Business. CONCERN: sustainability. METHOD: empirical (field-work) - comparative - analytical - prospective (strategic foresight) - experimental. ISSUES: human vulenrability, sustainable livelihoods, habitat/ecosystem integrity, public welfare and collective wellness, social cohesion, global pea...

‘Sustainability’ has become a widespread buzzword (mantra) in almost all spheres of human activity, including business. Several meanings have been attributed to this term. Essentially this term denotes social responsibility, environmental justice and ethical business practice. Business ethics refers not only to fair treatment of directly involved h...

In the era of trade disruptions and contextual constraints as in the time of Covid-19 pandemics (2020-2021), issues related to the resilience of SMEs become of prime importance for scientific research. This report was drafted after a field research on the disruptions linked to the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives and livelihoods of small entrepreneur...

The marginal human habitats in the extreme lands represent a complex and unique context of multiple challenges: isolation from the economic mainstream, logistic difficulties, threats to local livelihoods due to climate uncertainties and environmental changes, risk of being under the crossfire of competition and tensions for natural resources and tr...

This essay is based on an extensive field survey in the central Himalayan highlands in Nepal, badly hit by devastating earthquakes in spring 2015. The affected remote mountain communities have always been constrained by spatial and economic marginality and have suffered not only from the earthquakes but also a number of geophysical hazards and econ...

China's Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) needs to be designed, implemented and narrated in a way that fits well with the emerging global cultural paradigm of “sustainability”. The BRI’s ‘sustainability’ credential is missing; it is urgent; and it can be achieved through the active support by an Anthropology-led interdisciplinary panel.

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Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology - Volume 3, 1993

Today's business have international and intercultural dimensions. The complexity of market, organizational climate and culture and the management of human resources demand interdisciplinary and intercultural approach which are available in anthropological researches and methods. The consumer world has its own developments, diversifications and psyc...