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Scholars and policy makers dealing with energy and sustainable development issues will find this book invaluable. It discusses short- and long-term measures for the economy and the directions of...

In this study of the emerging international legal issues associated with global environmental change, a diverse group of eminent legal scholars and practitioners from around the world addresses the...

This volume gives attention to the evolution of multilevel environmental governance in the East Asian region, including both Northeast and Southeast Asia. It examines how effective emerging...

The term accountability is increasingly heard at the United Nations. More than six decades after the Organization’s founding, people continue to ask exactly how the UN is accountable for what it does...

This publication draws on experiences from post-conflict environments in different parts of the world. The authors examine the proactive roles of girls and boys in promoting security for themselves...

This publication addresses the issues associated with sustainable resource-circulating societies. It focuses on Asia, where both population growth and economic growth are increasingly prominent in the...

Ethics and International Affairs explores the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and examines the ways in which the international community has responded to some of the most...

This publication explores the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and examines the ways in which the international community has responded to some of the most crucial challenges of...

Violent internal conflicts are the predominant form of warfare in the world today and there is an urgent need to understand their causes and find ways for their prevention or resolution. The 15 essays...

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive evaluation of labour migration in general and Turkish labour migration to the European Union in particular, while focusing on critical issues and...

This volume presents a review of the dynamic changes going on in the Chinese economic system. In particular it analyzes the amazing rapid growth of the township and village enterprise (TVE) sector...

The discussions in this book offer an informative and compelling account of the recent changes in development and the main political and economic trends shaping the international environment. It...

On 11 May 2008, residents of Alexandra Township turned violently on their neighbours, launching a string of attacks that, two weeks later, left 60 dead, dozens raped and over a hundred thousand...

It is recognized that new information technologies are fundamentally restructuring traditional ways of providing access to science and technology. However, despite the current rate of technological...

This study looks at the performance of exports in Chile for the period 1960-1995. It identifies the main trends in the growth of exports and attempts to assign responsibility to various factors for...

In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...

What is the role and what are the sensitivities and perspectives of Latin America and the Caribbean in regard to financing for development? This publication attempts to provide a comprehensive answer...

References to the land of the black Jacobins are almost always followed by the phrase the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere”. To that distinction, on 12 January 2010, Haiti added another, when...

There is no statistical evidence that the frequency of flooding in Bangladesh has increased during the 20th century. There is indication however, that the inter-annual variation of floods and the...