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Human Rights and Comparative Foreign Policy examines the place of human rights in the foreign policies of a wide range of states during contemporary times. Leading experts from around the world...

A joint effort by 17 scholars from different parts of the world and specializing in various academic disciplines, this book explores the factors that are mainly responsible for human rights violations...

Human Rights Regimes in the Americas examines the complex role of human rights norms and standards in the region’s progression, illustrating the evolution and impact of international conventions, laws...

Humanitarian professionals are on the front lines of today's internal armed conflicts, negotiating access through physical and diplomatic roadblocks to reach imperiled civilians. This volume provides...

Humanitarian Emergencies and Warlord Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone examines the correlations between humanitarian emergencies and political economies of these failing states. The publication...

This book argues that the Jordan River watershed - a region where some of the worst Arab-Israeli conflicts have occurred - might be the very place to bury ancient hatreds and work to give birth to new...

This publication examines economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan through the discussion of the IMF model of the economic transition. The publication demonstrates the flaws in the IMF model by pointing...

Given the varied nature of applications where chaos is important, it is natural that many researchers in a broad range of fields have become interested in, and have contributed to recent developments...

Land reforms and economic and social changes since 1949 have had substantial impact on the lives of the rural population of China. This publication examines some of the effects of these changes in the...

This book is a sequel to Human Rights and Scientific and Technological Development and follows on the theoretical discussion concerning the interrelation between scientific and technological...

This book describes the course of the modern transformation of Borneo and the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula, an area considered to be 'environmentally critical' because of the massive...

This book is the first to examine the incidence and role of clusters as a viable and increasingly important form of industrial organization in Africa. The overall aim of the book is to improve our...

Environmental management regulations have often faced opposition on practical and ideological grounds. Since the 1980s there has been a movement towards liberalization, coupled with the continued...

This ground-breaking study presents a new way of looking at one of the most pressing problems facing humanity today- industrial development in the face of global environmental change. It views the...

This study begins with a look at the well-known Ashio Copper Mine pollution case, one of modern Japan's first and most devastating environmental disasters; the country's worst pollution incident in...

This publication presents a discussion on the relationship between inequality in income distribution and growth focusing on one of the possible links - the access to education. It presents a formal...

Data on the nutrient composition of foods are of crucial importance for health assessment, the formulation of appropriate therapeutic and institutional diets, food and nutrition training.The reader is...

There is substantial evidence that new information technologies are in many ways transforming the operation of modern economies. However, more research is needed before firm policy conclusions can be...

This book employs a refreshingly new framework to identify cases of technological dynamism across a range of countries and industries. They vary from the recent growth of the computer software...

This book introduces the concept of community innovation and illustrates its role and impact in promoting sustainability. It includes nine case studies from the Asia-Pacific region where communities...