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Climate Migration and Security
Securitisation as a Strategy in Climate Change Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Climate migration, as an image of people moving due to sea-level rise and increased drought, has been presented as one of the main security risks of global warming. The rationale is that climate change will cause mass movements of climate refugees, causing tensions and even violent conflict. Through...
Rethinking Higher Education
Participation, Research, and Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The basic structure of universities and colleges in Ontario - one focused primarily on expansion and greater access and put in place in the 1960s - is outdated. The system is now large enough, the eligible age group for entering post-secondary studies is shrinking, and participation rates are as high...
Advances in Well-Being
Toward a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Media and research tend to focus on social problems in today's world - from terrorism and natural disasters to environmental degradation, conflict and economic decline. Yet many countries are also placing the promotion of well-being central at the heart of their social agenda. So what can we say about...
Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals
A transformational agenda for an insecure world
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030. Written by three authors who have been engaged in the development...
by Nicholas Burger, Liisa Ecola, Thomas Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Choosing policy responses to mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs) is one of the great challenges that the United States faces. It will require balancing cost-effectiveness and other objectives that reflect the institutional and political realities of passing major federal legislation with widespread impacts...
Regional Energy Initiatives
MedReg and the Energy Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book focuses on the two intra-regional initiatives created for the development and integration of energy markets: the Energy Community and MedReg.
The Energy Community and MedReg, apart from their common strategic role in providing a much-needed stable regulatory environment for energy...
by Toni P Miles
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In Health Care Reform and Disparities: History, Hype, and Hope, prolific author Toni P. Miles, MD, PhD, uniquely expands the usual discussion of health disparities by including and emphasizing the voice and perspective of the consumer, and by featuring policy, media, and financing data. Highlighting...
by Rolf Lidskog, Göran Sundqvist
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Experts offer theoretical and empirical analyses that view the regulation of transboundary air pollution as a dynamic process.
Corridors of Power
The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent millions of dollars to preserve Madagascar’s rich...
Emissions Trading and Competitiveness
Allocations, Incentives and Industrial Competitiveness under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Complying with the forthcoming tightening of CO2 emission allocations in the EU may mean big bills for the industries affected. In this special issue of Climate Policy journal, leading experts examine the impacts on competitiveness and the commercial incentives available from the CO2 allowance allocations...
Trust(ing) in Europe?
How increased social capital can contribute to economic development
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This report surveys recent works in political economy showing that trust—and civic capital more generally—matter for various aspects of economic well-being and presents new evidence from European countries showing that trust has deteriorated considerably in those European countries that have been...
Assessing the Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies
Anticipatory governance in practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A growing problem of interest in the field of science and technology policy is that the next generation of innovations is arriving at an accelerating rate, and the governance system is struggling to catch up. Current approaches and institutions for effective technology assessment are ill suited and...
Paradigms and Theories Influencing Policies in the South African and International Water Sectors
PULSE³, A Framework for Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This book presents a new way of looking at and analyzing policies, programs and/or plans in which research scientists have used their knowledge to develop mechanisms such as South Africa's National Water Resource Strategy, Second Edition; Australian and South African climate change adaptation...
China-EU
Green Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
This book offers a selection of views from Chinese and European experts and scholars on the most pressing environmental challenges — air quality, global warming, climate change, energy security, urbanisation — faced by Europe and China in 2014. The contributors also discuss possibilities of technical...