Télécharger le livre :  Demography and the Anthropocene
Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population.  To counter this neglect, the monograph (i) includes original graphs showing population size and growth since 1920 in the world as a whole and the United States;...

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Parution : 2021-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh
Right to water may sound novel and somewhat dramatic, yet it has been central to the quest of human civilization for thousands of years. One of the earliest references to water as ‘common property’ can be found in the Jewish laws as early as 3000 BCE.Similar views are...

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Parution : 2021-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Legal Education and Legal Traditions: Selected Essays
This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of the Sea, legal ethics and educating lawyers as ‘transaction cost engineers’ as well as comparison of teaching law in a refugee camp and in a Malaysian...

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Parution : 2020-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh
This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr). Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Shora, a rural village in southern...

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Parution : 2019-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Post-conflict Security, Peace and Development
This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand. Young peace researchers from the Global South (Uganda, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Brazil, Colombia) as well as from Italy and New Zealand address in...

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Parution : 2018-11-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Job Security and Temporary Employment Contracts
This book discusses the need of a legal protection at national and global levels to address the use of temporary employment contracts by employers. Chapter 1 reviews some theories of job security, showing how job security issues should be regulated in labour laws to...

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Parution : 2018-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Refugee and Return
This book provides essential background information on the protracted displacement of several ethnic groups along the Thai-Myanmar border before turning to an examination of whether Myanmar has now shifted into a post-conflict society, the expected challenges involved...

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Parution : 2016-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  International Migration and Crisis
This book presents an analysis of the various transformation processes at work in the international migratory dynamic of Mexicans as a consequence of the 2008 international economic crisis and the implementation of an increasingly strict American migration policy....

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Parution : 2016-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Change, Energy Use, and Sustainability
This book is an outcome of the symposium “Towards Earth Friendly Use of Resources and Energy,” organized by the Nagoya University Center of Excellence Program “From Earth System Science to Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies” and presents papers by four eminent...

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Parution : 2016-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation
This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s...

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Parution : 2016-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation
This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s...

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Parution : 2016-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The British Role in Iranian Domestic Politics (1951-1953)
Based on British and Iranian sources, this book investigates the background and goals of the coup in Iran, examining how British foreign and domestic agents interfered with Iran’s internal affairs between the nationalization of Iran’s oil in 1951 until its failure in...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-03-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Water, Food and Welfare
This book addresses the following topics: the contemporary model for water management and alternative approaches; the socioeconomic framework, water policy and institutions; water use for food purposes, water-resources inventory and irrigation; manifestations of welfare...

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Parution : 2016-03-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The South China Sea and Asian Regionalism
This book offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the current crisis in the South China Sea. Moving beyond the spirit of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the mechanisms of which are limited to physical geography, it demonstrates how...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-01-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Reinterpreting Sub-Saharan Cities through the Concept of Adaptive Capacity
This book explores whether and how a reinterpretation of Sub-Saharan cities, through the concept of adaptive capacity, could bridge this distance and contribute to a new understanding of the contemporary city. The research contributes to improved knowledge of urban and...

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Parution : 2015-12-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting
This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting. It explores the possibilities for gender sensitive budgeting when implemented using techniques that have been popularized by...

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Parution : 2015-11-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Land Tenure in the Context of Disaster in Asia
This book explores an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of gender and development studies, disaster and land tenure policy. It is well known that women generally have weaker claims to land. But how does that translate to increased vulnerability during...

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Parution : 2015-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China
How is modern civil society created? There are few contemporary studies on this important question and when it is addressed, scholars tend to emphasize the institutional environment that facilitates a modern civil society. However, there is a need for a new perspective...

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Parution : 2014-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Frederic W. Harmer: A Scientific Biography
Comprising the first definitive account of the geological and palaeometeorological studies made by the British geologist, Frederic W. Harmer (1835-1924) this book contributes a previously missing chapter to the history of science. The main objective of the author is to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-06-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Practice of Research on Migration and Mobilities
The migration process is interpreted in a different way when researchers live in so-called societies of origin, than when it is interpreted from societies of destination—even when research work is multi-situated.The localization of researchers in this field involves...

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Parution : 2014-01-03
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