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Viability of UNCLOS amid Emerging Global Maritime Challenges
This open access book assesses UNCLOS' resilience and vitality as a legal framework for addressing emerging global maritime challenges. Against the backdrop of a number of emerging global maritime challenges, including the rise of sea levels and the maintenance of maritime safety and connectivity, the preservation of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, and the promotion o…
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- 9789819758388
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- XVI, 201 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance = Insights from Ethio…
This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. The lessons learned from the informal credit markets in Ethiopia and South Africa indicate that pluralism offers better opportunities for people to access affordable and susta…
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- 9783031716539
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- VII, 160 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Future of Third Sector Research = From Theory to Definitions, Classificat…
The volume discusses the current state of international comparative Third Sector research and potential avenues for future development of the field. Building on seminal work by Helmut Anheier and Lester Salamon, the volume provides necessary updates to ensure further Third Sector research is relevant and impactful due to the changing landscape of international relations and the way that the Thi…
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- 9783031678950
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- VI, 269 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Mobilitäts- und Transportrecht in Europa = Bestandsaufnahme und Zukunftspers…
Dieser Open Access Band beleuchtet den weit über die wissenschaftliche Community hinaus diskutierten Bereich der Personen- und Gütermobilität aus einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Perspektiven. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch seinen interdisziplinären Ansatz aus: neben rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen werden auch Aspekte aus Verkehrswirtschaft, Technik sowie nachhaltiger Verkehrspolitik beleuchtet…
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- 9783662636350
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- VIII, 293 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Resiliente Infrastrukturen = Perspektiven und Handlungsempfehlungen für ein …
Störungen, Krisen und Katastrophen stellen immer weniger die Ausnahme dar. Vielmehr werden und sind sie Teil unseres Alltags. Die Resilienz der Infrastrukturen zu stärken ist daher eine essenzielle Aufgabe unserer Zeit. Der vorliegende Sammelband betrachtet branchen- sowie ressortübergreifend die komplexer werdenden Rahmenbedingungen, mit denen unsere Gesellschaft konfrontiert ist. Die Beson…
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- 9783503238439
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- 350 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Lives in Peace Research = The Oslo Stories
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 9789811647178
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- XX, 508 ill; lamp
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The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance = Insights from Ethio…
This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. The lessons learned from the informal credit markets in Ethiopia and South Africa indicate that pluralism offers better opportunities for people to access affordable and susta…
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- VII, 160 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Stakeholder Relationships And Sustainability = The Case Of Health Aid To The …
This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, relationships, and a possible causal link between these phenomena. The book goes beyond universal paradigms and detailed single-case studies by offering a thorough analysis o…
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- 9783031319907
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- XXV, 381 ill; lamp
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International Organizations in Global Social Governance
International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies. This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding…
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- 9783030654399
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- XXVII, 353 ill; lamp
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The Business of Hope: Professional Fundraising in Neoliberal Canada : Profes…
This open access book contributes to research on the ascendance of neoliberalism in Canada through the vantage point of professional fundraising in the 1990s and 2000s. Fifty high-ranking fundraisers from across Canada were interviewed through 2008 and 2009 about changes they had witnessed since starting their careers. Fundraising as an occupation was burgeoning in this period in response to th…
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- 9783031188374
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- XVII, 120 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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