This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. It was attended by about 60 scientists and researchers from 13 countries, including, besides Europe, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Japan, Russian Federation and the USA. In an international scenario shaken b…
HAT husband of Anabella's had to come down with the measles or she never would have keyed me up to be a Machiavelli, or whoever it may be who is synonymous with craft and cruelty to lovers. Measles, indeed! On such trivial things as measles do the really great events of life turn! Still, nothing has turned yet, and I hope that nothing will. I know nature never intended me for a chaperon. …
Experts discuss the risks global environmental change poses for the human security, including disaster and disease, violence, and increasing inequity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment.In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary characteristics of a meaningful global jurisprudence, a jurisprudence that would underpin international environmental law. Arguing that theories of po…
Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Robert E. Baldwin presents a review of the theoretical twists and turns in the development of the Heckscher-Ohlin model and an empirical assessment of the basic model and three related theorems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy.In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the class…
Here, experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.