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Mainstreaming Gender in Global Climate Governance
This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirica…
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- 9781003306474
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Biological and Social Issues in Biotechnology Sharing
ABSTRACT First published in 1998, this was the first book to present a comprehensive summary of both the global as well as institutional issues which are involved in biotechnology sharing. It covers the controversial subject of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the patenting of new discoveries in genetic knowledge in both agriculture and the human genome. One controversial issue is the cr…
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- 9780429460883
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- 176 p
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International Court of Justice and municipal courts: an inter-judicial dialogue
Municipal courts' decisions in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice -- Enforcement of ICJ decisions in municipal courts -- Reception of decisions of the ICJ by municipal courts.
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- 9781032006901
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Chinese macrosecuritization: China's alignment in global security discourses
Introduction: Securitizing global concerns -- From Securitization to macrosecuritization -- Security in China -- The Cold War then and now -- Anti-nuclear discourse in China -- Climate security with Chinese characteristics -- China's War on Terror -- Potential Chinese
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- 9781003309413
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Lives in Peace Research
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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- Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
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- XX, 508
Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution
This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situation…
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- XXV, 192
The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, ther…
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- AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation
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- X, 360
The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges
This open access book seeks to provide a survey of historical, geopolitical, economic, and environmental developments in the last 150 years and to highlight future challenges it faces as it pertains to the areas mentioned earlier. It argues that the centrality of the canal—geo-strategically and otherwise—requires a shift in scholarly focus to study the various aspects from an interdisciplin…
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- Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security
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- XXXI, 264
China-US Competition
This open access edited book brings together a closer examination of European and Asian responses to the escalating rivalry between the US and China. As the new Cold War has surfaced as a perceivable reality in the post-COVID era, the topic itself is of great importance to policymakers, academic researchers, and the interested public. Furthermore, this manuscript makes a valuable contribution t…
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- XIII, 351
Education, Equity and Inclusion
This open access book provides a current view on education, equity and inclusion within the lens of education for a sustainable North. The first book published by the University of the Arctic Thematic Network for Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity (Including the North: A comparative study of the policies on inclusion and equity in the circumpolar North, 2019) highlighted policie…
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- Springer Polar Sciences
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- VIII, 260
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