The Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing is an international environmental agreement that concerns environmental sustainability, other sustainable development issues and equity. It addresses a complex subject matter that affects a range of research, development and commercial activities and is relevant to different areas of international law such as human rights, intellectual property …
This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been devel…
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. The Sanskrit text is preceded by an extensive introduction on its composition, transmission and edition. The Śivadharmaśāstra has arguably played a crucial r…
The Open Access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Are unilateral economic sanctions legal under public international law? How do they relate to the existing international legal principles and norms? Can unilateral economic sanctions imposed to redress grave human rights violations be subjected to the same legal contestations …
How did ‘Vedic man’ think about the destiny of man after death and related ethical issues? That heaven was the abode of the gods was undisputed, but was it also accessible to man in his pursuit of immortality? Was there a realm of the deceased or a hell? What terms were used to indicate these ‘yonder worlds’? What is their location in the cosmos and which cosmographic classifications ar…
The respective chapters cover topics such as cooperatives in Switzerland (historical roots, current landscape, embeddedness in profit/nonprofit organizations, participatory governance and legal aspects), grand societal challenges and cooperatives, and the future with and of cooperatives.
This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by building on original, long-term ethnographic research (fourteen months in 2009-2010, followed by fieldwork trips until now) on Burgaz, an island home to more than twenty ethnic and religious groups from different socio-economic backgrounds. The island provides an excellent case…
Buku Open Access ini menyediakan dasar-dasar yang kuat dan panduan praktis untuk pemetaan akurat lahan pertanian berdasarkan parameter tanah seperti tekstur, pH, dan kandungan humus. Metode pemetaan yang paling sesuai saat ini dijelaskan. Setiap langkah proses dijelaskan secara rinci, mulai dari pembenahan data sensor tanah hingga pembuatan peta sebaran dan pemilihan pupuk kapur yang optimal. S…
Kumpulan Open Access ini menyajikan debat terkini tentang pemahaman diri dari didaktik filsafat, hubungannya dengan filsafat khusus, dan nilai atau esensi dari interdisiplineritas. Hal ini berkaitan dengan perspektif internal dari didaktik khusus itu sendiri. Selain bidang kerja klasik di tingkat teoretis-konseptual, praktis-metodologis, dan kritis-empiris, selalu muncul bidang baru dalam didak…