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Institutional interaction in global environmental governance : synergy and co…
Annotation This systematic investigation of the interaction among international and European institutions provides both a theoretical framework for analysis and the first broad overview of this largely uncharted field of research. By offering detailed case studies and a systematic analysis of results, the book examines the effects of institutional interaction on environmental governance and exp…
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- 9780262280945
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- 1 online resource (xix, 405 pages) : illustrations.
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- Global Environmental Accord: Strategies For Sustainability And Institutional Innovation
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Contracts in Trade and Transition: The Resurgence of Barter
An institutional approach to explaining countertrade and barter in international trade and domestic trade in transition economies.Difficulties in contract enforcement impede international transactions in the world economy and domestic transactions in transition economies. In Contracts in Trade and Transition, Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer explain how barter as an economic institution can fac…
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- 9780262279123
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 206 pages) :illustrations
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Agroecology in action :extending alternative agriculture through social netwo…
Detailed case studies of agrecological initiatives show how growers, scientists, agricultural organizations, and public agencies can form partnerships to develop innovative, ecologically based techniques for reducing reliance on agrochemicals.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285810
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Feeding The Other :whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries
How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. The United States has one of the highest rates of hunger and food insecurity in the industrialized world, with poor households, single parents, and communities of color disproportionately affected. Food pantries--run by charitable an…
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- 9780262352789
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- 1 online resource (312 pages).
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Beyond late development :Taiwan's upgrading policies
A study of how latecomers catch up in high-tech industries and modern services, based on an in-depth analysis of Taiwan's premier enterprises and government policies.In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in m…
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- 9780262267106
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) :illustrations
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Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises
Providing case studies of debt defaults by Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Moldova, and Uruguay, framed by a discussion of the history, economic theory, legal issues, and policy lessons of sovereign debt crises, this work examines the facts, economic theory, and policy implications of sovereign debt crises.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284547
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- 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) :illustrations
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Democracy across borders: from Demos to Demoi
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders rather than by "the people" within a fixed jurisdiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268943
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
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Governing the air: Tthe dynamics of science, policy, and citizen interaction
Governing the Air looks at the regulation of air pollution not as a static procedure of enactment and agreement but as a dynamic process that reflects the shifting interrelationships of science, policy, and citizens. Taking transboundary air pollution in Europe as its empirical focus, the book not only assesses the particular regulation strategies that have evolved to govern European air, but a…
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- 9780262298278
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages).
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Internal combustion engine in theory and practice volume 1 : Thermodynamics, …
This revised edition of Taylor's classic work on the internal-combustion engine incorporates changes and additions in engine design and control that have been brought on by the world petroleum crisis, the subsequent emphasis on fuel economy, and the legal restraints on air pollution. The fundamentals and the topical organization, however, remain the same. The analytic rather than merely descrip…
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- Revised edition.
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- 0262311038
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- 1 online resource (783 pages).
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- 620 TAY i
Body language :representation in action
"A Bradford book."An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representing of the world consists, in part, in certain sorts of deeds that we perform in the world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282741
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- 1 online resource (241 pages)
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