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Managing Water for Peace in Middle East

	Autor: H. Murakami Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0858-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 106.8 zł	Nasza cena: 106.8 zł Kup teraz!

This study highlights the economic and environmental gains of co-generation applications and the political, economic and technical viability of the strategic use of such sources as brackish water, seawater and reclaimed waste water. A variety of alternatives for the transboundary transport of water are also detailed. The book features a plan for the joint development of the Jordan River, the Dead Sea and the Aqaba region. więcej...

Hydropolitics Along Jordan River

	Autor: Wolf Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1995 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-92-808-0859-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 106.8 zł	Nasza cena: 106.8 zł Kup teraz!

Based on the premise that peace can be achieved in the Jordan River watershed through increased cooperation in planning and project implementation. Describes the history of water conflict and cooperation in the watershed, and explores the possible usefulness of the physical sciences, the law, political science, economics, game theory więcej...

United Nations System

	Autor: C. Alger Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0884-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł	Nasza cena: 102.9 zł Kup teraz!

The essays in this volume provide a comparative study of national policies towards the United Nations. Eight cases have been selected: Algeria, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each case study details a government's historical position on the United Nations, its past, present, and possible future expectations of the organization, and UN-related issues of special interest and the circumstances behind them. więcej...

In Place of the Forest

	Autor: H. Brookfield Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1995 Kategoria: ISBN: 978-92-808-0893-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł	Nasza cena: 83.3 zł Kup teraz!

Borneo and the eastern side of the Malay Peninsular are considered to be "environmentally critical" areas because of the massive deforestation that has taken place since the 1960s. This publication traces the course of their modern transformation, beginning with a description of the natural environment and its dynamics, reviewing the considerable changes that occurred before the modern period, and examining changes since World War II. A wide range of issues are covered, including possible environmental endangerment więcej...

Amazonia

	Autor: N. Smith Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1995 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-92-808-0906-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 181.3 zł	Nasza cena: 181.3 zł Kup teraz!

Balanced, worthwhile book includes chapters on threats to the environment, change and societal response, conservation and management, plantation crops, agroforestry, ranching, floodplain dynamics, and trends and opportunities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. więcej...

Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia

	Autor: F. Lo Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0907-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Pacific Asia is the fastest growing region in the world, and its very large cities - world cities - have been playing an important part in spearheading economic growth and social and cultural transformation. This book focuses on the functional characteristics and linkage effects of Pacific Asia's world cities against a background of global economic restructuring since the 1980s. The cities are examined as individual entities, in their regional setting, and in the context of subregional co-operative development environments więcej...

Ethnicity & Power in Contemporary World

	Autor: Rupesinghe,Tishkov Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0908-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł	Nasza cena: 102.9 zł Kup teraz!

A collection of 15 essays on contemporary violent internal conflicts and their causes, with case studies of regions including the former Soviet Union, India, the Basque region of Spain, Northern Ireland, and the US. Cases reveal the complexity of factors and motives underlying the resurgence of ethnicity and the shifting power relationships of the więcej...

Central Eurasian Water Crisis

	Autor: Kobori,Glantz Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0925-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

"Central Eurasian Water Crisis" refers to the awareness by the global community that, in the 21st century, people in various regions around the world will likely face problems of water quality and water quantity. These problems have already surfaced in several locations, and this volume focuses on three of them: the Dead Sea, the Aral Sea, and the Caspian Sea regions. In this book, researchers from a variety of physical and social science disciplines seek to identify the water-related problems and the prospects więcej...

Long Road to Recovery

	Autor: Mitchell Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-92-808-0926-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł	Nasza cena: 87.2 zł Kup teraz!

This volume looks at community responses to industrial disasters that, going far beyond routine, constitute "surprise" disasters. Straining against the limits of society's capacity to adjust, these disasters are producing unprecedented consequences. This study stresses the need for long-term post-disaster assessment and the creation of information clearing-houses that focus on industrial disaster surprises. These and other proposals indicate ways that recovery systems can accomodate the lingering impacts of chronic więcej...

New Europe in Changing Global System

	Autor: Falk,Szentes Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0934-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

The varied impacts of the end of the Cold War on security and development prospects for Europe are examined in this volume. It considers a wide range of perspectives that include political, economic and cultural assessments. The focus is on the prospects and problems that face Eastern Europe in the post Cold War era. There is also an emphasis on the global setting within which the countries of Europe should act. więcej...

Mega-City in Latin America

	Autor: A. Gilbert Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0935-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 83.3 zł	Nasza cena: 83.3 zł Kup teraz!

By the year 2010, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more then eight million people. Their combined population will be over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those five cities. The sheer number of people living in these mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst symptoms of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shanty towns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of air więcej...

Globalization & World of Large Cities

	Autor: A. Lo,Yeung Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-0999-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 165.6 zł	Nasza cena: 165.6 zł Kup teraz!

In this volume, the world's urban future is analyzed through a number of critical themes that relate to globalization, such as urban corridors, Islamic cities, new technologies, transport and telecommunications, financial centres, and food issues. World cities are discussed not simply for the functions they perform in the global economy, but also to examine the processes by which they came to perform those functions. The book builds upon a series of regional research projects focused on mega-cities sponsored by the United więcej...

International Security Management & UN

	Autor: Alagappa,Inoguchi Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1001-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

What kind of comparative advantage does the United Nations hold in the field of security compared to other actors such as states and regional organizations? What kind of asset does the United Nations have in terms of normative as well as operational capacities that states and regional arrangements lack? What asset does the United Nations possess to effectively deal with security issues? These are some of the questions addressed in this book. Obviously, the ability of the United Nations to ease conflicts depends upon the więcej...

Changing Nature of Democracy

	Autor: Inoguchi,Keane Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1005-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

Democracy is recognized as the primary vehicle for the fulfilment of individual and collective aspirations, the articulation of interests, and the nurturing of civil society. Globalizing forces have underpinned the spread of this message across the globe. Yet the march of democratization is highly contested and politicized and there is little consensus on what democracy is or should be. This volume brings together preeminent scholars from around the world in a collection of essays that point to a changing and broadening więcej...

Water for Urban Area

	Autor: Uitto,Biswas Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-92-808-1024-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

By the year 2025, it is estimated that more than two-thirds of the world's population will be urban dwellers. In Water for Urban Areas, leading experts offer unique insights into varied issues of urban water management. In case studies from the South as well as the North, the authors seek solutions and identify strategies for sustainable management of water resources for burgeoning mega-cities. In such cities as Tokyo, Delhi and Mexico City, these experts consider both technical issues, such as wastewater reuse, and management więcej...

Democratic Process & Market

	Autor: Simai Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1026-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 57.8 zł	Nasza cena: 57.8 zł Kup teraz!

The transition of the former socialist countries of East and Central Europe to a democratic system of governance and a market economy has involved historically unparalleled changes. This text provides a regional perspective on the interrelationship between political and economic change, and delineates the challenges that such developments present to these countries. więcej...

Global Environmental Risk

	Autor: Kasperson Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: ISBN: 978-92-808-1027-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 191.1 zł	Nasza cena: 191.1 zł Kup teraz!

This volume takes stock of the distinctive challenges posed by global environmental risks, the capacity of knowledge systems to identify and characterize such risks and the competence of human society to manage the unprecedented complexity. więcej...

Peacekeepers Politicians & Warlords

	Autor: A. Alao Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1031-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 57.8 zł	Nasza cena: 57.8 zł Kup teraz!

Recording or assessing a wide canvas of concurrently running events is difficult, as a crisis and the international response to it develop in stages. This work sets out to record the environment of the Cotonou Agreement by interviewing officials in situ while the past was still fresh. więcej...

Inter Linkages Kyoto Protocol &International Trade &Investme

	Autor: Herman,Pietracci Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-92-808-1040-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 57.8 zł	Nasza cena: 57.8 zł Kup teraz!

Examines the 1997 Climate Change Convention, which led to the Kyoto Protocol, in the context of potential synergies and conflicts that could arise between it and the World Trade Organization, international investment agreements, and private and contractual trade law. więcej...

Asia's Emerging Regional Order

	Autor: R. Thakur Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-92-808-1046-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 112.7 zł	Nasza cena: 112.7 zł Kup teraz!

"Human security" emphasises the social, economic and political well-being of individuals. This volume offers several proposals for integrating traditional and human-security approaches, such as supplementing the ASEAN Regional Forum with a more "Asia-centric" security dialogue structure. więcej...

Earth Negotiation Analyzing Thirty Years of Environmental Di

	Autor: Chasek Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1047-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

Global environmental problems pose important diplomatic and legal challenges to the international community. The nature of these problems requires an unprecedented degree of international co-operation achieved through negotiation. "Earth Negotations" outlines a phased-process model that can enable greater understanding of the process by which international environmental agreements are negotiated. In total, six discernible phases and five associated turning points within the process of multilateral environment negotiation więcej...

Legitimacy of International Organizations

	Autor: Coicaud,Heiskanen Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1053-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 185.2 zł	Nasza cena: 185.2 zł Kup teraz!

This volume examines the philosophy of international organizations, which have been affected by many changes, including decolonization, globalization and the emergence of new information technologies, particularly the internet. więcej...

Danube

	Autor: L. Jansky Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: ISBN: 978-92-808-1061-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 116.6 zł	Nasza cena: 116.6 zł Kup teraz!

Focusing on the dispute between Hungary and Slovakia over a hydro-electric project on the Danube, this volume discusses environmental monitoring programmes and their usefulness in resolving transboundary water conflicts. więcej...

Trade Environment & Millennium 2e

	Autor: Sampson,Chambers Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1064-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 73.5 zł	Nasza cena: 73.5 zł Kup teraz!

While many consider the World Trade Organization to be a major contributor to growth in world income, others view it with suspicion and even animosity. This text provides an overview of the key issues for negotiation at the 2001 meeting in Qatar and beyond. więcej...

Researching Violently Divided Societies Ethical & Methodolog

	Autor: Smyth,Robinson Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1065-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 57.8 zł	Nasza cena: 57.8 zł Kup teraz!

This volume directly addresses the ethical and methodological challenges of researching in societies experiencing ethnic conflict and other violent upheavals. więcej...

From Civil Strife to Civil Society

	Autor: W. Maley Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1070-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

The 1990s saw the United Nations, the militaries of key member states and non-governmental organizations increasingly entangled in the complex affairs of disrupted states. Whether as deliverers of hunanitarian assistance or as agents of political, social and civic reconstruction, these actors have had to learn ways of interacting with each other in order to optimize the benefits for the populations they seek to assist. Yet the challenges created by conflicting organizational cultures, operating procedures and priorities więcej...

Financing for Development

	Autor: Herman,Pietracci Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-92-808-1073-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 48 zł	Nasza cena: 48 zł Kup teraz!

Business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries address the question of how to boost the financing of development. Topics covered range from micro credit to large-scale project finance; from gender and poverty to bridging the digital divide; from local to global environments for investment; from domestic to international taxation; from trade expansion to debt relief; and from official development to reform of the United Nations. więcej...

Enhancing Global Governance

	Autor: Cooper,English Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1074-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 93.1 zł	Nasza cena: 93.1 zł Kup teraz!

This volume analyses the means by which global governance had been promoted by innovative diplomatic practices. The impetus for a new diplomacy has emerged not from traditional channels, but through a series of cross-cutting coalitions among like-minded states and civil society. The question of how these alternative leadership forms have been expressed through the United Nations system, together with an evaluation of the impact they have achieved, provides the fundamental theme of this text. Following an overview of the więcej...

Global Governance & UN System

	Autor: Rittenberg Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1075-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

This work offers an analysis of changing world order at the beginning of the 21st century. It examines the progression from international to global governance, focusing on the fundamental change of actors, agendas, collective decisionmaking, and the role of the UN system. Globalization does not only mean a change of relationship between governments and market forces. It also has important implications for the identities and activities of transnational social actors. International governance, the authors argue, faces three więcej...

States Markets & Just Growth

	Autor: R. Kohli,Moon Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-92-808-1076-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

This volume explores the common concerns of developing countries in the quest for just growth, while emphasizing their special regional needs. The opening chapters provide an overview of the shared imperatives of globalization, democracy, poverty, and inequality. The rest analyze the records of different regions and countries in achieving just growth. Each author addresses four specific issues: states, markets, and growth - how much should states intervene in the market in order to promote growth?; states, markets, and distribution więcej...

International Waters in Southern Africa

	Autor: Nakayama Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1077-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

Sharing water resources among basin countries is a major topic of discussion for those responsible for managing international water systems. Planned water transfer schemes can result in environmental and security disputes. Southern Africa is one of the world's most critical regions in terms of water management, with a large disparity in availability of water between the relatively wet northern part of the region and the drier south. The first transboundary transfer of water occurred in the Southern African region in January więcej...

Beyond Violence

	Autor: Fitzduff Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1078-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł	Nasza cena: 63.7 zł Kup teraz!

After almost 30 years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland signed the "Good Friday Agreement" in 1998, a document that specifies how to share power, thus bringing to an end the fighting that had claimed so many lives. What were the processes of conflict resolution that enabled Northern Ireland to move beyond violence and agree to such a settlement? Mari Fitzduff was involved in many of these processes and was a close observer of the others. Drawing on her extensive experience, she outlines więcej...

Regional Peacekeepers

	Autor: J. Mackinlay Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1079-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

In the 1990s, while the Soviet Union disintegrated, the Russian Federation continued to maintain the USSR's longstanding obligations and strategic interests. Although no longer lawfully constituted to intervene directly in the conflicts that erupted in Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan, Russian forces nevertheless influenced the conduct of the disputes and, more overtly, the peace process that followed. This work investigates the Russian military presence in its former Soviet territories to determine whether these forces have więcej...

Globalization of Human Rights

	Autor: J. Coicaud Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1080-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

This work focuses on the imperatives of justice at the national, regional, and international levels through an analysis of civil, political, economic, and social rights. There are two reasons for this type of analysis. First, any search for justice is based upon identifying values that are so critical to individual well-being and the character of being human that they become institutionalized as rights. Rights then become the basis upon which claims are made. Rights also become the horizon of justice, the standard to which więcej...

Conflict Prevention

	Autor: Carmet,Jerry Schnabel Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1081-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 175.4 zł	Nasza cena: 175.4 zł Kup teraz!

This publication evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity. This volume brings together a diverse group of individuals involved in conflict prevention activities; scholars from developed and developing countries and practitioners with insights on the work of regional organizations and the United Nations.The first part of the book addresses the question of what constitutes successful conflict więcej...

Democratization in Middle East

	Autor: Saikal,Jerry Schnabel Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1085-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

This title addresses a number of key issues determining the success or failure of sustainable democratization in the region. With the exception of Israel, the constituent states cannot yet guarantee a path toward sustainable democracy. Movement toward political, economic and cultural liberalization has thus far brought instability and violence to the region, as traditional and religious values conflict with secular ethics, norms and practices. Drawing on analyses of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria - as well as the więcej...

Refugees & Forced Displacement

	Autor: E. Newman Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1086-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł	Nasza cena: 102.9 zł Kup teraz!

In seeking to address the conflict between security concerns and migratory flows, the book argues for reappraisal of the legal, political, normative, institutional and conceptual frameworks through which the international community addresses refugees and displacement. więcej...

Agrodiversity

	Autor: H. Brookfield Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-92-808-1087-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł	Nasza cena: 87.2 zł Kup teraz!

Through generations of innovation and experiment, smallholder farms (cultivated pieces of land smaller than 50 acres) have nurtured a rich diversity of both wild and domestic plants and animals. While most academic literature emphasizes the accelerated loss of biodiversity, this book describes how large numbers of smallholder farmers are conserving biodiversity in their farmlands and surrounds. Based on the fieldwork of the United Nations University Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC), the więcej...

Agricultural Biodiversity in Smallholder Farms of East Afric

	Autor: F. Kaihura Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-92-808-1088-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 102.9 zł	Nasza cena: 102.9 zł Kup teraz!

Smallholder farmers are the guardians, as well as the beneficiaries, of a greater diversity of biological species than can be found in protected areas. The farmers' diverse practices are conserving these species for the benefit of future generations. In turn, agricultural biodiversity is a primary way for the poor to cope with difficult biophysical environments and precarious social and political circumstances. The United Nations University Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) studies and documents więcej...

Perspectives on Growth & Poverty

	Autor: R. van der Hoeven,A. Shorrocks Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-92-808-1091-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł	Nasza cena: 87.2 zł Kup teraz!

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may not be evenly spread. Critics of globalization often point out that growth of the macroeconomy may have an adverse effect on the most vulnerable members of society. Thus the distributional impact of growth needs to be więcej...

Tests of Global Governance

	Autor: A. Cooper Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1096-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 175.4 zł	Nasza cena: 175.4 zł Kup teraz!

A detailed examination of what happens when traditional diplomatic methods interface with new forms of global governance. więcej...

Innovative Communities

	Autor: Yashiro Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-92-808-1116-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 122.5 zł	Nasza cena: 122.5 zł Kup teraz!

This book looks at nine case studies from the Asia-Pacific region where communities are adopting innovative methods to address complex and unpredictable environmental problems. więcej...

Reforming from the Top

	Autor: English Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1118-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 155.8 zł	Nasza cena: 155.8 zł Kup teraz!

Some scholars and practitioners have suggested that the time has come for the establishment of new multilateral forums that reflect 21st century realities. One option attracting increased attention is to create a summit of the leaders of 20 nations (L20), an institution that draws its inspiration from both the current G7/8 leaders' meetings and the G20 finance ministers' meetings. więcej...

Researching Conflict in Africa

	Autor: Porter Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1119-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

Parts of Africa experience persistent violence and seemingly intractable conflicts. These violent conflicts have drawn researchers seeking to determine and explain why conflicts are prevalent, what makes them intensify, and how conflicts can be resolved. However, much of the literature on research methodology does not address the complexities of conducting research in the midst of violent conflict and massive ethnopolitical disputes. This book directly addresses these issues. więcej...

Globalization

	Autor: I. Grunberg Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1051-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł	Nasza cena: 97 zł Kup teraz!

This volume presents some of the most important debates that have taken place at the United Nations, especially at its recent Economic and Social Council meetings, covering the themes of globalization, financial architecture, trade, poverty and global indicators. więcej...

South Asia in the World

	Autor: R. Thakur Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-92-808-1093-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 195 zł	Nasza cena: 195 zł Kup teraz!

Presents issues of particular relevance to the region, and explores the potential for improvement both in domestic and international efforts at alleviating the problems of South Asia. więcej...

Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance

	Autor: N. Kanie Wydawnictwo: United Nations University Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: ISBN: 978-92-808-1095-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 171.5 zł	Nasza cena: 171.5 zł Kup teraz!

Addresses the various new channels of multilateral environmental governance that have appeared within an increasingly globalized international system at the beginning of 21st century. Focuses on clarifying the key actors and the governance functions they perform in addressing environmental threats. więcej...

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