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Public Participation in the Governance of International Freshwater Resources
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Author: Edited by Carl Bruch, Libor Jansky, Mikiyasu Nakayama and Kazimirz Salewicz
Published: April 2005
ISBN: PB 9 28081 106 1
Subject: environment
Clean water is essential to human survival, yet it is increasingly scarce. Despite pressures on this crucial resource, people often have little or no opportunity to participate in watershed decisions that affect them, particularly when they live along international watercourses. The United Nations has identified the rising demand for water as one of four major factors that will threaten human and ecological health for at least a generation.
Over the coming decade, governments throughout the world will struggle to manage water in ways that are efficient, equitable, and environmentally sound. Whether these efforts succeed may turn, in large part, on providing the public with a voice in watershed management decisions that directly affect them. Public involvement holds the promise of improving the management of international watercourses and reducing the potential for conflict over water issues.
This volume examines the experiences in many watercourses around the world, lessons learned, and areas for further development. Drawing upon papers presented at a symposium on "Improving Public Participation and Governance in International Watershed Management?Eco-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute, United Nations University, and other institutions, the chapters identify some of the considerations ?Elinguistic, political, legal, traditional and cultural, geographic, and institutional ?Ethat should be considered when extending and adapting the approaches to other watersheds.
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London Calling: The Middle Classes and the Remaking of Inner London
Publisher: Berg
Author: Garry Robson and Tim Butler
Published: August 2003
ISBN: HB 1 85973 623 8 PB 1 85973 628 9
Subject: politics;
Symbolizing both commerce and culture, London has always been a magnet for the ambitions of the middle classes. However, the past three decades have witnessed a dramatic fragmentation in inner-city Londons social map.
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The Clothed Body
Publisher: Berg
Author: Patrizia Calefato
Published: June 2004
ISBN: HB 1 85973 800 1 PB 1 85973 805 2
Subject: Fashion;art;
Translated by Lisa Adams Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language .
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Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes
Publisher: Berg
Author: Michael Carter
Published: March 2003
ISBN: HB 1 85973 601 7 PB 1 85973 606 8
Subject: Fashion;sociology
With so much focus on contemporary theory, it is easy to forget that the serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history. In fact, they have been the subject of intense cultural debate since the nineteenth century.
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Reforming International Environmental Governance: From Institutional Limits to Innovative Reforms
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Author: Edited by W. Bradnee Chambers and Jessica F. Green
Published: June 2005
ISBN: PB 9 28081 111 8
Subject: environment
More than 500 international agreements and institutions now influence the governance of environmental problems ranging from climate change to persistent organic pollutants. The establishment of environmental institutions has been largely ad hoc, diffused, and somewhat chaotic because the international community has addressed key environmental challenges as and when they have arisen. The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 underscored the need to reform the current institutional framework for environmental governance, but failed to come up with any substantive recommendations.
This book takes up the question left unanswered at Johannesburg: what international institutional framework would best promote the protection of the global environment? The contributors take a systematic approach to formulating proposals for institutional changes in international environmental governance and examine three potential models: enforcement, centralisation, and co-operation through increased co-ordination and collaboration. They review alternative institutional arrangements to address identified weaknesses, they elaborate upon specific reform proposals generated through recent policy debates, and they evaluate the potential of each proposal to remedy current weaknesses within the international environmental governance system.
Reforming International Environmental Governance provides useful information about the costs and benefits of different models and approaches to reforming international environmental governance and contributes substantive analysis to future debates.
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From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention
Publisher: Pluto Press
Author: David Chandler
Published: December 2005
ISBN: PB 0 74532 504 1
Subject: International Relations |Law and Human Rights |
'That the human rights rationale for interventionism is a genuine menace to democracy is convincingly demonstrated in this fine book.' Edward S. Herman
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Post-Olympism?: Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Berg
Author: Edited by John Bale & Mette Krogh Christensen
Published: April 2004
ISBN: HB 1 85973 714 5 PB 1 85973 719 6
Subject: anthropology;sport;
The Olympic ideal and the Olympic Games stand as symbols of global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through the medium of sports.
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Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the USA
Publisher: Berg
Author: Mark Clapson
Published: September 2003
ISBN: HB 1 85973 643 2 PB 1 85973 648 3
Subject: history;
Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like American Beauty and novels like The Ice Storm. But are they really as homogenous and conservative as we think?
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Whistleblowers and the Bomb - New Ed: Vanunu, Israel and Nuclear Secrecy – New edn
Publisher: Pluto Press
Author: Yoel Cohen
Published: November 2005
ISBN: HB 0 74532 401 0 PB 0 74532 400 2
Subject: Current Affairs |Middle and Far East Studies |
The most up-to-date account of Vanunu's story, his release and the secrets he brought to light.
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A POW's Memoir of the First World War: The Other Ordeal
Publisher: Berg
Author: Georges Connes
Published: May 2004
ISBN: HB 1 85973 783 8 PB 1 85973 788 9
Subject: history
Translated by Marie-Claire Connes Wrage and edited by Lois Davis Vines This lyrical memoir offers a fresh look inside the trauma of war and captivity during the First World War, with resonance for today's world.
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