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United Nations University Press Collection (49 titles).
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ISBN Categories: HB Hardback; PB Paperback; CD CD-Rom; EB Ebook
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East Asian Experience in Environmental Governance: Response in a Rapidly Developing Region
Author: Zafar Adeel (Caroline King)
Published: January 2003
ISBN: HB 92 808 1072 3 PB 92 808 1072 3
Subject: Environment
The East Asian region has seen considerable growth in its economy, industrial base, and The East Asian region has seen considerable growth in its economy, industrial base, and population in the last two decades.
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Crossing National Borders: Human Migration Issues in Northeast Asia
Author: Edited by Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva
Published: November 2005
ISBN: PB 9 28081 117 7
Subject: peace, governence
International migration and other types of cross-border movement of people are becoming an important part of international relations in Northeast Asia. In this pioneering study, experts on China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Russia examine the political, economic, social and cultural dimensions of the interaction between border-crossing individuals and host communities, highlighting the challenges that face national and local leaders in each country and suggesting needed changes in national and international policies. The authors analyze population trends and migration patterns in each country: Chinese migration to the Russian Far East, Chinese, Koreans, and Russians in Japan, North Koreans in China, and migration issues in South Korea and Mongolia. The book introduces a wealth of empirical material and insight to both international migration studies and Northeast Asian area studies.
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Agrodiversity: Learning from Farmers Across the World
Author: Edited by Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, and Muriel Brookfield
Published: January 2003
ISBN: HB 92 808 1087 1 PB 92 808 1087 1
Subject: Agriculture
Through generations of innovation and experiment, smallholder farmers have nurtured a rich diversity of plants and animals, both wildand domesticated.
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Public Participation in the Governance of International Freshwater Resources
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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Conflict Prevention: Path to Peace or Grand Illusion? (revised MS)
Author: Edited by David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel
Published: January 2003
ISBN: HB 92 808 1081 2 PB 92 808 1081 2
Subject: Politics
Conflict Prevention evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity.
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Reforming International Environmental Governance: From Institutional Limits to Innovative Reforms
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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Earth Negotiations: Analyzing Thirty Years of Environmental Diplomacy
Author: Pamela S. Chasek
Published: January 2001
ISBN: HB 92 808 1047 2 PB 92 808 1047 2
Subject: Environment
Earth Negotiations develops a phased-process model that can enable greater understanding of the process by which international environmental agreements are negotiated.
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Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits
Author: Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud and Daniel Warner
Published: January 2001
ISBN: HB 92 808 1052 9 PB 92 808 1052 9
Subject: Politics
Ethics and International Affairs explores the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and examines the ways in which the international community has responded to some of the most crucial challenges of the last ten years.
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Legitimacy of International Organizations, The
Author: Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud and Veijo Heiskanen
Published: January 2001
ISBN: HB 92 808 1053 7 PB 92 808 1053 7
Subject:
The end of the Cold War is only one in a series of events that have radically modified the operational environment of international organizations since their establishment.
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The Globalization of Human Rights
Author: Edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner
Published: January 2003
ISBN: HB 92 808 1080 4 PB 92 808 1080 4
Subject: Sociology
The Globalization of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the imperatives of justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these imperatives of justice is conducted through an analysis of rights.
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