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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “noboru ishikawa”
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  • Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas

    Edited by Wil de Jong, Denyse Snelder, Noboru Ishikawa ...
    Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single country capabilities.This book illustrates the diversity of transborder natural resources, the pressures that they experience or ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Anthropogenic Tropical Forests

    Human–Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier

    Edited by Noboru Ishikawa, Ryoji Soda ...
    Series series Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
    The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has turned the local landscape into anthropogenic tropical forests. Analysing the transformation of the space of mixed landscapes and multiethnic ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War

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    An Agenda for Jobs, Growth and Global Trade Leadership

    by Fredrik Erixon ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    This paper presents the case for deepened trade and investment policy cooperation between the European Union and the United States. A trade deal between the two economic powers has become an increasingly popular notion, particularly given increased competition from China. Old arguments against a transatlantic deal have become weaker as the balance of the world’s economies has changed. Such an ... Read more

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  • South Korea's Rise

    Economic Development, Power, and Foreign Relations

    by Uk Heo, Terence Roehrig ...
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  • Against Corruption: A book of essays

    by David Cameron ...
    Corruption is the cancer at the heart of many of the world’s problems. It destroys jobs and holds back growth. It fuels instability and terrorism. It traps the poorest in poverty. It even corrodes trust in the sports we love.In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.Foreword by David Cameron, Prime ... Read more

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    by John Scales Avery ...
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  • The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan

    by Tianjian Shi ...
    Tianjian Shi shows how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior through two causal pathways, one at the individual level and one at the community level. Focusing on two key norms - definition of self-interest and orientation to authority - he tests the theory with multiple surveys conducted in mainland China and Taiwan. Shi employs multi-level statistical analysis to show how, in ... Read more

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  • Politics Beyond the Capital

    The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America

    by Kent Eaton ...
    A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of decentralization alongside contemporary ones to determine whether consistent causal factors are at play. At the center of the book is the rigorous ... Read more

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  • Governance in the 21st Century / Gouvernance Au 21e Siècle

    Edited by David Hayne ...
    Series series Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada / Mémoires de la Société royale du Canada
    This volume continues the inquiry launched by the Royal Society of Canada's 1997 publication, "Can Canada Survive? Under What Terms and Conditions?", and pursued in the 1998 volume, "The Well-Being of Canada", and the 1999 volume "Survivability in the 21st Century" (all published by the University of Toronto Press). The present collection examines the challenges of governance in our new century ... Read more

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    Human Trafficking and Labour Migration

    by Mary Buckley ...
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