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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “rosemary rayfuse”
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  • Risk and the Regulation of Uncertainty in International Law

    Edited by Monika Ambrus, Rosemary Rayfuse, Wouter Werner ...
    Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has emerged, each with their own imageries, vocabularies, expert-knowledge, and rules to translate our hopes and fears for the future ... Read more

    $134.39 CAD

  • Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond

    Edited by Dr Sanja Bogojevic, Professor Dr Rosemary Rayfuse ...
    Series series Swedish Studies in European Law
    The growing awareness of an impending environmental crisis coupled with a series of national and regional environmental disasters led, in the 1960s and 1970s, to the birth of the global environmental movement and the widespread recognition of the need to protect the environment for both current and future generations. Against this backdrop the concept of 'environmental rights' surfaced as a means ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance

    Edited by Janice Gray, Cameron Holley, Rosemary Rayfuse ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance. With considerable government, citizen and financial donor attention devoted to a range of international, transnational and domestic laws and policies aimed at protecting, managing and sustainably using fresh and coastal marine water resources, this book proposes that ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    by Nick Ellison ...
    This accessible work provides a ‘political sociology’ of welfare states in industrial societies, with both historical and contemporary perspectives. Ellison focuses on the social and political underpinnings of a number of welfare regimes and looks at the transformations they have undergone and the challenges they face.This book assesses current debates about the role of ‘globalization’ in welfare ... Read more

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  • Politics in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Wolfgang Streeck, Armin Schäfer ...
    In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to influence the course of government through elections and if a change in government cannot translate into different ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Law and Development in East and South-East Asia

    Edited by Christoph Antons ...
    During the 1980s and 1990s Asian 'developmental states' attracted much attention in political science and economics literature, but the role of law in the economic development was neglected. It was only after the Asian crisis of 1997 that many analysts began to focus on a lack of regulation and transparency as a major factor triggering the crisis. The crucial questions now are how successful the ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security Studies

    A Transnational Approach

    Edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony ...
    With the end of the Cold War, threats to national security have become increasingly non-military in nature. Issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, infectious diseases, natural disasters, irregular migration, drug trafficking, information security and transnational crime have come to the forefront. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Non-Traditional Security concepts. It ... Read more

    $89.59 CAD

  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Governing the World Economy

    by Willem Molle ...
    The major problems the world faces have increased since the turn of the millennium. Recurrent storms on the financial markets have ravaged many countries, poverty is still widespread, notwithstanding decades of massive development aid, the environment remains in acute jeopardy and the major world institutions have often reached an impasse in attempting to combat these difficulties.The issues ask ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Human Rights and Climate Change

    Edited by Stephen Humphreys ...
    As the effects of climate change continue to be felt, appreciation of its future transformational impact on numerous areas of public law and policy is set to grow. Among these, human rights concerns are particularly acute. They include forced mass migration, increased disease incidence and strain on healthcare systems, threatened food and water security, the disappearance and degradation of ... Read more

    $142.39 CAD

  • Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development

    The Law and Economics of International Investment Agreements

    Edited by Olivier De Schutter, Johan Swinnen, Jan Wouters ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Economic Law
    This book presents original research that examines the growth of international investment agreements as a means to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and considers how this affects the ability of capital-importing countries to pursue their development goals. The hope of countries signing such treaties is that foreign capital will accelerate transfers of technologies, create employment, and ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Challenges of Globalization

    Immigration, Social Welfare, Global Governance

    Edited by Andrew Sobel ...
    This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization. It will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD