Sustainable development Law

principles, practices, & prospects

ÍNDICE: Introduction PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS 1. Origins of Sustainable Development 2. Sustainable Development, Policy, and International Law 3. Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development PART II: THE PRINCIPLES 4. The Principle of Integration and Interrelationship in Relation to Social, Economic, and Environmental Objectives 5. The ...

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...

Local players in global games

the strategic constitution of a multinational corporation

What happens when previously autonomous firms from different countries, each with their own identities, routines, and capabilities, come together inside a single multinational corporation? Can a cooperative strategy be established that advances the development of the multinational as a whole, or do mutual misunderstandings and ...

New sources of development finance

1 A. B. Atkinson: Innovative Sources to Meet a Global Challenge 2 A. B. Atkinson: Over-Arching Issues 3 A. Sandmo: Environmental Taxation and Revenue for Development 4 M. Nissanke: Revenue Potential of the Tobin Tax for Development Finance: A Critical Appraisal 5 E. Aryeetey: A ...

Taxation

an interdisciplinary approach

The book offers an innovative introduction to tax research by combining commentary on disciplinary-based and interdisciplinary approaches. Its objective is to guide and encourage researchers how to produce taxation research that is rigorous and relevant. Effective approaches to research problem definition and research method choice ...

Understanding industrial and corporate change

Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change contains pioneering work on technological, organizational, and institutional change from leading theorists and practitioners such as Joseph Stiglitz, Oliver Williamson, Masahiko Aoki, Alfred D. Chandler Jr., and Sidney Winter. Trans- disciplinary in its approach, the book explores three distinct themes ...

Anti-fascism and memory in East Germany

remembering the International Brigades, 1945-1989

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legacy of ...

Art incorporated

the story of contemporary art

A controversial and fascinating attempt to define what is 'contemporary' about contemporary art, and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the last twenty years. Stallabrass reveals the growing inclusiveness of the contemporary art world, pointing to the greatly increased visibility for women and ...

Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces

Eds. Christopher Howgego, Volker Heuchert and Andrew Burnett Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought ...

A dictionary of modern design

This fascinating new dictionary of Modern Design covers the past 150 years of international design including ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion, as well as biographical entries on designers, manufacturers, etc, and major museums and heritage sites. Written in a clear, accessible style ...

John Calvin's ideas

Paul Helm looks at how Calvin worked at the interface of theology and philosophy and in particular how he employed medieval ideas to do so. Connections are made between his ideas and contemporary philosophical theology, and there is a careful examination of the appeal that ...

The turks in world history

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic ...

The new anti-catholicism

the last acceptable prejudice

Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America, and as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred--once thought dead--is alive and well, but few people seem to notice, or care. Jenkins shines a light on anti-Catholic sentiment in American society and ...

Monetary policy implementation

theory-past-present

The first of its kind, this book is entirely dedicated to the implementation of monetary policy: how central banks go about achieving their monetary policy targets. Monetary policy implementation has gone through tremendous changes over the last twenty years, which have witnessed the quiet end ...

The judicial construction of Europe

After developing and testing a theory of integration, Alec Stone Sweet assesses the impact of the European Court of Justice on the politics of trade, sex equality, and environmental protection in the European Union. Table of Contents 1. Theory of European Legal Integration 2. Constructing ...

A dictionary of legal theory

Modern legal theory contains a wide range of approaches and topics: from economic analysis of law to feminist legal theory to traditional analytical legal philosophy to a range of theories about justice. This healthy variety of jurisprudential work has created a problem: students and theorists ...

Constitutional goods

This book aims to distil the essentials of liberal constitutionalism from the jurisprudence and practice of contemporary liberal-democratic states. Most constitutional theorists have despaired of a liberal consensus on the fundamental goals of constitutional order. Instead they have contented themselves either with agreement on lower-level ...

Repair or revenge

victims and restorative justice

This book addresses the role of victims in our criminal justice system and the shortcomings they perceive in the way they are treated. It examines whether restorative justice can offer them more justice than they receive from the formal court-based system. Research into the shortcomings ...

The idea of public Law

This book offers an answer to the question: what is public law? It suggests that an adequate explanation can only be given once public law is recognized to be an autonomous discipline, with its own distinctive methods and tasks. Martin Loughlin defends this claim by ...

Europe's Area of freedom, security and justice

Exploring the main areas of legal development under the so-called "Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice" (AFSJ), this title examines the main subject matter of the new AFSJ: migration, family reunion, asylum, police co-operation, and cooperation in matters of criminal law and procedure. Table of ...

New risk, new welfare

the transformation of the European welfare state

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new ...

The absent-minded imperialists

empire, society and culture in Britain

Kipling, Elgar, Mafeking Night . . . all these conjure up an image of a British society besotted with imperial pride in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact the true picture was more complex than this and people reacted to their empire in different ways. Many ...