I. Introduction -- II. Policy Paradoxes: Challenges Confronting the Contemporary Arctic -- III. The Arctic Council in Transition -- IV. Chairs and International Organizations: The Case of the Arctic Council -- V. The Swedish Chairmanship: Foresight and Hindsight in Arctic Activism -- VI. The Canadian Chairmanship: Development or Bust -- VII. The U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council: Round Tw…
Part 1 – Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 – …
Chapter 1. Impunity & Sexual Assassination in Ciudad Juárez: Exclusion, Cruising, Collusion -- Chapter 2. "Dangerous Streets": Sexual Assassination, Impunity & Industrial Zones in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 3. Chapter 3: Disappearances as Forced Abductions in Ciudad Juárez -- Chapter 4. Conclusion.This volume focuses on the specific relationship between the institutional impunity, lack of publ…
1. Introduction -- 2. World Society and Neo-Institutionalisation -- 3. World Society and the Individual -- 4. The International Level: IGOs and INGOs -- 5.Development in Selected Countries -- 6. Individual Environmentalism -- 7. Individual Attitudes Towards Human Rights -- 8. Conclusion.This book explores whether individual attitudes and behaviors are swayed by global developments in a world i…
Foreword; John Solomos; Chapter 1. Asylum Screening from Within -- Chapter 2. Asylum Seeking and the Threatened State -- Chapter 3. Subcultures of Social Control -- Chapter 4. Trained to Spot the Truth -- Chapter 5. Deconstructing asylum seekers’ narratives -- Chapter 6. A Subculture of Disbelief -- Chapter 7. Pulling Back the Screen.This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum…
- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Environmental Challenges in Vietnam -- Chapter 2: Evolving Environmental Governance -- Chapter 3: The Vietnamese Government and Institutional Changes -- Chapter 4: The Failure to Implement Environmental Policies -- Chapter 5: The Society -- Chapter 6: The Role of Businesses -- Chapter 7: The International Dimension -- Chapter 8: Perspectives for the future.‘This…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. How the study was done -- Chapter 3. The structure of children’s subjective well-being -- Chapter 4. The context of children's lives -- Chapter 5. Overall well-being -- Chapter 6. Home and family -- Chapter 7. Money and possessions -- Chapter 8. Friendships -- Chapter 9. School -- Chapter 10. Local area -- Chapter 11. Self -- Chapter 12. Time use -- Chapt…
Introduction -- Philosophy of Refugee Protection and Legal Condition of Refugees in India -- Response of Judiciary Towards Refugees in India -- Parlimentary Proceedings, Response of National Human Rights Commission and Institutions Towards Refugees in India -- Field Study on Condition of Refugees in India -- International Standards of Refugee Protection -- A Comparative Study on National Refuge…
Introduction -- Understanding Youth Rights -- Conflict in North east India: An Overview -- Youth Participation in Conflict in North East India -- Youth Rights in North East India -- Conclusion.This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India. Examining youth engagement in protracted conflict and its impact on youth rights, the author considers the complex issu…
Introduction: Confronting the Crisis of Democracy -- Part I Situating Contestation -- 1. The Arc of Contention -- 2. Rethinking Social Movements -- 3. The Dynamics of Capital -- 4. Reconceptualising political strategy -- Part II Contesting the Twenty-First Century: An Analysis of Occupy -- 5. Occupy, Democracy, and Enduring Change -- 6. The Subject of Change -- 7. Locating Effective Resistance …