Part I Setting the Scene: Peter-Tobias Stoll, Mega Regionals: Challenges, Opportunities and Research Questions -- Part II Strategic and Structural Issues: Edouard Bourcieu, The Strategic Dimension of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Democratic Legitimacy of the CETA and TTIP Agreements? -- Joost Pauwelyn, Not As Preferential As You May Think: How Me…
Part I: Words of Welcome from All Continents: -- Greeting to the launch of the Yearbook from an African Perspective -- Audit of Soil Governance .-Soils need international governance - A European perspective for the first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy -- North American Soils and World Food -- Soils Governance, an Australian perspective Striving for Land-Soil Sustai…
Introduction by Marco Frigessi di Rattalma -- Part I National Perspectives: France by Laurent Posocco -- Germany by Christoph U. Schmid -- Italy by Giovanni Posio -- United Kingdom by Stephen Turner -- United States of America by Joseph Allan MacDougald -- Part II Specific Issues: Civil and Consumer Law by Giorgio Pedrazzi -- Corporate and Insurance Law by Adolfo Paolini -- Criminal Law by Mari…
Introduction: Boomtown Effects -- Chapter.1. Defining the Boom -- Chapter 2. The Boom-Crime Relationship -- Chapter 3. Violence toward Women: A Boom for Whom? -- Chapter 4. Crimes of the Powerful -- Chapter 5. Dangerous Driving -- Chapter 6. Boomtown Justice Systems -- Chapter 7. Explaining Boomtown Effects -- Chapter 8. The Bust -- Chapter 9. Preparing for the Next Boom.This book addresses the…
Key Principles of SEA -- Purpose and Background of the European SEA Directive -- Legal Context of the SEA Directive — Links with other Legislation and Key Procedures -- Transposition of the SEA Directive into National Law — Challenges and Possibilities -- Some Legal Problems of Implementing the SEA Directive into Member States’ Legal Systems -- Current SEA Practice in England -- Implement…
Water Allocation and Management in Hawaii: A Case of Institutional Entropy -- Institutions for Resources Management: A Case Study from Sri Lanka -- Water Institutions in India: Structure, Performance, and Change -- Uphill Flow of Reform in China’s Irrigation Districts -- Institutions for Water Management in Mexico -- Water Institutions in the Middle East -- Institutions in South African Inter…
Voluntary Agreements in Environmental Policy -- The Economics of Environmental Voluntary Agreements -- Corporate Self-Regulation and Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue -- The Poltical Economy of Voluntary Agreements -- Voluntary Agreements in a Rent-Seeking Environment -- Aspects of the Political Economy of Environmental Voluntary Agreements -- The European and the American Approach to Environmental Vo…
Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Introduction: Launching the Era of Global Environmental Governance from Asia -- Asia by Theme -- Military Impacts on the Environment: Working Toward the Century of Peace and Environmental Progress -- Trade and the Environment: Promoting Environmentally Friendly Trade -- Food, Farming and the Environment: The Develop…
The Traditional Approach -- General Principles -- Scoping -- Baseline Conditions -- Alternatives -- Impact Assessment -- Writing the Impact Statement -- The Modern Approach -- Moving to the New Paradigm -- to Fuzzy Sets and Logic -- Environmental Conditions -- Impact Inference and Assessment -- Multi-Objective, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making -- Application -- Scoping -- Baseline Environment -- …
Professionalization of Forest Sector Policy Making -- Interests and Conflicts in the Forest Sector -- Programs for Forest Protection and Utilization -- Forest Users: Owners, Workers & Employees, and the General Population -- Associations and Political Parties -- Government and Administration -- Informational Instruments -- Economic Instruments -- Regulatory Instruments -- Land-Use Planning -- P…