Preface -- PART I. Farm Bill Basics -- What is the Farm Bill?- Why Does the Farm Bill Matter?- Whom Does the Farm Bill Benefit?- How Does the Farm Bill Work?- PART II. The History of Food Policy -- Origins of the Farm BillChapter 6. The Changing Face of Agriculture -- The Changing Face of Hunger -- The Conservation Era -- PART III. Key Policy Issues -- Crop Subsidies -- Nutrition, SNAP, and Hea…
Part I: Identifying the Legal Person -- 1. The Troublesome ‘Person (Bartosz Brozek) -- 2. Legal Persons as Abstractions (Ngaire Naffine) -- 3. The Idea of Non-Personal Subjects of Law (Tomasz Pietrzykowski) -- Part II Persons, Things and Rights -- 4. Why Things Can Hold Rights: Reconceptualizing the Legal Person (Visa Kurki) -- 5. The Right of a House (Qing Xiangyang) -- 6. Animals' Race Agai…
The Systems Approach: History and Schools of Thinking -- Systems and Systems Theory -- Schools of Systems Thinking - Development Trends in Systems Methodology -- Systems Analysis in Sweden - Examples of Projects Using a Systems Approach -- Systems Analysis in Geography -- Multi-Agent Systems, Time Geography, and Microsimulations -- Analyzing Biological Systems: The Brain as an Example -- Defini…
Introduction -- Part I: Governance of Shared Mobility -- Regulating Transport Platforms: The Case of Carpooling in Europe -- Regulating of TNCs in Latin America: The Case of UBER Regulation in Mexico city and Bogota -- Governing Carsharing as a Commercial or a Public Service? A Comparison between France and Japan -- Part II: Governance of Automated Mobility -- Data-led Governance of Self-drivin…
Introduction -- Spatial Planning and Governance: Literature Review -- Conceptual Framework and Methodology -- Changing Spatial Planning in the Chinese FYP System -- JSYR Plan Articulated in Jiangsu 11th FYP System: The Process, Rhetoric and Realities -- Spatial Planning Articulated in Suzhou Municipal 11th FYP: Plan Coordination and Development Control -- Conclusion and Discussion.As a legacy o…
Foreword by Paul Arthur Berkman, Alexander N. Vylegzhanin and Oran R. Young -- Preface by Alexander N. Vylegzhanin -- Part 1: Treaties (selected provisions) -- Regional Treaty Law -- Bilateral Treaties of Arctic States -- Bilateral Treaties with Russia -- Bilateral Treaties of other Arctic States -- Part 2: Subsidiary Means for the Determination of Rules of International Law (selected provision…
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fon…
Introduction -- The Politicization of Culture 1945–1995 -- Internationalizing Culture -- Recognizing Cultures -- Negotiating Cultures -- Diversifying Cultures -- Culture and Conviviability -- Re-thinking Culture in the New Millennium -- Culture and the Anthropocene -- Conclusions.This book analyses how global transactions have been progressively conducted and negotiated in the last 25 years. …
Chapter 1. The Environment–Conflict Nexus -- Chapter 2. States at Risk: The Environment–Conflict Model -- Chapter 3. Defining Climate Change: What to Expect in a Warmer World -- Chapter 4. Abrupt Climate Change -- Chapter 5. Water in the Middle East -- Chapter 6. Water, Land, and Governance: Environmental Security in Dense Urban Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 7. When Politics, the E…
Introduction -- Sustainable Spatial Planning in Democracies -- Democratic Acceptance of Spatial Planning Policies -- Determinants of Democratic Acceptance: A Two-Level Analysis -- The Motivation behind Democratic Acceptance: A Case Study -- Framing Effects on Democratic Acceptability: An Experimental Approach -- Discussion.-Conclusions.This book examines the democratic acceptance of spatial pla…