This book offers a comprehensive analysis of infrastructure insecurity issues in the historic Niger Delta, drawing on empirical fieldwork involving host communities, regulators, and multinational oil and gas operators.
Over the next decade, states will be carrying out large-scale registrations in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to provide more than one billion people around the world with evidentiary proof of their legal and, increasingly, digital existence.
This book presents research conducted with children and young people about online harms, with a UK focus, while aiming to stimulate comparative analyses of other countries too.
This book presents research conducted with children and young people about online harms, with a UK focus, while aiming to stimulate comparative analyses of other countries too.
A moral compass for the use of limited force that draws on the just war thought of Thomas AquinasOne of the most contentious developments in contemporary international relations has been the increased use of limited force.
An indispensable study of the Egyptian economy from 1952 to the present day, new in paperbackWhat are the long-term structural features of the Egyptian economy?
The National Science Foundation (NSF or the Foundation) was established by Congress in 1950 as an independent federal agency with a mission "e;to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes.
Creating a Nation That Is Fair for Us AllCindy Mathers has experienced firsthand the impact of our traumatised, fragmented, and broken systems on First Nations people, and indeed us all.
El libro que se presenta a continuación, La Escuela de Salamanca, Hugo Grocio y el liberalismo económico en Gran Bretaña, del profesor doctor don León Gómez Rivas, constituye una aportación ineludible en el análisis de un hecho fundamental en la historia del pensamiento español y europeo como es la influencia de la escolástica tardía española en la constitución y desarrollo del pensamiento moderno e ilustrado.
El libro que se presenta a continuación, La Escuela de Salamanca, Hugo Grocio y el liberalismo económico en Gran Bretaña, del profesor doctor don León Gómez Rivas, constituye una aportación ineludible en el análisis de un hecho fundamental en la historia del pensamiento español y europeo como es la influencia de la escolástica tardía española en la constitución y desarrollo del pensamiento moderno e ilustrado.
This book offers the first full examination of the legal role of public guardianship in 25 years, comparing current conditions to those when the last study was published in 1981.
With the debate over health care consuming the nation, this timely book looks at the evolution of healthcare policy in the United States throughout its history.
A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.
Recent Advances in the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Impact of HIV brings together world-leading experts in the field of HIV, to provide new and critical insights into HIV treatment and management for children and adolescents.
Recent Advances in the Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Impact of HIV brings together world-leading experts in the field of HIV, to provide new and critical insights into HIV treatment and management for children and adolescents.
This book analyses the complex social and ecological processes of the Great Acceleration, the Great Transformation, and sustainable development that shape the future of the global society in the twenty-first century.
Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses.
The standard wisdom among political scientists has been that "e;iron triangles"e; operated among regulatory agencies, the regulated industries, and members of Congress, all presumably with a stake in preserving regulation that protected the industries from competition.
Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide.
Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--around the year 2030, well within the retirement years of the baby boom generation.
Exposing the powerful contradictions between empowering rights and legal rites By investigating the harms routinely experienced by the victims and survivors of domestic violence, both inside and outside of law, Everyday Harm studies the limits of what domestic violence law can--and cannot--accomplish.
A Brookings Institution Press and Inter-American Development Bank publicationThe poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.
Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide.
