Of all the issues presented by Chinas ongoing economic and sociopolitical transformation, none may ultimately prove as consequential as the development of the Chinese legal system.
According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies.
Growing political radicalization and polarization in American government has created a scarcity of civilian leadership, knowledge, expertise, and power.
One of the country's most influential public intellectuals asks: What if the rootsof the culture war lie not in the culture itself, but laws and regulations enacted decades ago that few are aware of today?
In den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten sind die Anteile befristeter Beschäftigungsverhältnisse bei jungen Erwachsenen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in anderen spätkapitalistischen Gesellschaften deutlich angestiegen.
This book will provide a comprehensive discussion of groundwater sustainability, including what it is, how its definition has changed over time, why traditional assessments of it are wrong, how assessments of it are ideally multidisciplinary efforts recognizing that policy is more controlling of outcomes than science, and why achieving it is difficult once pumping exceeds sustainable levels of pumping.
The book provides a critical evaluation of South Africa's freshwater resources to illustrate the way in which its freshwater resources, water access, services and infrastructure have continued to decline over the past three decades.
In Asia and the Pacific, climate change is now a well-recognised risk to water security but responses to this risk are either under reported, or continue to be guided by the incremental or business as usual approaches.
This book examines the pathways to decarbonising African cities, structured around strategies and applications in renewable energy, waste management, healthcare, telecommunication, education and governance reconfigurations for Petro-cities.
In Asia and the Pacific, climate change is now a well-recognised risk to water security but responses to this risk are either under reported, or continue to be guided by the incremental or business as usual approaches.
This book examines the methods and approaches currently being taken by the global community of youth in influencing environmental policymakers of the United Nations.
This volume includes selected contributions presented during the 3rd edition of the international conference on WaterEnergyNEXUS, which was held in Tunisia in December 2020.
Green budgeting is emerging at subnational levels as an important tool for regions and cities to use to align their expenditure and revenues with their green objectives, and enhance the transparency and accountability of their climate and environmental action.
Ce rapport annuel de suivi et d’évaluation porte sur les politiques agricoles de 54 pays : les 38 pays de l’OCDE, les 5 États membres de l’UE non membres de l’OCDE, et 11 économies émergentes.
The study is part of the OECD work stream Preparing Regions for Demographic Change, a megatrend that affects several important dimensions of public policy.
The OECD review of Gender Equality in Peru: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work is the second of a series focusing on Latin American and the Caribbean countries.
El informe de la OCDE sobre Igualdad de género en el Perú: hacia una mejor distribución del trabajo remunerado y no remunerado es el segundo informe de la serie que tiene como foco los países de América Latina y el Caribe.
Relancer l’économie après la crise induite par la pandémie de COVID 19 nécessite des politiques et des réformes qui s’attaquent aux inégalités et soutiennent l’égalité des chances.
The Global Compendium of Land Value Capture, a joint project by the OECD and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is an ambitious undertaking to understand the full landscape of land value capture (LVC) instruments, how they are configured and deployed across the globe in OECD countries and non-OECD economies, and what it would take to unleash their full potential as a sustainable revenue source.
Sometime after dark on March 27, 2010, Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was found dead next to his four-wheeler on the grounds of his ranch on the Arizona-Mexico border.
With the end of the 20th century, Dixon and Scheurell decided it was an opportune time to critically assess what governments have achieved with their plethora of public social welfare policies.
The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "e;the left"e; as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality.
Ob die neue Bundesregierung das freiheitlich-ökosoziale Narrativ des gemeinsamen großen Aufbruchs («Mehr Fortschrittwagen») zu implementieren vermag oder ob sie ein durch das Wahlergebnis erzwungenes Zweckbündnis bleibt, wird die Praxis zeigen.
