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Contemporary Issues in Mediation (CIIM) Volume 5 builds on the success of the past four volumes as testament to a growing interest of authors and readers in the wide variety of issues that arise with mediation.

2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the start of China's reform and opening up policy, which created China's growth miracle with an annual average growth rate of around 9.

What do nudges and choice architecture have to do with encouraging mediation?

This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific.

This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives conference series co-published by Institute of Policy Studies and World Scientific.

This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption.

This book examines how business, the social sciences, science and technology will impact the future of ASEAN.

For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas.

This book explores various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regimes with regard to plant-variety protection and farmers' rights; traditional knowledge; geographical indications, genetically modified crops; and access to genetic resources within the broad ambit of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the Convention of Biological Diversity and other treaties/protocols.

This book examines how business, the social sciences, science and technology will impact the future of ASEAN.

This book discusses various climate smart agro-technologies, their technical and economic feasibility across heterogeneous agro-climatic conditions, assessing farmers' willingness to adopt those technologies, impact of climate smart technology in agricultural production and possible policy and investment opportunities to upscale it.

This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions.

The book aims at perfecting the national governance system and improving national governance ability.

This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

This book is devoted to an idea of a second round of codification of certain new rules for treaty interpretation.

This multidisciplinary book examines the diverse ways in which environmental disasters with compounding impacts are being governed as they traverse sovereign territories across rapidly urbanising societies in Asia and the Pacific.

Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of 'governance and governed' from a state-society inter-relationship perspective.

This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region.

Focused on the "e;Belt and Road Initiative"e;, this book discusses China's opportunities to translate economic leverage into political outcomes.

This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other.

This book discusses the evolution of the third tier of the Indian federal system, with a focus on rural local governance (commonly known as Panchayati Raj) against the backdrop of important theoretical and empirical literature on the relevance and effectiveness of service delivery in the decentralized system.

This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development.

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century.

This book shows how, with the increasing interaction between jurisdictions spearheaded by globalization, it is gradually becoming impossible to confine transactions to a single jurisdiction.

This book analyses various aspects of social responsibility, corporate responsibility, sustainability and governance.

This book offers a compendium of diverse essays on emerging legal issues in outer space, written by experts in the field of Space Law from different parts of the globe.

This is a study of Malaysia's new political economy, with a focus on ownership and control of the corporate sector.

This book scrutinizes the entire disaster trajectory history in the Republic of Korea: evolution, cross-over, and interconnection among natural, technological, and social disasters.

This book presents a 'critical reappraisal' of the resource curse thesis and extends the analysis to consider political and social dimensions, and thus, the importance of structure in the petroleum sector's governance model.

This book addresses key issues related to the choice between governments regulating and enforcing society's sustainability and social responsibility objectives, and firms reporting on their sustainable and socially responsible activities so stakeholders can exert pressure on firms to achieve society's goals.

This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people's participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times.

This book shows how, with the increasing interaction between jurisdictions spearheaded by globalization, it is gradually becoming impossible to confine transactions to a single jurisdiction.

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).

This book deals with how the governments of India and Bangladesh manage the Ganges River.

This book addresses injury and causation issues in the context of antidumping, countervailing duty (CVD) and safeguard investigations that are covered under the WTO.

The book provides a comprehensive and practical overview of arbitration in the People's Republic of China.

This book focuses on India's participation in the WTO dispute settlement system, at a time when India has emerged as one of the most successful and prominent users of WTO dispute settlement among the developing countries.

Though predominantly on oil and gas law, this is nonetheless a veritable Reference Book on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018.

¿La nueva tipología del daño a bienes o derechos protegidos convencional o constitucionalmente logra la reparación integral del perjuicio?

Esta obra ilustra las diversas aproximaciones que surgen de otras formas de acercarse al conocimiento, a la vez que pone el acento en que, hoy por hoy, existen otros problemas desde la dogmática y lo social, pues el derecho es dinámico y no estático.

"e;Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground"e; reads a plaque near the gravesite of Theodore Roosevelt, America's 26th president.

Ante la desconfianza y la incredulidad suscitadas por la crisis de gobernabilidad que atraviesa Colombia y la congestión judicial que el Consejo de Estado afronta en todas sus secciones, esta investigación pone de manifiesto la insuficiencia de los cambios propuestos en el Proyecto de Ley 07-19, contentivo de la reforma al Código de Procedimiento Administrativo y de lo Contencioso Administrativo, en torno a la función unificadora de dicho Consejo.

La obra que el lector tiene en sus manos es una invitación a revisar y a transformar la relación de los habitantes de los países de América Latina con el sistema estatal de administración de justicia y con las manifestaciones comunitarias y ancestrales de justicia.

La consultoría en asuntos públicos es un ámbito de actividad creciente en Colombia que convoca actores cada vez más diversos en la medida que participen del proceso de formulación, ejecución y evaluación de intervenciones públicas.

A propósito de los cambios y diferencias conceptuales, el profesor Baldassarre hace hincapié en la necesidad de preservar el derecho social como fuente del Estado social de derecho que predomina hoy.

En el proceso encaminado a superar la brecha entre las promesas constitucionales y las vivencias cotidianas, se han presentado debates interesantes sobre los temas clave del funcionamiento de la Corte Constitucional y la acción de tutela.

Repensando la integración y las integraciones recoge dieciséis artículos cinco de estudiosos nacionales y once de académicos extranjeros en los que se realizó un profundo análisis en estas materias, y su principal riqueza radica en que se trata de una propuesta colectiva desde diversas perspectivas disciplinarias política, económica, histórica, jurídica, etc.

Este libro se convertirá en un referente de consulta para todos aquellos que deseen acercarse a una visión amplia de lo que se entiende por poder y sus implicaciones, desde una perspectiva filosófica crítica.