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This edited volume examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and multinationalism in multi-tiered systems through a comprehensive and rigorous comparative analysis, covering countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.

This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector.

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This book systematically introduces readers to the framework of China's ETS pilots, exploring their design and operating process, the current state of the carbon market, and various barriers encountered.

Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world.

This book examines various ideational, attitudinal and intellectual impasses that are becoming glaringly apparent on several fronts, and which have held back India's balanced, steady and uniform development and transformation post-independence.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and multi-faceted research on governance in multilevel systems.

This book presents comprehensive information on a range of issues in connection with the Fair and Equitable Treatment (FET) standard, with a particular focus on arbitral awards against host developing countries, thereby contributing to the available literature in this area of international investment law.

This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas.

This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for?

This book investigates the extent to which depoliticisation strategies, used to disguise the political character of decision-making, have become the established mode of governance within societies.

This volume is a selection of Chinese political scholar Xianglin Xu's published works spanning nearly 20 years of research that explore and discuss the socio-economic transition in China under state political reform.

This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region.

This book explores different aspects of the regulation of private security contractors working for governments.

This book explores significant aspects of the New Urban Agenda in the Asia-Pacific region, and presents, from different contexts and perspectives, innovative interventions afoot for transforming the governance of 21st-century cities in two key areas: (i) urban planning and policy; and (ii) service delivery and social inclusion.

This book provides a lively and comprehensive account of the unprecedented Italian general election of 2018 and of its profound significance for Italy and beyond.

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth's history: the Anthropocene.

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide-in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development.

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia.

This book argues that we are living in an era of deep mutation, and the anthropocentric model no longer fits our way of living and behaving on Earth.

This book discusses how UNIDROIT principles are viewed and interpreted in different countries, presenting various perspectives and practical lessons learned.

This edited volume offers new insights into the populist wave that is affecting democratic politics in a large number of countries.

This book explores the development of subnational government in small states, using Iceland as a model and comparing it with small states of similar population size as well as those with larger populations.

With recent advances and investment in artificial intelligence, are we on the verge of introducing virtual public servants?

Is Euroscepticism still suited to analyze the variegated nature of opposition to the EU?

This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels.

This book describes the creation of a monitoring network, which can provide information about the exact locations and the environmental threats posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumpsites in the Baltic Sea region, using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), and utilising the existing research vessels of NATO partner institutions as launching platforms.

Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms presents an innovative environmental proposal.

This book explores total revenue management (TRM), an emerging concept in revenue management that incorporates existing principles and tools of revenue management across all profit streams.

This book assesses the extent to which an emphasis on national security and prioritization of state interests has dominated governance policy-making in Northeast and Southeast Asia, at the expense of human security, human development, and human rights.

Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories.

This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management.

The frequency and intensity of climate shocks such as heatwaves and flooding, are expected to increase under a changing climate with severe implications across the food, energy, water, environment nexus.

Global in scope, this original and thought-provoking collection applies new theory on legitimacy and legitimation to urban life.

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America.

The link between gender and corruption has been studied since the late 1990s.

This book considers the production of political media content from the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the ranks of voices charged with informing the public.

EU communications policy has massively changed due to both global competition on the ICT market and technological developments that led to the emergence of Internet technology.

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century.

This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries.

This book is a documentary history of the rights found in the American state constitutions adopted between 1776 and 1790.

This book provides an assessment of public financial management (PFM) reforms in developing countries using Turkey as a case study.

The risk of athletes sustaining concussion while participating in professional team sports raises two serious concerns both nationally and internationally.

This book addresses the interactions between the domestic courts and the international investment arbitral tribunals, one of the most pressing issues confronting both domestic legal systems and the international legal system.

This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.

This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.

This book discusses the need for national space legislation in India in the wake of private stakeholders entering the field and the expansion of outer space activities.

The last decade has seen a huge amount of change in the area of sexually transmitted infection control and prevention, including the development of high-profile vaccines for preventing the spread of cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), novel control methods for HIV and AIDS, and even the discussion of more widespread use of controversial abstinence-only sex education programs.