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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.

This book analyzes the dynamic political economy of authoritarian institutions in China and attempts to answer the following questions: What is the significance of China's authoritarian institutions and the changes Xi Jinping has brought to them?

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America is written for students, parents, and practitioners to provide insight into how emerging adulthood impacts the lives and behaviors of young people.

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime.

This book is the first in the field to explore the use of music in negotiation, conflict resolution and leadership development.

This book examines Croatia's economic and political transformation over the last 30 years.

Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Canadian foreign policy under the government of Justin Trudeau, with a concentration on the areas of climate change, trade, Indigenous rights, arms sales, refugees, military affairs, and relationships with the United States and China.

This edited collection assesses governance in forestry programmes and projects, including REDD+ governance.

Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society.

This study explores the use of precedents in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

This book explores how the European Union has changed the French Parliament since 1992.

This Palgrave Policy Essential considers the security and defence consequences of Brexit for the UK and the European Union.

This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post-Cold War era, beginning with George H.

This book calls for a collective strengthening of the progressive dimension of climate action in the face of continued myopic governmental response.

The book deals with confidentiality as one of the most controversial issues in international commercial arbitration.

This book rethinks resistance against neoliberalism in the context of the crisis of Western liberal democracy and the rise of new radical left parties in Europe.

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This book explores fundamental topics concerning the functioning of the judiciary.

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state.

As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation, conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase.

This volume explores transgender children and internalized body normalization in early childhood education settings, steeped in critical methodologies including post-structuralism, queer theory, and feminist approaches.

This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves.

This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting.

How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important.

The book analyzes concentrations of wealth and power in developed democracies.

This book is a comprehensive overview of the theory, history, law, institutional framework and culture of global diplomacy.

This book explores the interplay of farm mechanization, human factors and climatic and other environmental uncertainty in agriculture, using an ergonomics based approach to discuss solutions to the traditionally acknowledged vulnerability of the sector.

This book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to understand the trends and issues of development, governance, and dynamics of gender in the South Asian region.

This book addresses the process and principles of contract management in construction from an international perspective.

This landmark book is concerned with the civil power of the news.

The book is the first systematic and comparative effort to capture political culture in the Baltic countries, including political orientation and support for democracy.

This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable living-from reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy.

This is the second of two volumes that together provide an integrated picture of the Montenegrin Adriatic coast, presenting the natural components of the system as well as the chemical composition and chemical processes in the extended area.

This is the first of two volumes that together provide an integrated picture of the Montenegrin Adriatic coast, presenting the natural components of the system as well as the chemical composition and chemical processes in the extended area.

This book examines how insufficient policies can lead to the alleged abuse of power in organisations.

Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a need to develop national human rights' bodies for children's rights.

This book includes collective research by the Institute of Political Science of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which is an important research institution of political science and a think-tank in China.

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction - Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making, which was held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus from 19 to 21 March 2017.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

Climate change is a huge challenge to humanity in the 21th century.