This paper outlines a Decision-Maker's Tool (DM Tool), designed to guide practitioners and their inter-disciplinary teams through a typical strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process. While SEA properly includes post-decision follow-up, the DM Tool covers the SEA process up to the creation...

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A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious to obtain the greatest benefits for their economies from the extraction of these exhaustible resources by designing appropriate policies to achieve desired goals....

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Global Flows and the Politics of Circulation -- 2 Derivatives, Risk, and Speculative Capital -- 3 Historical Conjunctures -- 4 The Institutional Basis of Derivatives -- 5 Deriving the Derivative -- 6 The World of Risk -- 7 Derivatives and the Stability of...

This paper provides an overview of research on income inequality in China over the period of economic reform. It presents the results of two main sources of evidence on income inequality and, assisted by various decompositions, explains the reasons income inequality has increased rapidly and the...