Life expectancy and income among the first countries to begin health transitions -- Which countries should be studied? -- A colonizer and the country colonized : Japan and Korea -- Very low income is not a barrier : Sri Lanka -- Two neighbors : Panama and Costa Rica -- Capitalism and communism,...

The dissertation is about the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. Through qualitative content analysis and interviews it shows the interplay of discourse, actors, power and rules of the game...