Forgotten promises : neglected environmental provisions of the NAFTA and the North American agreement on environmental cooperation / Geoffrey Garver -- Should citizens expect procedural justice in nonadversarial processes? spotlighting the regression of the citizen submission process from NAAEC...

The focus of this book is on profiling, analysing, benchmarking, and modeling in socio-technical terms, ways and means that creativity, invention and innovation are manifested and flourish in select American, European, and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters. This...

Digital technologies are reshaping every field of social and economic lives, so do they in the world of scientific knowledge. "The New Challenges of Knowledge" aims at understanding how the new digital technologies alter the production, diffusion and valorization of knowledge. We propose to give...

In the 21st century, intangible resources such as knowledge and social capital have become as necessary to the modern economy as coal, diamonds, and oil were to the past. This shift from product-focused to service-focused economies necessitates a drastic re-thinking of the ways in which we...