The OECD Global Action “Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems”, funded by the European Union, through its work stream on social impact measurement, endeavours to: 1) explore current social impact measurement practices among social and solidarity economy organisations; 2)...

The OECD Global Action “Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems”, funded by the European Union, through its work stream on legal frameworks, endeavours to: 1) increase knowledge and understanding on legal frameworks for the social and solidarity economy; 2) explore approaches and...

The editors of the leading yearbook of global civil society studies offered to the authors of this article an opportunity to present a skeptical account of global civil society as the opening chapter in the 2004/5 yearbook. The article examines the standard account of global civil society as the...

The essence of a conservation easement as a static perpetual restriction is coming to a head with the understanding that the world is a changing place. This demonstration is nowhere more dramatic than in the context of global climate change. In response to this conflict, users of conservation...

While global health law as a conceptual and academic field is relatively new, efforts to coordinate international measures against the outbreak and spread of disease are more than a century old. The history of global health law is, for the most part, a story of traditionally conceived sovereign...

Produced as part of the OECD Global Action “Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems” funded by the European Union, it explores the potential of procurement from the social and solidarity economy in creating social dividends, takes stock of global trends in social procurement among...

Klappentext: Unsere Arbeitskultur gleicht sich immer schneller der der Entwicklungsländer an, so der bekannte Soziologe Ulrich Beck. Ein neues Gesellschaftsmodell - das einer engagierten Bürgergesellschaft - ist für ihn die einzige Chance, Sozialstaat und Demokratie auch im nächsten...