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Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015

Nuclear meltdown in Japan and civil society strife across the Middle East highlight the degree to which resilience is core to international peace and security. This article considers the means by which communities can become increasingly resilient through shared best practices across a range of...

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Cooperative Federalism and Hydraulic Fracturing

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2012

This article analyzes how cooperative federalism and inclusive decision-making can provide legitimacy and transparency when balancing property rights versus police powers to regulate natural gas production

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Should Global Rules Have Legal Teeth? Policing (Who Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) vs. Good Citizenship (Un Global Compact)

Sagafi-Nejad, Tagi - 2005

This study examines two multilateral initiatives, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact. These are two efforts to engage transnational corporations in the development process and in the...

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Development of capitals and capabilities of smallholder farmers for promoting inclusive intensification in agriculture : experiences from northern West Bengal, India

Mishra, Pulak; Behera, Bhagirath; Bagchi, Niladri Sekhar; … - 2023

While policies and institutional arrangements aimed at intensification and growth of the Indian agriculture sector are inevitable for the livelihoods and food security of the country's vast population, the inclusion of land-constrained farmers especially women, therein requires certain...

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China in Context : Energy, Water, and Climate Cooperation

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2014

Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and...

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Why pay child benefits to Mothers?

Woolley, Frances - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2002

's incomes. Is income generally placed into a single pool, to which both parents have access, or do partners control their own … incomes? How much access to income do unwaged parents enjoy? I then turn to the maternalist case for paying benefits to women … account in one of the parents' names, or an account in the child's name? Is it treated the same way as employment income, or …

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El Perú hacia 2062: pensando juntos el futuro

Bonifaz, José Luis; Casas, Carlos; Sanborn, Cynthia A.; … - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013

Hace un año, un grupo heterogéneo de investigadores del Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP) inició un esfuerzo colectivo para pensar en el futuro de nuestra economía y sociedad más allá del corto plazo. El trabajo que presentamos a continuación resume algunas...

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Interactions between Agricultural and Resource Policy: Taking into account Downside Risk Aversion

Donoso, Guillermo Donoso Harris; Just, Richard E. - Departamento de Economia Agraria, Pontificia … - 2011

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Una aproximación a los determinantes del Capital Social individual en España

Esteban, Jose Manuel Lasierra - In: Hacienda Pública Española 210 (2014) 3, pp. 33-55

En este trabajo se realiza un análisis de los determinantes del capital social individual medido en forma de participación en asociaciones y en diversas formas de acción colectiva. la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida en el trabajo disponía de una información, que permitía evaluar en qué medida...

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Female Transition to Retirement

Ch³oñ-Domiñczak, Agnieszka - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2013

and duration of employment as well as generosity and income redistribution mechanisms within pension systems. …

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