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Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the
pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and
air quality. In this collection, academic researchers and
practitioners who have lived and worked in countries as
geographically and culturally diverse as Brazil, China, India,
Ghana, Palestine, Uganda and Venezuela draw on their wide-ranging
international and inter-sectoral experience to offer valuable
comparative insights into the relationship between research and
evidence-based policy for sustaining natural resources. Their
contributions provide a novel mix of disciplinary perspectives
ranging across geography, ecology, social policy, the political
economy, philosophy, international development, engineering
technology, architecture and urban planning. They examine the
institutions involved in generating and mediating evidence about
the sustainability of natural resources in a changing environment,
and the different methodologies employed in collecting and
assessing evidence, informing policy and contributing to
governance. The authors demonstrate not only that social science
evidence on governance and policy implementation to sustain natural
resources must complement natural science inputs, but also that
local communities must be an integral part of any programme
development. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Contemporary Social Science.
This journal style story takes you through the experience of
this author's medical missions trip to Haiti. Read about her
sometimes comical and yet sometimes unpredictable experience as she
travels to and through Haiti sharing God's love with those that
need it most.
Why do states block some foreign direct investment on national
security grounds even when it originates from within their own
security community? Government intervention into foreign takeovers
of domestic companies is on the rise, and many observers find it
surprising that states engage in such behaviour not only against
their strategic and military competitors, but also against their
closest allies. Ashley Lenihan argues that such puzzling behaviour
can be explained by recognizing that states use intervention into
cross-border mergers and acquisitions as a tool of statecraft to
internally balance the economic and military power of other states
through non-military means. This book tests this theory using
quantitative and qualitative analysis of transactions in the United
States, Russia, China, and fifteen European Union states. It
deepens our understanding of why states intervene in foreign
takeovers, the relationship between interdependence and conflict,
the limits of globalization, and how states are balancing power in
new ways. This title is also available as Open Access.
Why do states block some foreign direct investment on national
security grounds even when it originates from within their own
security community? Government intervention into foreign takeovers
of domestic companies is on the rise, and many observers find it
surprising that states engage in such behaviour not only against
their strategic and military competitors, but also against their
closest allies. Ashley Lenihan argues that such puzzling behaviour
can be explained by recognizing that states use intervention into
cross-border mergers and acquisitions as a tool of statecraft to
internally balance the economic and military power of other states
through non-military means. This book tests this theory using
quantitative and qualitative analysis of transactions in the United
States, Russia, China, and fifteen European Union states. It
deepens our understanding of why states intervene in foreign
takeovers, the relationship between interdependence and conflict,
the limits of globalization, and how states are balancing power in
new ways. This title is also available as Open Access.
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