Bøger af United Nations University

Cyber attacks are on the rise. The media constantly report about data breaches and increasingly sophisticated cybercrime

Focuses on traditional urban and rural environments and the wide range of players whose interacting activities are helping to preserve or destroy them. The book presents examples of multilayer environmental governance and key academic findings and considers interactions between humans and nature, as well as rural-urban interdependence.

During the 1990s, nine out of ten of the world's bloodiest conflicts occurred on the African continent. This book considers the problems surrounding the concept of "post-conflict" and the blurring of military and civilian roles as they analyze UN actions in the DRC and Sierra Leone, as well as the African Union Mission in Burundi.

Based on results of the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol - which requires participating industrial countries to limit their carbon emissions, this book recommends creating a global regulatory regime that would set emission targets for all nations.

Assesses the different potentials of existing schemes to combat climate change. It scrutinises how very different programmes at national and international levels seek to marry complex public and private goals in and across industries addressing wide groups of firms. Lessons from these programmes can help design and improve Programmes but they also show different types of pitfalls.

Proposes numerous systemic improvements to the UN system, largely through weighted voting formulas that balance the needs of shareholders and stakeholders in diverse agencies. It indicates ways in which the interests of regions can supplement those of nations while voices of nongovernmental organisations and ordinary citizens can also be heard.

This is a true state-of-the-art volume in the fields of local governance, decentralization, and local democracy. It summarizes many of the insights emerging from original research of the past decade. It is also a future-looking volume with explicit policy relevance, paving the way for innovative thinking, and acting, on the next phase of development in the field.

Examines the socio-political dynamic generated by the environment and its attendant resources: how nature becomes a resource, and how this process in turn shapes our vision of society. It deploys a case study approach in examining the interactions between bureaucratic institutions, rural communities, national leaders and business elites, allowing for a more nuanced analysis.

This book discusses regional governance mechanisms and institutional arrangements to respond to emerging cross-border issues and trends in Asia and the Pacific.

Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines. This book includes discussion on and analysis of specific issues such as oceans, cities, and biodiversity in order to bring forth solutions that are politically legitimate, and economically viable.

The author, former senior vice-rector of the United Nations University and UN assistant secretary general, is described as one of the intellectual godfathers of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This title brings together his opinion articles from several newspapers in Australia, Canada, India, and Japan, and the "International Herald Tribune".

This volume explores the sources and manifestations of political violence in South and Southeast Asia and the myriad roles that it plays in everyday life and as part of historical narrative.

Examines ways of making African governments accountable and describes the extent to which these mechanisms work in practice. It presents new knowledge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries that are relevant to the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent.

Offers commentaries on wide-ranging issues including public health, water supply, sanitation, wildlife trade, renewable energy, clean development mechanism (CDM) projects, and environmental laws and treaties in Asia. This book provides practical steps for thinking locally and acting regionally in global partnership for sustainable development.

In this book, international experts including academics, policymakers, private sector practitioners, and representatives of diaspora communities further our understanding of how the growing population of expatriates from the developing world can be effectively leveraged to promote development in their homelands.

Demonstrates that cooperation offers a much needed alternative for the organization of economic and social affairs, one that should find its place at the forefront of public and academic discussion and policymaking. This title features chapters on education, fair trade, politics and governance, planning, and sustainability.

A series of humanitarian tragedies in the 1990s demonstrated the international community's failure to protect civilians in the context of complex emergencies. This book engages in a profound comparative analysis of the two norms and aims to serve policymakers at different levels (national, regional, and UN), practitioners with protective roles.

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) technologies transcend geographical and cultural boundaries to usher in a new development paradigm where volunteers collaboratively create software for common use. This book covers the theoretical and practical implications of FOSS technologies.

Makes sense of recent anti-outsider violence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. Drawing on an interdisciplinary team of expert scholars and on new research, this is the first academic text to fully theorise events that made global headlines.

Explores the dynamics of how the security sectors of selected African states have responded to the complex and multifaceted challenges of HIV/AIDS. This title addresses various aspects of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the security sector.

Argues that gender is a fundamental battleground on which al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their types must be defeated. This title recommends emphasizing masculine behaviour within the context of Muslim tradition and expanding the scope of required interventions beyond those confined to Islam to achieve sustainable counterterrorism results.

Economic growth strategies around the world are rapidly depleting the natural resources and ecosystem services that we depend on. This title provides a comprehensive overview of these challenges from a Global South perspective.

This book looks at the changing roles of civil society in global and national governance. It identifies factors that influence the effectiveness of civil society in promoting democratic governance.

Focuses on society at the local and regional levels in a scenario where human beings coexist harmoniously with nature. This title examines this ideal society in terms of the relationships between villages or towns and their natural environment and how they can achieve independence while facing pressures toward centralization and globalization.

Provides examples of initiatives to help young people escape the traps of victimhood and voicelessness and actively engage in rebuilding their communities and nations. This book examines international and national efforts to provide for the security of children and young people in post-conflict environments.

Explores the function and limitations of Public Works Programmes and outlines major programme choice and design issues. This draws lessons from the international context and challenges the assumptions underlying these policy preferences, thus opening the way for more informed and appropriate policy selection.

Explores the future of international environmental law in a world of ever worsening environmental crises. It examines the success stories and the failures of international environmental law and argues that future responses to global environmental crisis will be more about good environmental governance rather than just more treaties and laws.

Examines the complex role of human rights norms and standards throughout the region, illustrating the evolution and impact of international conventions, laws, and institutions. The chapters combine historical detail with a focus on present-day challenges for regional and domestic human rights regimes, highlighting particular obstacles, successful approaches, and strategies.

Within southern Africa, there is an observable increase in dominant party systems, in which one political party dominates over a prolonged period of time, within a democratic system with regular elections. This book seeks to understand this trend and its implications for southern Africa's democracies by comparing such systems in southern Africa with others in the developing world.

In 2004, the African Gender Institute ran the continental research project Mapping Sexualities. Among its objectives was the development of a research methodology for producing in-depth case studies of the dynamics of gender and contemporary sexual cultures in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. This title is the result of that research.