Bøger af United Nations University

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.

Discusses how responsibility is viewed at individual, national, and international levels when facing the problems of human rights, environmental issues, gender considerations, international economic justice, matters of war and peace, and the plight of refugees. This title explores the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics.

Advances the idea of collaborative governance as an integration of open and closed commons. Taking into consideration the dimension of conflict resolution, it studies examples of governance structures in various countries around the world to develop a new type of democracy towards multilevel environmental governance that involves the public, private and commons spheres.

Asian regional integration, which has shown remarkable progress since the end of the 1990s, is at a major crossroads. This title re-examines theoretical approaches to comprehending the actual state of integration in the region and presents the compelling ones.

An overview of knowledge and practice in the field of ecosystems management and DRR. It features contributors, professionals from the science and disaster management communities around the world, that represent knowledge, practices, and perspectives. It is suitable for scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and development planners.

Examines the evolution of multilevel environmental governance in the East Asian region, including both Northeast and Southeast Asia. It examines how effective emerging environmental governance and policy have been and addresses the underlying causes of local, national, regional and global environmental challenges.

Globalisation has brought many benefits, but it also has a dark side. From arms trafficking in West Africa through armed insurgencies in South Asia and the upsurge of jihad in the age of globalisation, this book examines the challenges of that dark side.

This book focuses on the relevance of TK to key environment-and development-related sectors. It discusses the current debates within each of these sectors and presents suggestions as to how TK can be effectively integrated with conventional science and policy.

This book suggests that a sensible answer to the kin-state dilemma might come from the neither intervention nor indifferenceA" formula that recogniz

Sustainability science is a new academic discipline emerging in response to threatened sustainability of the global environment. This volume offers diverse approaches to the development of a transdisciplinary perspective that embraces the natural, social, and human sciences in the quest for a sustainable society.

Provides an accessible and comprehensive evaluation of labour migration in general and Turkish labour migration to the European Union in particular, while focusing on critical issues and policies relating to economic, demographic, political and social implications of the EU Eastern enlargement.

Presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools that promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conficts.