Bøger udgivet af United Nations University

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".

Presents a lively and stimulating international, interdisciplinary exchange of experiences and ideas on chaos phenomena. The book concludes with a discussion of the past and possible future impacts of chaos in the physical and social sciences.

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.

Keeping Watch explains how technologies can increase the range, effectiveness, and accuracy of UN observation.

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.

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.

The deterioration of global sustainability, caused in large part by climate change, is the most serious issue facing humanity. This book looks at how to achieve a more secure level of global sustainability and offers a range of recommendations to that end. It offers policy recommendations for achieving global sustainability.

Addresses the issues associated with sustainable resource-circulating societies. This book focuses on Asia, where both population growth and economic growth are increasingly prominent in the global context. It is divided into five chapters that cover topics related to technological or socioeconomic issues or a combination of both.

Traditionally, studies on democracy have focused on the orthodox so-called Northern models of democratic governance, and within this framework, the extent to which Southern models are considered democratic. Democracy in the South is the first truly international collaboration that draws attention to the complex problems of democratic consolidation across the majority world.

Examines how violence is generated, managed, and exploited, and how it can be eradicated in ethnopolitical conflicts, and how societies can be dragged out of conflict onto the transition toward peace. This title examines the nongovernmental component in ethnopolitical conflicts.

Based on the research carried out by the Southern African Defence and Security Management Network on many of the security issues, in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies and the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, this book focuses on security governance.

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.

Examines the growth of the largest cities in Africa - their characteristics, their dynamism despite economic crisis, and the results of attempts to manage them. The book shows that Africa's largest cities, even those in countries experiencing economic and state breakdown, will continue to grow and have vital economic roles.

This book recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortag), food poverty, and food deprivation in order to identify the causes of hunger and recommend ways to effectively target interventions. It also focuses on a critical second question - how do we know who the hungry are?

Rebuilding societies where conflict has occurred is rarely a simple process. Where conflict has been accompanied by gross and systematic violations of human rights, the procedure becomes very controversial.

Through bilateral, multilateral and especially interregional relationships, both Europe and East Asia are now actively engaging with other regions and the global community. This book examines the opportunity to sustain peace and prosperity through dynamic, mult-level governance in which individual states engage in global processes and institutions via broad and hyperlinked regional regimes.

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.