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1 Introduction -- Part One: The Invertebrates world -- 2 Human-invertebrate relationships: An historical overview -- 3 So many species: The nature and scope of invertebrate life and the biodiversity crises -- 4 What is like to be a cockroach? Exploring invertebrate sentience -- Part Two: An Outline of Invertebrate Justice -- 5 Non-speciesist green criminology – An eco-justice perspective -- 6 Species justice and harm to invertebrates -- 7 Ecological justice and harm to nature -- 8 Environmental justice and harm to humans -- 9 Trade-offs, complexities, and challenges -- Part Three: Doing Invertebrate Justice in the Real World -- 10 The Yuck factor: psychological, social, and institutional barriers to obtaining invertebrate justice -- 11 Realising Invertebrate Justice 1: Psychological, social, and cultural changes -- 12 Realising Invertebrate Justice 2: Institutional and legal changes.-13 Conclusions.

1. Introduction and Context -- 2. The Challenges for Victims to Self –Identify Themselves -- 3. The Response of Civil Society in Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking alongside a National Referral Mechanism -- 4. The Prosecution of Trafficked Victims -- 5. Conclusion – A Path Forward to Enable More Identifications.

Possible liability of the State Treasury for the restriction of economic activities during the pandemic of COVID-19 -- Between necessity and constitutionality. Evaluating covid-related legislation in Poland -- Liability for damage caused by normative restrictions in a state of epidemic -- The liability of public authorities for ,,legal damages" during the Covid-19 pandemic -- Legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic: revolution, patholegislation or continuation? -- The impact of legislative changes caused by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on the functioning of contracts in economic turnover -- The amount of rent under the Covid-19 pandemic. Between Poland and Germany -- Socio-economic implications of COVID -19 and the imposition of contractual penalties upon contractors performing public procurement -- Epidemic-Related Protection of the Indebted Employee, and the Impact on Circumstances of the Entrepreneur Employer Regarding Salary Attachment -- Does episodic provisions adequate during the COVID-19 epidemic can permanently change civil law proceedings? -- Financial instruments of public support for enterprises in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The third issue of the Yearbook on the History of Global Development aims at collecting contributions about the role of international organizations in shaping the global system of development throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. International organizations – both intergovernmental and NGOs – have played a crucial role, shaping the global system of development by setting agendas, mobilizing people, and framing ideas and practices regarding development on local, national, regional, and global scales.

"Since the advent of the reign of Mohammed VI in 1999, Morocco has deployed a new continental foreign policy. The Kingdom aspires to be recognized as an emerging African power in its identity as well as in its space of projection. In order to meet these ambitions, the diplomatic apparatus is developing and modernizing, while a singular role identity is emerging around the notion of the "golden mean". This study presents, on an empirical level, the conditions of the elaboration and conduct of this Africa policy, and analyzes, on a theoretical level, the evolution of the Moroccan role identity in the international system"--

Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- Covid-19 and the Politics of Fear -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- The political pathologization of fear -- Six propositions about the pandemic -- Chapter overview -- Notes -- References -- 1 Crisis Communication and Crisis Management During COVID-191 -- The dread (and/or denial) of death -- Crisis and the emergence of fear -- Discourse, frame and legitimation -- The discourse-historical approach -- Framing and legitimising -- COVID-19 and renationalising tendencies -- Four frames and their legitimation -- The religious frame: legitimation qua moralisation -- A dialogic frame: legitimation qua rationalisation and authorisation -- Sweden's 'uniqueness': establishing and maintaining trust -- The 'war against the virus' -- Conclusion: lessons for the future? -- Notes -- References -- 2 Nozick, the Pandemic and Fear: A Contractualist Justification of the COVID-19 Lockdown -- Introduction -- A rights-based assessment -- Contractualist justification of policies -- Problems of a consequentialist approach -- The requirements of a contractualist justification -- Nozick's rights-based justification of restrictions -- Justification of government -- Prohibition -- Compensation -- Fear -- Justification of a lockdown -- Dimensions of fear within the account -- Irrational fear -- Blind fear -- Illiberal fear -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Pandemic, Freedom and Fear: A Reply to Moser -- Nozick and Moser on fear and prohibition -- Compensation, fear and the reduction of risk -- Fear and the amplification of risk -- Difference and dissent -- The virus, rights violations and innocent threats -- Notes -- References -- 4 Castration Anxiety, COVID-19 and the Extremist Right -- Introduction -- Castrating conditions in capitalism.

Discusses soil, agriculture, and ecosystem modeling using artificial intelligence technologies for fostering smart sustainable agricultural practices. It provides insight into sustainable agriculture, crop protection and management, soil carbon sequestration, and ecology preservation.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Images -- List of Maps -- List of Charts -- Author's Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sugar Consumption and the Sugar Market -- Chapter 2 Enduring Demand -- Chapter 3 Sugar Trade in the Persian Gulf: The VOC -- Chapter 4 Sugar Trade in the Persian Gulf: The VOC's Competitors -- Chapter 5 Alternative Sugar Hubs: Basra, Bushire and Kharg -- Chapter 6 Company Brokers -- Chapter 7 Persistence of the Commercial Middle Ground -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- A moment of truth -- 'Grand narrative'? -- Synopsis -- Part I THE TWO SIDES OF THE EQUATION -- Chapter 1 The Solidarity of the Shaken: Jan Patočka's argument -- The Heretical Essays -- Two species of truth -- Chapter 2 The kingdom of God: Abrahamic religion, its historic origins in a dilemma -- Three species of religion -- Abraham / Moses: Amos / Hosea -- De Trinitate -- Part II RECOIL FROM EVANGELISTIC IMPATIENCE:MYSTICAL THEOLOGY / GNOSTICISM -- Chapter 3 'Mystical Theology' -- 'Dionysius the Areopagite' -- Meister Eckhart -- Niffarí -- Chapter 4 Decadence of 'Mysticism' -- 'Mysticism' of Church and sect -- 'Mysticism' deracinated -- Chapter 5 'Gnosticism' -- The question regarding divine 'almightiness' -- Kabbalah -- Böhme -- 'Gnostic return in modernity?' -- Part III PHILOSOPHY AND CATHOLICITY: ETHICAL PHENOMENOLOGY -- Chapter 6 Philosophic meditation on the 'pathos of shaken-ness' -- Kierkegaard -- Levinas -- Løgstrup -- Chapter 7 Shaken-ness, Minus Catholicity -- Heidegger -- Strauss -- Adorno -- Arendt -- Chapter 8 Shaken-ness, Plus Catholicity: Hegel, and beyond -- Desegregated 'Sittlichkeit' -- From Hegel to Patočka: The transition to 'third modernity' -- Twenty-first-century Geist -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Jessica Brown examines groups both as epistemic and as moral agents, offering original accounts of group evidence, group belief, group justified belief, group knowledge, what it is for a group to act or believe for one reason rather than another, and when a group has an excuse for wrongdoing from blameless ignorance.