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This book introduces a study of ethics and values to develop a deeper understanding of markets, business, and economic life. Its distinctive feature is its thorough integration across personal and institutional perspectives; across applied ethics and political philosophy; and across philosophy, business, and economics. Part1 studies markets, property rights, and law, and introduces normative theories with many applications. Part2 examines the purpose of corporations and their responsibilities. Parts 3 and4 analyze business and economic life through the ethics and values of welfare and efficiency, liberty, rights, equality, desert, personal character, community, and the common good. This second editionmaintains the strengths of the first edition—short, digestible chapters and engaging writing that explains challenging ideas clearly. The material is user-friendly, with an emphasis on a strong theoretical core. Easily adaptable to the instructor's teaching, the chapters are separable and can be shaped to the interests of the instructor with suggested course outlines and flexible application to case studies. This text is designed both for coursework in business ethics, as well as interdisciplinary programs in philosophy, politics, economics, and law.This second edition:revises presentation of eight normative theories, with increased emphasis on linksto business and economic life;incorporates recent scholarship on shareholder/stakeholder debates about the purpose of corporations, bringing this important topic up to date;includes a new, streamlined preface that provides a quick overview of the book before smoothly guiding the reader to the first chapter;uses updated examples and applications;revamps a useful appendix, including enhancing the popular primer on ethics;includes Key Terms, Discussion Questions, Biographies, and Lists of Further Readings at the end of each chapter;includes a new ending chapter on the value of an ethical life.

This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical prose, and national rhetoric used by 'faith-insiders' such as missionaries, priests, or religious leaders who play the communicator's role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language, demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives, infusing the 'sacred' language with political power.A Language 'Clearly Understanded of the People':The Construction of an Anglo-Catholic Linguistic Identity 18502015Biblical Semiotics: The Language of SurvivalCultures of Sound: Lineages and Languages of Sutra Recitation in Goshirakawas JapanKaqchikel Spirituality in the shade of the Catholic DoctrineReclaiming the Sacred: Bengali Muslim Communitys Quest for a Jatiya IdentityReligion for Nation? Language Policy of the Churches in the Context of the Belarusian Nation-BuildingThe Translations of Buddhism, from Asia to the West: Shifting Languages, Adaptive Logics, AcculturationsThe Bdshshiyyas Tower of Babel: Cultural Diversity in a Transnational Sufi OrderThe Paradox of the Term Democracy in Arabic Discourse on the Islamic MovementsThe book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original, detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies, linguistics, politics, cultural studies, history, sociology, and social anthropology.Voices, Texts and Contexts in Filipino Christianity Words Taken for Wonders: Conversion and Religious Authority among the Dalits of Colonial Chhattisgarh.

Marcia Dwonczyk and Joanna Pyres Chapter 9: Improving Partnerships: Reflecting, Reviewing and Revising Joanne Burke PART 2: Partnership Brokering in Practice Chapter 10: Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas: A Partnership Broker's Personal Perspective Sara Nyanti Chapter 11: Internal Partnership Brokering within the Private Sector Gillian Pearl Chapter 12: Partnership Brokering in a University Environment: The Case of itdUPM Carlos Mataix, Jaime Moreno Serna and Sara Romero Chapter 13: Partnership Brokering for Local Food Systems in Poland Rafal Serafin Chapter 14: Learning from Luangeni: Partnership Brokering by Accident Martin Kalungu-Banda Chapter 15: Using a Review Process to Strengthen Partnerships: A Heritage Partnership in Newfoundland,

Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects which are often overlooked. Energy impacts are often reduced to the narrow configurations of greenhouse gas emissions, chemical spills or land use changes. However, this neglects the fact that the way we produce, distribute and consume energy shapes society, political institutions and culture. The authors trace the impacts of contemporary energy and resource extraction developments and explain their significance for the shaping of powerful social imaginaries and a reconfiguration of political and democratic systems. They analyse not only the complex histories and landscapes of industrial mining and energy development, including oil, coal, wind power, gas (fracking) and electrification, but also their significance for contested energy and social futures. Based on ethnographic and interdisciplinary research from around the world, including case studies from Australia, Germany, Kenya, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Turkey, UK and USA, they document the effects on local communities and how these are often transformed into citizen engagement, protest and resistance. This sheds new light on the relationship between energy and power, reflecting a wide array of pertinent impacts beyond the usual considerations of economic efficiency and energy security. The volume is aimed at advanced students and researchers in anthropology, sociology, human geography, science and technology studies, environmental studies and sustainable development as well as professionals working in the field of impact assessments.

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outside of the decolonization context, however, its relevance and application has constantly been challenged and debated. This book examines the role played by self-determination in international law with regard to post-conflict state building. It discusses the question of whether self-determination protects local populations from the intervention of international state-builders in domestic affairs. With a focus on the right as it applies to the people of an independent state, it explores how self-determination concerns that arise in the post-conflict period play out in relation to the reconstruction process. The book analyses the situation in Somalia as a means of drawing out the impact and significance of the legal principle of self-determination in the process of rebuilding post-conflict institutions. In so doing, it seeks to highlight how the relevance of self-determination is often overlooked in this context.

Following successive international legal verdicts, Bangladesh is now an accredited maritime state. Possessing a spacious territorial sea and an extended continental shelf, with a maritime zone almost equalling its land borders, a 'window of opportunity' has opened for the country to realise its developmental aspirations. Yet, it faces numerous challenges, many of which are entwined.This book is a detailed analysis of Bangladesh's maritime strategy. It charts the country's maritime legacies, including disputes with both Myanmar and India and analyses the contributions of the leadership in the maritime territorial gains. The author examines Bangladesh's need to consolidate these newly reclaimed gains, whilst exploring the unremitting interest of major global power players in maintaining maritime resource exploitation, navigation and security. Finally, the author demonstrates how the country needs to embrace the notional principles of sustainable development of its ocean economy to utilize its resources and how it has since been coming to grips with the emerging concept of "blue economy" to enhance its enduring national development.The first systematic study on Bangladesh's maritime policy and the country's importance in the emerging geopolitical rivalry in the Indian Ocean, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of South Asian and Indian Ocean politics.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Flight 621; About the Author; 1: The Early Years; My Family; Education; The RCAF; Marriage; Graduate School; Early Married Life; Almost Forensic Science; 2: The Fledgling Forensic Scientist; Forensic Science in Ontario; The Attorney General's Laboratory/Centre of Forensic Sciences; The Breathalyzer; Introduction of Breath Test Evidence; 3: Point Zero Eight: Forensic Science Influences the Law; Early Legislation; The Grand Rapids Study; A Holiday Message.

This book is a unique introduction to the economic costs of nuclear power. It examines the future of the nuclear power industry and unpacks the complicated relationships between its technical, economic and political variables. It does so by modelling the costs, risks and uncertainties of one of the world's most opaque industries using micro-econometrics, econometrics, and cost engineering. Economics of Nuclear Power examines the very important costs of externalities (storing of nuclear waste and the impact of a Chernobyl or Fukushima event) and compares those to the externalities of alternative carbon based energies (oil, coal, natural gas) With over 100 tables and figures this book details nuclear power production around the world - present and planned, providing a completely global focus. It also includes an overview of the past 70 years of international nuclear power developments. This book is essential reading for students, scholars and professionals interested in energy economics, nuclear engineering and energy policy.

Examining the thematic intersection of law, technology and violence, this book explores cyber attacks against states and current international law on the use of force. The theory of information ethics is used to critique the law's conception of violence and to develop an informational approach as an alternative way to think about cyber attacks. Cyber attacks against states constitute a new form of violence in the information age, and international law on the use of force is limited in its capacity to regulate them. This book draws on Luciano Floridi's theory of information ethics to critique the narrow conception of violence embodied in the law and to develop an alternative way to think about cyber attacks, violence, and the state. The author uses three case studies–the 2007 cyber attacks against Estonia, the Stuxnet incident involving Iran that was discovered in 2010, and the cyber attacks used as part of the Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election– to demonstrate that an informational approach offers a means to reimagine the state as an entity and cyber attacks as a form of violence against it. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to an international audience of scholars in international law, international relations, security studies, cyber security, and anyone interested in the issues surrounding emerging technologies.

Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutionality of statutes, and even have written, in effect, their own constitution. In this propitious volume, Gregory Fossedal reports on the politics and social fabric of what James Bryce has called "the nation that has taken the democratic idea to its furthest extent." The lessons Fossedal presents, at a time of dissatisfaction with the role of money and privileged elites in many Western democracies, are at once timely and urgent.