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Courts and judicial reforms / Ragna Aarli and Anne Sanders -- China / Ragna Aarli -- Germany / Reinhard Gaier and Anne Sanders -- Slovenia / Nina Betetto -- England and Wales / Right Hon Sir Richard Aikens -- Norway / Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen and Ragna Aarli -- Comparative reflections the role of the judge in the melting pot / Ragna Aarli -- Litigation explosion and reactions from courts in China / Weidong Chen -- A study of the tripartite powers in reforms to the judicial power operation system in China / Lei Du -- The love triangle? The German federal constitutional court and its two European neighbours / Vanessa Hellmann -- Judicial case management and loyal cooperation towards harmonized European rules of civil procedure / Remco van Rhee -- Court management for sustainable judiciary : the case of Switzerland / Andreas Lienhard -- Conclusions and outlook / Ragna Aarli Anne.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I Impacts of Climate Change and the Mitigation Policies -- 1 Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in South-East Asia-Drought Conditions and Crop Damage Assessment -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Materials and Methods -- 1.2.1 Study Area -- 1.2.2 Drought Conditions -- 1.2.3 Crop Damage Assessment -- 1.3 Results and Discussion -- 1.3.1 Drought Conditions During Crop-Growing Seasons -- 1.3.2 Spatial Distribution of Drought Intensity -- 1.3.3 Drought Impacts and Policy Implications -- 1.4 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations -- Appendix A -- References -- 2 Management of Natural Forests for Carbon Emission Reductions Through Improved Logging Practices and Wood Bioenergy Use -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Study Methods and Materials -- 2.2.1 Commercial Logging and Wood Waste -- 2.2.2 Production Forests in Southeast Asia -- 2.2.3 Logging, Carbon Stocks, Emission Reductions, and Carbon Revenues -- 2.2.4 Wood Biomass, Bioenergy, and Emission Reductions -- 2.3 Results and Discussions -- 2.3.1 Harvested Timber and Wood Products -- 2.3.2 Carbon Stock Changes and Emission Reductions -- 2.3.3 Biomass, Bioenergy, and Emission Reductions -- 2.3.4 Total Emission Reductions Through Forest Management for Timber and Bioenergy -- 2.4 Conclusion and Policy Recommendations -- References -- 3 Vehicle Technology Impact Assessment Model for Indonesia (VEIA-ID): Concept and First Results -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Modelling Concept -- 3.2.1 Transport Demand Module -- 3.2.2 Fleet Module -- 3.2.3 Environmental Module -- 3.2.4 Software Development -- 3.3 Economic and Energy Market Assumptions -- 3.4 Results -- 3.4.1 Baseline Scenario -- 3.4.2 Alternative Scenarios -- 3.5 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations -- Appendix 1: Road Freight Vehicle Types -- Appendix 2: Car types -- References.

In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on historical readings of the sacred texts, and in turn, these readings began to highlight the unbridgeable historical distances that separated nineteenth-century Americans from biblical and founding pasts. While many Americans continued to adhere to a belief in the Bible's timeless teachings and the Constitution's enduring principles, some antislavery readers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln, used historical distance to reinterpret and use the sacred texts as antislavery documents. By using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins traces the development of American historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how a growing emphasis on historical readings of the Bible and the Constitution gave rise to a sense of historical distance.

Introduction -- United States proposal on special and differential treatment -- Responses to United States proposal -- The evolution of differential treatment -- Failure of the current approach to differential treatment -- Complications created by China's emergence in the global economy -- An alternative approach to differential treatment -- Conclusion.

The third wave of democracy that reached African shores at the end of the Cold War brought with it a dramatic decline from 1990 onwards in dictatorships, military regimes, one-party governments, and presidents for life. Multiparty democracy was at the core of the constitutional revolutions that swept through most of Africa in those watershed years. However, that wave is either losing momentum or receding - or being reversed in its entirety. This volume examines democracy and elections in Africa, a focus motivated by two concerns. First, after 30 years it is important to take stock of the state of constitutional democracy on the continent. The democratic gains of the 1990s and 2000s seem to be falling by the wayside, with the evidence mounting that regimes are concealing authoritarianism under the veneer of elections, doing so in an international context where populist regimes are on the rise and free and fair multiparty elections are consequently no longer a given. It is becoming a battle to protect and retain constitutional democracy. The second reason for this volume's focus on democracy and elections is that multiparty democracy is essential for the proper functioning of the state in addressing the major problems facing Africa - internal conflict, inequality and lack of development, and poor governance and corruption. The focus of this volume is thus on how competitive politics or multiparty democracy can be realized and how, through competition, such politics could lead to better policy and practice outcomes.

"This book details the host of ways in which the U.S. Army impacted economic development in the period from the writing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War, and has analyzed the political forces behind the Army's actions. The Army's promotion of science and technology, its assistance in building infrastructure across the nation, its opening of new regions for white settlement through wars against native tribes and foreign nations, and its unifying of the nation by enforcing central state policies all propelled economic growth and helped launch the United States into a new era of commercial and industrial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century. Despite its small size, the Army was an actor of immense significance to the development of the American economy, as well as to the development of central state capacity"--

Organized crimes (e.g., weapons trafficking, drug distribution, white collar crime) persist globally due primarily to the power of modern information and communication technology (e.g., computer-based networks in the open and dark webs) to facilitate organization and the enhanced liquidity provided by electronic transfers (in effect, e-capital) to distribute criminal proceeds in the same covert and high-speed manner used by the so-called legitimate commercial enterprises. Offshore banking in tax secrecy and tax haven jurisdictions facilitates both the socially accepted process commonly known as tax avoidance, for example, and the notorious practice commonly known as tax evasion: the former is lawful; the latter is illicit. The dirty secret of how transnational organized economic crime persists lies in global finance, especially transactions using the U.S. dollar in safe havens (e.g., the West uses the Cayman Islands; the East uses Cyprus). Regulators, monitors, auditors, and other specialists in conducting transaction review do not readily and timely tell the difference between high valued transfers that involve true sales of licit goods from high valued transfers that involve the laundering of proceeds from human trafficking, drug distribution, arms sales, and so on.

"At a time when prisons were still new, and nearly every prison in the country followed the same model of confinement, Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary (opened in 1829) was known for its exceptional reliance on long-term solitary confinement. Eastern was criticized for its exceptional reliance on what was seen as an inhumane, expensive, and ineffective approach to confinement. Why did it persist in its deviance? This book traces the process by which Eastern's criticized method of confinement became institutionalized for its administrators. Often working against the opposition of the local penal reformers and state legislature, Eastern's administrators fought both publicly and behind the scenes to maintain their unique approach because of the particular value it offered them. Ultimately, this study retells the history of nineteenth century prison innovation and diffusion from the perspective of those actors most demonized within the penal field. It offers multiple lessons for understanding penal trends, including the way in which anxiety that about significant penal change shapes penal actors' decisions. It also illustrates how organizations, including state-run organizations, can continuously defy legal, penal, and cultural norms in ways standard organizational theories cannot explain"--

Using his experiences of life in the corporate jungle, K.F. Dochartaigh has produced a survival manual that assists and guides the reader on how best to navigate corporate pitfalls and avoid being 'trapped'. The book fuses three separate but intertwined disciplines of the animal kingdom, the guerrilla battlefield, and the corporate world to help establish patterns of behavior and to understand the motivations that drive each action. All three areas share a common environment: the jungle, where visibility is limited, and ambush is the only method of attack by predators. The book blends animal and human psychology and provides safe passage in all its encounters. This book does not condone war--in fact, quite the opposite--and, as you will see, it takes more of a defensive position in repelling attacks and seeks to promote the occurrence of collaboration over individual competition, which will also become apparent. It is not a "call to arms" or a promotion of anarchy--not by any stretch of the imagination--as it merely assists the individual in adapting within their environment in order to ensure their survival. Whether you work as an accountant, IT consultant, lawyer, salesperson, or project manager, the same logic still applies because there is a natural order in all corporate vocations.