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Ein aktueller Überblick zur Ideen- und Missbrauchsgeschichte eines schillernden Schlagworts, aber auch zu seinen Potenzialen als philosophisches Analysewerkzeug. Die Wortgeschichte von "Weltanschauung" ist kurz: Zwischen seinem ersten, eher beiläufigen Auftauchen bei Kant 1790, subjektivierenden Aufladungen in der Romantik und den inflationären Ideologisierungen und Politisierungen von "Weltanschauung" im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert liegen nur 150 Jahre. Besonders sein Missbrauch durch NS-Ideologen hat das Wort in Verruf gebracht, es lebt aber u.a. im juristischen Sprachgebrauch fort und erlebt in der gegenwärtigen Religionskritik wieder etwas Konjunktur: Dort wird z.T. wieder eine naturalistische "wissenschaftliche Weltanschauung" in Aussicht gestellt. Als philosophisches Analysewerkzeug hat das Wort aber Potenzial: "Weltanschauung" könnte nicht nur für religiös-politische Bewertungen stehen, sondern auch für jenes implizite theoretische Koordinatensystem, das jeden Menschen in seinem Verstehen, Denken und Handeln leitet

"What motivates states to assist other countries in need? Focusing on Chinese, Russian, and American decisions about COVID-19 aid, this book illuminates the role of historically contingent ideas in donors' decisions. Drawing on the theoretical insights of the critical geopolitics tradition, it advances and tests explanations for aid-related decisions on a novel global dataset of COVID-19 aid. Rigorously theorized, meticulously researched, and accessibly written, this book illuminates the ways in which China and Russia seek to reshape the humanitarian field consistent with their geopolitical visions. Their competition with the US over approaches to aid has weakened the integrity of humanitarian system"--

"The civilian role in managing the military has never been more important. Today, civilian leadership of defense policy is challenged by the blurring line between war and competition and the speed of machine decision-making on the battlefield. Moreover, the legitimacy of political leaders and civil servants has been undermined by a succession of foreign policy failures and by imbalances of public faith in the military on the one hand and disapproval of civilian institutions on the other. A central question emerges: What does appropriate and effective civilian control of the military look like? Combining scholarly expertise and firsthand civilian experience in the Department of Defense, Friend argues that civilians combine authoritative status, political expertise, and institutional power to ensure that democratic preferences over the use of force prevail. With an historical and theoretical perspective, Friend compares the standards for civilian control of the military in the American system to cases of actual civilian control choices. Using case studies from the post-Cold War and post-9/11 periods, the book focuses on the ways political context shapes whether and how civilian controllers--the civilians in professional and institutional positions with the responsibility for defense matters--exercise control over the military and each other. Mightier Than the Sword provides insights that enrich civil-military relations scholarship, as well as lessons aimed to revitalize American democracy"--

"The complex exposition of the concept of economic crisis in Capital and its preparatory manuscripts gave rise to different interpretations about the causes and modalities of crises themselves. Are their causes chronic under-consumption, inter-sectoral disproportionality or a fall in the profit rate? Are they merely possible or absolutely inevitable? Jorge Grespan's work renews these traditional debates by treating the concept of crisis as the negative of the concept of capital. By means of a thoroughgoing exposition of Marx's masterwork, his book reconstitutes the steps by which Capital's exposition progressively enriches its content and form. To this end, dialectical categories such as measurelessness and relative necessity are mobilised and developed"--

1. The "idea" of administrative law -- 2.The theoretical and legal-institutional context -- 3. The "options" of administrative law -- 4.The "return" of "authoritative" administrative law -- The role of "concerted administrative law" -- 6. State responsibility,- 7. The control of administrative activity. 8. Conclusions.

Can China's Belt and Road Initiative be Reconciled with the EU's Multilateral Approaches to International Law?-Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann & Giuseppe Martinico -- Pluralism or Cosmopolitanism? Reflections on Petersmann's International Economic Law Constitutionalism in the Context of China-Tao Li & Zuoli Jiang -- Is Calvo Dead? Wenhua Shan.-Calvo Is Back! Changing Sovereignty and Evolutionary Investment Law in a Leaving and Return of the State Paradigm-Shuo Feng & Wei Shen -- Outward FDI: Determinants and Flows in Emerging Economies: Evidence from China-Mohamad Zreik & Badar Alam Iqbal & Mohd Nayyer Rahman -- BIT by BIT: The Growth of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Their Impact on Foreign Investment in Developing Countries-Jeswald W. Salacuse -- Diversity in the Formulation of Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Agreements-Mujeeb Emami & Rehna Gul -- The 2016 Model Indian Bilateral Investment Treaty: A Critical Deconstruction-Prabhash Ranjan and Pushkar Anand -- The Final 2015 Indian Model BIT: Is This the Change the World Wishes to See?-Grant Hanessian and Kabir Duggal -- Legalizing the ASEAN Way: Adapting and Reimagining the ASEAN Investment Regime-Sungjoon Cho & Jurgen Kurtz -- Comprehensive or BIT or BIT: the ACIA and Indonesia's BITs-Junianto James Losari -- International Cooperation and Organizational Identities: The Evolution of the ASEAN Investment Regime-Sungjoon Cho & Jurgen Kurtz -- ASEAN Investment Treaties, RCEP, And CPTPP: Regional Strategies, Norms, Institutions, and Politics-Diane A. Desierto -- Addressing the Global Backlash Against Investment Arbitration? A Multilateral Investment Agreement and China-Junqing Chao -- A Multilateral Approach to Investor-State Dispute Settlement Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region-John Riley -- The Elephant In a Dark Room? Russia and the ISDS Reform-Dmitry K. Labin & Alena V. Soloveva -- Two Bites at the Same Apple? 'Derivative' ISDS Proceedings in the Revised Korea-US FTA-Jaemin Lee -- China and Investment Treaty Regime: Rule Taker or Rule Maker?-Sheng Zhang -- Investor-State Mediation in a China-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty: Talking About Being in the Right Place at the Right Time-Chunlei Zhao -- Legitimacy Crisis and the ISDS Reform in a Political Economy Context-Shuping Li and Wei Shen.

Chapter 1: Classifications, Sources and Significant Features of Pops in Aquatic Environment with Special Reference to Dirty Dozens -- Chapter 2: Chemistry of POPs referring to Scenarios Forecasting the effects of global change -- Chapter 3: SOP for determination of POPs -- Chapter 4: Toxicology and Ecological risk with emphasis on Scenario describing mechanisms -- Chapter 5: OPs in aquatic systems of worldwide polluted sites referring to bibliometric approach -- Chapter 6: Fate, bioaccumulation, remediation and prevention of POPs in aquatic regarding future orientation.

Chapter 1. Leaving no-one behind in Research - The Introduction -- Chapter 2. Exclusion of Vulnerable Populations from Research? -- Chapter 3. Exclusion from Research – the complex dynamics around two vulnerable communities' experiences of participation, inclusion, and exclusion in research -- Chapter 4. Vulnerability lost in translation? -- Chapter 5. Research without obtaining personal data for research purposes -- Chapter 6. Strengthening research teams through community researchers -- Chapter 7. Leaving no-one behind in Research – Recommendations for the Way Forward -- Book Backmatter.

Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Based on Machine Learning Techniques -- Measuring landslide susceptibility in Jakholi region of Garhwal Himalaya applying novel ensembles of statistical and machine learning algorithms -- Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using GIS-based Frequency Ratio, Shannon Entropy, Information Value and Weight-of-Evidence approaches in part of Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, India -- An advanced hybrid machine learning technique for assessing the susceptibility to landslides in the Meenachil river basin of Kerala, India -- Novel ensemble of M5P and Deep learning neural network for predicting landslide susceptibility: A cross-validation approach -- Artificial neural network ensemble with General linear model for modeling the Landslide Susceptibility in Mirik region of West Bengal, India -- Modeling gully erosion susceptibility using advanced machine learning method in Pathro River Basin, India -- Quantitative Assessment of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture 2 Radar(INSAR) for Landslide Monitoring and Mitigation -- Assessment of Landslide Vulnerability using Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in Bageshwar District of Uttarakhand, India -- Assessing the shifting of the River Ganga along Malda District of West Bengal, India -- An ensemble of J48 Decision Tree with AdaBoost, and Bagging for flood susceptibility mapping in the Sundarban of West Bengal, India -- Assessment of mouza level flood resilience in lower part of Mayurakshi River basin, Eastern India -- Spatial flashflood modeling in Beas River Basin of Himachal Pradesh, India using GIS-based machine learning algorithms -- Geospatial study of river shifting and erosion deposition phenomenon along a selected stretch of River Damodar, West Bengal, India -- An Evaluation of Hydrological Modeling Using CN Method in Ungauged Barsa River Basin of Pasakha, Bhutan -- The Adoption of Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO) to Predict the Soil Liquefaction.

Part I Building a more sustainable world through more sustainable Higher Education Institutions -- 1 Designing a more sustainable Higher Education Institution -- 2 Nurturing a caring university -- 3 Higher education and Sustainable Development Goals in the constitutional framework -- 4 Driving the systemic transformation of higher education institutions towards sustainability -- 5 The role of Higher Education Institutions in meeting SDG 9 -- Part II Management and Assessment in HESD -- 6 Empowering deans for sustainability transformations at academic departments -- 7 Understanding the moderating effect of governance functions on the impact of communication on sustainability implementation performance in higher education institutions -- 8 Sustainability in the strategic planning of the Italian higher education system -- 9 The disclosure of SDG performance -- 10 Learning outcomes in the context of Education for Sustainability -- 11 Assessment frameworks for promoting sustainable development in Educational Institutions -- 12 Sustainability rankings of universities -- Part III Lessons from significant experiences across the world -- 13 Integrating sustainability competences into degree programmes in higher education to educate experts who steer the world towards sustainability -- 14 Sustainability in higher education institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean -- 15 On the sense and nonsense of assessing sustainability in course content -- 16 The key role of universities in sustainable development -- 17 Sustainable islands. .

1. Introduction -- 2. Superstition: An overview of key disciplinary perspectives -- 3 -- Workplace spirituality -- 4. The relationship between religion, superstition and spirituality -- 5. Superstitious beliefs and behaviours -- 6. Superstition and rationality -- 7. Key assumptions about the nature of superstition -- 8. Individual and group factors associated with superstitious beliefs -- 9. Numerological and related superstitions -- 10. Mainstream industries and organisations influenced by superstition -- 11. Industries and organisations thriving on superstitious and New Age beliefs -- 12. Concluding remarks.