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Introduction -- Representation and Participation by will of the Sovereign: The Imperial Parliament in Ethiopia (1931 to 1974) -- Parliament, Land Reform and Taxation in Ethiopia: A Break from Tradition through a Socialist Revolution -- The Council of Representatives and House of peoples' Representatives in post 1991 Ethiopia -- How do MPs reach the electorate? -- An Ethiopian Experiment with E-democracy: Can E-democracy Platforms be the answer? -- Socio-Economic Factors affecting the public participation and attitude towards the House of People's Representatives, Ethiopia -- Oversight and Substantive Representation by the Ethiopian Parliament -- Conclusion.

This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows that risk and responsibility combine in ways that give rise to new philosophical questions and problems. Philosophical interest in the relationship between risk and responsibility continues to rise, due in no small part to environmental crises, emerging technologies, legal developments, and new medical advances. Despite such interest, scholars are still working out how to conceive of the links between risk and responsibility, the implications that risks may have to conceptions of responsibility (and vice versa), as well as how such theorizing might play out in applied cases. With contributions from leading scholars, this volume brings together new work examining the interplay between risk and responsibility, exploring its varied philosophical aspects and applications to contemporary issues in law, bioethics, technology, and environmental ethics. Risk and Responsibility in Context will be of interest to philosophers working in ethics, bioethics, philosophy of law, and philosophy of technology, as well as scholars and practitioners in law, health and science management, public policy, and environmental studies.

As India switches away from a coal-based to a more sustainable energy use pattern, which pathway will it adopt? What is the nature of challenges that it will face, and who will be affected? Who will gain? This volume offers insights into the steps and challenges involved in this transition and addresses some urgent questions about the possible pathways for India's renewable energy generation.

Including contributions from researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, it draws on different disciplines, ranging from science and technology to economics and sociology, and situates the issue of low carbon transition within an interdisciplinary framework. India has committed to gradual decarbonisation of its economy. This book takes this as its starting point and uses a wide-angle lens, incorporating macro as well as micro views, to understand the possible next steps as well as trade-offs that will inevitably be posed. It incorporates the perspectives of all stakeholders ranging from central and state governments, public and private sector firms, on the one hand, to individuals and local communities, on the other, to explore their role in the transition, their interests, and how these will change and evolve.

This timely volume will be of interest to students and researchers of environmental studies, development studies, environmental economics, political studies, and Asian studies. It will also be useful to academics, practitioners, and policymakers working on issues related to climate change, sustainable development, energy policy and economics,and public policy.

Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a concerted policy response has gained currency. Given the political, social and economic salience of locale, this book explores the potential contribution of place-based initiative to more balanced and equitable socio-economic development, as well as growth in a more general sense. The overall architecture of the book and the individual chapters address place-based perspectives from a number of vantage points, including the potential of achieving greater effectiveness in EU and national level development policies, through a greater local level and citizens' role and concrete actions for achieving this; enhancing decision-making autonomy by pooling local capacities for action; linking relative local autonomy to development outcomes and viewing spatial justice as a concept and policy goal. The book highlights, through the use of case studies, how practicable and actionable knowledge can be gained from local development experiences. This book targets researchers, practitioners and students who seek to learn more about place-based based development and its potentials. Its cross-cutting focus on spatial justice and place will ensure that the book is of wider international interest.

Through the histories of English trading companies -- the Levant Company, the East India Company, and the Royal African Company -- this book shows how non-European peoples in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Western India used their control over these companies to shape the emergence of English freedom.

Through a detailed case study of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Disrupted Development in the Congo reveals the fragile foundations on which the African Mining Consensus rests. It documents how foreign mining corporations in the Congo have been prone to mismanagement and implicated in fuelling conflict and violence.

Introduction / Gilbert Rozman, Sue Mi Terry, and Eun A Jo -- Part 1. South Korea in the Hot Seat, 2013-2015. A Trustpolitik Approach to Denuclearization and Unification -- Managing Four Great Powers -- Remaking of Conservative Narratives -- Part 2. South Korea's High Stakes Diplomacy, 2016-2019. Great Hopes, Shattered Dreams -- Gambling on Great Power Relations -- Return of Progressive Narratives -- Part 3. South Korea Sobers Up, 2020-2022. Shift to the New Missile Age: 2020-2022 -- Edging toward Bipolarity: South Korea's Regional Reorientation, 2020-2022 -- Battling Partisan Narratives.

Introduction -- Key Concepts and Theoretical Framework -- EU Council Presidency and National Administrations: The Preparation and the Presidency Period -- Long-Term Impact of the Council Presidency on National Administrations -- The Impact of the EU Council Presidency on National Ministers: A Quantitative Analysis of Attendance at Council Meetings -- The Impact of the European Union Council Presidency on Public Opinion in the Member States: Improving Knowledge of the EU? -- Conclusion.

This book reflects on the continuing expansion of extractive forms of capitalist development into new territories in Latin America, and the resistance movements that are trying to combat the ecological and social destruction that follows. Latin American development models continue to prioritise extractivism: the intensive exploitation and exportation of nature in its primary commodity form. This constant expansion of the extractive frontier into new territories leads to forms of place-based resistance, negotiation and struggle in which competing territorial projects and claims are at stake. This book uncovers the underlying trends and dynamics of these territorialities in dispute', and the socio- ecological resistance movements that are emerging as marginalized communities struggle to reclaim their territorial rights and defend and protect their right of access to the global commons. A focus on territorialities in dispute renders visible the unsustainable expansion of extractivist territories and opens up new horizons to learn from these processes and to consider post-extractivist/post-development imaginings of another world and alternate futures - as well as the challenges to their realisation. This book will be of interest to both students and researchers in the fields of international development, political ecology, critical geography, social anthropology as well as to activists engaged in socio-ecological/eco-territorial movements

Making Europe through Infrastructures of In/Security: An Introduction Nina Klimburg-Witjes and Paul TrauttmansdorffPart I. Infrastructures and the Technopolitics of In/Security 1. Becoming a new European: the politics and practices of Czech biosecurity infrastructuresDagmar Vorlíček and Jan Daniel2. Energy infrastructuring the Baltic Sea Region: Between technification and securitization Trine Villumsen Berling, Izabela Surwillo, and Veronika Slakaityte Part II. Infrastructures and the (Non)Knowledges of In/Security 3. Infrastructures of (non)knowledge: Fakes and fear at Europe's borders Claudia Aradau 4. Circulating Data Objects. Infrastructural coordination and technoburaucratic governance of European border control Jan Passoth and Silvan Pollozek 5. The torqued, invaded, and speculative figure of the 'crimmigrant other': standardizing criminal suspicion against migrants Nina Amelung Part III. Infrastructural Imaginaries of In/Security 6. Policy as Infrastructure: Enacting Artificial Intelligence and Making Europe Bao-Chau Pham and Sarah R Davies 7. A remedy for European preparedness deficits? The EU Health Union as a deepening of securitized and pharmaceuticalized health emergency governance Christian Haddad Afterword Annalisa Pelizza

Communication activism research, social justice, and collective action -- Influences on communication activism research: applied communication research, social movement scholarship, feminist research, and critical cultural studies -- Challenges in communication activism research -- Methodological issues in communication activism research -- Lessons learned from communication activism research.