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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Significance of Plant Closings -- Why Do Plants Close? -- Is There a "New" Unemployment? -- How Are Communities Affected by Plant Closings? -- How Are Displaced Workers Affected? -- What Is the Political Response of Displaced Workers? -- What Can Be Done About Plant Closings and the Needs of Displaced Workers? -- A Note on Method -- Chapter 2: Plant Closings and Economic Change: Global, National, and Regional Contexts -- The Foundations of American Capitalism on a Worldwide Basis Since World War II -- The United States and Global Political Economy in Crisis -- Capital Mobility, Unemployment, and Plant Closings -- The Transformation of the Electronics Industry -- A Portrait of RCA -- The Economy of the Midwest -- The Economy of Indiana -- A Profile of White County, Indiana, and Monticello -- From the Global Political Economy to Monticello, Indiana -- Chapter 3: Community and Worker Responses to a Plant Closing -- Assessing the Impacts of a Plant Closing -- RCA and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local #3154 in Monticello: The Closing -- Monticello at Closing Time -- Views from Social Agencies -- Impacts on the Business Community -- The Workers Respond -- Project Care -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Economic Effects on Workers -- Length of Unemployment -- Income Loss -- Perceived Economic Distress -- Cutbacks in Expenditures -- Home Production -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Effects on Workers' Health and Family Relationships -- Physical Health -- RCA Findings -- Mental Health -- RCA Findings -- Family Effects -- RCA Findings -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Unemployment and Social Integration -- Comparison of Displaced Worker and Employed Workers in the Same Community -- Comparisons Among Displaced Workers.

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Preface: Highlights of the IISL in 2018 -- About the IISL -- Board of Directors 2018 -- New IISL Members Elected in 2018 -- Standing Committee on the Status of International Agreements Relating to Activities in Outer Space -- 61st IISL COLLOQUIUM ON THE LAW OF OUTER SPACE BREMEN, GERMANY -- SESSIONS -- 1. 10th Nandasiri Jasentuliyana Keynote Lecture on Space Law and Young Scholars Session -- 2. Financing Space: Procurement, Competition and Regulatory Approach -- 3. Integrated Space Applications: EO, Telecoms, Navigation -- 4. Space Law at UNISPACE +50: Consequences and Future Perspectives -- 5. The Relationship between Space Law and Cyberlaw, and other Recent Developments in Space Law -- COLLOQUIUM REPORT -- 33rd JOINT IAA-IISL SCIENTIFIC-LEGAL ROUNDTABLE -- Global Cooperation in Planetary Defence -- JOINT IISL-IAF SESSION -- Legal Framework for Collaborative Space Activities New Ways of Launching (Micro-Launching) and Large Constellation Microsats -- INTERACTIVE PRESENTATIONS -- 2018 IISL/ECSL SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNCOPUOS LEGAL SUBCOMMITTEE -- The 50th Anniversary of the Rescue and Return Agreement: Relevance and Challenges ;13th EILENE M. GALLOWAY SYMPOSIUM ON CRITICAL ISSUES IN SPACE LAW -- 27th MANFRED LACHS SPACE LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION -- Author Index.

AbstractThis paper examines whether sustainability committees curb environmental decoupling. Using a global sample, we document a negatively significant association between sustainability committee and environmental decoupling. These results support the notion that sustainability committees lower the gap between firms actual and reported environmental performance. With regard to the composition of such a committee, we show that size and tenure are positively associated with the level of environmental decoupling. However, more independent and gender‐diverse committees lower the level of environmental decoupling. Further analysis shows that documented relationship is not subject to the firms' corporate governance quality or industry nature. We also document that less engagement of firms with sustainability committee in decoupling practices tend to enhance their financial performance. The results are robust to endogeneity concerns, and several robustness tests. Our findings offer important implications for academic researchers, consultants, stakeholders, and policymakers.

AbstractFocusing on seven major agricultural commodities with a long history of trade, this study employs data-driven analytics to decipher patterns of trade, namely using supervised machine learning (ML), as well as neural networks. The supervised ML and neural network techniques are trained on data until 2010 and 2014, respectively. Results show the high relevance of ML models to forecasting trade patterns in near- and long-term relative to traditional approaches, which are often subjective assessments or time-series projections. While supervised ML techniques quantified key economic factors underlying agricultural trade flows, neural network approaches provide better fits over the long term.