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Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Building Materials, (3rd CEABM2013), May 24-26, 2013, Jinan, China. The 475 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Sustainable City and Regional Development; Chapter 2: Renewable Energy and Building Energy Saving Technology; Chapter 3: Indoor Environment; Chapter 4: City Ecological Environment; Chapter 5: Water Purification and Wastewater Treatment; Chapter 6: Air Environment Control and Architectural Environment Improvement Techniques; Chapter 8: Bridge Engineering; Chapter 9: Roa

The topics covered in this volume range from classics of the on-going discussion on the economic analysis of international law – such as the issue of legitimacy of customary international law – to more recent topics such as internet privacy, private military contractors, the fight against piracy, the International Criminal Court and the highly topical issue of land grabbing.

The Fifth International Workshop on Model-Oriented Data Analysis (MODA5) focused on experimental design, particularly optimum design. A strength of this series of workshops is that they bring together leading scientists from "Eastern" and "Western" Europe. The proceedings therefore provides a valuable reference to the work of groups from many countries. In addition to 11 papers on optimum designs for linear and nonlinear models, there are groups of papers on designs for quality improvement, designs in agriculture and for model building. Non-design problems include robustness in linear models and estimation problems in nonlinear models. The volume concludes with a discussion on the teaching of experimental design

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Setting the Stage: Attracting International Organizations -- 1.2 Governance Network Approach -- 1.3 Research problem and questions -- 1.4 International Organizations -- 1.5 Interurban competition to host IOs -- 1.6 Research approach -- 1.7 The contribution of this work -- 1.8 The outline of this book -- 2 Theoretical background -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Governance networks -- 2.3 The instrumental perspective -- 2.4 The discursive perspective -- 2.5 The relational perspective -- 2.6 Network success or failure? -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Research design and operationalization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Selection of cases -- 3.3 Data collection -- 3.4 Operationalization -- 3.4.1 Operationalizing the success variable -- 3.4.2 Operationalizing the instrumental perspective -- 3.4.3 Operationalizing the discursive perspective -- 3.4.4 Operationalizing the relational perspective -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Geneva -- 4.1 Switzerland and Geneva -- 4.1.1 Case 1: The Green Climate Fund -- 4.1.2 Case 2: The Arms Trade Treaty Secretariat -- 4.2 Instrumental perspective -- 4.3 Discursive perspective -- 4.4 Relational perspective -- 4.5 Conclusions Switzerland and Geneva -- 5 The Hague -- 5.1 The Netherlands and The Hague -- 5.1.1 Case 1: The International Criminal Court -- 5.1.2 Case 2: UNICEF Private Fundraising and Partnerships -- 5.2 Instrumental perspective -- 5.3 Discursive perspective -- 5.4 Relational perspective -- 5.5 Conclusions the Netherlands and The Hague -- 6 Vienna -- 6.1 Austria and Vienna -- 6.1.1 Case 1: The Arms Trade Treaty Secretariat -- 6.1.2 Case 2: Sustainable Energy for All -- 6.2 Instrumental perspective -- 6.3 Discursive perspective -- 6.4 Relational perspective -- 6.5 Conclusions Austria and Vienna -- 7 Copenhagen -- 7.1 Denmark and Copenhagen.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed the equality of all human beings in dignity and rights. The right to social security, however, has been taken more seriously only since the 2000s, through calls for 'Social Security for All' and 'Leaving no-one behind'. The book investigates a major response, social cash transfers to the poor. The idea of simply giving money to the poor had been rejected by all major development organisations, but since the early 2000s, social cash transfers have mushroomed in the global South and on agendas of international organisations. How come? What programmes have emerged in which countries? Based on unique quantitative and qualitative data and on newly created concepts and indicators, this text takes stock of all identifiable cash transfers in all Southern countries and of the views of all major international organisations

The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD+), will have a major impact on indigenous peoples and forest communities. The REDD+ regime contains many assumptions about the identity, tenure and rights of indigenous and local communities who inhabit, use or claim rights to forested lands. The authors bring together expert analysis of public international law, climate change treaties, property law, human rights and indigenous customary land tenure to provide a systemic account of the laws governing forest carbon sequestration and their interaction. Their work covers recent developments in climate change law, including the Agreement from the Conference of the Parties in Paris that came into force in 2016. The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Indigenous and Forest Communities is a rich and much-needed new contribution to contemporary understanding of this topic

In Sanctioning Assad's Syria Rune Friberg Lyme explores the direct and indirect repercussions of the international sanctions on Syria's institutional infrastructure, socioeconomic situation and political power structures, underpinning the regimes authoritarian rule. A comprehensive battery of international sanctions has been imposed on the Syrian regime with reference to its brutal oppression of the popular protests, erupting in early 2011. As the violence has spiralled into civil war, the sanctions have restrained the physical and financial mobility of regime insiders and severely hampered the fiscal, monetary agility and ability of the dissolving Syrian state, effectively curbing its ability to obtain revenues and hindering international transactions. As a result, the Syrian government faces a substantial, unsustainable budget deficit. However, repercussions of the sanctions are felt well beyond Syria's presidential palaces, security headquarters and regime affiliated business tycoon offices. Having added to Syria's hiking inflation, increasing unemployment rates, decreasing salaries levels, and impeded import of goods, including food and medicine, the sanctions have inflated the socioeconomic costs of the conflict and exacerbated pre-existing socioeconomic difficulties facing significant parts of the population. With the security sector finding financial sources external to the state purse, pro-regime security agencies and their funders may be benefitting from the economic conditions the sanctions are stimulating. Consequently, the security sector is likely to remain resilient to the sanctions while the civilian state structures are crumbling and refugee numbers rising.

Die strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für Produktgefahren ist ein internationales Problem, von dessen Lösung Wissenschaft und Gesetzgebung weit entfernt sind. Das Buch stellt die Inhalte und Ergebnisse der gleichnamigen Tagung zusammen, die 2013 in Marburg stattfand. Im Rahmen des Symposiums wurden bisherige Lösungsvorschläge zum Umgang des Strafrechts mit Produktgefahren gesichtet und weiterentwickelt. Der Tagungsband fasst die wesentlichen Ergebnisse der Verhandlungen zusammen und wird ergänzt durch Landesreferate zur Rechtslage in China, Deutschland, Japan, Spanien, Taiwan und der Türkei

"Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues is an interdisciplinary and comparative study on the rapid increase of the intra-Asia flow of cross-border marriage migration. This book contains in-depth research conducted by scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, anthropology and pedagogy, including demographic studies based on large-scale surveys on migration and marital patterns as well as micro case studies on migrants' liv{u00AD}ing experiences and strategies. Together these papers examine and challenge the existing assumptions in the immigration policies and popular discourse and lay the foundation for further comparative research."--Page 4 of cover

"Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues is an interdisciplinary and comparative study on the rapid increase of the intra-Asia flow of cross-border marriage migration. This book contains in-depth research conducted by scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, anthropology and pedagogy, including demographic studies based on large-scale surveys on migration and marital patterns as well as micro case studies on migrants' liv­ing experiences and strategies. Together these papers examine and challenge the existing assumptions in the immigration policies and popular discourse and lay the foundation for further comparative research."--Page 4 of cover.

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