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This paper examines how links between the economies of Southeast Asia and the world economy have changed over the twentieth century, paying particular attention to growth in commodity exports, investment flows and international migration. Most parts of Southeast Asia expanded their links with the global economy in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but the years from 1940 to 1965 saw a decline in Southeast Asia's share of tropical exports, and of direct foreign investment. Migration flows also slowed. Over the last four decades of the twentieth century, international links expanded again, but there have been marked variations between countries.

"Linking Government Data provides a practical approach to addressing common information management issues. The approaches taken are based on international standards of the World Wide Web Consortium. Linking Government Data gives both the costs and benefits of using linked data techniques with government data; describes how agencies can fulfill their missions with less cost; and recommends how intra-agency culture must change to allow public presentation of linked data. Case studies from early adopters of linked data approaches in international governments are presented in the last section of the book. Linking Government Data is designed as a professional book for those working in Semantic Web research and standards development, and for early adopters of Semantic Web standards and techniques. Enterprise architects, project managers and application developers in commercial, not-for-profit and government organizations concerned with scalability, flexibility and robustness of information management systems will also find this book valuable. Students focused on computer science and business management will also find value in this book."--Publisher's website

Linking between schools in the UK and schools in sub-Saharan Africa has been a feature of the educational landscape for more than twenty years, but became a government priority between 2000 and 2010. Whilst the interest in Ireland was less, both countries resourced linking programmes primarily as a means of raising awareness of development issues. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) also became involved in school linking during the first decade of the twenty first century with Plan UK and Link Community Development (Link) being the leading organisations in this field. However due to funding constraints and change in UK government policy post 2010, both of these NGOs ended their linking programmes in 2011 and 2012 respectively. Link's involvement in school linking came from a development perspective; links were primarily seen as a mechanism for improving schools in sub-Saharan Africa. Development education only became a main feature of their linking programme with their European Union funded project, Partners in Development (PiD), which ran from 2010 to 2012. This project was funded from a development awareness budget line, but the NGO's proposal included development goals within the project. This became a major source of tension that was unresolved throughout the life of the project. This report is an evaluation of the Partners in Development project that was based on linking schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, with schools in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda and South Africa. The evidence gathered was based on a combination of quantitative based questionnaires, interviews with key staff within Link and in-depth data gathered from a number of schools in Scotland.

Aims and scope; Editorial: Linking emissions trading schemes; Synthesis article: Linking carbon markets: concepts, case studies and pathways; Research article: To link or not to link: benefits and disadvantages of linking cap-and-trade systems; Research article: Linking existing and proposed GHG emissions trading schemes in North America; Research article: Establishing a transatlantic carbon market; Research article: Australia's emissions trading scheme: opportunities and obstacles for linking.

A growing number of GHG emissions trading schemes are being implemented at regional or national levels. However, even as the number of different schemes grows, few linkages exist between them. Major cap-and-trade proposals are currently at important stages in their development, especially in the United States, Japan and Australia, some of which explicitly emphasize the aim of linking with other schemes. One of the strategic goals of European climate policy is linking the EU ETS with other comparable schemes. The research presented in this volume is on actual economic, political and institution.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol envisages a World with each national emissions trading scheme ("ETS") linked to achieve a global market for carbon. Under this vision a carbon price is factored into commercial decision making motivating a trend towards green energy whilst a global market ensures efficiencies - funds flowing to those jurisdictions where green energy is cheapest. Unfortunately this vision has been blunted by real World politics, greed and ignorance. A World populated by national ETSs has yet to materialize, nor a global market for carbon. However, some jurisdictions have enacted ETSs. In particular, the European Uniotn ("EU") has had an ETS for nine years, in 2010 the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ("TMG") established an ETS, New Zealand established a scheme in 2008 which it broadened significantly in 2010, California introduced a regime on 1 January 2013 and since 1 July 2012 Australia has had a comprehensive nationwide ETS. The emergence of these regimes raises the possibility of linking the respective carbon markets. The EU and Australia have already committed to full bilateral linkage from 1 July 2018. This paper explores the issues that arise with linking the Australian regime. It will be demonstrated that whilst there are some barriers to linkage, with appropriate "fixes" linkage between the Australian and other regimes might be achievable. The question is whether the political will to do so exists.