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... Dissolution and Reconstruction in Northern Ireland 51 Chapter Political Violence and Antiterrorism Legislation in Great Britain and Northern Ireland 84 PART III Constitutional Maintenance and Reconstruction ... ordinary criminal processes In the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, the police possess expansive powers of arrest and detention, and in both Irelands there exist special courts with jurisdiction ... Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act (1978 and 1987) and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (1976 and 1984) Chapters and explore the efforts of German constitutionalists to cope with political...

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... (1991), Economic and Political Determinants of Budget Deficits in Developing Countries, ” Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol 10, March Roubini, N and J Sachs (1989a), Political and Economic ... from economic growth to political stability and vice-versa For instance, Huntington (1968) suggests that while at relatively a high level of income political stability and growth go hand in hand, ... Introduction Economic growth and political stability are deeply interconnected On the one hand, the uncertainty associated with an unstable political environment may reduce investment and the speed of economic...

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... forms of INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT taxes are more appropriate in which economic and political contexts and for what social purposes; how different forms of political resistance ... CONTRIBUTORS Crisis States Research Programme at the London School of Economics Dr di John’s research focuses on the political economy of industrial policy and economic growth in Latin America, and the political ... are Macroeconomics and International Economics and his recent publications include two edited volumes (both Edward Elgar, 2005), Financialization and the World Economy and Capital Flight and Capital...

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... declining mass production and later helped the country cope with the socio -economic and political challenges caused by German unification The latter brought West German welfare standards to East Germans ... social insurance funds and the federal budget Since the early 1980s, the government has with 177 ECONOMIC REFORM AND THE GERMAN WELFARE STATE TABLE CONTRIBUTION RATES BETWEEN 1949 AND 2003, AS OF THE ... Dieter Spetzke ECONOMIC REFORM AND THE GERMAN WELFARE STATE 179 fund was continued by the Red –Green government with the introduction of the eco-tax on energy and gasoline, whose fifth and last stage...

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... instability and macro vitality Ping Chen 131 Economic Theory and Social Change Problems and revisions Hasse Ekstedt and Angelo Fusari 132 The Practices of Happiness Political economy, religion and wellbeing ... Global Economic Crisis New perspectives on the critique of economic theory and policy Edited by Emiliano Brancaccio and Giuseppe Fontana 144 Economics and Diversity Carlo d’Ippoliti 145 Political ... Moulaert and Andreas Novy 169 Social Fairness and Economics Economic essays in the spirit of Duncan Foley Edited by Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai and Thomas Michl 170 Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and...

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... conceptualization of the multiplicity and salience of major challenges to development and security, all of which require political and public awareness and economic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment ... www.earthscanjournals.com 168 Porfiriev change, in particular those associated with the current economic crisis As a result, one more set of disputes and controversies persists within business and political communities ... In particular – and of no less significance than climate change – natural and humanmade hazards should be considered and contrasted ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS against climate change and its implications...

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... both DRR and CCA (e.g UNISDR Working Group on Climate Change and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Change Center), suggesting that DRR has much to contribute to CCA policy and research (Handmer, ... learning and the social sources of adaptability, renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems ... et al (2003) attribute coping capacity and adaptive capacity as separate dimensions of resilience, Smit and Wandel (2006) lump them together To Smit and Wandel (2006), adaptive capacity is equivalent...

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... construction Science and Public Policy, 30(4) 235 Helmer, M and Hilhorst, D J M., 2006 Natural disasters and climate change Disasters, 30(1) – Hogarth, R M and Kunreuther, H C., 1985 Ambiguity and insurance ... 456 Meyer, W B and Turner, B L., 1992 Human-population growth and global land-use cover change Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 23 39–61 Næss, L O., Bang, G., Eriksen, S and Vevatne, J., ... work of Piers Blaikie Geoforum, 39 736– 746 Dovers, S R and Handmer, J W., 1992 Uncertainty, sustainability, and change Global Environmental Change, 2(4) 262 – 276 Folke, C., 2006 Resilience: the...

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... variability in landfalls 3.2 Landfall rates and proportion Table shows for three different periods – 1900 – 2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequency of annual landfalls in the first and second ... relationships of ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfalling storms and damage (e.g Elsner and Jagger, 2006; Jagger et al., 2008) Elsner and Jagger (2008) find a relationship between the solar cycle and US hurricane ... hurricane season, and in each case predicting landfall numbers to be above average For these three years the number of landfalls was well below the historical mean in 2006 and 2007 and above average...

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... Committee on Climate Change SAMUEL FANKHAUSER1, *, DAVID KENNEDY2 AND JIM SKEA3 Grantham Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton ... HAZARDS and US Pacific Islands A Report by the US Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, T R Karl, G A Meehl, C D Miller, , S J Hassol, A M Waple and W L ... Nzerem, K., O’Shay, A., Penzer, J and Coughlin, K., 2009 year prediction of the number of hurricanes which make US landfall Hurricanes and Climate Change, J B Elsner and T H Jagger (eds) SpringerVerlag,...

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... Climate change and the frequency and severity of natural disasters In addition to socio -economic developments, climate change may increase the intensity and severity of weather extremes and contribute ... Netherlands ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Environmental Science and Technology & Department of Economics and Economic History, ` Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Faculty of Economics ... in the frequency and severity of natural disasters due to socioeconomic developments and climate change the question arises of how to design policies that limit exposure to and ameliorate impacts...

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... climate change and socio -economic development on future natural disaster risk (IPCC, 2007) Considerable uncertainty and ambiguity is associated with both the frequency of a disaster occurring and ... of climate and socio -economic change and estimating their influence on risk may be a useful first step in assessing future risk Statistical models can be used to assess how frequencies and severities ... effect of urban growth on the one hand and climate change on the other.5 Effects of climate change were modelled using three sea level rise scenarios of 60, 85 and 150 cm per 100 years, which influence...

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... (Weingart et al., 2000; Andreadis and Smith, 2007) We are entering a period when careful interpretation and communication of the economic, political and social dimensions of climate change will be vital ... and Management, 13(4) 307 – 314 Rose, A., 2004b Economic principles, issues, and research priorities in hazard loss estimation Modelling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters, Y Okuyama and ... transnational and compounded crises such as terrorism (Norris et al., 2003; Papacharissi and de Fatima Oliveira, 2008); pandemics (Buus and Olsson, 2006; Shih et al., 2008; Ungar, 2008) and climate change...

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... without any change of political values; ‘policy reform , which relates to major policy principles being changed that otherwise would be hard to change under normal circumstances; and finally ‘paradigm ... Responsibility framing in a crisis 231 with extensive wetlands which perform essential hydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the ... explain by personal and straightforward causes, which complicate political attacks or crisis exploitation On the contrary, political actors are often tempted to downplay the problems, and thereby in...

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... Symbols, rituals and power: the lost dimension of crisis management Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 1(1) 36– 50 ’t Hart, P and Boin, A., 2001 Between crisis and normalcy: the ... After Crisis: The Politics of Investigation, Accountability and Learning Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK Boin, A., McConnell, A and ’t Hart, P., 2009 Crisis exploitation: political and ... Politics and History, 49(1) 61 –74 ¨ ¨ Brandstrom, A and Kuipers, S., 2003 From ‘normal incidents’ to political crises’: understanding the selective politicization of policy failures Government and...

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... Investment, Economic Growth, and Financial Sector Development: A Comparative Analysis ASEAN Economic Bulletin 21 (3): 278-289 Dua, P., and A.I Rashid (1998) FDI and Economic Activity in India Indian Economic ... whether economic reforms and liberalization resulted in major changes in the type and character of inward FDI The same is true with regard to the growth effects of FDI in India in the post -reform ... Economic Reforms, Foreign Direct Investment and its Economic Effects in India Abstract: Foreign direct investment (FDI) has boomed in post -reform India Moreover, the composition and type...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... this crisis continues to be written CONCLUSIONS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has been called upon to examine the financial and economic crisis ... conclude collapsing mortgage-lending standards and the mortgage securitization pipeline lit and spread the flame of contagion and crisis When housing prices fell and mortgage borrowers defaulted, ... commissioners by thousands of concerned Americans through their letters and emails And we are grateful to the hundreds of individuals and organizations that offered expertise, information, and personal...

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... by member states, with emphasis on land reform and land-tax changes Political changes, however, meant that few governments availed themselves of this funding, and after 1963 the impact of the programme ... A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF LATIN AMERICA A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF LATIN AMERICA Peter Calvert FIRST EDITION LONDON AND NEW YORK First Edition ... Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago Observer states in the region are: Netherlands Antilles, and the US Virgin Islands Leadership: Jagdish Koonjul, Mauritius...

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... A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE EAST A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE EAST David Seddon FIRST EDITION LONDON AND NEW YORK First Edition ... linguistic and religious minorities, with their own distinctive economic, social, cultural and political concerns, ensuring that the politics and economics of the Middle East are both complex and complicated ... Agreement Between Israel and the PLO, drafted in October 1995 by Mahmoud Abbas and Yossi Beilin A political and economic dictionary of the middle east Abu Musa Island The island of Abu Musa, only...

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