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Provides a comprehensive account of learning in peacekeeping, focusing on instances of attempted learning by UN representatives involved in police assistance, judicial reform, reintegration of former combatants, and mission integration by looking at three cases in each area.
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While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows from them. Much of this value is based on creating scientific knowledge and transforming it into new products and services for the market. This process of innovation is complex and interdisciplinary. Sometimes it draws on the genius of individuals, but even then it requires sustained collective effort, often underpinned by significant national investments. Capturing the value of these investments to spur domestic economic growth and employment is a challenge in a world where the outputs of innovation d...
This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform better spatial planning and more intelligent political steering? Case studies of the key features of policy and planning approaches in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK are at the core of Planning Major Infrastructure. This includes the different regimes introduced in England and Wales, and Scotland, brought in by reforms since 2006. High speed rail, renewable energy deployment, ...
Jacob Taekeles Hanenburg (1837-1929) was a son of Taekele Tjibbes Hanenburg and Pietertje Pieters Wijckel, and was born at Barradeel, Sexbierum, Holland, The Netherlands. Jacob married Attje Jans Tuininga in 1864, and the family immigrated in 1892 (via New York) to Pease, Minnesota. Descendants and relatives lived in Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, Washington, California and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada. Includes family history and genealogical data in The Netherlands to the early 1700s.