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This book provides a comprehensive overview of European Patent Law. It presents a critical analysis of the European patent law system and the proposed changes to it. The book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the European Patent Convention, and the interaction between the national and the European level, as well as across borders.
Die Regelung von Konflikten durch Mediation ist im Idealfall freiwillig, konstruktiv und selbstverständlich gewaltfrei. Mediation geschieht jedoch nicht 'von alleine', sondern benötigt qualifizierte 'Verfahrenshelfer'. Wer aber ist als Mediatorin oder Mediator geeignet und welche Kompetenzen sind zu erlernen? Das Handbuch gibt hierzu Antworten zu den Themenbereichen Konfliktmanagement, Konfliktdynamik und Regelungsprozesse. Mit der Einführung in Lerninhalte, Methoden und das Konzept der reflexiven Qualifizierung bieten die AutorInnen Ideen, Anregungen und Erfahrungswerte zur Entwicklung eines Qualifikationsprofils für Mediatoren und Mediatorinnen.
This book offers a historically and ethnographically informed case study of environmental governance, institutional and land-use change, and livelihood strategies in a former homeland in the South African Free State province. Based on rich archival material, the author reconstructs how the state invented a degradation narrative and used it as legitimation for the regulation of human-environment relations during the twentieth century. In addition, the study investigates how people today make a living in a post-agrarian society characterized by low agricultural production, diversification of non-farm incomes, and declining population numbers, declining population numbers. Author Christiane Naumann is a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.
"This book challenges the oft-cited belief that the Montreal Protocol remains an exemplary global environmental agreement. Through a sociological analysis of the political decision-making process and controversies generated at Montreal Protocol meetings, the book documents new ways global environmental governance is organized based on neoliberal ideals. The book shows how neoliberalism - as a dominant discourse and economic practice - has become increasingly embedded in the Montreal Protocol, and how global powers are able to act protectionist amid that discourse. The book demonstrates how recent controversies involve much more than just economic protectionism per se; it also involves the pr...
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Christoph Knill's book analyses the impact of European policies on national administrations. Under which conditions can we expect domestic change, particularly the convergence of administrative styles and structures? How can we explain national patterns of administrative transformation in the context of Europeanisation? Knill's study is a comparative assessment of the factors influencing administrative adjustment to European policy demands in the member states. It addresses the topic from an innovative theoretical perspective, combining institution-based and agency-based approaches, and includes a detailed account of the administrative impact of EU environmental policy in Britain and Germany. The Europeanisation of National Administrations will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in the fields of European studies, public administration and public policy, environmental politics, and European and administrative law.
Locked in our worldview communities and polarised through increasingly radical campaigning, we are anxious of today's great uncertainty and our politicians have little incentive to reach across party lines. The problem of social division is real. The Brexit vote led to the highest spike in hate crimes in Britain ever recorded and heated situations like the far-right rally in Charlottesville, USA are increasingly boiling over. Overcoming Social Division is not another book about dying democracies, because horror scenarios don't make you act. Instead, it is an optimistic response on what can be done, and about how we can coexist in fragmented and polarised societies. Anatol Valerian Itten expl...
The Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration explores the complementary relationship between state court adjudication and arbitral proceedings in the context of intellectual property rights. Presenting contemporary research and insight into the scholarly debates on the topic, it provides a comprehensive overview of arbitrating intellectual property disputes on an international scale.
Aufbauend auf der theoretischen Analyse der Struktur und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung großtechnischer Systeme der Infrastrukturversorgung bietet das Buch eine systematische Untersuchung des gegenwärtigen Transformationsprozesses der deutschen Stromversorgung. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Wandel von Staatlichkeit in der Stromversorgung, der in den Politik- und Rechtswissenschaften als "Übergang vom Leistungs- zum Gewährleistungsstaat" diskutiert wird. Hierbei werden die ökologische Modernisierungspolitik, die Privatisierungs- und Liberalisierungspolitik in der deutschen Stromversorgung empirisch nachvollzogen. Das Buch verdeutlicht Probleme auf dem Weg zu einem Gewährleistungsstaat und zeigt konkrete Anforderungen an regionale Modernisierungspolitik auf.