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Civil Society and Intergovernmental Negotiations at the United Nations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Civil Society and Intergovernmental Negotiations at the United Nations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2025-01-30
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-governmental organizations have increased at the United Nations (UN) since the 1990s. Yet few studies discuss the notion of inclusion and what it entails in intergovernmental negotiations. This book delves into the UN’s relationship with CSOs, exploring who participates in negotiations and how their input is integrated into ratified documents. Drawing on ethnographic research, the author uncovers the complexities of accreditation, participation, and the interpretation of CSOs’ contributions. Offering a sociological analysis, she highlights the increased exclusion of CSOs despite their apparent inclusion in institutions of global governance unbounded to public accountability. Leah R. Kimber examines the practices of exclusion CSOs are subjected to in UN negotiations by opening the machinery of intergovernmental negotiations in light of the UN’s future and legitimacy.

In the Shadow of 'just' Wars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

In the Shadow of 'just' Wars

In this text international experts and members of the MSF analyse the way issues surrounding the role of aid organizations in just wars have crystallized over the five years spanning the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Low-Carbon Circular Transition in the Nordics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 169

Low-Carbon Circular Transition in the Nordics

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-504/ The Nordic region aims to be a forerunner in the transition to circular economy. This project aimed to find areas, industries, and sectors, and potential in them, important for the circular transition in the Nordics. The barriers for unleashing the potential were also studied.Four areas of industry and two cross-cutting drivers were selected for the study. The bioeconomy, the food and beverage sector, building and construction, and the mobility sector play a prominent role in the Nordic economies. They are also responsible for significant emissions and waste. The drivers – applying new circular business models and better exploiting data/digitalisation – can bring change that holds promise for significant benefits.The study’s results are summed up in a set of recommendations addressing how the barriers can be torn down and how positive impacts of circular transition can be supported.

NordMin 2013–2017
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

NordMin 2013–2017

NordMin started in 2013 as a project under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers with the aim to strengthen Nordic collaboration for a sustainable Mining and Minerals industry in the Nordic countries. NordMin was initiated by the Swedish chairmanship of the Nordic Council as a strategic initiative with a duration of 4 years. The project management has been hosted by Luleå University of Technology and a number of activities have been rolled out over the last few years. The aim of this report is to give a brief overview of NordMin activities and also to draw some final conclusions on what has been achieved in terms of a closer Nordic collaboration within the field and how we can benefit from this in the future.

Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems

This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards. The cases studied encompass a variety of climatic regimes and stages of economic development, raging across the industrialized countries of Germany, France, Japan and the United States, to Bangladesh, the island nation of Cuba and the mega-city of Shanghai. Demonstrated characteristics of these exemplary cases are synthesized into ten guiding principles for successful early warning systems that will, it is hoped, prove useful to countries seeking to develop or strengthen such systems within their own borders.

Humans on the Move
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Humans on the Move

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-06
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  • Publisher: BRILL

As global climate change continues to alter the environment, humans are moving. In this context, human mobility can be an empowered adaptation strategy or an unwelcome necessity for survival with a high cost. Existing legal frameworks provide only a patchwork of protection for some climate change mobility scenarios. In Humans on the Move, Grant Dawson and Rachel Laut investigate the development of an adaptive approach to climate change mobility and explore how transformational adaptation strategies can—and must—be integrated with a rights-based approach.

Making Disaster Safer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Making Disaster Safer

This edited book was produced through a transnational and transdisciplinary UNESCO Chair Project on Gender and Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction Support. Contributors come from five disaster-prone Asian countries, and the chapters reflect their rich knowledge and practical experience in disaster management and humanitarian assistance. The chapters, all with a focus on gender and vulnerability, illustrate that gender can make people, especially women, vulnerable. The chapters address the experiences of state and non-state actors responding to disaster and promoting recovery at the local level. However, while women and vulnerable people may be victims of disasters, they also serve as ag...

Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing

This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in â€...

The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12-22
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Comprehensive coverage of Woolf's reception across Europe with contributions from leading international critics and translators.

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-20
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management provides interdisciplinary analysis on how particular sets of conditions may occur in the future by evaluating global trends, possible scenarios, emerging conditions, and various other elements of risk management. Firmly based in science, the book leverages historical data, current best practices, and scie