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This course introduces the global trends and changing conditions of our lives, habitats and the plant, including population explosion, urbanization, the situation with energy, water, climate, food and agriculture and globalization more generally. It also helps students gain the knowledge of and capability to discover the principles, alternative conceptions and theoretical interpretations of the notion of sustainable development. The roles of individual, society, market, government and nongovernmental actors towards sustainability will be highlighted.
This book explores how the international community is responding to the challenge of sustainable development. It also investigates the prospect for, and barriers to, the promotion of sustainable development in high-consumption societies of the industrialised world, from the USA and the EU to the economies of transition in Eastern Europe and Southern Asia. Part One presents a theoretical and conceptual exploration of sustainable development. Part Two looks at multi-level engagement, including international efforts and the involvement of the sub-national, local level. Part Three looks at the promotion of sustainable development in different social, political and economic contexts.
This book concerns how international human rights law perceives public opinion and whether it demands that public opinion be mobilized in order to protect and promote core human rights. Issues explored include whether States have a duty to inform and educate public opinion regarding the support and violation of fundamental human rights such as ethnic equality and death penalty, and States’ actions to mold public opinion in favor of fundamental human rights through education. It concludes that States have an educational duty to inform public opinion regarding core human rights standards. Shift of international law in terms of what role States should play in educating public opinion is also presented.
This book addresses the issue of energy supply, mainly focusing on the UK but also providing comparisons and examples from other countries: the USA, France, Denmark, India and China. The book begins with an introduction to energy systems, sustainability, and primary energy, as well as the purpose of energy use and forms of energy. Then the book elaborates on specific energy sources such as coals, hear, oil and gas, electricity, nuclear power. The book ends with reflections on the cost of energy use, the environmental and health impacts of energy use, and the remedies to the negative impacts brought by energy abuse.
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the field of international relations. Part One pertains to the intellectual history of the discipline, as well as to the meta-theoretical, theoretical and normative concerns that characterize current thinking about international relations as a distinctive field of research. Part Two deals with analytical concerns, perspectives and contextualizations which have come to characterize current international relations scholarship. Part Three focuses on the various substantive processes, actions and interactions which define the core empirical domain of international relations. This second edition includes new chapters on contemporary topics, such as nationalism and ethnicity, international law, international migration, etc.
