“…Les auteurs placent l’abolitionnisme américain dans un contexte transnational et montrent comment des esclaves fuyant au Canada, des Noirs libres émigrant à Haïti et des activistes se retrouvant dans un salon parisien ont influencé, chacun à leur façon, le destin de l’esclavage aux États-Unis. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basic SummaryTables -- Tableaux résumés de base; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Korea; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; United States; Net Disbursments of ODA by DAC Countries Combined (USD million). …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding the economic and fiscal impacts of disasters -- The economic impacts of disasters: Disaster losses and damages on the rise -- Inverse relation of disaster impacts to income -- The fiscal impacts of disasters: Understanding the key determinants -- The determinants of fiscal impacts of disasters -- Disaster impacts on government spending: Explicit contingent liabilities Disaster impacts on government spending: Implicit contingent liabilities -- Disaster impacts on government revenues -- Indirect fiscal impacts of disasters -- Past fiscal impacts of disasters -- Fiscal impacts of major historical disasters -- The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake -- The 2010-11 Canterbury earthquake sequence in New Zealand -- The 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire in Canada -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Boosting financial resilience against disasters: Towards better management of disaster-related contingent liabilities -- Introduction Identification of disaster-related contingent liabilities -- Distinguishing explicit from implicit contingent liabilities -- Explicit government commitments for disaster assistance: A range of policies and practices -- Commitments for recovering and replacing central versus subnational public infrastructure assets -- Limited government assistance for state-owned enterprises or PPPs -- Varying government commitment to support household recovery -- The role of post-disaster financial support to businesses in limiting a disaster's economic impact Governments' limited effort to encourage disaster prevention by businesses -- Tailored support to the agricultural sector -- A rising trend in implicit government commitments due to extreme events -- Tendency of implicit contingent liabilities to be greater where explicit commitments ex ante are limited -- Quantification of disaster-related contingent liabilities -- Direct estimation of disaster-related contingent liabilities -- Estimation of disaster-related contingent liabilities through probabilistic modelling -- Governments' compilation of information to estimate their liabilities Estimation of fiscal impacts of disaster-related contingent liabilities and their integration in overall fiscal forecasting and fiscal risk assessments -- Practices showing strong recognition of major disasters in overall fiscal management -- Benefits of increasing visibility in the fiscal policy-making process -- Disclosing government's disaster-related contingent liabilities -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. …”

“…This second edition of the SPPI Guide has been jointly produced by the OECD, Eurostat, the members of a task Force with deleguates from 14 OECD/EU members countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States)and in synergy with the Voorburg Group. …”

“…Cet ouvrage retrace dans le détail l'évolution de ce processus dans sept pays de l'OCDE : Allemagne, Australie, Canada, Etats-Unis, Finlande, Pays-Bas et Portugal. …”

“…OECD countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States…”

“…The study is based on a qualitative survey of practices and strategies carried out by the OECD Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) at 19 tertiary education institutions from 11 OECD member countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as 2 non-member countries: Brazil and Thailand. …”

“…Provides an in-depth empirical analysis of an industrial survey undertaken in seven OECD countries (Japan, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Canada and the United States), spanning 4000 facilities in all manufacturing sectors, including small and medium-sized enterprises. …”

“…Itthen presents the context of the present workshop, the eclipseTechnology Exchange (eTX), which was held on October 24, 2004 atOOPSLA 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Eclipse Project The Eclipse Project began in April 1999 at IBM's OTI laboratory.It was initially conceived as a successor product for the VisualAgefamily of software development tools. …”

“…Written by experts and academics in the fields of human rights, security, transformation and development, particularly in post-soviet and communist countries, it examines the status quo of regime development in various member states of the OSCE; their economic, security and human rights performance; institutional reforms and transformations and the challenges that these countries and their societies face, including the USA, Canada, Germany, Macedonia, Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. …”

“…Timothy MacNeill is Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science and Program Director of Sustainability Studies at University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada…”

“…Du Japon aux États-Unis en passant par la France, l’Allemagne ou le Canada, ce livre met en évidence la fécondité du croisement entre études intermédiales et études de bande dessinée…”

“…This book describes interesting case studies of the exploration, characterization, and use of geothermal resources in Spain, Sweden, Italy, Croatia, China, Djibouti, and Canada. A new open-source software, with an easy-to-use graphical user interface, is applied to assess the deep geothermal potential of the Reus-Valls sedimentary basin in Spain. …”