“…Rather than focus on specific facilities separately, the author takes a Switzerland-wide perspective which he situates in a global con-text. Using extensive source material, he reconstructs the origins and development of Swiss aviation infrastructure and illuminates the impacts of regulatory frameworks and historical actors upon this development. …”

“…Footprints in Paradise centers on how Okinawans' sense of place is transforming rapidly, along with language, landscapes, cultural traditions, and wildlife: from marginalized and exoticized island phenomena into global heritage resources worth cherishing by insiders and outsiders. …”

“…It works as a platform of exchange and discussion on topics of common interest pertaining to the organisation, orientation and outlook of agri-food research in Europe in connection with global changes…”

“…Research on alternative energy harvesting technologies, conversion and storage systems with high efficiency, cost-effective and environmentally friendly systems, such as fuel cells, rechargeable metal-air batteries, unitized regenerative cells, and water electrolyzers has been stimulated by the global demand on energy. The conversion between oxygen and water plays a key step in the development of oxygen electrodes: oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), processes activated mostly by precious metals, like platinum. …”

“…The author looks at the conflict between expectations and practices at school and in the home, arguing that problems are inevitable where class and cultural differences exist.Emerging themes include:how literacy practices in the community are undergoing rapid change due to global developments in technologyhow the patterns of written and spoken language i…”

“…Despite significant progress in the global fight against malaria, this parasitic infection is still responsible for nearly 300 million clinical cases and more than half a million deaths each year, predominantly in African children less than 5 years of age. …”

“…Chapter 1 introduces the terms salinity and sodicity and describes various salinity classification systems commonly used around the world. Chapter 2 reviews global distribution of salinization and socioeconomic aspects related to salinity and crop production. …”

“…En los últimos veinte o treinta años se ha producido en todo el mundo una concentración extraordinaria de la industria editorial: la mayor parte del mercado global pertenece a ocho o diez empresas, integradas en grupos que tienen también periódicos, revistas, productoras de cine, discográficas, cadenas de radio y televisión. …”

“…"A historical interrogation from a global perspective of the use of fear to vilify and persecute groups and individuals. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Perkins -- 3 The New Normal of Chinese Development - Yiping Huang, Cai Fang, Peng Xu and Gou Qin -- 4 The End of China's Demographic Dividend: The Perspective of Potential GDP Growth - Cai Fang and Lu Yang -- 5 Chinese Industrialisation: Path Dependence and the Transition to a New Model - Huw McKay and Ligang Song -- 6 China's Saving and Global Economic Performance - Rod Tyers, Ying Zhang and Tsun Se Cheong -- 7 Growing into an Innovative Economy: Evidence from Chinese Firm-Level Data Analysis - Yixiao Zhou -- 8 China's Agricultural Development: Achievements and Challenges - Li Zhou -- 9 Rural-Urban Migration: Trend and Policy Implications (2008-2012) - Xin Meng -- 10 Reforming China's Public Finances for Long-term Growth - Christine Wong -- 11 Changing Business Environment in China: A Regional Context and Policy Implications - Xiaolu Wang, Jingwen Yu and Fan Gang1 -- 12 Will Chinese Industry Ever Be 'Green'? …”

“…. - qui justifient plus encore qu’auparavant des comportements et pratiques de coopération, la démocratie territoriale se trouve paradoxalement soumise à un processus global de fragmentation qui fragilise substantiellement la légitimité de son action. …”

“…From the race-to-space in the 1950s to the current furor over global warming, James Bennett traces the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which government has co-opted scientific research and reinforced a culture in which challengers to proscribed wisdom are frozen out. …”

“…The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family. …”

“…In the process it addresses also the global need to hear voices from Africa in this academic field. …”

“…The surrounding struggle for global domination caused serious difficulties for the small state. …”

“…This book proposes a new institution -- the 'People's Forum' -- to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost. …”

“…The resulting work studies the characteristics and trends of innovative public engagement through a global sample of 38 case studies. It provides theoretical generalisations on the dynamics of public engagement, suggestions for an evaluation framework, and clear empirical examples of how public engagement works in practice. …”

“…"The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. …”

“…Invitations to nonpartisan foreigners to monitor elections, and avoiding their criticism, became a widely recognized and imitated signal of a government's purported commitment to democratic elections.Hyde draws on cross-national data on the global spread of election observation between 1960 and 2006, detailed descriptions of the characteristics of countries that do and do not invite observers, and evidence of three ways that election monitoring is costly to pseudo-democrats: micro-level experimental tests from elections in Armenia and Indonesia showing that observers can deter election-day fraud and otherwise improve the quality of elections; illustrative cases demonstrating that international benefits are contingent on democracy in countries like Haiti, Peru, Togo, and Zimbabwe; and qualitative evidence documenting the escalating game of strategic manipulation among pseudo-democrats, international monitors, and pro-democracy forces…”