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Cooperative Transboundary Mechanism, Alena Drieschova, Gabriel Eckstein
Cooperative Transboundary Mechanism, Alena Drieschova, Gabriel Eckstein
Gabriel Eckstein
Management of transboundary waters in increasingly becoming more challenging, and climate change is likely to exacerbate these pressures. Not least because climate change is a global issue, adaptation will require an international response. This book aims to identify issues, both theoretical and practical, that States face in establishing cooperative transboundary mechanisms to effectively adapt water management to climate change. Furthermore, it will address complex legal hurdles that existing transboundary water institutions face when attempting to adapt existing mechanisms to function in a changing climate. It will also provide an overview of best practices in transboundary adaptive water governance thus far, …
Gender On The Line: Technology, Restructuring And The Reorganization Of Work In The Call Centre Industry, Policy Report, Ruth Buchanan, Sara Koch-Schulte
Gender On The Line: Technology, Restructuring And The Reorganization Of Work In The Call Centre Industry, Policy Report, Ruth Buchanan, Sara Koch-Schulte
Ruth Buchanan
This project, a case study of the emerging call centre industry in Canada, examines the impacts of restructuring on those in the lower tiers of the labour market. The first stage of the study surveyed managers at call centres in three sites in Canada: New Brunswick (St. John, Moncton and Fredericton), Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Toronto, Ontario. Issues surveyed included types of call centre applications, labour force composition (age, gender, race and disability), wage rates, hiring, training and promotion. The survey results clearly established that women and youth make up the majority of the call centre work force across Canada. The …
Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives, And Problems. 4th Edition, Thomas Galligan, Phoebe Haddon, Frank Maraist, Frank Mcclellan, Michael Rustad, Nicolas Terry, Stephanie Wildman
Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives, And Problems. 4th Edition, Thomas Galligan, Phoebe Haddon, Frank Maraist, Frank Mcclellan, Michael Rustad, Nicolas Terry, Stephanie Wildman
Phoebe A. Haddon
The Fourth Edition of this unique casebook has been dramatically revised. This new edition presents the important cases, statutes, empirical data, and competing tort theories in a problems-oriented format that is designed to help students acquire a sophisticated understanding of tort law through active learning. As before, the text includes a large number of problems Now, however, the Problems, updated and considerably expanded, are organized in Sets at the end of each substantive chapter. This extensively re-written and reorganized edition includes the classic common law torts cases, but is updated throughout with teachable, cutting-edge decisions that will demand student interest …
The Story Of Mr. G.: Reflections Upon The Questionability Competent Client, Mark Spiegel
The Story Of Mr. G.: Reflections Upon The Questionability Competent Client, Mark Spiegel
Mark Spiegel
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