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11. Petroleum Taxation

    Sharing the Oil Wealth: A Study of Petroleum Taxation Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    By Carole Nakhle

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
12. Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

    Toward a Green Silicon Island

    By Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
13. Changing Spaces of Education

    New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning

    Edited by Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters

    In today’s modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces. Increasingly, these spaces are both physical and virtual in nature. Access to and use of information and communication technologies, and the emergence of knowledge-based economies necessitate an...

    Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
14. Agrometeorology in Extreme Events and Natural Disasters

    By H.P. Das

    This volume deals with a broad variety of extreme events that affect agriculture and presents effective risk management strategies. It explains events and their effects and presents techniques and strategies to cope with disasters such as drought, volcanic eruption, pests, etc. and minimize...

    Published May 9th 2012 by CRC Press
15. The Hurricane (Routledge Revivals)

    By Roger A Pielke

    First published in 1990, this book describes the nature of the hurricane, one of the world's most dangerous weather hazards. It examines the formation, development, movement, and impact of these tropical cyclones, and assess the ability of science to describe, forecast, and control them....

    Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
16. Water and Sanitation Services

    Public Policy and Management

    Edited by Jose Esteban Castro, Leo Heller

    Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals. This book argues and demonstrates that this can only be achieved by a better integration of the technical and social science approaches in the search...

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
17. The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus

    Enduring Legacies and Emerging Challenges

    Edited by Amanda E Wooden, Christoph H. Stefes

    Series: Central Asian Studies

    Most books on the Caucasus and Central Asia are country-by-country studies. This book, on the other hand, fills a gap in Central Eurasian studies as one of the few comparative case study books on Central Eurasia, covering both the Caucasus and Central Asia; it considers key themes right across the...

    Published May 4th 2012 by Routledge
18. Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power

    Between Rising Naval Powers

    Edited by Sam Bateman, Joshua Ho

    Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

    This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both...

    Published May 4th 2012 by Routledge
19. Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

    By Penelope Mathew

    Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
20. Maritime Transport and the Climate Change Challenge

    Edited by Regina Asariotis, Hassiba Benamara

    International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also likely to be affected by wide-ranging and potentially devastating climate change impacts associated with rising sea levels and increased frequency/...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge