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Carbon sequestration options in the international climate regime

Jung, Martina - 2005

The present thesis deals with carbon sequestration options in the Kyoto Protocol, namely carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). Chapter 2 investigates the negotiation process on Land use, Land-use change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the...

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Examining Connecticut's Inter-Municipal Economic Development Collaboration as Affected by the EDA's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Framework

Hill, Meredith E - 2010

practice among Connecticut's municipal practitioners. The creation of a CEDS document is a prerequisite for municipalities … primary data collection, including interviews and the surveying of two Connecticut CEDS regions and one control region that … the benefits and limitations of the CEDS process to economic development practice in Connecticut.This study finds …

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Panhandlers' impact on business : merchants' perspectives / Colin W. Harris

Harris, Colin W. - 2007

This study investigated the behaviors and perceptions of New Haven commercialdistrict retailers elicited by panhandling. This research is important because itprimarily focuses on the victimization of merchants. Previous research focuses onthe panhandler from a humanistic approach or with a law...

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Nachhaltige Nutzung von Wohnimmobilien in Fertigteilbauweise unter Berücksichtigung des demographischen Wandels

Vohrer, Inga - 2011

Diese Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, mit welchen Strategien und Handlungsweisen industriell vorgefertigte Wohngebäude aus DDR-Zeiten für eine moderne Nutzung saniert und somit einer neuen Bestimmung zugeführt werden können. Wann sich eine solche Instandsetzung überhaupt als...

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Negotiating power: A new discourse of the maquiladora industry in Ciudad Juarez

Hamm, James H - 2005

The Mexican maquiladora industry was thirty-four years old in 1999, the second summer of my field work. Many maquiladora workers are second and in a few cases third generation in their families in the industry. This dissertation is about the spaces they have negotiated. Maquiladora workers live...

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Climate, culture, and values: The 1997-1998 El Nino and Peruvian fisheries.

Broad, Kenneth - 1999

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-01, Section: A, page: 0177.

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Three Essays on the Role of Information Networks in Financial Markets

Gupta-Mukherjee, Swasti - 2007

Based on previous evidence that there are information heterogeneities in capital markets, three essays including empirical frameworks for examining the information processes that impact portfolio investments and corporate investments was proposed. The first essay considers information channels...

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Beyond embeddedness: economic practices and the invisible dimensions of transnational business activity

Jones, A.M. - 2008

Embeddedness remains a central concept in much economic geographical thought for understanding how social factors influence economic activity. Recent commentators have argued for a reconceptualization that entails a relational and processual redefinition of the concept. This paper argues,...

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Proximity and power within investment relationships: the case of the UK private equity industry

Jones, A.M.; Search, P. - 2009

economic geography to develop an approach for understanding how the spatiality of power relations in economic practices are …

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The 'global city' misconceived: the myth of 'global management' in transnational service firms

Jones, Andrew - 2002

The ‘global city hypothesis' proposed by Saskia Sassen – and subsequently developed by Manuel Castells and others in the theory of a globalized urban network – has in recent years formed the basis for the argument that power and control in transnational firms (TNCs) is primarily situated...

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