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- Online Console Gaming: An Evaluation of the Current Situation
- Online gaming is very popular nowadays. With successes on the PC, it could be an opportunity for the console market. It has been tried in the past, but it has not really caught on. Now that the new generation of consoles is here, it is time to reevaluate the situation....
- White papers 2003-05-01
- The Clean Development Mechanism: A Playing Field for New Partnerships
- At the outset, this paper will briefly describe some underlying trends that are transforming the global system and challenge governments to come to grips with an increasingly interdependent and globalised world. As traditional processes of inter-state co-operation come to their limits, horizontal and vertical network structures show a promising path...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- Capacity Building and Sustainability Knowledge in the Climate Change Regime
- Increasingly, there is evidence that developing countries are unable to meet their commitments under a number of international environmental treaties. This paper first examines the relationship between climate change and sustainable development in science and within the context of the climate change agreements. It then examines the problem of developing...
- White papers 2004-09-27
- European Union as a Global Policy Actor: The Case of Desertification
- In this paper, the central question is what kind of actor the EU is and whether it be considered as an international actor. When studying the position, role or the effect of the European Union in the world, the author argues that actorness is a useful concept. It offers a...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- Global Environmental Change and the Nation State: The Scope of the Challenge
- This breathlessness of human activity increasingly leaves its traces in the earth system. Modern production, transportation and consumption of goods boost the burning of fossil fuels and accelerate the natural greenhouse effect of the earth system, with geophysical changes such as sea-level rise, regional climate change and increased storms and...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- Of Course International Institutions Matter: But When and How?
- International environmental institutions can influence the behaviour of states and the quality of the environment that their behaviours, in turn, influence. Of course, not surprisingly, not all international environmental institutions realise their potential to wield influence. At times this reflects poor institutional design, while at other times it reflects the...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- International Institutions, Sustainability Knowledge and Policy Change: The North American Experience
- The study presented in this paper analyses how well and how the science-centered CEC environmental regime has worked for its member countries, and above all for developing country member Mexico, as the first decade anniversary of the CEC's operation approaches. To do so, it traces the impact of four mechanisms...
- White papers 2004-09-27
- Imbued Meaning: Science-Policy Interaction in the IPCC
- The IPCC's Synthesis Report SYR released in September 2001 was a symbolic representation of the best available policy relevant scientific information on climate change. In an effort to draft "policy relevant but not policy prescriptive scientific information" IPCC Bureau, the IPCC has developed two innovative methods of synthesizing scientific information....
- White papers 2004-09-27
- Between the United States and the South: Strategic Choices for European Climate Policy
- This paper discusses Europe's strategic choices in current climate policy. It argues that the future climate governance architecture must pass four tests: credibility, stability, flexibility, and inclusiveness. Drawing on this, the paper reviews the strategic choices for Europe, structured around three levels of analysis in political science: climate polity, that...
- White papers 2005-06-17
- Diffusion of Ideas and Policies in a Multi-Level Regulatory Regime: Arctic Institutions and Global Climate Change
- This paper introduces institutions as the independent variable in global climate change research. The questions it asks are how human institutions negotiate the uncertainties represented by global climate change, and specifically how regulatory institutions are influenced both vertically and horizontally. Indeed, it is institutions of government which will determine how...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- Conflict Resolution in Ecological Negotiations
- This paper investigates the functions of multilateral negotiations contributing to the resolution of ecological conflicts. The case study is global climate change. A conflict resolution systems framework organises the political preferences of a high power country and a low power regional alliance in United Nations UN environment and development negotiations....
- White papers
- The Institutionalisation of Private Governance: Conceptualising an Emerging Trend in Global Environmental Politics
- The concept of global governance denotes a fundamental change in the steering mechanisms employed by governments and international organisations as well as in the relation between public and private interests in the provision of global public goods. Next to public-private partnerships and public policy networks, private governance institutions, involving civil...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- The Belgian Nuclear Phase-Out as a Strategy for Sustainable Development: Unstructured Problems, Unstructured Answers?
- The nuclear controversy just seems to go on and on, flickering in and out of existence, adopting many guises, but never reaching global closure. Lately, the contribution of nuclear power to future energy systems features again in the debate on global warming, or, more generally, sustainable development. As the stakes...
- White papers 2004-09-27
- Shaping the Vision, the Identity and the Cultural Image of European Places
- in order to construct their identity and construct their image as a 'final provided good'. This paper investigates the relationship between vision, local identity and image, focusing on culture and tourism. The international bibliography shows several cases, mainly European places that support their competitiveness through cultural and tourism development. In...
- White papers 2005-08-23
- Developing an Online Dispute Resolution Environment: Dialogue Tools and Negotiation Support Systems in a Three-Step Model
- In this paper, one has investigated how to provide decision support for disputes that parties attempt to resolve in cyberspace. Recent research has revolved around developing systems that allow disputants to communicate online. The approach has been to merge techniques developed from argumentation, artificial intelligence, and game theory to provide...
- White papers 2005-04-08
- Quantifying Software Process Improvement
- Many IT-metrics display large variation, time dependencies and noise, making it seemingly impossible to draw conclusions from them. Most of the software engineering literature proposed ways to stamp out this undesired behaviour, so that simple questions by management become simple to answer. In this paper the authors accepted that IT-metrics...
- White papers 2005-09-13
- Less Is More In Software Process Improvement
- Many Software Process Improvement SPI programs fail to deliver the benefits they promise. This is usually due not to bad new processes being created, but to a lack of adoption of the new processes. Many papers have been written about reason for lack of adoption. One element that is missing...
- White papers 2006-01-11
- Purpose and Necessity of a World Environment Organisation Within the United Nations
- The major, intractable and global environmental problems one faces call for world-wide co-operation. Governments must have the political will to act in order to plot a course towards clearly defined objectives. However, political will is not enough. Governments must also give a political signal that the strong are supporting the...
- White papers 2005-12-03
- The State Between Free Trade and Environment
- During the past decade, the interaction between the multilateral trade regime MTR and the multilateral environmental regimes MERs has been a matter of growing importance in international politics. Trade and environment regimes influence each other and their provisions might clash. This paper argues that internationally strong environmental rules are more...
- White papers 2002-09-07
- The Ethics of Government and Business: What Is Valued Most
- This paper addresses the issue of similarities and differences between the ethics of government and business concentrating on values. It examines what is valued most by public servants and which values prevail in the private sector. It attempts to find out the core values of both realms and how does...
- White papers 2003-07-01
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