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"This examination of experiences in post-conflict governance, natural resource management, and peacebuilding features studies from more than 40 countries. It highlights the centrality of natural resource management in rebuilding governance and the rule of law, combating corruption, improving transparency and accountability, engaging disenfranchised populations, and building confidence following conflict. It provides a concise theoretical and practical framework for policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and students"-- "When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order. Meeting these needs while sustaining peace requires more than simply having governmental structures in place; it requires good governance. Natural resources are essential to sustaining people and peace in post-conflict countries, but governance failures often jeopardize such efforts. This book examines the theory, practice, often surprising realities of post-conflict governance, natural resource management, and peacebuilding in forty countries and territories. It includes thirty-nine chapters written by more than seventy researchers, diplomats, military personnel, and practitioners from governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations. The book highlights the mutually reinforcing relationship between natural resource management and good governance. Natural resource management is crucial to rebuilding governance and the rule of law, combating corruption, improving transparency and accountability, engaging disenfranchised populations, and building confidence after conflict. At the same time, good governance is essential for ensuring that natural resource management can meet immediate needs for post-conflict stability and development, while simultaneously laying the foundations for sustainable peace. Drawing on analysis of the close relationship between governance and natural resource management, the book explores lessons from past conflicts and ongoing reconstruction efforts; illustrates how those lessons may be applied to the formulation and implementation of more effective governance initiatives; and presents an emerging theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students.Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in this series address"--

Peace-building --- Postwar reconstruction --- Natural resources --- Environmental aspects --- Management --- National wealth --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- Polemology --- Peace-building - Environmental aspects - Case studies --- Postwar reconstruction - Environmental aspects - Case studies --- Natural resources - Management - Case studies

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A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss Architectural Archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. A historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time, concrete, made by addressing a number of issues of global relevance from a particular vantage point: reinforced concrete construction in Switzerland. Through contributions by internationally renowned researchers, the book analyses a series of moments in the Swiss history of reinforced concrete, from the initial phase of its introduction in the country to the most refined applications in architecture and engineering.

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Aluminum by design examines the creative use of aluminum from a variety of perspectives. Essays chronicle the technological development of aluminum and explore its use in architecture and industrial design, products for mass consumptions and experimental avant-garde works.

building materials --- Materials processing --- aluminum [metal] --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Design --- aluminium --- 745 --- design --- designmaterialen --- 650 --- 772.9 --- architectuur --- auto's --- decoratieve voorwerpen --- keukengerei --- metaal --- meubelen --- productdesign --- CAD, design en industriële vormgeving --- werktuigbouwkunde, metaalbewerking, meten en regelen, vervoer en vervoermiddelen --- productdesign, afzonderlijke voorwerpen

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Une jeune civilisation d'à peine plus de trois siècles dans un pays que l'on croit connaître depuis toujours, un art qui a puisé sa force dans des vagues d'immigrations successives et que l'on taxe parfois d'impérialiste, des villes sur-urbanisées face à des espaces immenses... Devant tant de contradictions, ce livre s'avère indispensable pour savoir s'il existe un "art américain" et comprendre ce qui en fait la richesse. L'histoire des États-Unis s'est faite de greffes répétées et rapides, des établissements indiens et des colons britanniques, à tous ceux qui ont fui la pauvreté d'une Europe vieillissante ou les violences du nazisme. "L'art des États-Unis" témoigne d'une grandeur et d'une puissance de création qui en font l'expression privilégiée de l'épopée américaine avec son souffle et son dynamisme, mais aussi ses incertitudes et ses doutes. L'art américain donne forme à une société démocratique qui croit en sa propre perfectibilité et ses progrès, mais dans laquelle ne sont pas cachées les inégalités économiques et les injustices sociales. Il a pour ressort cette dimension épique qui fonde à la fois sa beauté et sa force. Les auteurs confrontent des points de vue originaux et nous font assister à la construction d'un pays et de son identité artistique jusque dans ses développements les plus récents.

Art --- United States --- Art [American ] --- Art américain --- Kunst [Amerikaanse ] --- Art, American --- U.S.A. --- Verenigde Staten --- Photographie --- Photographie artistique --- Histoire de l'art --- Histoire --- Art américain --- États-Unis --- Civilisation --- Civilisation. --- États-Unis --- Art américain - Histoire --- Photographie - Etats-Unis - Histoire --- Photographie artistique - Histoire --- United States of America