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This book provides practical guidance on coping successfully with the challenges of international operations and foreign business. Understanding client communications, new cultures, and local politics and dealing with a diverse group of senior professionals make international work unusual and challenging. By developing attitudes of awareness and understanding, professionals will be better equipped to enter and compete in the international market. Kangari and Lucas offer detailed discussions of practical approaches for planning and executing fact-finding studies, selecting associates, marketing, presenting proposals, and negotiating contracts. Topics include: organization; project management; logistics; personnel financial management techniques; claims; politics; unstable conditions; buildingcommitment; the qualification process; interviews and presentations; successful negotiations and strategies; managing multinationals; and wars, military coups, and terrorism. This book will be particularly useful to design professionals; graduate and undergraduate students studying international construction; individuals, such as exporters, bankers, lawyers, accountants, contractors, suppliers, who work internationally.

Engineering --- International business enterprises --- Project management. --- Managers --- Architects --- Commercial construction --- Financial management --- Business management --- Political factors --- Negotiation --- Contracts and subcontracts --- Management.

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Prepared by the Water Regulatory Standards Committee of the Standards Development Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE. Guideline for the Development of Effective Water Sharing Agreements provides the basis for developing a complete, comprehensive, and well-integrated agreement for allocating and managing shared water resources. Effective water allocation and management requires planning and regulation by water basins, which often cross national, state, or tribal boundaries. The need to share these water resources inevitably breeds conflict, which can be best alleviated by an agreement among the different political organizations having jurisdiction over water allocation and water management. This Standard outlines a process to ensure that all pertinent factors are considered in the development of an agreement, so that the physical realities of the shared resources—as well as the different political systems, cultures, and water use customs—are accommodated. The Standard assesses the factors influenced by shared water use: correlating the geographical and political issues, inventorying the sources and uses of the water resource, analyzing the ecological impact of the transboundary use, and examining its effect on economic growth and quality of life of the various constituents. The Standard then presents alternatives for allocation of surface, underground, and atmospheric water among the parties, with special emphasis on extreme events (droughts and floods). Using a common format for drafting uniform state laws, Standard ASCE/EWRI 60-12 includes three model water sharing agreements: coordination and cooperation, limited purpose water sharing, and comprehensive water sharing. Each element of an agreement is provided in statutory language, followed by a commentary section that describes the purpose and scope of the provisions. Cross-references to other provisions are included, along with a list of interstate and international water sharing agreements that contain similar provisions. The provisions of this Standard are written in permissive language and offer users a series of options or instructions, but the Standard does not prescribe a specific course of action. Significant judgment is left to the drafters of the agreement.

Water resources development --- Water rights (International law) --- Water --- Water shortage --- Water resources --- Water policy --- Water management --- Political factors --- Resource allocation --- Water quality --- Standards and codes --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation. --- Water shortage --- Water resources --- Water policy --- Water management --- Political factors --- Resource allocation --- Water quality --- Standards and codes

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This optimistic and accessible book contributes to our understanding of the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes by assessing the extent of, and reasons for, environmental justice/injustice in seven diverse countries.

Environmental justice --- Eco-justice --- Environmental justice movement --- Global environmental justice --- Environmental policy --- Environmentalism --- Social justice --- Environmental justice. --- Environmental Justice. --- Politics. --- Justice. --- Injustice --- Conduct of life --- Law --- Common good --- Fairness --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Dissent and Disputes --- Justice, Environmental

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Sociology of sport --- Olympics --- History --- Political aspects --- Politics. --- 796.032 --- Olympic games --- -Olympics --- -SMV:olympische spelen --- SMV:filisofie --- SMV:olympische gedachte --- Games, Olympic --- Summer Olympics --- Sports --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Dissent and Disputes --- Olympische gedachte. Olympische beweging --- 796.032 Olympische gedachte. Olympische beweging --- Politics --- SMV:olympische spelen --- Olympics - History --- Olympics - Political aspects

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The past 20 years have seen increasingly bold claims emanating from the field of neuroscience. Advances in medical imaging, brain modelling, and interdisciplinary cognitive science have forced us to reconsider the nature of social, cultural, and political activities. This collection of essays is the first to explore the relationship between neuroscience and political theory, with a view to examining what connections can be made and which claims represent a bridge too far. The book is divided into three parts: Part I: places neuroscience as a social and political practice into historical context. Part II: weaves together the insights from contemporary neuroscience with the wisdom of major figures in the history of political thought. Part III: considers how neuroscience can inform contemporary debates about a range of issues in political theory. This work brings together scholars who are sceptical about the possibility of integrating neuroscience and political theory with proponents of a neuroscience-informed approach to thinking about political and social life. The result is a timely and wide-ranging collection of essays about the role that our brain might play in the life of the body politic. It should be essential reading for all those with an interest in the cutting edge of political theory.

Biopolitics. --- Neuroscience --- Political science. --- Political aspects. --- Neurosciences --- Neurosciences. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Politics. --- #SBIB:324H20 --- Dissent and Disputes --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Medical Philosophy --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Human behavior --- Political science --- Sociobiology --- Political behavior --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Biopolitics --- Philosophy, Medical --- Political aspects