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A Sea, a Canal, a Disaster: The Suez Canal and the Transformation of the Mediterranean Biota
The introduction of non-native species is among the main direct drivers of biodiversity change. Off the Israeli coast 445 non-native species were...
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The International Frameworks for the Conservation of Biodiversity and of the Marine Environment
The Philippines, in its protests to China, invoked the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (“the Convention”), the Convention on...
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Earthquakes, Tsunami and Climate Change: Customary Management and Adaptation
In Indonesia’s Central Maluku islands, on the island of Haruku, slow-onset and ongoing disasters arising from climate change have been of great...
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Land and Environmental Art: Reflecting on Creative Processes of Singapore Contemporary Artists
This chapter reflects on the ways in which the beauty and fragility of our environment can be understood and amplified through how artists relate to...
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Maritime Security of the Arab Gulf States: The Concept and Its Historical and Legal Dimensions
This chapter tackles the content and the development of maritime securityMaritime Security as a concept, in addition to the historical and legal...
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Urban Food Security and Sustainability in Asian Cities
Because of increasing rural–urban migration, cities in the world currently hosting more than half of the world’s population are grappling with food...
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Switzerland
Neolithic settlements from around 3,000 BC have been found. Celtic clans settled in fertile valleys in parts of present-day Switzerland from around...
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Planetary Politics in the Twenty-Second Century
After two centuries of immanent planetary politics, by the twenty-second century the politics had become planetary. This means that since the 2020s...
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Climate Change—Does the IPCC Model Provide the Foundation for a Potential Global Technology Assessment Framework?
This chapter explores the structure, practises and methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a legitimate scientific...
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Climate Change and Food Security in SAARC
This chapter synthesizes the impact of climate change and food security on South Asian region, providing: (1) background and history to SAARC and its...
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Legal Preconditions for an Environmentally Sustainable European Union
Resilience is increasingly described as a prerequisite for a sustainable EU. Against this backdrop, Langlet looks at the potential of EU...
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Switzerland
Neolithic settlements from around 3,000 BC have been found. Celtic clans settled in fertile valleys in parts of present-day Switzerland from around...
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Change of Era: First Outlooks on the post-Corona World (2020)
The year 2020 marks a turning point. The global Corona pandemic shows humanity for the first time that globality is more than an abstract concept....
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Towards a Politics for the Earth: Rethinking IR in the Anthropocene
This chapter discusses the multiple ways in which the emergence of the Anthropocene challenges International Relations’s (IR’s) dominant structures...
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Canada
The first habitation in Canada dates from the last stages of the Pleistocene Ice Age up to 30,000 years ago. Tribes from Central and Northern Asia...
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Switzerland
Schweizerische Eidtgenossenschaft— Confédération Suisse— Confederazione Svizzera (Swiss Confederation)
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Netherlands
Flint tools found in the Maastricht area have been estimated to be 250,000 years old. The first definable culture (c. 3000 BC) was the Late Stone Age...