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Standaard Aardrijkskunde 6 : handboek : opbouw- en afbraakprocessen, fysische landschappen en ruimtegebruik in eigen regio, België en West-Europa
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ISBN: 9002170882 Year: 2000 Publisher: Antwerpen Standaard Educatieve Uitgeverij


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La contractualisation du droit de la fonction publique : une étude de droit comparé Belgique-Congo
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ISBN: 287209623X 2738465242 9782872096237 9782738465245 Year: 2001 Volume: 8 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve Academia-Bruylant

Environmental diplomacy
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ISBN: 128044245X 019536046X 1601298889 9781601298881 9780195360462 9781280442452 9786610442454 6610442452 0195075935 9780195075939 0195075943 9780195075946 0197733298 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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This study examines weaknesses in the existing system of environmental treaty-making and suggests key changes necessary both to confront emerging global environmental threats (such as climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution) and to achieve sustainable development.

Environmental politics and liberation in contemporary Africa
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ISBN: 0792356527 9048151961 9401591652 Year: 1999 Volume: 18 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston London Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the subject of an ongoing debate. The de­ bate has moved on from the earlier, but still popular, notions of 'power struggles', 'class struggles' and 'ethnic conflicts', to a perception of conflict as the product of intense group competition for resources. Where the state controls the distribu­ tion of resources, itself inevitably becomes party to conflicts whose bone of con­ tention is access to state power as the most efficient means of gaining access to resources. The resources in question are social (health, education, transportation, communication, recreation, etc. ) and material (land, water, housing, jobs, con­ tracts, licenses, permits, etc. ). In parts of the world, and especially in Africa, di­ minishing resources and authoritarian state rule exacerbate group competition leading to political confrontation. This is the line I have followed in analysing conflict in the Hom of Africa (Markakis, 1987, 1998). Mohamed Salih's first contribution in this volume is to move the debate a step beyond this line, which can be criticized as unduly materialist. He does it by bringing culture into the realm of resources, not only as a resource in itself, but also as the agency that assigns natural resources their value. Culture thus becomes a contextual element in conflict over resources whose value is culturally deter­ mined.

Making globalisation sustainable ? : The Johannesburg summit on sustainable development and beyond
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ISBN: 9054873507 Year: 2003 Publisher: Brussels : VUB University Press,

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The World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened by the United Nations to provide renewed political impetus for a comprehensive effort to push forward the sustainable development agenda throughout the world and respond to the new challenges and opportunities that have arisen since the Rio Summit , held in 1992. The Johannesburg Summit resulted in a consensus on a plan of implementation and a short political declaration. The Department of Human Ecology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Aménagement du Territoire of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the University Centre for Development Co-operation (UCOS) and the Brussels Office of the British Council organised a symposium on "Making Globalisation Sustainable ? The Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development and beyond". It took place on 12 November 2002, at the VUB, attended by about three hundred participants. These proceedings are a result of the symposium, which provided a forum for policy-makers and academics to review the results of the Summit and to analyse implications for the European Union and its Member States, the developing countries and North-South relations. It proved an excellent opportunity to debate on the main issue : the way forward beyond the UN Summit of Johannesburg ! The organisation of the symposium and the publication of these proceedings have been made possible by the financial support provided by the VUB and the ULB, the British Council, the Belgian State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development, the Flemish Inter-University Council (VLIR) and the Brussels-Capital Region.


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Savoirs et jeux d'acteurs pour développements durables
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ISBN: 2872096256 274751109X 9782872096251 Year: 2001 Volume: 9 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve : Paris : Academia-Bruylant, L'Harmattan,

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