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River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Columbia river provides the largest Pacific outflow in the Western Hemisphere and the greatest hydropower production of any North American river system. For hydropower generation and flood risk management, four massive water storage reservoirs followed the Columbia River Treaty between Canada and the United States, with three Canadian dams,
Colleen A. Phelan +2 more
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Challenges Facing a Proposed WIPO Treaty for Persons Who are Blind or Print Disabled [PDF]
, 2013 Brook K. Baker
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Sustainability as Justice: Making the “Leave No One Behind” Work
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper critically engages with the LNOB principle of the 2030 Agenda, highlighting its conceptual, methodological, and structural limitations. Building on Amartya Sen's social choice theory and Rawlsian justice, it reconceptualizes “sustainability as justice,” emphasizing real‐world comparative assessments grounded in intersectionality. It
Rallou Taratori, Flavio Comim
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Protection of intangible cultural heritage and cultural analysis
Universidad y SociedadOur rich intangible cultural heritage, folklore, and traditional knowledge thrive as living traditions that evolve and transmit intergenerationally, not fading relics of the past.
Asadova Minakhanim Rafiq
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Chemical engineering faces an increasing imperative to integrate sustainability principles beyond traditional economic and environmental considerations. The social dimension—encompassing impacts on human well‐being, equity, community health, labor practices, and ethical governance—represents a critical yet often underdeveloped pillar within ...
José M. R. C. A. Santos
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Europe’s Lack of Structural Transformation and Necessary Policy Changes of EMU [PDF]
Primary goal of stabilization policy in the Treaty of European Union is price stability. That goal may be in conflict with the goal of full employment in the member states, particularly, then the union are hit by an asymmetric shock.
Norén, Ronny
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