Author: P. BourguignonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric machinery
Languages : fr
Pages : 330
Book Description
Essais des machines à courant continu et alternatif
Author: P. BourguignonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric machinery
Languages : fr
Pages : 330
Book Description
Essais des machines à courants alternatifs
Author: G. FerrouxUnsustainable Inequalities
Author: Lucas ChancelPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674250656
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa. Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to consume more resources, almost by definition. And many measures to combat pollution lead to job losses and higher prices that mainly hurt the poor. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas Chancel confronts these difficulties head-on, arguing that the goals of social justice and a greener world can be compatible, but that progress requires substantial changes in public policy. Chancel begins by reviewing the problems. Human actions have put the natural world under unprecedented pressure. The poor are least to blame but suffer the most—forced to live with pollutants that the polluters themselves pay to avoid. But Chancel shows that policy pioneers worldwide are charting a way forward. Building on their success, governments and other large-scale organizations must start by doing much more simply to measure and map environmental inequalities. We need to break down the walls between traditional social policy and environmental protection—making sure, for example, that the poor benefit most from carbon taxes. And we need much better coordination between the center, where policies are set, and local authorities on the front lines of deprivation and contamination. A rare work that combines the quantitative skills of an economist with the argumentative rigor of a philosopher, Unsustainable Inequalities shows that there is still hope for solving even seemingly intractable social problems.
Legal Translation and Court Interpreting: Ethical Values, Quality, Competence Training
Author: Annikki LiimatainenPublisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
ISBN: 3732902951
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This multidisciplinary volume offers a systematic analysis of translation and interpreting as a means of guaranteeing equality under the law as well as global perspectives in legal translation and interpreting contexts. It offers insights into new research on • language policies and linguistic rights in multilingual communities • the role of the interpreter • accreditation of legal translators and interpreters • translator and interpreter education in multiple countries and • approaches to terms and tools for legal settings. The authors explore familiar problems with a view to developing new approaches to language justice by learning from researchers, trainers, practitioners and policy makers. By offering multiple methods and perspectives covering diverse contexts (e.g. in Austria, Belgium, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Norway, Poland), this volume is a welcome contribution to legal translation and interpreting studies scholars and practitioners alike, highlighting settings that have received limited attention, such as the linguistic rights of vulnerable populations, as well as practical solutions to methodological and terminological problems.
Fuel Taxes and the Poor
Author: Thomas SternerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136521712
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve local urban environment. As such, higher gasoline taxes could prove to be a fundamental part of any climate action plan. However, they have been resisted by powerful lobbies that have persuaded people that increased fuel taxation would be regressive. Reporting on examples of over two dozen countries, this book sets out to empirically investigate this claim. The authors conclude that while there may be some slight regressivity in some high-income countries, as a general rule, fuel taxation is a progressive policy particularly in low income countries. Rich countries can correct for regressivity by cutting back on other taxes that adversely affect poor people, or by spending more money on services for the poor. Meanwhile, in low-income countries, poor people spend a very small share of their money on fuel for transport. Some costs from fuel taxes may be passed on to poor people through more expensive public transportation and food transport. Nevertheless, in general the authors find that gasoline taxes become more progressive as the income of the country in question decreases. This book provides strong arguments for the proponents of environmental taxation. It has immediate policy implications at the intersection of multiple subject areas, including transportation, environmental regulation, development studies, and climate change. Published with Environment for Development initiative.
Whylah Falls
Author: George Elliott ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Whylah Falls is a passionate play about poets and the lies they tell in the pursuit of love.
Treaty Series
Author: Merger Mania
Author: Ivan F. BoeskyPublisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Atomic Energy Waste
Author: E. GlueckaufPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description