Richard D. Grint v. Trimco Molding and/or Argonaut Insurance Company, and Utah Labor Commission : Reply Brief

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Taking stock of the UN decade of education for sustainable development: the policymaking process in Flanders

In this paper, we address the implementation of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Flanders, a sub-national entity of Belgium. Our analysis shows how the policy-making process in Flanders is inextricably intertwined with three developments in environmental and educational policy: the increasing impact of ESD policy and discourse on environmental education, the framing of social and political problems as learning problems, and ecological modernisation. These trends give shape to a post-ecologist and post-political policy regime and, thus, affect what is possible and acceptable within Flemish ESD policy. However, this case study also revealed that these developments do not completely determine ESD policy-making in Flanders. Our examination thus allowed us to understand how the actual policy translation in a particular local setting brings about powers that legitimise and maintain as well as counteract the bounds of the policy regime that emerged in the context of the UN Decade

China\u27s renewable energy policy : from project-based to strategic policy making: cases of wind and solar

China is challenged by the imbalance between rapid economic growth and lacking environmental protection. Economic growth and increasingly intensive use of energy are certainly the main causes of environmental degradation in China. However, the central state tries to find a way out of the energy-environment dilemma. In 2005, the Chinese president Hu Jin-Tao emphasized that renewable energy was “an indispensable measure to deal with the increasingly serious issues of energy and environment”. The following year, China\u27s Renewable Energy Law took effect, indicating a turning point in the energy policy. This paper investigates China’s wind and solar energy, because they both reflect proactive policies and major changes in China’s energy policy. We will discuss the trajectories that are leading from a past policy which was based on more ad hoc and projects, to an increased institutionalization of renewable energy as a strategic choice in China’s energy mix

Position of migrant workers on the Belgian labour market under scrutiny

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Saga of automobile industry restructuring continues at Ford-Genk

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Agreement regulates flexibility in Sitel outsourced call centre

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Voorwoord

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