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Elke Hemminger

The Mergence of Spaces

2009

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3 Living in a Networked Society: Sociological Theory, Social Change and Concepts of Immersion, Identity and Space S. 56-84

„… 56 3 Living in a Networked Society: Sociological Theory, Social Change and Concepts of …” „… loss of 57 traditional values. Obviously sociological concepts are subject to social change as well …” „… concept of New Media was analysed in section 1.6 of this work as being both driver and result of social …”

1 Of Elves and Men S. 11-28

„… development of digital RPGs the concept of game space as Thirdspace, a culturally constructed space, started …” „… personal activity. They have a tangible impact on cultural change, including practices of communication …” „… of this study as the concept of Thirdspace will be considered as a useful concept for the description …”

2 Fantasy Media: A Traditional Genre Prepares for the Future S. 28-56

„… . 56 3 Living in a Networked Society: Sociological Theory, Social Change and Concepts of Immersion …” „… Hitzler (2005) and the concept of the community of practice (Wenger 1998). 2.1 The Fantasy Genre The …” „… family resemblance approaches, genres can be defined based on the psycholinguistic concept of …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-9

„… Society: Sociological Theory, Social Change and Concepts of Immersion, Identity and Space 56 3.1 …” „… as Manifestation of Social Change 61 3.5 Game Studies: Concepts of Immersion, Identity and Space 63 …” „… Elke Hemminger El ke H em m in ge r Th e M er ge nc e of S pa ce s Experiences of Reality in …”

6 Conclusion: Online Game Space in a Cultural Context S. 139-144

„… surrounding. Naive amazement and the belief in a deeper meaning of natural developments and change is not …” „… . This aversion is not merely a postmodern phenomenon or the immediate answer to modern concepts of life …” „… be closed. In what ways will the participant and creative use of online spaces change cultural …”

5 The Mergence of Spaces: Results and Interpretation S. 98-139

„… : Fantasy Elements & Diversity of Experience Games are usually designed for fun, but the concept of fun is …” „… issue. Also, the connection to the concept of Risk Society presented in section 3.3 is obvious. I will …” „… changes in real life as well. Role-playing triggers reflection of the self and others, of situations and …”

4 How to Explore Virtual Realms: Methodology S. 84-98

„… concept of Qualitative Content Analysis was adopted, which proceeds in several steps from the …” „… change of focus on MMORPGs: while doing the interviews and observing game sessions, a new angle on the …” „… : first, the results have a critical function and question some of the traditional approaches and concepts …”

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Shafiah F. Muhibat - Evolving Approaches to Regional Security Cooperation

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Evolving Approaches to Regional Security Cooperation

Series: Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden

Volume 208 2013

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A Broader Concept of Security and the Preference for Multilateralism: The Interplay between the Changes in Threat Perception and the Changes in Norms S. 152-155

„… 152 tive change occurs because of the successful fusion of foreign ideas with local ones. When …” „… . 5.3.2. A Broader Concept of Security and the Preference for Multilateralism: The Interplay between the …” „… Changes in Threat Perception and the Changes in Norms The process of finding common interests between …”

Key Findings and Contribution S. 156-160

„… 156 VI. Findings and Conclusion The term “cooperative security” is an example of a concept that …” „… meanings. Of more concern, there are overlapping definitions and usage with other concepts such as common …” „… security. The application of this concept has also varied when used in the analysis of different study …”

Security Community and Constructivism S. 43-51

„… next sections, the concepts of a security community and an international regime are discussed. These …” „… cooperation. On the one hand, the concept of a security community emphasises shared values, identities, and …” „… informal rules and formal organisations in a given issue-area, the concept of an international regime …”

Introducing the Variables S. 85-86

„… of concept that is repeatedly used by both scholars and politicians to refer to empirical situations …” „… . Moreover, the application of this concept has also varied when used in the analysis of different study …” „… was little agreement on a scholarly definition of the concept. Thus, the application of the concept in …”

Threat Perception S. 86-95

„… change and result in the construction of a collective identity among states.381 This book highlights two …” „… change. I propose to look more closely at the aspects of changes of basic ideas about security and the …” „… changes of ideas about security) and norm generation. 3.2.2. Threat Perception The rule of threat …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-8

„… the Concept 14 1.2.2. Comparison with Other Concepts of Security Cooperation 17 1.2.3. Problems …” „… 3.1.3. Examining the Different Usages and Concepts: The Main Findings 83 3.2. The Evolving Concept of …” „… Concept of Security and Threat Perception 88 3.2.2.2. Identity and Threat Perception 90 3.2.2.3 …”

Norm Generation S. 95-103

„… newly established ones, undergo various developments and changes to cope with the increase of …” „… importance of ideology and the socialisation of relations that may induce identity change and result in the …” „… , they are interrelated since, without a proper boundary of the regime concept, the impact of regimes on …”

Concepts of Cooperative Security: The Analysis and Main Hypothesis S. 103-105

„… can be conceptualised as a form of institutional change. Localisation is thus indicated when an extant …” „… structures.473 3.2.4. Concepts of Cooperative Security: The Analysis and Main Hypothesis It has been …” „… , there was little agreement on a scholarly definition for it. Thus, the application of the concept in …”

Normative Changes S. 148-152

„… the rapid change to the domestic circumstances of so many states. Moreover, as argued by Frost, the …” „… concept of ‘security’ in Asia appears to be changing appropriately - albeit very slowly.643 It is moving …” „… notable by its absence, and where a traditional concept of sovereignty is highly prized. Despite this …”

Regime Theory and Constructivism S. 51-61

„… part of the discipline of International Relations, the concept of international regime emerged as a way …” „… concept of an international regime assumes that actors (usually states, but also inter-governmental …” „… aware of changes in the meaning of the norms. Taking account of the changes in decision-making …”

Understanding Security and Security Cooperation S. 11-14

„… constructivism as its main analytical tool, this book addresses two central questions: (1) whether the concept of …” „… concept of security and no definition of security in the international system is valid for all the …” „… re-organisation of the discipline to include a broader and deeper approach to rethinking security.7 The concept of …”

Analytical Tools S. 26-28

„… intensively used. However, the most recent dynamics, including changes in the concept, seem to occur when it …” „… culture which preclude the possibility of change.87 Because multiple meanings coexist, often in …” „… them as “discourses”.”89 In this view, understanding varying concepts enables the understanding of how …”

Illustrating the Concept: Practices of Cooperative Security in East Asia IV. Trilateral Cooperation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore S. 105-109

„… of cooperative security changes according to the dynamics that characterise the particular region …” „… hypothesis of this book: the interplay between changes in threat perceptions and changes in norms may …” „… , consequently, change the form of regional cooperation. Threats shape state interests and, consequently, affect …”

Examining the Different Usages and Concepts: The Main Findings S. 83-85

„… concept, which they interpret as to establish “a forum that can deal effectively with issues of strategic …” „… these attempts to apply the concept in the Middle East took Europe and OSCE as their model. A report of …” „… of the concept. The first is that there are at least three different understandings of the concept of …”

A Constructivist Perspective on Security Cooperation S. 40-43

„… place much emphasis on change. Individual and collective learning, defined as a change of basic ideas …” „… . Consequently, the agreed-upon principles of conduct change. The three basic ontological positions of …” „… T. Checkel, Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the …”

Bibliography S. 162-171

„… ) --- (1997), “The Concept of Security”, Review of International Studies, 23. Bateman, Sam and Emmers, Ralf …” „… , Ashton B., Perry, William James, and Steinbruner, John D. (1992), A New Concept of Cooperative Security …” „… International Political Change : Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War (New Haven and London: Yale …”

Conceptual Analysis S. 20-24

„… 20 cal and prescriptive clarity.53 More importantly, the application of this concept has also …” „… vagueness are not favourable for the academic use of the concepts, such as in International Relations and …” „… explanatory method to clarify the concept. Illustrating the practices of cooperative security in selected …”

Comparison with Other Concepts of Security Cooperation S. 17-19

„… argued in constructivism, changes in the norms of international society can create changes in the …” „… attend to the betterment of their domestic situations.40 1.2.2. Comparison with Other Concepts of …” „… definition of security that includes military and non-military issues.46 Both concepts are inclusive in their …”

Introducing the Concept S. 14-17

„… literature18 therefore, it is rather difficult to present one grand agreed-upon definition of the concept …” „… subject, which have been significant in relation to the use of the concept. It serves only as a starting …” „… flexible concept as it recognises the value of existing bilateral and balance of power arrangements in …”

Case Study S. 24-26

„… alternative definitions, then a clearer sense of the meaning of the initial concept can be derived by asking …” „… , “Of what is this an instance?”, “Is the concept with the disputed definition a sub-category of a more …” „… second part of this book, the cooperative security concept is illustrated through case studies. It is …”

Scholarly Usage S. 66-73

„… by tracing the various usages found of the concept, first by categorising scholarly usages in …” „… International Relations and Security Studies. It then looks at different conceptions of the concept …” „… concept must be operationalised, showing what type of operations we want to define or measure it.278 To …”

Defining a Region S. 61-63

„… actors; that there are different degrees of compliance and changes therein over time; that compliance …” „… for integration as a way of positioning themselves in response to global change.”260 2.3.2. The …” „… states, although it can also envisage integration.266 Buzan and Weaver introduced the concept of a …”

Problems and Confusion S. 19-20

„… to the narrow military-only focus definition.52 Figure 1.1 Comparison with other concepts of …” „… concept as it recognises the value of existing bilateral and balance of power arrangements in contributing …” „… ” is an example of a concept that is frequently used by scholars and politicians to refer to empirical …”

The Role of Identity S. 37-39

„… an understanding of international behaviour, practices, institutions, and change. The key question is …” „… process of interaction. The concepts of ‘self’ and ‘others’ are developed and sustained or transformed in …” „… Moreover, identity may change, but is relatively stable.132 Once structures of identity and interests have …”

Further Studies on Cooperative Security S. 160-161

„… the changes in the practice of cooperative security, namely threat perception and norm generation …” „… application of the cooperative security concept to other regions. This is an interesting idea for further …” „… 160 (2) laying a foundation for further work that uses the cooperative security concept in …”

Chapter Conclusion S. 64-65

„… norms, the importance of ideology and the socialisation of relations that may induce identity change and …” „… influence the member states. The concepts of a security community and an international regime work well …” „… different degrees of compliance and changes therein over time; that compliance with norms rests with the …”

Normative and Ideational Structures of International Security S. 31-37

„… the chapter takes into account the concepts of security community and international regime and how …” „… of relations that may induce identity change and result in the construction of a collective identity …” „… induce identity change and result in the construction of a collective identity among states.103 Global …”

Cooperative Security: A Conceptual Analysis II. Explaining Regional Security Cooperation: A Constructivist Approach to Security Studies S. 28-31

„… 28 does not offer any policy-oriented suggestions for an empirical application of the concept …” „… found of the concept. It then analyses the concept, clarifying it through explication, and considering …” „… dissertation. Part II of this book presents two case studies to illustrate the concept as developed in the …”

The Security Dimension of Regionalisation S. 63-64

„… integration as a way of positioning themselves in response to global change.”260 2.3.2. The Security …” „… states, although it can also envisage integration.266 Buzan and Weaver introduced the concept of a …” „… concept is defined as “a set of units whose major processes of securitisation, de-securitisation, or both …”

A Higher Level of Cooperation: A Consequence of the Interplay between the Changes in Threat Perception and the Changes in Norms S. 128-130

„… changes in the form of regional cooperation. The proliferation of transnational security threats in an …” „… of the need to cooperate. The interplay between changes in threat perceptions and changes in norms is …” „… discernible, alongside the consequent changes in the form of regional cooperation. A change of basic ideas …”

Responding to the Increase in Transnational Threats S. 126-128

„… aware of the need to cooperate and consequently changes the norms on cooperation. 4.3.1. Responding to …” „… demands changes in the application of cooperative security …” „… Cooperation: A Consequence of the Interplay between the Changes in Threat Perception and the Changes in Norms …”

An Historical Overview on Regional Security Cooperation in Southeast Asia S. 112-119

„… shared identities that permeate national societies or a concept of common citizenship. Rather, it is a …” „… security community.507 The concept of a ‘security community’ means that member states rule out war against …” „… (NPCSD), which developed the substance of the concept by attempting to reconceptualise …”

ASEAN-China Relations after 2000: Further Institutionalisation Efforts S. 140-148

„… rapid change to the domestic circumstances of so many states. Moreover, as argued by Frost, the concept …” „… absence, and where a traditional concept of sovereignty is highly prized. Despite this, Asian states have …” „… resolving disputes.614 One of the main obstacles for the ARF has been ASEAN’s lack of unity, while still …”

East Asia: An Overview of Regional Dynamics S. 131-134

„… global change.”578 ASEAN-China may not be a region by itself. Rather, it is one part of the bigger East …” „… Security Complex concept, ASEAN and China have formed relations in which “major processes of securitisation …” „… illustrates how certain changes have occurred in the practice of cooperative security between ASEAN and China …”

ASEAN-China Relations in the 1990s: Normalisation and Engagement S. 134-140

„… . Related to this, Southeast Asian states have witnessed a major change in their perception of China based …” „… , that regional security cooperation was important in light of the political and economic changes …” „… on three factors: Beijing’s pragmatic policy of political stabilisation has reassured ASEAN countries …”

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Gaby Umbach - Intent and Reality of the European Employment Strategy

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Gaby Umbach

Intent and Reality of the European Employment Strategy

Series: Studies on the European Union

Volume 1 2009

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Applicability of the Europeanisation Approach: Misfit and Adaptation Pressure – Omnipotent Concepts To Explain Change Instigated by the OMC? S. 168-170

„… irrelevance of the EES. Nevertheless, no or rather diffuse Europeanisation would point at change of public …” „… Adaptation Pressure – Omnipotent Concepts To Explain Change Instigated by the OMC? Within the analytical …” „… armoury of European integration theories, Europeanisation is perceived to be the concept best fitting to …”

The Concept of Europeanisation: Why ‘Brussels’ Matters, Why ‘Back Home’ Matters and Why It Is a Matter of Perspective S. 79-111

„… convergence focuses on the effects of policy change on policy characteristics. This concept is strongly …” „… Theoretico-Empirical Frame of Reference 792.1.2 The Concept of Europeanisation: Why ‘Brussels …” „… parallel to the EMLG-focused analysis of changes in governance, Europeanisation became a prominent …”

European Multilevel Governance: Rapprochement to the Systemic Background of Europeanisation S. 38-79

„… ; Schmitter 2004:49ff.) Generally, the EMLG concept describes a fundamental change of policy-making …” „… Change through European Provisions The following sub-chapter forms the starting point of the study’s …” „… and the EMLG concept that provide the ground for the evolution of the OMC and the setting, in which …”

Europeanisation of Employment Policies: Policy Transfer and Diffusion Leading to ?-Convergence? S. 165-168

„… both countries would show signs of change and adaptation to the general ‘policy ID’ of the EES, that is …” „… overall policy characteristics of the EES. These aims target at policy change through policy learning by …” „… policy transfer and means of policy diffusion. They include change of underlying ideas, paradigms, and …”

Foreword and Acknowledgement S. 5-14

„… Nothing’ or ‘Change through Exchange’? 74 2.1.2 The Concept of Europeanisation: Why …” „… to the Systemic Background of Europeanisation 39 2.1.1.1 The Governance Concept …” „… to the Systemic Background of Europeanisation 39 2.1.1.1 The Governance Concept …”

Explanative Benefits and the Need to Broaden the Analytical View in order to Explain Domestic Change and Persistence S. 441-443

„… Europeanisation approach indeed proved to be an analytical concept fitting to explain the emergence of the OMC as …” „… well as with a view to changes of underlying domestic cognitive/normative structures (cf. chapter 2.3.1 …” „… to impact of the EES. Due to changes in this particular domain, domestic structures and employment …”

Structure and Division: The Road Map for the Train of Thought S. 35-37

„… , which builds the analytical backbone of this study. It forms the core theoretical concept of analysis …” „… further categorises the potential impact of Europeanisation on domestic change in order to set up and …” „… equip the core analytical matrix of the study with indicators for both institutional and policy change …”

Domestic Public Policy and Timing of the EES: British and German Welfare State and Employment Policy Traditions – Fringes of a Gamut? S. 136-158

„… the extension of the (still residual) welfare state, a change in perception of unemployment turned it …” „… . Huckemann 1995:49ff.. In parallel to these reforms, fundamental institutional changes of labour market and …” „… changes was a substantial decrease in quality of jobs during the 1980s with employment growth strongly …”

The ‘Stand-Alone’ EES (1997/98-2002): Autonomous Europeanisation Power and Embeddedness of its ‘Policy ID’ into German Traditions? S. 356-392

„… radical than in the British case. This new supply-side neo-liberal economic concept of the conservative …” „… , reforms and change affected the tightening of control mechanisms and eligibility criteria for benefit …” „… change of policy paradigm towards activation was, however, to be witnessed and far-reaching reforms were …”

Interim Assessment: The EES’s Impact on German Employment Policy Priorities – Policy Transfer and Diffusion leading to ?-Convergence? S. 405-412

„… , and welded EES (2003-2005) was characterised by a significant boost of overarching reform concepts …” „… fostered since 2001). Yet, the scope of employment policy reform concepts remained limited. Besides the …” „… ’ reforms combined elements of all pillars and established overarching reform concepts comparable to the …”

‘Speeding up the Construction Process’: Post Reform Boost Trends under the Streamlined EES (2003-2005) – Europeanisation Impact Intensified or Blurred? S. 392-405

„… reforms, the year 2002 can be regarded as the start of a real change of paradigm in German employment …” „… previous years. The change of paradigm was, yet, not merely instigated by the EES itself or the European …” „… ‘Hartz’ reform concept, the impact of domestic veto points (cf. chapter 2.2.1.2) became obvious in the …”

The EES, the OMC, and Europeanisation: Impact without Analytical Grounds or a Case of ‘Phantom’ Adaptation Pressure? S. 438-441

„… EES and the OMC are assessed to enforce domestic change through learning and Europeanisation of …” „… of the impact on domestic change than for the analysis of Europeanisation processes in cases of …” „… between the EES/OMC and domestic change and to relate the latter directly to the Europeanisation impact of …”

Literature S. 458-487

„… . (1997): What’s So Special About Policy Network’s? – An Exploration of the Concept and Its Usefulness in …” „… Change in Telecommunications and Health Care, Max-Planck-Institute for the Studies of Societies, MPIfG …” „… / Mingers, Susanne (1996): Ringing the Changes in Europe. Regulatory Competition and the Transformation of …”

British and German Employment Policies under the EES: Proximity and Rapprochement to its ‘Policy ID’ – Converging Trends, Remaining Differences S. 429-438

„… to rapprochement of Germany to the EES and proximity of the UK approach to the EES) Change of …” „… 5.2.3). However, no sea-change of domestic employment policy approaches was assessed to have taken place …” „… medium strong to increasingly strong in Germany. Final Conclusions 432In view of policy change …”

Interim Assessment: The EES’s Impact on British Employment Policy Priorities – Policy Transfer and Diffusion leading to ?-Convergence? S. 348-356

„… development, change in priorities was strongly related to the new policy approach of New Labour (cf. chapter …” „… NAP did not provide for a powerful framework to force changes of employment policies in case of …” „… area of adaptability, where New Labour introduced changes “promoting flexible working practices …”

Research Design: Variables, Theses, and Methodology S. 31-35

„… outcomes, by contrast, are only indirectly related to the causal mechanisms of [policy change and …” „… applied with it, form the independent variable of the research design. The aim of the analysis of this …” „… bottom-up and the top-down perspective of the Europeanisation approach, aiming at a better understanding of …”

The Underlying ‘Policy ID’: Spotlight at the Initial What of the EES S. 195-199

„… notion of dynamism, and in some sense rebalancing it, came the emphasis on negotiating change and the …” „… The Why, When, How, What, and In How Far of European Employment Policy Co-ordination 195(cf …” „… / Schmid 2003:131). Additionally, the asynchronous policy cycles of the ESF and the EES suppress explicit …”

In How Far?: European Employment Policy Co-ordination and the Constraints of Supra- and International Economic Integration S. 218-228

„… the EU of some common EU changes in labour-market paradigms” (Goetschy 2003:70). Yet, the launch of …” „… weakened the basis for the imposition of sanctions by reviewing the “concept of exceptional excess over the …” „… The Why, When, How, What, and In How Far of European Employment Policy Co-ordination 218the single …”

German Employment Policy Co-ordination: Fragmented Leadership, De-Centralised Polity, ‘Corporatist Style’ Pluralism, Several Veto Points, and the EES – ‘Brothers in Mind’? S. 286-304

„… the change of government towards the centre-left pole, with legislation such as the Hartz concept and …” „… Structural-Procedural Aspects of the EES in Practice 286Asymmetry is also an overall feature of …” „… drafting the NAP. Smaller organisations are placed at a disadvantage. Regardless of this visible impact …”

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Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Christophe Bouton, Servanne Jollivet - Die Vergangenheit im Begriff

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Die Vergangenheit im Begriff

2021

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Daniel Brauer The Structure and Evolution of Koselleck’s Theory of Historical Experience S. 21-34

„… central role in his historiographi-cal theory. I will first analyze the concept of »space of …” „… . Koselleck, »›Erfahrungsraum‹ und ›Erwartungshorizont‹ : Zwei his-leck’s revisions of this concept in his …” „… examination of the his-tory of the problem,8 have shown that the concept of experience, farfrom being capable …”

Lisa Regazzoni The impossible monument of experience: a story that never ends S. 100-124

„… Change« (1988),in The practice of conceptual history. Timing History, Spacing Concepts, translated byTodd …” „… , Fischer, Frankfurt a.M., 2000, p. 230.of the concept of »sediments of time« (Zeitschichten) that …” „… article »Transforma-tion of Experience and Methodological Change«.10 Published in 1988,this contribution …”

Alexandre Escudier Un »premier« Koselleck néo-hobbésien? S. 200-220

„… remar-quable est qu’il fait totalement l’impasse sur les Two Treatises of Go-vernment pour ne retenir qu’un …” „… pagesque Locke avance la triade »divine law«, »civil law«, »philosophicallaw« (appelée également »law of …” „… concept de »Geschichte« et le processus de »Verzeitlichung« de sortequ’il a procédé à la révision du texte …”

Gennaro Imbriano The temporality of history. S. 221-238

„… Gennaro ImbrianoThe temporality of history.Structures of the »Political« and the concept of …” „… the philosophy of his-tory, does Koselleck intend to reject a unitary concept of historicaltime at a …” „… . Franzel and S.-L. Hoffmann translate Kosel-leck’s concept of Zeitschichten (temporal strata, or strata of …”

Zusammenfassungen S. 243-260

„… changes in the evolution of hiswork. He contrasts Koselleck’s conception of »experience« withKant’s view …” „… ). The aim of thiscontribution is to analyze the concept of acceleration of history un-derstood as a …” „… second half of the last cen-tury, in France, the widespread promotion of the concept of …”

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Christoph Bieber, Sven Sebastian Grundmann - Ethik und Politikmanagement

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Ethik und Politikmanagement

Series: Sonderhefte Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft

Volume 2014

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Schreurs Miranda A. The Ethical Dimension of Energy Policy Decisions: The Role of Advisory Bodies S. 119-138

„… case of climate change, for example, it is the industrialized countries of the north that historically …” „… that are likely to suffer themost from climate change impacts. In terms of consumption, the reality …” „… followingparagraph 9). Oluf Langhelle (1999: 129 ff.) notes that an important contribution ofthe concept of …”

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