Title:25 years of Arctic environmental agency : changing issues and power relations
Author(s):FINGER-STICH, Andrea; FINGER, MatthiasDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:This paper proposes a retrospective of the changes in environmental policies and the various actors' positions and strategies concerning the Arctic since Mikhaïl Gorbachev, then the Soviet Union's General Secretary, visited ...
Title:30 Years of Railway Liberalization in Europe: What does it mean for us?
Author(s):FINGER, MatthiasDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The aim of this text is to crystallize the challenges of European railway liberalization for Switzerland, as well as for the railway freight. In order to do that, I will proceed in three steps: I will first recall European ...
Title:Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education: Belarus
Author(s):ULASIUK, IrynaDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:Freedom, autonomy and accountability are commonly regarded as very important, but policy-makers do not always pay sufficient attention to the tensions among them. Thus freedom or school autonomy may be sacrificed to ...