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International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization, ed. Strategic reuse with asset-based development. [Poughkeepsie, NY]: International Technical Support Organization, 2008.

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Cohen, Harry, and Steven Silkunas. The Relationship Between Transit Asset Condition and Service Quality. Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.17226/25085.

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Nicholson, Sean. Biotech-pharmaceutical alliances as a signal of asset and firm quality. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002.

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Hampshire Business Liaison Group. Quality of Life Working Group. Quality of life as a business asset: Report of study group. [Winchester?]: The Liaison Group, 1992.

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J, Thomas Stephen, ed. Asset data integrity is serious business. New York: Industrial Press, Inc., 2010.

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(Firm), Resurgent India, ed. Mounting NPAs: Impact on Indian banking industry : dampening profitability, TEPID economic growth, deteriorating asset quality. New Delhi: The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, 2014.

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IWA Leading Edge Conference on Strategic Asset Management. Strategic asset management of water supply and wastewater infrastructure: Invited papers from the IWA Leading Edge Conference on Strategic Asset Management (LESAM), Lisbon, October 2007. London: IWA Pub., 2009.

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Abiad, Abdul. The quality effect: Does financial liberalization improve the allocation of capital? [Washington D.C.]: International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., 2004.

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Mathew, Joseph. Engineering Asset Management and Infrastructure Sustainability: Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2010). London: Springer London, 2012.

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Lei, Telli Van der. Asset Management: The State of the Art in Europe from a Life Cycle Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012.

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United, States Commission on Executive Legislative and Judicial Salaries. Quality leadership: Our government's most precious asset : the report of the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries. [Washington, D.C.]: The Commission, 1986.

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Florida. Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability. OPPAGA program review: Recommended Florida Retirement System contribution rates remain reasonable; asset growth has slowed. Tallahassee, Fla: Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, 2003.

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Office, General Accounting. Water infrastructure: Comprehensive asset management has potential to help utilities better identify needs and plan future investments : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: GAO, 2004.

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United, States Congress Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs. The condition of the U.S. banking system: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session on the examination of issues related to the condition of the United States banking system, including the effects of the suggested deteriorating bank asset quality, and improved risk management and control systems needed to respond to changing economic events, June 20, 2001. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The condition of the U.S. banking system: Hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session on the examination of issues related to the condition of the United States banking system, including the effects of the suggested deteriorating bank asset quality, and improved risk management and control systems needed to respond to changing economic events, June 20, 2001. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.

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Office, Texas Comptroller's. Liquid assets: The state of Texas' water resources. Austin, Tex: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, 2009.

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Who owns the sky?: Our common assets and the future of capitalism. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001.

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Magnaghi, Alberto, ed. Il territorio bene comune. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-134-8.

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The central theme of this book is ecological and territorialist conversion as a strategic response to the crisis. 'The return to the territory' can be conceived as a valorisation of the common heritage of assets (environmental, urban fabric, landscape, socio-cultural) that mould the identity and lifestyles of every place on the earth. This calls for several issues to be addressed: the fusing of fragmented knowledge into a science of the territory that addresses the problems of socio-territorial and environmental decay in an integrated manner; the definition of new markers and policies of public welfare and happiness, including the landscape as a measure of the quality of peoples' life-worlds; the boosting of tools of local democracy and supportive federalism; the restoration of centrality to the rural world in the production of healthy food, hydro-geological protection measures, ecological reclamation, urban and landscape quality and integrated economies.

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1951-, Norris Richard H., and Reynoldson Trefor B, eds. Bioassessment of freshwater ecosystems: Using the reference condition approach. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2004.

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Lee, Ackerman, and International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization, eds. Strategic reuse with asset-based development. [Poughkeepsie, NY]: International Technical Support Organization, 2008.

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Lee, Ackerman, and International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization, eds. Strategic reuse with asset-based development. [Poughkeepsie, NY]: International Technical Support Organization, 2008.

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Strategic reuse with asset-based development. [Poughkeepsie, NY]: International Technical Support Organization, 2008.

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Strategic reuse with asset-based development. [Poughkeepsie, NY]: International Technical Support Organization, 2008.

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Matz, Leonard M. Bank Soundness: A Banker's Guide to Controlling Asset Quality. McGraw-Hill Companies, 1989.

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Banal-Estanol, Albert, Enrique Benito, and Dmitry Khametshin. Asset Encumbrance and CDS Premia of European Banks. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815815.003.0021.

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Asset encumbrance refers to the existence of bank balance sheet assets being subject to arrangements that restrict the bank’s ability to freely transfer or realize them. Asset encumbrance has recently become a much discussed subject and policymakers have been actively addressing what some consider to be excessive levels of asset encumbrance. Despite its importance, the phenomenon of asset encumbrance remains poorly understood. We build a novel data set of asset encumbrance metrics based on information provided in the banks’ public disclosures for the very first time throughout 2015. We provide descriptive evidence of asset encumbrance levels by country, credit quality, size, and business model, using different encumbrance metrics. Our empirical results point to the existence of an association between CDS premia and asset encumbrance that is negative, not positive. That is, on average, encumbrance is perceived to be beneficial. Still, certain bank-level variables play a mediating role in this relationship. For banks that have high exposures to the central bank, high leverage ratios, and/or are located in southern Europe, asset encumbrance is less beneficial and could even be detrimental in absolute terms.

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VA health care: Improvements needed in capital asset planning and budgeting : report to the secretary of Veterans Affairs. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1999.

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Altman, Edward I. Corporate Bond Rating Drift: An Examination of Credit Quality Rating Changes over Time. Research Foundation of the Institute of Chart, 1991.

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The Retirement Handbook: How to Maximize Your Assets and Protect Your Quality of Life. 2nd ed. Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998.

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Barnes, Peter. Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism. Island Press, 2001.

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Barnes, Peter. Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism. Island Press, 2003.

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Manuel, Solmaz P., and Christine L. Mai. Professional Issues. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199398348.003.0027.

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The scope of professional issues in pediatric anesthesia presents challenges for the anesthesiologist because the care involves both the child and the family. Ethical issues can arise with questions about informed consent, informed permission, and assent in minors. Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses parents can present ethical challenges for the anesthesiologist. The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report, “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” brought attention to the problem of preventable medical errors occurring in US hospitals each year. These errors resulted in up to 98,000 patient deaths and were more likely to occur in operating rooms, emergency departments, and intensive care units. The report called for a comprehensive effort by health care providers, government, and consumers to make drastic reductions in these errors. Patient safety and quality assurance have become pinnacle motivators for anesthesiologists to strive for quality improvement in patient care.

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Ronen, Boaz, Joseph S. Pliskin, and Shimeon Pass. The “Evils” of Long Response Times (DRAFT). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190843458.003.0010.

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The “evils” of long response times, similar to the “evils” of excess work in process, are responsible for diminished quality and customer satisfaction. There is also an effect of diminishing throughput, control, and cash flow. Long response times (or high level of work in process) add to increase in operating expenses. Shortening response times and reducing the level of work in process are attainable and serve as leverage for significant improvement in organizational performance. Excess work in process can be caused by the efficiencies syndrome, viewing inventory as assets, and ignorance. The methods for reducing the level of work in process and shortening response times are detailed in the chapter 11.

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Nair, Aruna. Rules of Tracing I. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813408.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the rules that apply when tracing against a wrongdoer, or a recipient from a wrongdoer. It argues that the law employs a principle of subordination of wrongdoers in three distinct contexts. First, there is an evidential principle that sometimes assists a claimant when there are evidential gaps in the transactional history of an asset. Secondly, there is a distinct substantive principle that subordinates the interests, and intentions, of a wrongdoer when entering into transactions that exploit the claimant's legal vulnerability to his decision-making. This principle, limited by the principle of preserving defendant autonomy, explains which transactions qualify as clean substitutions and why the law has limited the possibility of tracing through the payment of debts. Finally, in the context of mixed substitutions, there is a special application of the principle of subordination in the form of the cherry-picking rule.

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Council for the Protection of Rural England. London Branch., ed. Compact sustainable communities: Meeting london's housing needs while improving quality of lfe, increasing economic vitality, protecting environmental assets and reducing the need to travel. London: CPRE, London Branch, 2001.

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Powers, Clarice J., and Marilyn Seiler. St. Anthony's Toolkit for Managing Home Care Services: A Five-Step Plan Integrating Clinical and Financial Resources for Managed Care and Quality Asse. Ingenix, 1996.

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Heginbotham, Christopher. Ethics and Values of Commissioning Mental Health Services. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.51.

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Commissioning is a cyclical process of that demands an understanding of the needs of prospective and current patients and service users, knowledge of community and institutional assets for psychiatric care, information on those public private and independent organizations available and willing to provide services, a wide and deep understanding of psychiatric nosology and treatments available, an ability to turn this information into a contract that is negotiated with the relevant providers, a recognition of cost and quality, a resource allocation methodology, and a system of measurement and clinical governance. Care planning, needs assessment, service development, and contracting disciplines each have their own ethical codes and values bases; by using values-based systems that engage patients and seek to meet patients lived experience, commissioners can shape the most appropriate service relevant to the patients’ recovery objectives.

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Brown, Derek H. Projectivism and Phenomenal Presence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199666416.003.0010.

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Projectivism asserts that we project subjective aspects of perception into what we experience as the world outside ourselves. It is minimally familiar from various phantom pains, afterimages, and hallucinations. Views like sense-datum theory arguably assert a more global, Strong Projectivism: all perceptual experiences involve and only involve direct awareness of projected elements. Strong Projectivism is an underappreciated variety of intentionalism. It straightforwardly explains the transparency of experience, and phenomena qualia theorists offer to avoid intentionalism, including blurry vision and spectrum inversion. Finally, projectivism illuminates residual qualia-friendly cases involving imagination and emotion. Although some cases may provide instances of non-projected, non-intentional aspects of experience, most do not. Thus, the notion of phenomenal presence drawn from projectivism does justice to a great many of the forces at play in debates surrounding qualia and intentionalism. We should bound toward Strong Projectivism.

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Devos, Erik. Physical Commodities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656010.003.0007.

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Unlike other financial assets, commodities have a physical component that introduces additional complexities for valuation and hedging. Physical commodities are broadly classified into energy, metals, agricultural, and livestock with each having unique characteristics. Still, commodities of the same type are subject to varying degrees of quality. Commodity investments typically use futures contracts, as opposed to spot transactions. Most futures transactions are closed before expiration and physical delivery is infrequent. The futures price is rarely equal to the spot price, and the intertemporal difference is related to the carrying costs and benefits of possessing the underlying commodity. Carrying costs include transportation, insurance, storage, and opportunity costs, while benefits are reflected in convenience yield and lease rate. Speculators seek to profit from discrepancies between markets over time. Manufacturers and end users are more likely to conduct hedging transactions, while large-scale financial institutions are more likely to conduct speculative positions.

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Piatkowski, Marcin. Poland’s Transition Success Story. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789345.003.0005.

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In this chapter I assess the optimal way to measure countries’ economic performance and assert that changes in median income are a better measure than GDP. I also argue in favour of increased focus on measurement of well-being, quality of life, and happiness. I document Poland’s historically unprecedented success, increasing its income from around $10,300 in 1990 to almost $27,000 PPP in 2017, becoming the most successful economy in Europe and among its peers in the world. I claim that Poland’s economic success is unique because it was achieved despite the country’s lack of natural resources, low debt leverage, and a vibrant democracy. It is unique also because Poland’s growth was inclusive; it was the only democratic country in the post-Soviet camp in which 100 per cent of society increased their incomes faster than in the West. Higher incomes translated into the highest levels of well-being and happiness on record.

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Piatkowski, Marcin. Will Poland’s Success Continue? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789345.003.0009.

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In this chapter I discuss Poland’s growth prospects and analyze long-term projections produced by international institutions. I argue that Poland should continue to grow and converge with the West at least until 2030 and achieve around 80 per cent of its level of income. This would be the highest relative level of income and quality of life in Poland’s history. The country’s true Golden Age would flourish. After 2030, however, convergence is likely to slow and might even reverse unless further reforms are implemented. I then discuss how much economists understand about what makes countries grow. I assert that we know much less than we think we know. I briefly review various challenges of moving from economic theory to economic practice. I also look at the pros and cons of international economic rankings, arguing that they play an important role by ‘naming and shaming’ countries into reforms, but their power is often overappreciated.

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Hitt, Michael A., Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona, Leonard Bierman, Christina E. Shalley, and Douglas Michael Wright, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190650230.001.0001.

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Selecting the best strategy is important if a firm is to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage, but many strategies fail not because they are improperly formulated but because they are poorly implemented. Strategy implementation is among the most important and most challenging issues with which top executives must deal, and effective implementation can help firms achieve high performance. Therefore, a greater understanding of the critical dimensions of strategy implementation is needed. This handbook is designed to provide a deeper understanding of topics important for the implementation of strategy. There are three major sections of the book: resources and governance, managing human capital, and accounting control systems. Resources must be acquired, developed, and configured to create the capabilities needed for implementing a firm’s strategy. However, because of the dynamic competitive landscapes in which most firms operate, strategies frequently change. Corporate governance not only guides the formulation of appropriate strategies but also ensures that proper implementation actions are taken. Because the most important resource for implementing strategy is human capital, the firm must engage in highly effective human resource management practices that attract, motivate, develop, and retain the highest quality human talent available. As a result, effective workforce management at all levels in the organization is essential to successful strategy implementation. Managing assets and controlling managerial behavior are critical to strategy implementation: assets can be managed and managerial behavior controlled using accounting-based data. The careful design of such systems promotes innovation and creative activity and identifies earnings, thereby promoting positive managerial actions to achieve desired financial outcomes.

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López, Marissa K. Racial Immanence. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479807727.001.0001.

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Racial Immanence is about how and why artists use the body in contemporary Chicanx cultural production. The book explores disease, disability, abjection, and sense experience in Chicanx visual, verbal, and performing arts from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in order to ask whether it is possible to think of race as something other than a human quality. This attention to the body is a way to push back against two distinct modes of identity politics: first, the desire for art to perform or embody an idealized abstraction of oppositional ethnicity; and second, the neoliberal commodification of identity in the service of better managing difference and dissent. While these two modes seem mutually exclusive, the resistance the artists in Racial Immanence exert toward both suggests a core similarity. By contrast, the cultural objects examined in the book assert human bodies as processes, as agents of change in the world rather than as objects to be known and managed. Within Chicanx cultural production the author locates an articulation of bodily philosophies that challenge the subject/object dualism leading to a global politics of dominance and submission. Instead, she argues, Chicanx cultural production fosters networks of connection that deepen human attachment to the material world, a phenomenon the author terms “racial immanence” that creates the possibility of progressive social change.

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Reynoldson, Trefor B., Robert Bailey, and Richard H. Norris. Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystems: Using the Reference Condition Approach. Springer, 2005.

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Cobham, Alex, and Petr Janský. Estimating Illicit Financial Flows. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854418.001.0001.

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Illicit financial flows constitute a global phenomenon of massive but uncertain scale, which erodes government revenues and drives corruption in countries rich and poor. In 2015, the countries of the world committed to a target to reduce illicit flows, as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. But five years later, there is still no agreement on how that target should be monitored—to say nothing of how it will be achieved. The term ‘illicit financial flows’ covers a range of corrupt practices, aimed at obtaining immunity or impunity from criminal law, from market regulation and from taxation. Illicit flows occur through many different channels, whether they involve laundering the proceeds of crime, for example, or shifting the profits of multinational companies. There are two consistent features. First, illicit flows are deliberately hidden. These cross-border movements of assets and income streams depend on a set of common tools including opaque company accounts, legal vehicles for anonymous ownership, and the secrecy jurisdictions that provide these services. Second, the overall effect of illicit flows is to reduce the revenue available to states, and to weaken the quality of governance—so there is less money to support human development, and it is less likely to be spent well. In this book, two of the economists most closely involved in the process to develop UN indicators of illicit financial flows offer a critical survey of the existing data and methodologies, identifying the most promising avenues for future improvement and setting out their own proposals.

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Keller, Krisztina. Policy recommendations on ecotourism for the countries of the Danube region. Corvinus University of Budapest, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14267/978-963-503-892-3.

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EcoVelo Tour Project (Fostering enhanced ecotourism planning along the Eurovelo cycle route network in the Danube region (DTP-055-2.2) along with the EuroVelo 6, 11 and 13 cycling routes at the Danube develops ecotourism and cycling tourism and ecotourism. The project aims to exploit synergies with the EuroVelo network, communicate effectively about ecotourism in the region, ensure the preservation of cultural and natural assets including biodiversity, landscape elements, and air quality while developing local ecotourism strategies. Ecotourism is a new form of travel that seeks to reduce the negative effects of mass tourism in the 20th century. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources defined ecotourism as "environmentally responsible visiting of relatively unspoilt natural areas, in order to enjoy and appreciate nature (and any accompanying cultural features - both past and present), that promotes conservation, has low negative visitor impact, and provides for beneficially active socio-economic involvement of local populations" (Hector Ceballos-Lascurain, Tourism, Ecotourism and Protected Areas, 1996). Ecotourism is thus a complex concept that emphasizes the importance of preserving local values, the natural environment and culture. This study builds upon the research on ecotourism in the Danube region carried out by national stakeholders from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia. The study aims to provide a helping hand for project partners in formulating policy recommendations at national as well as regional levels. In addition, this study also provides professional support and exchange of experiences to those countries where ecotourism is not yet on an advanced level.

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Van Harten, Gus. The Trouble with Foreign Investor Protection. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866213.001.0001.

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Governments are rightly discussing reform of investment treaties, and of the powerful system of ‘investor–state dispute settlement’ (ISDS) upon which they rest. It is therefore important to be clear about the crux of the problem. ISDS treaties are flawed fundamentally because they firmly institute wealth-based inequality under international law. That is, they use cross-border ownership of assets, mostly by multinationals and billionaires, as the gateway to extraordinary protections, while denying equivalent safeguards to those who lack the wealth required to qualify as foreign investors. The treaties thus have the main effect of safeguarding an awe-inspiring set of rights and privileges for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of countries and their populations. This book shows how ISDS came to explode in a global context of extreme concentration of wealth and of widespread poverty. The history of early ISDS treaties is highlighted to show their ties to decolonization and, sometimes, extreme violence and authoritarianism. Focusing on early ISDS lawsuits and rulings reveals how a small group of lawyers and arbitrators worked to create the legal foundations for massive growth of ISDS since 2000. ISDS-based protections are examined in detail to demonstrate how they give exceptional advantages to the wealthy. Examples are offered of how the protections have been used to reconfigure state decision making and shift sovereign minds in favour of foreign investors. Finally, the ongoing efforts of governments to reform ISDS are surveyed, with a call to go further or, even better, to withdraw from the treaties.

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