The high synthesis demand from upstream industries requires the development of new methods that produce fluorine and chlorine-containing compounds. To this end, a catalytic strategy was developed to achieve the insertion ...

Over the next century most states are likely to face momentous and potentially catastrophic environmental impacts due to climate change. This has made managing energy policy – traditionally focused on delivering energy ...

The rise of China has brought about changes in the balance of power in Southeast Asia, and the realist approach to foreign policy cannot explain why some Southeast Asian countries are balancing the increasing economic and ...

As planet Earth continues to warm up, there have been pressing calls for a decisive “energy transition.” An urgent demand, in other words, for a comprehensive shift from the current dependence on fossil-based or “dirty” ...

While China and India continue to build new nuclear power plants, partly for the sake of reducing coal-related air pollution, Taiwan and South Korea have stopped their development plans and have announced a clear agenda ...

This dissertation concerns moral, social, and political recognition, specifically the social practices of its exchange. I argue that recognition is a good that regularly, for reasons integral to the need for recognition ...

In the past ten years, the work done in area studies—that is, the interdisciplinary study of regional topics—has changed dramatically. As such, the nature of the support that librarians need to provide scholars has similarly ...

Today, India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with an expected annual GDP growth rate of 7.6 percent. With a target of eight percent annual growth in the twelfth five-year plan (2012–2017) and ...

Until 2011, nuclear power seemed to be on a roll around the world. A number of countries, including China and Japan, placed atomic energy as a core pillar in their energy policies or had plans for a massive expansion of ...

China and India are undergoing rapid transitions towards renewable energy. While their power mix is still dominated by coal, renewables—especially wind and solar— have in recent years outpaced the capacity addition of ...