Abstract for the International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference "Climate for Change. Ageing into the Future". Melbourne, Australia, 3-6 May 2010

Abstract for the International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference "Climate for Change. Ageing into the Future". Melbourne, Australia, 3-6 May 2010

Piracy off the Horn of Africa has become an increasingly salient international issue. The phenomenon of piracy has been forbidden by (international) law since centuries and has taken different forms throughout history. Nowadays piracy is still present in every corner of the world, especially in poor, …

In this thesis it is investigated how climate change will influence transboundary water collaboration in Africa. Transboundary water basins tie all African countries together, that is why all water management is in fact transboundary water management. Due to the fact that climate change is an extreme …

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) currently dominate the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) community and there are no signs that this will change in the near future. But for many years the weeknesses of GNSS have been well known and besides research into GNSS a lot of research into back …

I started this particular project with an internship at the European Commission in Beijing, China. Experiencing China's enormous growth myself in the last seven months it was clear to me that China will have an even greater impact on both the economic and political agendas of the Western world and its …

Parallel trade is 'the legal importation of genuine goods into a country by intermediaries other than authorised distributors' (Albaum, Duerr, Strandskov, 2005, p. 313). It has been concluded that parallel import is a result of price differences across European countries, which in turn, is the result …

I am glad to share the major findings of my bachelor thesis with you. Let me first give you an insight in the current situation within IBM and the Madrid International Services Centre.The global economy is suffering from a crisis hitting several big corporate players. Nevertheless,IBM and the Centre …

This paper focuses on the concept climate refugees in the 21st Century and mainly concerns environmentally displaced persons from developing countries. It seeks to answer the following question: 'Should the concept of climate refugees best be approached from a juridical or an environmental point of view?' …

Nepal and the Netherlands are two different countries. The Netherlands is lying in Europe and Nepal is a part of Asia (z.a. 2008). Also the education is a little different. In the Netherlands there are many types of schools; primary education, secondary education, special need primary education, special …