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Author : Jeffrey P. Bialos,Christine E. Fisher,Stuart Koehl
Publisher : Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : 0984134123
Author : Jeffrey P. Bialos,Christine E. Fisher,Stuart Koehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : OCLC:1310750528
Author : Jeffrey P. Bialos,Christine E. Fisher,Stuart Koehl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0980187176
Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense, this book uses disciplined diagnostic methodologies to assess the openness and accessibility of European and U.S. defense markets. The authors also evaluate the evolving European institutions, laws, policies, practices, and arrangements that impact the defense industry. They also propose recommendations for the future. As the book discusses, a more open and competitive transatlantic defense market can potentially facilitate greater force interoperability and capability acquisition in an era where coalition warfare is the norm. A more competitive market would also encourage greater competition, and the affordability and innovation it brings, in a time of global defense industrial consolidation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arms transfers
ISBN : OCLC:1109691801
Author : Luke R. A. Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107115514
A comparative analysis of the role of EU and US defence procurement regulation as a barrier to transatlantic defence trade.
Author : Gabriella Margherita Racca,Christopher Yukins
Publisher : Bruylant
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9782802765295
Innovation in public procurement is essential for sustainable and inclusive growth in an increasingly globalized economy. To achieve that potential, both the promises and the perils of innovation must be investigated, including the risks and opportunities of joint procurement across borders in the European Union and the United States. This in-depth research investigates innovation in public procurement from three different perspectives. First, leading academics and practitioners assess the purchase of innovation, with a particular focus on urban public contracting in smart cities involving meta-infrastructures, public-private partnership arrangements and smart contracts. A second line of inquiry looks for ways to encourage innovative suppliers. Here, the collected authors draw on emerging lessons from the US and Europe, to explore both the costs and the benefits of spurring innovation through procurement. A third perspective looks to various innovations in the procurement process itself, with a focus on the effects of joint and cross-border procurement in the EU and US landscapes. The chapters review new technologies and platforms, the increasingly automated means of selecting suppliers, and the related efficiencies that “big data” can bring to public procurement. Expanding on research in the editors’ prior volume, Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts: Balancing Corruption Concerns in Public Procurement Internationally (Bruylant 2014), this volume builds on a series of academic conferences and exchanges to address these issues from sophisticated academic, institutional and practical perspectives, and to point the way to future research on the contractual models that are emerging from new procurement technologies.
Author : Annalisa Castelli,Gustavo Piga,Stéphane Saussier,Tünde Tátrai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000173116
Public procurement affects a substantial share of world trade flows, amounting to 1000 billion euros per year. In the EU, the public purchase of works, goods and services has been estimated to account on average for 16 percent of GDP. The novelty of this book is that it focuses on the new European Union Directives approved in 2014 by the EU Parliament. The book consists of original contributions related to four specific themes of interest to the procurers’ day-to-day role in modern public purchasing organizations – both economists and lawyers – allowing for relevant exchanges of views and “real time” interaction. The four sections which characterize the book are Life-cycle Costing in Public Procurement; Calculating Costs and Savings of Public Procurement; Corruption and Probity in Public Procurement and Public Procurement and International Trade Agreements: CETA, TTIP and beyond. These themes have been chosen for their current relevance in relation to the new European Public Procurement Directives and beyond. The original format features, as is the case with the first three volumes, an introductory exchange between leading academics and practitioners, from differing disciplines. It offers a series of sequential interactions between economists, lawyers and technical experts who supplement one another, so as to enrich the liveliness of the debate and improve the mutual understanding between the various professions. This essential guide will be of interest to policymakers, academics, students and researchers, as well as practitioners working in the field of EU public procurement.
Author : Lawrence Jackson,Diana Dabinett
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Tuckamore Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Icebergs
ISBN : 1894294238
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, e, i, t.
Author : Matthew H. Birkhold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781639363445
A deeply intelligent and engrossing narrative that will transform our relationship with water and how we view climate change. The global water crisis is upon us. 1 in 3 people do not have access to safe drinking water; nearly 1 million people die each year as a result. Even in places with adequate freshwater, pollution and poor infrastructure have left residents without basic water security. Luckily, there is a solution to this crisis where we least expect it. Icebergs—frozen mountains of freshwater—are more than a symbol of climate change. In his spellbinding Chasing Icebergs, Matthew Birkhold argues the glistening leviathans of the ocean may very well hold the key to saving the planet. Harvesting icebergs for drinking water is not a new idea. But for the first time in human history, doing so on a massive global scale is both increasingly feasible and necessary for our survival. Chasing Icebergs delivers a kaleidoscopic history of humans’ relationship with icebergs, and offers an urgent assessment of the technological, cultural, and legal obstacles we must overcome to harness this freshwater resource. Birkhold takes readers around the globe, introducing them to a colorful cast of characters with wildly different ideas about how (and if) humans should use icebergs. Sturdy bureaucrats committed to avoiding another Titanic square off against “iceberg cowboys” who wrangle the frozen beasts for profit. Entrepreneurs selling luxury iceberg water for an eye-popping price clash with fearless humanitarians trying to tow icebergs across the globe to eradicate water shortages. Along the way, we meet some of the world’s most renowned scientists to determine how industrial-scale iceberg harvesting could affect the oceans and the poles. And we see firsthand the looming conflict between Indigenous peoples like the Greenlandic Inuit with claims to icebergs and the private corporations that stand to reap massive profits. As Birkhold shepherds readers from Connecticut to South Africa, from Newfoundland to Norway, to Greenland and beyond, he unfurls a visionary argument for cooperation over conflict. It’s not too late for icebergs to save humanity. But we must act fast to form a coalition of scientists, visionaries, engineers, lawyers and diplomats to ensure that the “Cold Rush” doesn’t become a free-for-all.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761471707
Examines every major aquatic organism as well as lesser-known and rare life-forms including water-dwelling plants and animals and the algae and bacteria that constitute the first links in the food chain.
Author : Donald McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Dystopias in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015034365430
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UIUC:30112107617646
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015022632262
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UOM:39015048081791
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : MINN:31951000842272Q