Protecting China’s maritime heritage: Current conditions and national policy

Heritage Conservationin Hong kong (Policy and Planning Context Review)

Since the enactment of the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance in 1971 and the establishment of Antiquities and Monuments Office in 1976, the Hong Kong Government has set up several institutions with particular ordinances and schemes for Heritage Conservation. With the set-up of government initiatives, yet the protection of physical and cultural heritage is still limited due to the ambiguity of...

Causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence

It is the objective of this article to review the existing literature and to address theoretical deficits in the study of policy convergence. First, we briefly present the central indicators we apply for the assessment of policy convergence. In a second step, we identify and compare different causal mechanisms of crossnational policy convergence. Having elaborated on the major causes of policy ...

Protecting infant industries: Canadian manufacturing and the national policy, 1870¬タモ1913 ¬リニ

Infant industry protection has been the cornerstone of a debate on tariff policy that extends at least from the eighteenth century to the current day. In contrast to traditional neo-classical models of international trade that imply net negative effects, industrial organization and learning-by-doing trade models describe how protective tariffs can encourage output expansion, productivity improv...

Collaborative, cross-national studies on health and safety in seafaring for evidence-based Maritime policy and regulations.

BACKGROUND Until recently, maritime health and safety policies and regulations were sparsely based on health and safety research, and only a small number of countries contributed to new research. OBJECTIVES To strengthen maritime health and safety research activities by presenting a study example and discussing the possibilities and needs for more national and cross-national research. METHO...

End of the Joint National Committee heritage?