The authors present a new approach to show how interdisciplinary collaborations among group of institutions can provide unique opportunity for students engage across the science-policy nexus using framework Sustainable Development Goals and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Through collaboration seven higher education in States Australia, virtual student research teams work...

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With the recent Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Nairobi (November 2006), significant international attention has been drawn to the issue of climate change. It is widely recognised that developing countries stand to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, they are in the weakest position to mitigate the adverse...

Abstract This paper investigates the knowledge of general public on legislative framework relating to wildlife conservation in England, with a specific focus Bern Convention and public's awareness treaty, as well domestic legislation transposing it. By creating publicly available survey, study determined environmental attitudes their regime conservation. Whilst majority displayed pro-environmen...

Embedded in a larger qualitative research framework on organizational effectiveness, this paper explores the role of small treaty secretariats—conceptualised as a distinct type of intergovernmental organizations—in international politics. Although the relevance of bureaucratic actors in international negotiations and regime implementation has been acknowledged by a number of scholars, IR resear...

Public health instruments have been under constant development and renewal for decades. International legal instruments, with their binding character and strength, have a special place in this development. The start of the 21st century saw, in particular, the birth of the first World Health Organization (WHO)-era health treaties – the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and i...

Despite the overwhelming evidence of human rights violations within Eritrean Military/National Service Programme (“MNSP”), adjudication asylum applications made by Eritreans remains a challenge. Narrow interpretations slavery have created obstacles for protection under 1951 Convention Relating to Status Refugees (“1951 Refugee Convention”). This article discusses MST and Others, latest Country ...

Single convention convergence across different types of networks is a challenging multi-agent task. Our central hypothesis in this paper is that no simple distributed mechanism (such as the state-of-the-art Generalized Simple Majority (GSM) rule) can achieve this. We augment the agents with “network thinking” capability to solve this single convention convergence problem. Topological features s...

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and its sister conventions, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, all aim to halt or mitigate the deterioration of the ecological processes on which life depends. Sustainable land management (SLM) is fundamental to achieving the goals of all three Conventions. Changes in land ...

INTRODUCTION Article 11 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) forms the basis for regulation of tobacco product packaging and labelling. Countries are required to implement these measures within three years after becoming a Party to the Convention. This paper aims to assess the progress made in the implementation of Article 11 in countries of the Ea...