Product Description: This report maps and analyses the core issues which together make up effective regulatory management for the Ireland, laying down a framework of what should be driving regulatory policy and reform in the future. Issues examined include: strategy and policies for improving regulatory management; institutional capacities for effective regulation and the broader policy making context; transparency and processes for effective public consultation and communication; processes for the development of new regulations, including impact assessment and for the management of the regulatory stock, including administrative burdens; compliance rates, enforcement policy and appeal processes; and the multilevel dimension: interface between different levels of government and interface between national processes and those of the EU...read more

Product Description: The 2009 Global Education Digest (GED) presents a wide range of education indicators to assess progress towards Education for All and Millennium Development Goals. These cross-nationally comparable indicators also provide benchmarks for the performance of national education systems...read more

Product Description: Engineering is of vital importance in human, economic, social and cultural development and in addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals. Engineering tends to be viewed as a national issue, but engineering knowledge, companies, conferences and journals, all demonstrate that it is as international as science...read more

Product Description: The UNESCO World Heritage Desk Diary 2011 features a helpful week-at-a-glance design. It is illustrated with 81 colour photos of World Heritage sites, each accompanied by a short caption. The diary also introduces the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage: its objectives, the selection criteria, the institutions which ensure its implementation, as well as a list of sites and states that are party to the Convention...read more

Product Description: "No school, public, or academic library could go wrong including the very affordable World Heritage Sites in both reference and circulating collections." -- Booklist In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to safeguard the world's most important sites, which led to the first World Heritage List...read more

Product Description: The UNESCO World Heritage Desk Diary 2010 features a helpful week-at-a-glance design. It is illustrated with 79 color photos of World Heritage sites, each accompanied by a short caption. The diary also introduces the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage: its objectives, the selection criteria, the institutions which ensure its implementation, as well as a list of sites and states that are party to the Convention...read more

Product Description: Gaping inequalities confront education today. Simply put, not all children have access to a good quality education and large numbers of youth and adults are excluded from participation in their societies. Deeply entrenched disparities based on wealth, gender, ethnic or cultural belonging, disability and geographical residence represent tall obstacles to achieving Education for All, a set of six goals to which over 160 governments committed themselves in 2000...read more

Product Description: This groundbreaking seven-volume series provides an authoritative guide to the history and development of the different cultures of the world from the origins of humankind to the present day. Edited by a team of internationally-recognized scholars, each volume includes a general introduction, thematic chapters exploring the period from a global viewpoint, and a series of regional chapters discussing the issues pertinent to specific cultures and areas of the world...read more

Product Description: L'elaboration de regles internationales est l'une des principales fonctions de l'UNESCO. C'est en meme temps un outil important pour la realisation des buts de l'Organisation pour lesquels elle a ete creee.Outre les conventions et les recommandations, les declarations adoptees par la Conference generale promulguent un ensemble de principes et de normes qui doivent guider l'action des Etats membres dans un domaine d'activite precis...read more

Product Description: Standard-setting represents one of the main constitutional functions of UNESCO and an important tool for realizing the goals for which the Organization was created. In addition to conventions and recommendations, the declarations adopted by the General Conference promulgate principles and norms intended to inspire the action of Member States in specific fields of activity...read more