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Introduction to A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

Chapter 1, ‘Introduction to A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance’ by Oksana Mont sets the scene for the book by discussing sustainable consumption as a grand challenge. It identifies unsustainable consumption and production patterns and levels as one of the main contributing factors to the grand sustainability challenges. Reasons for failure to address unsustainable consumption

Tourism spatial dynamics and causal relations : a need for holistic understanding

At a time when international tourist arrivals hit a new record year on year, the result is increased conflicts and impacts worldwide. Tourism geography has thus never played a moreimportant role in bridging the gaps between qualitative and quantitative as well as human and physical sciences. Increased tourism pressure is likely to have adverse social and environmental effects in many destinations.

What a public procurer of innovation should know and be able to do: Considerations for curriculum development

Taking as the starting point the increasing interest for utilizing public procurement as a means to stimulate innovation, this paper explores some considerations for curriculum development for teaching public procurement of innovation. A basic understanding of what is a curriculum was used as a foundation for the development of a master level course in public procurement of innovation in a univers

Enforcement of licensed intellectual property rights

This presentation for the Licensing executive Scandinavia Society discusses what rules of law affect responsibilities between a licensor and a licensee in infringement matters. Two situations are addressed: (i) action against third parties infringing the licensed right; and (ii) the licensed right infringes third party rights. The scrutiny starts with an overview of what applies regarding responsi

Comparison of the intonation of two question types in Estonian

The present paper compares the intonation of two question types in Estonian: tag questions (või-questions) and morphosyntactically unmarked questions. Measurements of accent peaks in controlled data revealed a significant difference in the nuclear pitch accent between the two types. This finding is interpreted with reference to work on questions in other languages.