Sinking into Statelessness

If rising seas render small General islands uninhabitable, will displaced islanders become stateless? The modern intellectual and legal tradition tells us that states must have defined, habitable territory.If so, small islands will cease to be states, and their inhabitants will accordingly become stateless.Against this, leading scholars have recent

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Factors Promoting Innovation and Efficiency in the Construction Industry: A Comparative Study of New Zealand and Australia

There have been numerous concerns about the lack of productivity improvement in the New Zealand construction industry.The aim of this paper, therefore, is to determine the main drivers of productivity in the industry.The research used is a two-staged data envelopment analysis approach to achieve the aim.In terms of improvements to the productivity

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