Germany
Journal article
Learning from demonstration? Developing construction for sustainability
This paper reports on an early demonstration project, the building of a passive house dormitory in the Central Region of Denmark in 2006-2009.
Report
Around the world: the evolution of teaching as a profession
Around the World: The Evolution of Teaching as a Profession proposes that to lift students’ academic achievement, New Zealand needs to take heed of how countries with high performing education systems have turned teaching into a profession. The report came out just one week after the results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment...
Report
Germany: national involvement in the Indian Ocean Region
The transformation of global politics since the 9/11 attacks on the United States has significantly influenced the course of Germany's foreign policy framework over the past decade.
Report
Secure occupancy in rental housing: conceptual foundations and comparative perspectives
This report is concerned with the nature of housing occupancy for households that rent, particularly low-income and vulnerable households.
Article
Charter of rights: lessons from Germany
The twenty-third day of May marked the sixtieth anniversary of the coming into effect of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, the so-called Grundgesetz (“basic law”). The groundwork for the new constitution had been prepared about a year earlier by a group of experts meeting at a resplendent nineteenth-century castle on an island...