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A Legal Personality for the St. Lawrence River and other Rivers of the World
In the wake of the recognition of the Whanganui River in New Zealand, the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in India, the Yarra River in Australia and the Atrato River in Colombia as «subjects of rights», the International Observatory on Nature’s Rights has initiated a reflection on the possibility of recognizing the St. Lawrence River, the «path that walks» as it is called by the First Nations, as a «legal person». The texts in this collective work deal with the implications of attributing a legal personhood and rights to the St. Lawrence River, delve into the epistemological foundations of the paradigm of the recognition of the rights of Nature and present concrete cases of recognition of r...
Afectaciones a Derechos Ambientales en tiempos de crisis climática y pandemia: algunos estudios de caso, volumen II
"Esta obra, Afectaciones a Derechos Ambientales en tiempos de crisis climática y pandemia: algunos estudios de caso, corresponde a la segunda parte del Informe de Investigación 2019-2020 del Grupo de Investigación en Derechos Colectivos y Ambientales – gidca, cuya parte general se publicó en el libro Derechos Ambientales y afectaciones en tiempos de crisis ambiental y pandemia. Como es usual en nuestros procesos investigativos, los estudios de caso nos permiten contrastar los desarrollos teóricos que formulamos en la primera parte de nuestra investigación con los avances o retrocesos en la protección del ambiente, tanto de los ecosistemas como de las culturas que en ellos habitan y ...
Une personnalité juridique pour le Fleuve Saint-Laurent et les Fleuves du monde
Dans la foulée de la reconnaissance comme « sujets de droits » des fleuves Whanganui en Nouvelle-Zélande, du Gange et Yamuna en Inde, de la rivière Yarra en Australie et de l’Atrato en Colombie, l’Observatoire international des droits de la Nature a initié une réflexion sur la possibilité de reconnaître le Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ce « chemin qui marche » comme le nomment les Premières Nations, comme « personne juridique ». Les textes du présent ouvrage collectif portent sur les implications de l’attribution d’une personnalité juridique et de droits au Fleuve Saint-Laurent, approfondissent les fondements épistémologiques du paradigme de la reconnaissance des droits de ...
WJP Rule of Law Index 2016
The World Justice Project (WJP) joins efforts to produce reliable data on rule of law through the WJP Rule of Law Index 2016, the sixth report in an annual series, which measures rule of law based on the experiences and perceptions of the general public and in-country experts worldwide. We hope this annual publication, anchored in actual experiences, will help identify strengths and weaknesses in each country under review and encourage policy choices that strengthen the rule of law. The WJP Rule of Law Index 2016 presents a portrait of the rule of law in each country by providing scores and rankings organized around eights factors: constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, ope...
Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile
“Genius?” The tall old man with the fan-shaped beard looked eagerly at his companion, then settled back more heavily against the rows and rows of old books lining the walls to the ceiling on all sides of the room. “Of course Edgar was a genius, but in spite of being a gambler and a drunkard—in spite of it, I tell you!” The other, a thin man of lesser years, his long, inquiring face meditative in the twilight, nodded. “You are right,” he agreed. “But what difference did it make? The only question is, would ‘The Raven’ have been any greater without his gambling and drinking? I doubt it.” The argument was on, and my uncle, Moses Polock, would lean forward now and again, wa...
The Importance of Species
This is the first text to focus on the comparative value of species, examining the relative consequences of individual extinctions. It attempts to provide ecologically based guidance to conservationists struggling with limited resources and compelled to set priorities for their work.
Organization and Financing of Public Health Services in Europe
How are public health services in Europe organized and financed? With European health systems facing a plethora of challenges that can be addressed through public health interventions there is renewed interest in strengthening public health services. Yet there are enormous gaps in our knowledge. How many people work in public health? How much money is spent on public health? What does it actually achieve? None of these questions can be answered easily. This volume brings together current knowledge on the organization and financing of public health services in Europe. It is based on country reports on the organization and financing of public health services in nine European countries and an i...
Cultural Transfer and Political Conflicts
Film festivals during the Cold War were fraught with the political and social tensions that dominated the world at the time. While film was becoming an increasingly powerful medium, the European festivals in particular established themselves as showcases for filmmakers and their perceptions of reality. At the same time, their prestigious, international character attracted the interest of states and private players. The history of these festivals thus sheds light not only on the films they made available to various publics, but on the cultural policies and political processes that informed their operations. Presenting new research by an international group of younger scholars, Cultural Transfer and Political Conflicts critically investigates postwar history in the context of film festivals reconstructing not only their social background and international dispensation, but also their centrality for cultural transfers between the East, the West and the South during the Cold War.
The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies Towards Latin America
Who shapes the European Union's policy towards Latin America? How has this EU policy modified individual member states' relations with the region? This book provides a comparative account of seven member states' bilateral links with Latin America since 1945, in the context of their EU membership and based on the concept of 'Europeanization'. It illustrates how and why the main architects of this EU policy have been Spain and Germany. In contrast, Poland, Sweden and Ireland, which had little previous interaction with Latin America, have developed their current relations with that region virtually as a result of their EU membership. The United Kingdom and France lie in the middle: they have been influential in certain policy-areas and key periods in history, while they have adapted to what is done at the EU level in others. Practitioners, established academic experts as well emerging scholars in the field bring to be bear a novel combination of pioneering research and cutting edge conceptual analysis on this important but neglected area of the EU's foreign relations.
