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International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1131

International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-02-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This Festschrift is published on the occasion of Gerhard Hafner’s 65th birthday and his retirement as a professor at the University of Vienna. It assembles a great number of renowned friends and colleagues in international law honouring Gerhard Hafner’s outstanding career as scholar, diplomat, legal adviser and arbitrator. The diversity of areas selected for this Festschrift reflects the generalist approach of Gerhard Hafner towards international law. Among the topics on which his contribution was particularly influential are the fragmentation of international law, the law of State immunity and international criminal law, which feature prominently in the Festschrift. Other areas covered are the theory of international law (including sources), basic principles of international law, codification of international law, subjects of international law, international dispute settlement, the law of the sea and international environmental law, human rights and humanitarian law and the law of the European Union.

Forests and Food
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Forests and Food

As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminating global hunger, as well as having long-term ecological consequences. Forests can play an important role in complementing agricultural production to address the Sustainable Development Goals on zero hunger. Forests and trees can be managed to provide better and more nutritionally-balanced diets, great...

Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-03-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

One of the most significant impacts of climate change is migration. Yet, to date, climate-induced migrants are falling within what has been defined by some as a ‘protection gap’. This book addresses this issue, first by identifying precisely where the gap exists, by reviewing the relevant legal tools that are available for those who are currently, and who will in the future be displaced because of climate change. The authors then address the relevant actors; the identity of those deserving protection (displaced individuals), as well as other bearers of rights (migration-hosting states) and obligations (polluting states). The authors also address head-on the contentious topic of definitio...

Envisioning Our Environmental Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Envisioning Our Environmental Future

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-09
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

With the Stockholm+50 Conference, held on 2-3 June 2022, the global movement to protect the environment has reached a 50 year milestone. The first UN Conference on the Human Environment, also held in Stockholm, from 5-16 June 1972, proved to be the watershed in addressing this problem, and as the world assembles once more in the Swedish capital it is time to think aloud and look ahead. In his address in 1972, the then Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme said: “The decisive question is in which direction we will develop ... there is no individual future, neither for people nor for nations.” The only other head of government to attend in 1972, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, highlighted...

Regulating Global Climate Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Regulating Global Climate Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-08-15
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

For some years now, growing scientific warnings have continued to strengthen the belief that an unprecedented global warming is underway, and that only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster. In his June 2, 2022 address to the Stockholm+50 Conference, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres construed “climate emergency” as one of the key drivers of the “triple planetary crisis.” Despite this, the overriding impression left by COP27, held in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022, was of a divided institution, floundering and nowhere close to realizing its stated aim of “stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous interferen...

Antioxidants in Sport Nutrition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Antioxidants in Sport Nutrition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-09-17
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

The use of antioxidants in sports is controversial due to existing evidence that they both support and hinder athletic performance. Antioxidants in Sport Nutrition covers antioxidant use in the athlete ́s basic nutrition and discusses the controversies surrounding the usefulness of antioxidant supplementation. The book also stresses how antioxidants may affect immunity, health, and exercise performance. The book contains scientifically based chapters explaining the basic mechanisms of exercise-induced oxidative damage. Also covered are methodological approaches to assess the effectiveness of antioxidant treatment. Biomarkers are discussed as a method to estimate the bioefficacy of dietary/supplemental antioxidants in sports. This book is useful for sport nutrition scientists, physicians, exercise physiologists, product developers, sport practitioners, coaches, top athletes, and recreational athletes. In it, they will find objective information and practical guidance.

From Microcosm to Macrocosm
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

From Microcosm to Macrocosm

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-09-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

As reflected in the title From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa are discussed. This combination of research questions on the micro-level with the macro-level provides new information about cities and households in Ancient Egypt and Nubia and makes the book unique. Architectural studies as well as analyses of material culture and the new application of microarchaeology, here especially of micromorphology and archaeome...

Please Mind the Gap: Eine kulturanthropologische Policy-Analyse der Regierung von Klima_flucht
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 224

Please Mind the Gap: Eine kulturanthropologische Policy-Analyse der Regierung von Klima_flucht

Close the protection gap? In the wake of climate change, a debate has flared up not only in the European Union, but also internationally, about the legal status of climate_refugees. This debate is centered on the question which causes of flight are considered politically legitimate and which are not. Marlene Becker's anthropological policy analysis examines the genealogy of the figure of the climate_refugee, the preconditions for the emergence of policy and analyses knowledge production in these processes. The study deconstructs existing migration categories and hegemonic discourses about climate_refugees in the context of the European border and migration regime and global climate governance. The study traces in detail in which direction the debate on the rights of climate refugees has developed.

Ausnahmen vom Schutz vor Refoulement im Völkerrecht
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 345

Ausnahmen vom Schutz vor Refoulement im Völkerrecht

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-01
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  • Publisher: BWV Verlag

HauptbeschreibungDas Refoulementverbot sch?tzt Fl?chtlinge vor Zur?ckweisung in L?nder, in denen ihnen Verfolgung im Sinne der Genfer Fl?chtlingskonvention droht. Unter welchen Voraussetzungen kann das gef?hrliche oder kriminelle Verhalten einer Person eine Ausnahme von diesem Schutz rechtfertigen? Die gesteigerte Wahrnehmung von Schutzsuchenden als potenzielle T?ter terroristischer Verbrechen findet Ausdruck in der V?lkerrechtsentwicklung seit dem 11. September 2001. Zugleich ist zu ber?cksichtigen, dass Schutz vor Refoulement nicht allein aus der Fl?chtlingskonvention, sondern zugleich und komplement?r aus dem allgemeinen Menschenrechtsschutz folgt. Philipp Wennholz thematisiert in seiner Arbeit das Spannungsfeld zwischen Individualrechten und kollektiven Sicherheitsinteressen.

Traumatic Childbirth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Traumatic Childbirth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Postpartum depression has become a more recognized mental illness over the past decade as a result of education and increased awareness. Traumatic childbirth, however, is still often overlooked, resulting in a scarcity of information for health professionals. This is in spite of up to 34% of new mothers reporting experiencing a traumatic childbirth and prevalence rates rising for high risk mothers, such as those who experience stillbirth or who had very low birth weight infants. This ground-breaking book brings together an academic, a clinician and a birth trauma activist. Each chapter discusses current research, women’s stories, the common themes in the stories and the implications of the...