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O Direito ambiental, passou a ser visto como disciplina jurídica autônoma a partir da contribuição da Ecologia, por volta dos anos cinquenta do século passado. Hoje, em pleno século XXI, vivencia-se um mundo interconectado, com relações instantâneas e que a cada dia exige uma visão jurídica comparada, até porque, quando diante de assuntos afetos ao ambiente, o produzido por uma determinada localidade pode afetar outra a quilômetros de distância. Sendo assim, idealizou-se uma obra sob a perspectiva ibero-americana onde cada autor se comprometeu a estudar os principais aspectos e institutos do Direito ambiental de seu país, seguindo um norte traçado pelos diretores e coordenadores desta obra. O objetivo foi propiciar ao leitor a possibilidade de diferenciar e estabelecer as semelhanças entre este ramo do direito em diferentes países. Espera-se que essa obra permita que seu leitor consiga comparar os diferentes regimes jurídicos por elas disciplinados.
A presente obra apresenta um panorama do Imposto Territorial Rural no Brasil e dos Impostos que incidem sobre Imóveis nos países ibéricos (Espanha e Portugal) e nos demais países que compõem o Mercosul (Argentina, Uruguai e Paraguai). A partir desse conhecimento teórico dos referidos impostos imobiliários, foi feito um cotejamento da realidade brasileira, dos referidos países do cone sul e da península Ibérica, à luz do Direito Tributário e das suas questões eminentemente extrafiscais. Demonstra-se como o Brasil trata a extrafiscalidade tributária do Imposto Territorial Rural no concernente aos influxos do socioambientalismo para, posteriormente, fazer o mesmo estudo na realida...
Representations of political power play an important role in Western art history from the late Middle Ages up to modern times. This volume by leading experts is a wide-ranging survey of significant trends in the development of political imagery.
As in so many cities in the heat of growth, Breda, Spain, is home to a modest construction company that wants to take advantage of the booming times to construct a luxury housing-complex in the suburbs. Although between the business partners there are differences of opinion and fears about such an ambitious project, the expectation of the sumptuous benefits push them to go through with the scheme. Then suddenly one day, the corpse of one of the partners appears inside one of the newly constructed buildings. Detective Ricardo Cupido delves into a passionate investigation where the alibis matter less than the dark and desolate description of the human condition.
Within a remote nature reserve in Spain, a series of malevolent events occur against the beautiful background--a young and attractive painter is found brutally murdered, a female hiker dies in the same fashion a few days later, and a park ranger is shot at point-blank range while on patrol. The interior of the impenetrable and imposing landscape becomes an underlying symbol in this tense, mysterious journey into each character's deepest secrets.
While the world’s population continues to grow, the availability of water remains constant. Facing the looming water crisis, society needs to tackle strategic management issues as an integrated part of the solution toward water sustainability. The first volume in the two-volume set Sustainable Water Management and Technologies offers readers a practical and comprehensive look at such key water management topics as water resource planning and governance, water infrastructure planning and adaption, proper regulations, and water scarcity and inequality. It discusses best management practices for water resource allocation, ground water protection, and water quality assurance, especially for ru...
The application of a “committee of experts” or ensemble learning to artificial neural networks that apply unsupervised learning techniques is widely considered to enhance the effectiveness of such networks greatly. This book examines the potential of the ensemble meta-algorithm by describing and testing a technique based on the combination of ensembles and statistical PCA that is able to determine the presence of outliers in high-dimensional data sets and to minimize outlier effects in the final results. Its central contribution concerns an algorithm for the ensemble fusion of topology-preserving maps, referred to as Weighted Voting Superposition (WeVoS), which has been devised to improv...
The 4th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2009), as the name suggests, attracted researchers who are involved in developing and applying symbolic and sub-symbolic techniques aimed at the construction of highly robust and reliable problem-solving techniques, and bringing the most relevant achievements in this field. Hybrid intelligent systems have become increasingly po- lar given their capabilities to handle a broad spectrum of real-world complex problems which come with inherent imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness, hi- dimensionality, and nonstationarity. These systems provide us with the opportunity to exploit existing domain knowledge as well as r...
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, best known for her books Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back, is one of the foremost feminist thinkers and activists of our time. As one of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldúa has played a major role in redefining queer, female, and Chicano/a identities, and in developing inclusionary movements for social justice. In this memoir-like collection, Anzaldúa's powerful voice speaks clearly and passionately. She recounts her life, explains many aspects of her thought, and explores the intersections between her writings and postcolonial theory. Each selection deepens our understanding of an important cultural theorist's lifework. The intervi...