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Author: Canada. Dept. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Arctic Legal Regime for Environmental Protection

Arctic Legal Regime for Environmental Protection

Author: Linda Nowlan

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9782831706375

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For many years, concerns have been expressed about environmental issues in the Arctic. While the Arctic region, unlike Antarctica, has been inhabited for thousands of years, it is under unique threat because of its vulnerability toward resource exploitation and the deposition of various airborne pollutants. With its varied populations, and with eight Nations asserting territorial interests, the Arctic needs a careful approach to its protection and development. This report describes the current Arctic environmental legal regime. It also discusses the possibility of negotiating a sustainability treaty for the Arctic with high standards of environmental protection similar to those in the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. It is hoped that this review of the legal and policy contrasts between the Arctic and Antarctic can help in the consideration of future directions for the Arctic legal regime.


Governance Ecosystems

Governance Ecosystems

Author: J. Sagebien

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-12

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0230353282

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The authors explore the complex dynamics of mining and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Latin America, including a reflection on the African continent, presenting arguments and case studies based on new research on a set of urgent and emerging questions surrounding mining, development and sustainability.


The Politics of Human Rights

The Politics of Human Rights

Author: Sabine C. Carey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139493337

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Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human rights. This book adopts a substantially different approach which uses empirical data derived from research on human rights by political scientists to illustrate the occurrence of different types of human rights violations across the world. The authors devote attention to rights as well as to responsibilities, neither of which stops at one country's political borders. They also explore how to deal with repression and the aftermath of human rights violations, making students aware of the prospects for and realities of progress.


Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism

Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism

Author: Christian Joerges

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2004-06-30

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1847311776

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The term transnational governance designates untraditional types of international and regional collaboration among both public and private actors. These legally-structured or less formal arrangements link economic, scientific and technological spheres with political and legal processes. They are challenging the type of governance which constitutional states were supposed to represent and ensure. They also provoke old questions: Who bears the responsibility for governance without a government? Can accountability be ensured? The term 'constitutionalism' is still widely identified with statal form of democratic governance. The book refers to this term as a yardstick to which then contributors feel committed even where they plead for a reconceptualisation of constitutionalism or a discussion of its functional equivalents. 'Transnational governance' is neither public nor private, nor purely international, supranational nor totally denationalised. It is neither arbitrary nor accidental that we present our inquiries into this phenomenon in the series of International Studies on Private Law Theory.