Wildlife and Countryside [H.L.]. A Bill [as Amended by Standing Committee D] Intituled an Act to Repeal and Re-enact with Amendments the Protection of Birds Acts 1954 to 1967 and the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act 1975 ; to Prohibit Certain Methods of Killing Or Taking Wild Animals ; to Restrict the Introduction of Certain Animals and Plants ; to Amend the Deer Act 1963, the Conservation of Seals Act 1970, the Badgers Act 1973 and the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act 1976 ; to Amend the Law Relating to Nature Conservation, the Countryside and National Parks and to Make Provision with Respect to the Countryside Commission ; to Amend the Law Relating to Public Rights of Way ; and for Connected Purposes
Wildlife and Countryside [H.L.]. A Bill [as Amended by Standing Committee D] Intituled an Act to Repeal and Re-enact with Amendments the Protection of Birds Acts 1954 to 1967 and the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act 1975 ; to Prohibit Certain Methods of Killing Or Taking Wild Animals ; to Restrict the Introduction of Certain Animals and Plants ; to Amend the Deer Act 1963, the Conservation of Seals Act 1970, the Badgers Act 1973 and the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act 1976 ; to Amend the Law Relating to Nature Conservation, the Countryside and National Parks and to Make Provision with Respect to the Countryside Commission ; to Amend the Law Relating to Public Rights of Way ; and for Connected Purposes

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages:

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The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century
The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century

Author: Paul Harremoes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1134207786

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The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or could have played, in a range of major and avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigation of how each disaster unfolded, what the impacts were and what measures were adopted, the authors draw lessons and establish criteria that could help to minimise the health and environmental risks of future technological, economic and policy innovations. This is an informative resource for all those from lawyers and policy-makers, to researchers and students needing to understand or apply the principle.

Late Lessons from Early Warnings
Late Lessons from Early Warnings

Author: European Environment Agency

Publisher: Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. This title looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played in a range of major and avoidable public disasters.

DDT
DDT

Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Ethics on the Ark
Ethics on the Ark

Author: Bryan G. Norton

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2012-01-11

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1588343634

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Ethics on the Ark presents a passionate, multivocal discussion—among zoo professionals, activists, conservation biologists, and philosophers—about the future of zoos and aquariums, the treatment of animals in captivity, and the question of whether the individual, the species, or the ecosystem is the most important focus in conservation efforts. Contributors represent all sides of the issues. Moving from the fundamental to the practical, from biodiversity to population regulation, from animal research to captive breeding, Ethics on the Ark represents an important gathering of the many fervent and contentious viewpoints shaping the wildlife conservation debate.

A Theory of Intergenerational Justice
A Theory of Intergenerational Justice

Author: Joerg Chet Tremmel

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1849774366

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This highly accessible book provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how we should protect future generations. It exposes how and why the interests of people today and those of future generations are often in conflict and what can be done. It rebuts critical concepts such as Parfits' non-identity paradox and Beckerman's denial of any possibility of intergenerational justice. The core of the book is the lucid application of a veil of ignorance to derive principles of intergenerational justice which show that our duties to posterity are stronger than is often supposed. Tremmel's approach demands that each generation both consider and improve the well-being of future generations. To measure the well-being of future generations Tremmel employs the Human Development Index rather than the metrics of utilitarian subjective happiness. The book thus answers in detailed, concrete terms the two most important questions of every theory of intergenerational justice: what to sustain? and how much to sustain?

Marine Mammal Welfare
Marine Mammal Welfare

Author: Andy Butterworth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-19

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 3319469940

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Marine mammals attract human interest – sometimes this interest is benign or positive – whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals. However, there are many forces operating to affect adversely the lives of whales, seals, manatees, otters and polar bears – and this book explores how the welfare of marine mammals has been affected and how they have adapted, moved, responded and sometimes suffered as a result of the changing marine and human world around them. Marine mammal welfare addresses the welfare effects of marine debris, of human traffic in the oceans, of noise, of hunting, of whale watching and tourism, and of some of the less obvious impacts on marine mammals – on their social structures, on their behaviours and migration, and also of the effects on captivity for animals kept in zoos and aquaria. There is much to think and talk about – how marine mammals respond in a world dramatically influenced by man, how are their social structures affected and how is their welfare impacted?

The Chemical Scythe
The Chemical Scythe

Author: Alastair Hay

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1489903399

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The Chemical Scythe is the first book in a projected series to be published by Plenum Press in association with the International Disaster Institute. The aim of the series, Disaster Research in Practice, is to provide scientific and readable accounts on the most urgent areas of disaster research. It is fitting, therefore, that Dr. Hay's investigation into the nature and effects of dioxins heralds the new series. The problem of chemical hazards is one that we will have to learn to live with in future decades. Dr. Hay's book is an authoritative account of the chemistry and proven and potential effects of dioxins, and of the impli cations for safety planning. He concludes with a cautious, yet optimistic note-that indeed we can learn to live with such hazards, providing that we are prepared to understand and plan for the unexpected. The accident at Seveso in 1976 alerted the world to an imperfectly un derstood but immensely alarming environmental hazard. Public debate and argument as to the implications of dioxins and, indeed, the use of herbicides as aggressive weapons in Vietnam, rage on. And yet it is only through the painstaking research exemplified in this book that it will eventually be pos sible to promote the vital accountability on the part of industrialists and governments.