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Understanding the Rights of Nature : A Critical Introduction
Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone want to create such rights, and to what end? Is it a good idea, and does it come with risks? This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and…
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- 9783839454312
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- 333 TAN u
Global Contestations of Gender Rights
Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality …
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- 9783839460696
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- 354 halaman
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- 305 GLO
Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection : Rethinking Relations…
This book brings together researchers from the fields of international human rights law, EU law and constitutional law to reflect on the tug-of-war over the positioning of the centre of gravity of human rights protection in Europe. It addresses both the position of the Convention system vis-à-vis the Contracting States, and its positioning with respect to fundamental rights protection in the E…
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- 9781317309109
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- 222 halaman
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- 340 SHI
The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment : What Role for the Medical Exception?
Whenever the legitimacy of a new or ethically contentious medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful medical treatment. The development and introduction of abortion, organ donation, gender reassignment, and non-therapeutic cosmetic surgery have, for example, all raised ethical, legal, and clinical issues. This book e…
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- 9781317591726
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- 274 halaman
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- 340 LEG
Populist Challenges to Constitutional Interpretation in Europe and Beyond
This book explores the relationship between populism or populist regimes and constitutional interpretation used in those regimes. The volume discusses the question of whether contemporary populist governments and movements have developed, or encouraged new and specific constitutional theories, doctrines and methods of interpretation, or whether their constitutional and other high courts continu…
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- 1000386201
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- 346 halaman
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- 340 POP
Routledge Handbook of Energy Law
The Routledge Handbook of Energy Law provides a definitive global survey of the discipline of Energy Law, capturing the essential and relevant issues in Energy today. Each chapter is written by a leading expert, and provides a contemporary overview of a significant area within the field. The book is divided into six geographical regions based on continents, with a separate section on Russia,…
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- 9780429835070
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- 642 halaman
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- 340 ROU
Reinsurance and the Law of Aggregation : Event, Occurrence, Cause
In excess of loss reinsurance, the reinsurer covers the amount of a loss exceeding the policy’s deductible but not piercing its cover limit. Accordingly, a policy’s quantitative scope of cover is significantly affected by the parties’ agreement of a deductible and a cover limit. Yet, the examination of whether a loss has exceeded deductible or cover limit necessitates an educated understa…
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- 9781000329100
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- 236 halaman
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- 340
Regulating Coastal Zones : International Perspectives on Land Management Inst…
Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts.In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from environmentalists, land use planners, and decision-makers across a broad spectrum of fields. Development pressures along co…
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- 9780429779763
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- 456 halaman
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- 340 REG
Procedural Justice and Relational Theory : Empirical, Philosophical, and Lega…
This book bridges a scholarly divide between empirical and normative theorizing about procedural justice in the context of relations of power between citizens and the state. Empirical research establishes that people’s understanding of procedural justice is shaped by relational factors. A central premise of this volume is that this research is significant but needs to be complemented by norma…
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- 9781000207668
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- 284 halaman
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- 340 PRO
Heidegger and Development in the Global South
Taking the Heideggerian critical ontology of technology as its base, this volume looks at postcolonial modernization and development in the global south as the worldwide expansion of the western metaphysical understanding of reality. We live today in an increasingly globalizing technological society that Martin Heidegger described in the middle of the last century as ‘the planetary imperialis…
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- 978-81-322-2303-0
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- XIX, 309
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