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Fighting a hard battle with a soft weapon: is international climate change la…
Is international climate change law softening? Our analysis of this question takes place against the backdrop of commentaries on the 2015 Paris Agreement as a hallmark of a new era whereby the legally binding structures of the top-down Kyoto Protocol are replaced by a softer, bottom-up framework for global climate governance
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Chapter 12 Conclusions
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the impact of the ‘home country’ in self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) research. It describes the role of international human resource management (IHRM) in the management of SIEs and point out that little attention has been paid to the opportunities there are for …
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Amidst the flyway: co-designing accommodation fields for the barnacle goose i…
The most important feature of our transdisciplinary research practice is the active and continuous collaboration between researchers, farmers, local administration (Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, ELY), and the Ministry of the Environment.
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Chapter 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks
This chapter explores the use and adaptation of the Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers. It is divided into two main sections dealing with Greek and Latin authors respectively.
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Chapter 2 Freedom of speech in the age of digitalisation
The author analyses one of the ‘Four Freedoms’—the freedom of speech—which is closely connected to political rights. Digitalisation has created a number of opportunities for ‘speech’ and reduced the barriers in human communication and thought transfer. However, digitalisation is also associated with threats to freedom of speech and the wrong use of it. In this chapter, a legal analy…
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Chapter 2 First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in North-Eastern Amazonia
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based…
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Chapter 2 Fighting Avant-Garde with Phenomenology
The article discusses Gustav Shpet’s phenomenology and aesthetic theory as part of early Soviet culture. The author suggests that the ‘official’ acceptance of Shpet’s philosophy, particularly through GAKhN, is emblematic of the internal complexity of the cultural regime in the 1920s. Shpet’s pre-revolutionary phenomenology was praised for its modernizing potential, while his later ant…
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Chapter 2 Family not to be informed?
What are the ethics that shape or should shape engagement with historical medical data, particularly archives containing patient voices? This question has come to the fore through the ‘Men, Women and Care’ project, a European Research Council-funded project creating a database of information drawn from the PIN 26 personal pension award records from the First World War. Held by the National …
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The right to mental health care in mental health legislation
According to one school of thought, reflected by some (but not all) United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) bodies, substitute decision-making and treatment without consent should cease.
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Chapter 2 Exploring the Components of the Universe Through Higher-Order Weak …
Our current cosmological model, backed by a large body of evidence from a variety of different cosmological probes (for example, see [1, 2]), describes a Universe comprised of around 5% normal baryonic matter, 22% cold dark matter and 73% dark energy. While many cosmologists accept this so-called concordance cosmology – the ΛCDM cosmological model – as accurate, very little is known about …
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