European Lifestyles & Marine Ecosystems: The Role of Law and Policy in Modeling Anthropogenic Degradation of Europe's Seas

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence M. Etherington ◽  
Stuart C. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Law And Policy

The role of law and policy in tele-monitoring

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 325-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajen Akalu ◽  
Peter G Rossos ◽  
Christopher T Chan
Keyword(s):  
Law And Policy ◽  
Tele Monitoring

scholarly journals A Comparative Institutional Approach to Law and Legal Institutions

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
George Barker
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Made In

The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a revolution in economic policy and a transformation of the New Zealand economy. Such events also involved a revolution in legal thought and analysis. This article brings the main elements of this new economic approach to law and policy to a wider audience. It seeks to review the main features of the recent and significant advances that have been made in the economic analysis of organisations and institutions. The article first discusses the fundamental factors which must be recognised as constraints on the ability to secure an ideal society. It then discusses how private arrangements seek to overcome these constraints and the limits to their success. The role of the state in alleviating or overcoming problems with private solutions is also discussed, with the author stressing the need to recognise that the state is not an omniscient and omnipotent solver of social problems. The author concludes that the analysis of government and government policy needs to be based on a comparative institutional approach involving an assessment of institutional structures according to the processes and outcomes they involve, utilising generally accepted criteria for making social choices. Key factors that must be considered in comparing alternative means for achieving social goals are identified. 

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-258
Author(s):  
Heather Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Legal Responses

This final chapter affirms the importance of listening to women’s experiences when considering how legal responses to intimate partner violence might be improved to make women safe. The chapter reviews key themes identified in the book, including abusers’ use of the legal system to continue abuse and the role of child protection workers, police, lawyers, and judges in facilitating that abuse. It highlights a common and continuing failure of those who work in the legal system to recognize the significance of nonphysical abuse, to persistently misunderstand the dynamics of separation and ultimately, to fail to prioritize safety. This chapter makes recommendations for law and policy reform toward making the legal system safer.

Climate Change Law: Encounters with Aesthetics and Art

Climate Law ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 279-319
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Climate change has multifaceted aesthetic dimensions of legal significance. Global warming alters the aesthetic properties of nature, and further aesthetic changes are precipitated by climate mitigation and adaptation responses of impacted societies. The social and political struggles to influence climate change law are also influenced by aesthetics, as environmental activists and artists collaborate to influence public opinion, while conversely the business sector through its marketing and other aesthetic communications tries to persuade consumers of its climate-friendly practices to forestall serious action on global warming. This article distils and analyses these patterns in forging a novel account of the role of aesthetics in climate change law and policy, and it makes conclusions on how this field of law should consider aesthetic values through ‘curatorial’ guidance.

The rights of people with disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Charles O’Mahony ◽  
Shivaun Quinlivan
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Eu

This chapter assesses the role of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in driving law and policy reform globally relating to the rights of people with disabilities. By ratifying the CRPD states promise to adopt proactive equality norms and provide positive supports for persons with disabilities. They are also required to involve people with disabilities in the enforcement and implementation of the CRPD. It is thus a valuable tool for those advocating for the realisation of the rights of persons with disabilities that they be treated on an equal basis with others and fully included in society. The potential of the CRPD as a tool for social policy reforms is illustrated with reference to its use to impact EU policy to accelerate the de-institutionalisation and de-segregation of persons with disabilities across the EU.

scholarly journals Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (49) ◽  
pp. eabc6721
Author(s):  
John R. Paterson ◽  
Gregory D. Edgecombe ◽  
Diego C. García-Bellido
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Compound Eye ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Growth Mode ◽  
Compound Eyes ◽  
Suspension Feeding ◽  
Ecological Diversity ◽  
Crown Group ◽  
Developmental Growth

Radiodonts are nektonic stem-group euarthropods that played various trophic roles in Paleozoic marine ecosystems, but information on their vision is limited. Optical details exist only in one species from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of Australia, here assigned to Anomalocaris aff. canadensis. We identify another type of radiodont compound eye from this deposit, belonging to ‘Anomalocaris’ briggsi. This ≤4-cm sessile eye has >13,000 lenses and a dorsally oriented acute zone. In both taxa, lenses were added marginally and increased in size and number throughout development, as in many crown-group euarthropods. Both species’ eyes conform to their inferred lifestyles: The macrophagous predator A. aff. canadensis has acute stalked eyes (>24,000 lenses each) adapted for hunting in well-lit waters, whereas the suspension-feeding ‘A.’ briggsi could detect plankton in dim down-welling light. Radiodont eyes further demonstrate the group’s anatomical and ecological diversity and reinforce the crucial role of vision in early animal ecosystems.

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