Legal Aspects of Environmental Damage -- Estimating Damages Under the 2004 EC Directive on Environmental Liability -- Environmental Damage and Belgian Law -- Compensation for Ecological Damage and Latvian Law -- International and Regional Funds for Compensation for Damage to the Marine Environment -- Scope of Compensation for Environmental Damage Under the 1992 Civil Liability Convention and th…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights: A European Perspective -- Chapter 2. Sexual Citizenship: from Social Inclusion to Political Contestation -- Chapter 3. The "Pink Agenda": the Challenges of Promoting Queer-friendly Policies Abroad -- Chapter 4. The Gendered and Sexed Citizen: Different Bodies, Different Rights? -- Chapter 5. Multisexual and Multigender Citizenship: …
1.Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Significance and Objectives of the Book.- 1.3 Typhoon Ketsana and the Philippine PDR Legislation -- 1.4 The PDRRMA and Post-Disaster Recovery.- 1.5 PDRRMA’s PDR Standards.- 1.6 Evaluating Typhoon Ketsana Victims’ PDR.- 1.7 Theoretical Orientation of the book.- 1.7.1 Areas of “Success” and “Failure” in PDR Projects.- 1.7.2 Normative …
1. Why Solidarity? -- 2. The Warming of the Planet -- 3. The Long, Long Road to Paris -- 4. The Puzzle -- 5. The Paradox of American Exceptionalism -- 6. Human Rights -- 7. Environmental Rights -- 8. The Context of Paris: The MDGs and the SDGs -- 9. The Global and Local Movements to Slow Global Warming -- 10. Solidarity Matters.This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global…
1. Introduction -- 2. Approach -- 3. Taxonomy of Scrappers and Metal Thieves -- 4. Scrappers as Subculture -- 5. History, Harms, and Prevalence of Metal Theft -- 6.What We Think We Know About Metal Thieves -- 7. Metal Thieves -- 8.Techniques and Methods of Metal Thieves -- 9.Theft Partnerships & Learning -- 10.Social Controls of Metal Thieves -- 11.Conclusion and Implications for Public Policy.…
Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Understanding contested energy spaces -- Chapter3. Zooming in on contested energy spaces: the study area -- Chapter4. Methodology -- Chapter5. Empirical cases -- Chapter6. Conclusions and contributions.This authored brief discusses how to conceptualize the socio-material complexity of contested energy spaces in the Canadian North, specifically in the context …
1. Theories of Urban Growth, Sustainability, and Transparent Development -- 2. The Speculative Growth Paradigm in the History of Phoenix -- 3. A History of Property Development and Ownership in Downtown Phoenix -- 4. The Political Economy of Land Speculation in Downtown Phoenix -- 5. Policy Approaches to Transparent Urban Development in Phoenix.This book studies both the tangible benefits and s…
Chapter 1: Introduction And Background -- Chapter 2: Analysing Online Comments To News Reports -- Chapter 3: Approximating Young People’s Perception Of Hate Speech -- Chapter 4: Concluding Remarks.Open AccessThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license and reports on research carried out as part of the European Union co-funded C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project which targeted hate speech and hate c…
Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Landscapes of homelessness and poverty in North American and European cities -- Chapter 3: Poverty and homelessness during the Great Recession and its aftermath -- Chapter 4: Contested landscapes of homelessness in Athens -- Chapter 5: Welfare state rescaling and au…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Legal history -- Chapter 3. Executive branch -- Chapter 4. Subgovernments -- Chapter 5. Governance -- Chapter 6. Energy development -- Chapter 7. Ranching -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency. This shift is analyzed by identifying …