Governing Access to Essential Resources

Governing Access to Essential Resources
Author: Katharina Pistor
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231540760

Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching for ways to ensure their fair distribution. This book argues that the division of essential resources ought to be governed by a combination of Voice and Reflexivity. Voice is the ability of social groups to choose the rules by which they are governed. Reflexivity is the opportunity to question one's own preferences in light of competing claims and to accommodate them in a collective learning process. Having investigated the allocation of essential resources in places as varied as Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Laos, Morocco, Nepal, the arid American West, and peri-urban areas in West Africa, the contributors to this volume largely concur with the viability of this policy and normative framework. Drawing on their expertise in law, environmental studies, anthropology, history, political science, and economics, they weigh the potential of Voice and Reflexivity against such alternatives as pricing mechanisms, property rights, common resource management, political might, or brute force.

Governing the Commons

Governing the Commons
Author: Elinor Ostrom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107569788

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Relational Justice

Relational Justice
Author: Hanoch Dagan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2024-07-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198876297

What makes private law private? What is its domain? What are the values it promotes? Relational Justice: A Theory of Private Law addresses these foundational questions in a robust analysis of the key doctrines of private law, including torts, contracts, and restitution. Discarding the vision of private law as a bastion of negative duties of non-interference or efficiency maximization, this book reframes private law in terms of what it calls 'relational justice' - reciprocal respect for self-determination and substantive equality. By vindicating self-determination, private law can forge the horizontal interactions vital to the ability to shape and implement a conception of the good life. By structuring these interactions in terms requiring parties to respect one another for who they are, private law can cast them as interactions between equals. In the book's first part, the authors set out a normative position they term relational justice, whereby the rules of private law abide by the fundamental maxim of reciprocal respect for self-determination and substantive equality. The second part of the book applies this framework to an analysis of familiar private law doctrinal areas, followed by a third part charting newer areas including workplace safety, poverty, discrimination, and implications for international law. Throughout, the authors show how relational justice theory provides a normative vocabulary for evaluating core features of existing private law, while suggesting directions for necessary or desirable reforms.

Arctic Justice

Arctic Justice
Author: Corine Wood-Donnelly
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2023-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1529224810

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for environment and society in the region. Inspired by key thinkers in justice, this book highlights the real and practical consequences of postcolonial legacies, climate change and the regions' incorporation into the international political economy. The chapters feature liberal, cosmopolitan, feminist, as well as critical justice perspectives from experts with decades of research experience in the Arctic. Moving from a critique of current failures, the collection champions a just and sustainable future for Arctic development and governance.

The Misery of International Law

The Misery of International Law
Author: John Linarelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2018-03-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191068713

Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity. Adopting a pluralist approach, the authors confront the unconscionable dimensions of the global economic order, the false premises upon which they are built, and the role of international law in constituting and sustaining them. Combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies, the book explores the pathologies at work in international economic law today. International law must abide by the requirements of justice if it is to make a call for compliance with it, but this work claims it drastically fails do so. In a legal order structured around neoliberal ideologies rather than principles of justice, every state can and does grab what it can in the economic sphere on the basis of power and interest, legally so and under colour of law. This book examines how international law on trade and foreign investment and the law and norms on global finance has been shaped to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of others. It studies how a set of principles, in the form of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), that could have laid the groundwork for a more inclusive international law without even disrupting its market-orientation, were nonetheless undermined. As for international human rights law, it is under the terms of global capitalism that human rights operate. Before we can understand how human rights can create more just societies, we must first expose the ways in which they reflect capitalist society and how they assist in reproducing the underlying terms of immiseration that will continue to create the need for human rights protection. This book challenges conventional justifications of economic globalization and eschews false choices. It is not about whether one is "for" or "against" international trade, foreign investment, or global finance. The issue is to resolve how, if we are to engage in trade, investment, and finance, we do so in a manner that is accountable to persons whose lives are affected by international law. The deployment of human rights for their part must be considered against the ubiquity of neoliberal globalization under law, and not merely as a discrete, benevolent response to it.

Multiethnic Moments

Multiethnic Moments
Author: Rodney Hero
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1592135374

When courts lifted their school desegregation orders in the 1990s—declaring that black and white students were now "integrated" in America's public schools—it seemed that a window of opportunity would open for Latinos, Asians, and people of other races and ethnicities to influence school reform efforts. However, in most large cities the "multiethnic moment" passed, without leading to greater responsiveness to burgeoning new constituencies. Multiethnic Moments examines school systems in four major U.S. cities—Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco—to uncover the factors that worked for and against ethnically-representative school change. More than a case study, this book is a concentrated effort to come to grips with the multiethnic city as a distinctive setting. It utilizes the politics of education reform to provide theoretically-grounded, empirical scholarship about the broader contemporary politics of race and ethnicity—emphasizing the intersection of interests, ideas, and institutions with the differing political legacies of each of the cities under consideration.

Google Certification Guide - Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Google Certification Guide - Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Author: Cybellium Ltd
Publisher: Cybellium Ltd
Total Pages: 210
Release:
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Google Certification Guide - Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Secure Your Place in the World of Google Cloud Security Embark on a journey to mastering cloud security within the Google Cloud platform with this essential guide, designed for those aspiring to become Google Professional Cloud Security Engineers. This comprehensive resource is your roadmap to understanding the intricacies of securing cloud infrastructure, applications, and data on Google Cloud. Inside, You Will Discover: In-Depth Security Principles: Delve into the core concepts of cloud security, including identity and access management, data protection, and network security within the Google Cloud ecosystem. Practical Security Implementations: Gain hands-on experience through real-world scenarios and case studies, illustrating how to apply Google Cloud security best practices effectively. Focused Exam Preparation: A thorough breakdown of the exam format, including detailed insights into each domain, alongside targeted practice questions to ensure comprehensive preparation. Up-to-Date Security Trends: Stay abreast of the latest in cloud security advancements and best practices, ensuring your knowledge remains relevant and cutting-edge. Crafted by a Cloud Security Expert Written by a seasoned professional in Google Cloud security, this guide merges technical knowledge with practical insights, offering an invaluable learning experience for aspiring cloud security experts. Your Path to Security Expertise Whether you're a security professional transitioning to the cloud or looking to validate your Google Cloud security skills, this book is an indispensable resource, guiding you through the complexities of cloud security and preparing you for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification. Elevate Your Cloud Security Skills Beyond preparing for the certification exam, this guide provides a deep understanding of security practices in the Google Cloud environment, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to excel as a cloud security professional. Begin Your Google Cloud Security Journey Take your first step towards becoming a certified Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer. This guide is not just a preparation for the exam; it's your gateway to a successful career in cloud security. © 2023 Cybellium Ltd. All rights reserved. www.cybellium.com

OECD Best Practice Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres

OECD Best Practice Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2007-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 926412876X

These best practice guidelines are intended to serve as a target for the quality management of biological resource center collections. They are the result of discussions held by OECD member countries together with a number of key partner countries ...

Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons

Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons
Author: Jose Luis Vivero-Pol
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351665529

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning. The overall aim is to investigate the multiple constraints that occur within and sustain the dominant food and nutrition regime and to explore how it can change when different elements of the current food systems are explored and re-imagined from a commons perspective. The book sparks the debate on food as a commons between and within disciplines, with particular attention to spaces of resistance (food sovereignty, de-growth, open knowledge, transition town, occupations, bottom-up social innovations) and organizational scales (local food, national policies, South–South collaborations, international governance and multi-national agreements). Overall, it shows the consequences of a shift to the alternative paradigm of food as a commons in terms of food, the planet and living beings. Chapters 1 and 24 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Avery & MacDonald's Neonatology

Avery & MacDonald's Neonatology
Author: James Boardman
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 3087
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 197512927X

For more than 45 years, Avery & MacDonald’s Neonatology has been the premier text on the pathophysiology and management of both preterm and full-term neonates, trusted by neonatologists, neonatology fellows, pediatricians, neonatal nurse practitioners, and ob/gyn practitioners worldwide. Continuing the tradition of excellence established by Drs. Gordon B. Avery and Mhairi G. MacDonald, this fully revised eighth edition features three new lead editors, numerous new chapters, reorganized and updated content, and an increased focus on global neonatology.