Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights

Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights
Author: Robin N. Fiore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780742514430

This collection of papers by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women.

When Rights Embrace Responsibilities

When Rights Embrace Responsibilities
Author: Giulia Sajeva
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-04-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199091897

The conservation of environment and the protection of human rights are two of the most compelling needs of our time. Unfortunately, they are not always easy to combine and too often result in mutual harm. This book analyses the idea of biocultural rights as a proposal for harmonizing the needs of environmental and human rights. These rights, considered as a basket of group rights, are those deemed necessary to protect the stewardship role that certain indigenous peoples and local communities have played towards the environment. With a view to understanding the value and merits, as well as the threats that biocultural rights entail, the book critically assesses their foundations, content, and implications, and develops new perspectives and ideas concerning their potential applicability for promoting the socio-economic interests of indigenous people and local communities. It further explores the controversial relationship of interdependence and conflict between conservation of environment and protection of human rights.

Liberal Rights and Responsibilities

Liberal Rights and Responsibilities
Author: Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019998218X

In this book, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another.

Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities

Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities
Author: M. Kramer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2001-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230523633

In this wide-ranging investigation of many prominent issues in contemporary legal and political philosophy, eight distinguished philosophers and legal theorists (including Matthew Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Antony Duff, Sandra Marshall, Wilfrid Waluchow, and Nicholas Bamforth) tackle issues such as the rights of animals and foetuses, the relationship between law and politics, the requirements of justice, the demands of practical rationality, the role of public-policy considerations in legal reasoning, the fundamental characteristics of legal and moral entitlements, the appropriateness of compensation as a means of rectifying mishaps and misdeeds, the extent of individuals' responsibility for the consequences of their choices, and the culpability of failed attempts to commit crimes. Together, the eight principal essays in Rights, Wrongs, and Responsibilities shed philosophical light on public law, criminal law, and most areas of private law as they explore the bearings of the three key concepts in the volume's title.

Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities in UK Education

Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities in UK Education
Author: H. McQueen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2014-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137390247

Top scholars systematically explore roles, rights, and responsibilities of major participants in UK education: the government, the educators, the learners, and the parents. They investigate the inequalities produced by their current arrangement and look into how changing these arrangements might lead to different outcomes for all involved.

Parental Rights and Responsibilities

Parental Rights and Responsibilities
Author: Stephen Gilmore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351555030

This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature. The collection offers an overview of the subject and covers topics such as: underlying rationales of who or what is a parent; legal concepts of ?parent? and their linkage; the legal parent - accommodating complexity; the nature and scope of parental rights; shared parental responsibility; and parental rights and the state.

The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics

The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics
Author: Hannes Hansen-Magnusson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108868185

The concept of responsibility has emerged as central to the study of international politics. This book explores the integral role of responsibility within the context of global crises such as the responsibility to address climate change, manage financial crises, and intervene with political conflicts. Vetterlein and Hansen-Magnusson address responsibility as a conceptual tool in its own right, existing at the intersection of accountability and legitimacy and spanning across governance sectors of the environment, business, and security. This practice-based approach to the study of responsibility maps similarities and difference across policy fields and reveals the diverse moral actors responsible for negotiating responsibility. The emergence of responsibility further implicates underlying moral values and policy-making within the context of global politics. The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics addresses not only individual agency, but also how questions of community play a role in broader negotiations around the meaning of responsibility.

Advances in Responsible Land Administration

Advances in Responsible Land Administration
Author: Jaap Zevenbergen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2015-08-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1498719619

Advances in Responsible Land Administration challenges conventional forms of land administration by introducing alternative approaches and provides the basis for a new land administration theory. A compilation of observations about responsible land administration in East Africa, it focuses on a new empirical foundation rather than preexisting ideal