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  • Sustainable Development

    Definition and Origins Sustainability and sustainable development were initially defined and promulgated in a report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, "Our Common Future" (1987). This report said (page 43) that sustainable development "is development that […]

  • International Environmental Treaties

    International Environmental Treaties The case of Australia D. Anton, J. Kohout and N. Pain, in “Nationalizing Environmental Protection in Australia: The International Dimensions” (1993), wrote: “A national approach to environmental protection is the most effective way for Australia to protect its own environment and to contribute to the common cause of global environmental protection.[1] (…)…

  • Environmental Crime

    Environmental Crime Environmental Crime: Factors for Presecution in the United States Introduction to Factors to be Considered Where the law and evidence would otherwise be sufficient for prosecution, the Attorney for the Department should consider the factors contained herein [1], to the extent they are applicable, along with any other relevant factors, in determining whether…

  • Environmental Crime

    Environmental Crime Environmental Crime: Factors for Presecution in the United States Introduction to Factors to be Considered Where the law and evidence would otherwise be sufficient for prosecution, the Attorney for the Department should consider the factors contained herein [1], to the extent they are applicable, along with any other relevant factors, in determining whether…

  • International Political Economy

    Introduction to International Political EconomyInternational Political Economy, field of study that deals with the interaction of politics and economics among the world's nations. The most important of these interactions concerns foreign trade. Students of international political econom…

  • Constitutional Text: China 1982, Amended 2004

    Constitutional Text: China Constituion of 1982, Amended in 2004 CHINA’S Constitutions OF 1982 WITH AMENDMENTS THROUGH 2004 MARCH 14TH, 2004 China is a country with one of the longest histories in the world. The people of all ethnic groups in China have jointly created a culture of grandeur and have a glorious revolutionary tradition. After…

  • Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988

    Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…

  • Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the South East Atlantic

    Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the South East Atlantic   Article I I. The area to which this Convention shall apply, hereinafter referred to as the “Convention Area,”shall be all waters bounded by a line drawn as follows: Beginning at a point at 6004’36″South latitude and 12019’48″East longitude, thence in a…

  • Papers about Law

    Papers about Law Emergence of scaling in random networks Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Reka Albert in Science (1999) Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution. Power-law distributions in…

  • Florida Agency Databases

    Florida State Agency Databases This is an annotated list of databases produced by Florida State Agencies listed by producing agency. To add a database to this list or to fix a broken link, either do it yourself as this is a wiki, editable by anybody or send an e-mail to Rich Gause – rgause@mail.ucf.edu .…

  • California Agency Databases

    California State Agency Databases This is an annotated list of databases produced by California State Agencies. The Agencies section of the list is mostly arranged by main producing agency. To add a database to this list or to fix a broken link, do it yourself as this is a wiki, editable by anybody. Return to…

  • Machine Rights

    Machine Rights AT SOME POINT IN THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE, we might actually face a sentient, intelligent machine who demands, or who many come to believe deserves, some form of legal protection. The plausibility of this occurrence is an extremely touchy subject in the artificial intelligence field, particularly since overoptimism and speculation about the future has…