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Marine and Coastal Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2010 UNEP Convention on Biological ...
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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The biological weapons convention: a failed revolution
, 2005 Providing a comprehensive insider's account of the negotiations on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Protocol from their origin to collapse, Jez Littlewood examines and explains the efforts to control biological weapons at the international level ...
Littlewood, Jez
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Biological warfare, bioterrorism, biodefence and the biological and toxin weapons convention
Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 1999 Biological warfare is the intentional use of micro-organisms, and toxins, generally of microbial, plant or animal origin to produce disease and death in humans, livestock and crops. The attraction of bioweapons in war, and for use in terroristic attacks is attributed to easy access to a wide range of disease-producing biological agents, to their low ...
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is one of the leading causes of blindness in working‐age adults. We have previously shown that the risk of PDR is significantly elevated in individuals with intrauterine exposure to famine. However, the genetic mechanisms mediating this association remain unknown.
Olena Fedotkina +7 more
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Disarming proposals: controlling nuclear, biological and chemical weapons by Andy Butfoy [PDF]
, 2005 Review of Andrew Butfoy, Disarming Proposals: Controlling Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons. Apart from the centrality of terrorism and the 2003 Iraq War (not to mention the question of North Korea), disarmament is of great interest to the wider ...
Gehrmann, Richard
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[Biological weapons--conventions and history].
Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 1990 The UN Convention of 10 April 1972 bans the development, production and storage of biological weapons. Prohibition of their use was already covered by the 1925 Geneva Protocol. Pursuant to Article XII of the 1972 Convention, two follow-up conferences have been held, in 1980 and 1986, and an expert meeting in Geneva in 1987.
B P, Berdal, T, Omland
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Mapping stakeholders and policies in response to deliberate biological events
Heliyon, 2018 Background: Recent infectious disease outbreaks have brought increased attention to the need to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to natural biological threats.
Rebecca Katz +5 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
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