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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Despite an ever‐growing body of environmental laws, biodiversity loss and climate breakdown persist globally. This has prompted debate over whether existing legal regimes can be strengthened sufficiently to address these crises, or whether more transformative legal approaches are needed The concept of rights of nature, which is gaining ...
Maximilian Nawrath +3 more
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The Human Rights Act 1998: A Bill of Rights for Britain? [PDF]
, 2009 On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the coming into force of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), this thesis endeavours to explore the extent to which New Labour’s flagship piece of legislation can be considered a Bill of Rights for Britain. It explores
TAYLOR, ROBERT,BRETT
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Emergent media narratives on land conflicts in a global biocultural diversity hotspot
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Land conflicts (LCs) represent major challenges in regions where limited resources are contested by diverse actors. The triple frontier of the bioculturally diverse Alto Paraná Atlantic Forests (APAF) ecoregion concentrates some of the most intense LCs in South America.
Alberto Anticoli +7 more
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The Flexibility of Constitutional Design. Enlargement and the Council of the European Union. IHS Political Science Series: No. 97, June 2004 [PDF]
, 2004 The choice of a decision rule for the Council of the EU constitutes a trade-off in terms of decreased sovereignty for individual governments versus an increased ‘capacity to act’.
Hosli, Madeleine O.
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Gdańskie Studia PrawniczeFinland became a sovereign subject of international law on 6 December 1917. One of the manifestations of state-building is the adoption of a Fundamental Law, which is generally given the form of a constitution.
Dawid Michalski
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Genetic Investigation in Fetal Growth Restriction: An Integrated Approach for Clinical Practice
Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International guidelines recommend genetic testing when fetal growth restriction (FGR) accompanies structural anomalies, but recommendations for apparently isolated FGR remain variable, particularly regarding gestational age thresholds and the role of exome sequencing (ES). Interpretation is difficult because studies define FGR inconsistently,
Eran Ashwal, David Chitayat
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero +7 more
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The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2012: Hispanic Students
, 2019 Using ACT test scores and the ACT College Readiness Benchmarks, The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2012 provides a series of graphics highlighting the college and career readiness of the ACT-tested high school class of 2012.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.A challenge for wild plant conservation is the rising incidence of plant pathogens that are difficult to interdict, contain and manage. Invasive, fast‐moving, broad‐spectrum pathogens impose societal costs through losses of intrinsically valuable wild biodiversity, ecosystem function, current and potential genetic and biological assets, culturally ...
Robert O. Makinson +7 more
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Pancasila and Law ReviewSexual violence persists in Nigeria despite ratification of major human rights treaties and enactment of domestic legislation such as the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act. This study assesses whether Nigeria’s legal and institutional frameworks
Abubakar Muhammad jibril +1 more
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