Standardizing Individual Environmental Protection as a Human Right
Author : Anna Ulvsbäck
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Environmental law
ISBN :
The Right to Life
Author : Christian Tomuschat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004189653
Book Description
The right to life stands at the heart of human rights protection. Individuals cannot enjoy any of the rights guaranteed to them unless their physical existence is ensured. All human rights instrument list the right to life as the first one of their safeguards. Nonetheless, in many situations human life finds itself under structural threat. Although obligated by law to protect the right to life, State authorities time and again engage in deliberate acts of killing. Fortunately, international review bodies have devised many imaginative counter-strategies. Another one of those structural threats is global warming. Obviously, armed conflict puts human life inevitably at risk; the limits of the ‘license to kill’ given by the laws of war must be scrupulously observed.
Human Rights and the Environment
Author : Maguelonne Dejeant-Pons
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287147779
Book Description
This book brings together, for the first time, international texts relating to individual and collective rights to environmental protection standards, for the benefit of present and future generations. These rights include access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters. This publication will be of interest to human rights specialists, environmentalists and all those wishing to exercise environmental rights.
International Standardization and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
Author : Andrea Barrios Villarreal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108474365
Book Description
This work examines the international standardization system generally, with a specific focus on some of the bodies within this system. It also questions the lack of definition regarding several features related to the system, notably an international standardizing body and international standards in the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.
Standardizing the World
Author : Francesco Duina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Convergence (Economics)
ISBN : 0197681883
Book Description
The EU has pursued many trade pacts across the world. This is part of its foreign policy: as the third largest economy in the world and lacking hard power, the EU relies on trade agreements to project its interests. These are often complex and far-reaching initiatives that have the potential to shape not only economic but also political and social life in the EU and its trading partners. In Standardizing the World, Francesco Duina and Crina Viju-Miljusevic have gathered a group of leading experts to present an unprecedented assessment of the EU's efforts to standardize a wide array of economic, political, and social aspects of life through its trade agreements across the globe. Drawing on economic sociology and constructivist strands in international political economy, the volume examines what is being standardized, the extent to which the EU has been able to project its worldviews, and what explains the observable patterns of standardization across policy areas and geographies. Ten leading scholars from across the world offer as many chapters on EU agreements with all major trading partners and cover efforts in social and labor rights, the environment, investments, rule of law and anti-corruption, agriculture and food quality, services, public procurement, sustainable development, and more. Their findings paint a picture of a dynamic EU capable of projecting its worldviews across the globe that is nonetheless not always consistent or successful. Standardizing the World provides a wide-ranging and rigorous understanding of standardization in trade agreement as well as the EU's abilities to project its power and worldviews across the globe.
Standards and Standardization: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1706 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1466681128
Book Description
Effective communication requires a common language, a truth that applies to science and mathematics as much as it does to culture and conversation. Standards and Standardization: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications addresses the necessity of a common system of measurement in all technical communications and endeavors, in addition to the need for common rules and guidelines for regulating such enterprises. This multivolume reference will be of practical and theoretical significance to researchers, scientists, engineers, teachers, and students in a wide array of disciplines.
Rights of Individuals in an Earth Observation and Satellite Navigation Environment
Author : Arianna Vettorel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004685383
Book Description
New Space technologies, Earth observation and satellite navigation in particular, have proven to be invaluable drivers of sustainable development, thus contributing to the protection of several human rights (the “Good”). At the same time, however, New Space technologies raise concerns for the right to privacy (the “Bad”), and face a number of challenges posed by hostile cyber operations (the “Ugly”). Dr. Arianna Vettorel analyzes the relevant international, European and domestic legal frameworks and highlights the need for several innovative approaches and reforms, in a transnational and bottom-up perspective, in order to maximize the Good, and minimize the Bad and the Ugly, of New Space technologies.
Due Diligence Obligations in International Human Rights Law
Author : Maria Monnheimer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108841732
Book Description
An analytical framework of due diligence obligations to address the increasing prevalence of non-State human rights risks.
United States Code
Author : United States
Publisher :
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN :
Book Description
Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineers
Author : Hermann J. Koch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 111906743X
Book Description
Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineering provides a comprehensive guide to the purpose of standards organizations, their relationship to product development and how to use the standardization process for cost-effective new product launch. It covers major standardization organizations in the field of Electrical Engineering offering a general overview of the varying structures of national standardization organizations, their goals and targets. Key questions for standardization are answered giving the reader guidance on how to use national and international standards in the electrical business. When shall the company start to enter standardization? How to evaluate the standardization in relationship to the market success? What are the interactions of innovations and market access? What is the cost of standardization? What are the gains for our experts in standardization? Key features: Provides guidance on how to use national and international standards in the electrical business. Global active standardization bodies featured include IEEE, IEC and CIGRE as well as regional organizations like CENELEC for Europe, SAC for China, DKE for Germany, and ANSI for USA. Case studies demonstrate how standardization affects the business and how it may block or open markets. Explains the multiple connections and influences between the different standardization organizations on international, regional or national levels and regulatory impact to the standardization processes. Two detailed focused case studies, one on Smart Grid and one on Electro-Mobility, show the influence and the work of international standardization. The case studies explain how innovative technical developments are promoted by standards and what are the roles of standardization organizations are. A valuable reference for electrical engineers, designers, developers, test engineers, sales engineers, marketing engineers and users of electrical equipment as well as authorities and business planners to use and work with standards.
