Environmental Impact Assessments in Investment Process – Legal and Methodological Aspects

Considering Ecological Processes in Environmental Impact Assessments

Aquatic Resources and Technology: Evolutionary, Environmental, Legal and Development Aspects

The following paper provides an overview of the current trends in marine fisheries, aquaculture and fish breeding, and highlights the technological innovations that occurred in the management and production of aquatic resources. The purpose of the paper is to explain the role technological innovation played in meeting the growing worldwide consumer demand for fish, and in dealing with scientifi...

Legal aspects of Shadow Banking

Shadow Banking system, as an investment method, while being an integral part of the supervised banking system, is a rival for banks and governance institutions in financing and oversight. As a result, its development has created a situation for regulated institutions, which leads to concerns about the legal and regulatory responsibilities of the banking and financial system for investment not g...

Interview, diagnostic, and legal aspects in the forensic psychiatric assessments of deaf persons.

Forensic psychiatric assessments rely on many underlying presumptions concerning the language development and abilities of their subjects. Although these assumptions may apply across a culturally diverse group of hearing subjects, they probably do not apply to those who are prelingually deaf because such deaf persons never developed verbal language. In this article, a review of the range of lit...

Use of animal species data in environmental impact assessments.

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) should ideally help minimize adverse effects on biological diversity by considering impacts of projects on wide ranges of species. This paper investigates how recent Dutch EIAs included the species comprising animal diversity. We present results of two studies on fauna data used in the EIAs. Objectives were to determine for different taxa (a) the relative...