Washington Watch: Property rights legislation may threaten environmental protections
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Identifying the gaps: Armenian health care legislation and human rights in patient care protections.
BACKGROUND Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Armenia has undergone an extensive legislative overhaul. Although a number of developments have aimed to improve the quality and accessibility of Armenia's health care system, a host of factors has prevented the country from fully introducing measures to ensure respect for human rights in patient care. In particular, inadequate ...
متن کاملNew Forms of Private Property: Property Rights in Environmental Goods
This entry examines the relationship between property rights and environmental protection. According to the ‘tragedy of the commons’ model, environmental pollution and resource depletion result from the inadequate specification of property rights in environmental goods. Two solutions typically are offered for averting the ‘tragedy’: (1) specify property rights (that is, privatize the commons) o...
متن کاملShort-circuiting environmental protections?
Objectives: Steroids, used in preterm premature ruptureof membranes (pPROM), to reduce the risk of morbidity and mortality of the preterm neonate, impair the maternal polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN)-based immune system. In spite of combination with antibiotics, prenatal and postnatal bacterial infections of mother and child are frequent. This pilot study focuses on the influence of steroids i...
متن کاملMental health disabilities and human rights protections
BACKGROUND Around the world, reports regularly expose persistent and systemic human rights violations of patients in mental health services and facilities, and of those who are unable to access needed supports. A number of factors contribute - political will; the range and quality of services available; public and professional attitudes to mental health; stigma; health professionals' training a...
متن کاملDistinguishing Specialised Discourse: The Example of Juridical Texts on Industrial Property Rights and Trademark Legislation
In this paper, we have given an overview of computational linguistic tools available to us, which can be used to produce raw material for the lexicographic description of a specialised language. The underlying idea of our method is the following: what is significantly more frequent in a domain-specific text than in a general language reference text may be a term (or collocation) of the domain. ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BioScience
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0006-3568,1525-3244
DOI: 10.1093/bioscience/48.6.440