International conventions to reduce carbon dioxide levels focus on ecosystems and do not specifically recognize the need to conserve species. However, species are the building blocks of ecosystems, they are more widely understood among the public, and they provide means of capturing market values from ecosystems. Achieving successful conservation globally will require ensuring that the systems ...

“OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END,” writes the biblical author of Ecclesiastes—and so it seems that of the making of many international heritage conventions, principles, and guidelines there also seems to be no end in sight. Beginning with the 1931 Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments, through the 1964 Venice Charter, and continuing with the recent adoption of the 2003 I...

This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to international anti-corruption conventions. The paper presents a new measure for determining the extent of anti-corruption activity undertaken in these three c...

1. Land Evaluation 1.1. Soil Interpretations 1.2. Land Capability and Land Suitability 1.2.1. Development of the Land Capability Classification in USA 1.2.2. The Canada Land Inventory (CLI) A Modified Land Capability Classification 1.2.3. Land Capability Systems in Europe 1.3. Physical and Integral Land Evaluation 1.4. The International Framework for Land Evaluation 1.5. Quantitative Land Evalu...

In the past, it has been assumed that space missions were the exclusive domain of state-controlled agencies. In consequence, the international agreements enshrined in ‘Space Law’ only indirectly addressed issues of certification and liability that arise when fare-paying passengers are transported on sub-orbital flights. Conversely, international conventions on commercial aviation are difficult ...

follower university students of imam khumaini reacted in 4/11/1979 and occupied the usa embassy in tehran in protest against the supporting of mohammad reza pahlavi by the usa to provide conspiracy like what happened as the coup in 18/8/1953 and interference of the spies and relation with the specious elements in iran to remove islamic republic of iran. the uas following the political failures,...