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Book Direito ao ambiente como direito    vida  desafios para a educa    o em direitos humanos

Download or read book Direito ao ambiente como direito vida desafios para a educa o em direitos humanos written by Aida Maria Monteiro Silva and published by Cortez Editora. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O leitor encontrará os fundamentos básicos que consideram os direitos de todos os seres, humanos e não humanos, a um ambiente saudável. As referências estão nas Diretrizes Nacionais de Educação Ambiental e da Educação em Direitos Humanos. E, também, em resultados de estudos e pesquisas sobre práticas e vivências pedagógicas que certamente contribuirão para a formação de sujeitos conscientes e comprometidos com a preservação da vida na Terra.

Book Direito Humano ao Meio Ambiente

Download or read book Direito Humano ao Meio Ambiente written by Elizabete Cristina Rabelo de Araújo and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O direito humano ao meio ambiente equilibrado é um direito de terceira dimensão compreendido à luz dos princípios e que está constituído na relação entre o ser humano, a natureza e a sociedade. O meio ambiente é um bem da humanidade, das gerações presentes e futuras e imprescindível à vida. Conta com o Direito Ambiental, a Constituição Federal, os princípios e as jurisprudências como instrumentos de sua garantia. Como luzes que norteiam essa relação, estão os princípios, alguns, apresentados nesta obra. Desta forma, este estudo tem a pretensão de contribuir para que a humanidade se mantenha atenta para o fato de que é preciso viver em harmonia com o meio ambiente, sob pena de termos todas as formas de vida ameaçadas, pois somos parte deste "todo" que o meio ambiente representa quando entendido como os espaços existenciais: a natureza, a cultura, a família, a economia, a educação, a crença, etc. Que as mãos humanas que representam os direitos humanos e toda sua diversidade, possam ser as condutoras do equilíbrio da vida, garantindo a sustentabilidade do planeta para as presentes e futuras gerações.

Book Genetic Testing and the Governance of Risk in the Contemporary Economy

Download or read book Genetic Testing and the Governance of Risk in the Contemporary Economy written by Lara Khoury and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses emerging questions concerning who should bear responsibility for shouldering risk, as well as the viability of existing and experimental governance mechanisms in connection with new technologies. Scholars from 14 jurisdictions unite their efforts in this edited collection to provide a comparative analysis of how various legal systems are tackling the challenges produced by the legal aspects of genetic testing in insurance and employment. They cover the diverse set of norms that surround this issue, and share insights into relevant international, regional and national incursions into the field. By doing so, the authors offer a basis for comparative reflection, including on whether transnational standard setting might be useful or necessary for the legal aspects of genetic testing as they relate to the insurance and employment contexts. The respective texts cover a broad range of topics, including the prevalence of genetic testing in the contexts of insurance and employment, and policy factors that might affect this prevalence, such as the design of national health or social insurance systems, of private insurance schemes or the availability of low-cost direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Further, the field of genetics is gaining in importance at the international and regional levels. Relevant concepts – mainly genetic tests and genetic data/information – have been internationally defined, and these definitions have influenced definitions adopted nationally. International law also recognizes a “special status” for human genetic data. The authors therefore also consider these definitions and the recognition of the special status of human genetic data within regional and national legal orders. They investigate the range of norms that specifically address the use of genetic testing in employment and insurance, encompassing international sources – including human rights norms – that may be binding or non-binding, as well national statutory, regulatory and soft-law mechanisms. Accordingly, some of the texts examine general frameworks relevant to genetic testing in each country, including those that stem from general anti-discrimination rules and norms protecting rights to autonomy, self-determination, confidentiality and privacy. In closing, the authors provide an overview of the efficiency of their respective legal regimes’ approaches – specific and generalist – to genetic testing or disclosure of genetic information in the employment or insurance contexts, including the effect of lack of legal guidance. In this regard, some of the authors highlight the need for transnational action in the field and make recommendation for future legal developments.

Book Desafios da administra    o univerist  ria

Download or read book Desafios da administra o univerist ria written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Direitos humanos e meio ambiente

Download or read book Direitos humanos e meio ambiente written by Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Poverty and Human Rights

Download or read book World Poverty and Human Rights written by Thomas W. Pogge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five. However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong. Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.

Book Liberating Voices

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Schuler
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0262693666
  • Pages : 619 pages

Download or read book Liberating Voices written by Douglas Schuler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.

Book The Emotional Lives of Animals   Children

Download or read book The Emotional Lives of Animals Children written by William Crain and published by Turning Stone Press. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, Bill Crain, a professor of psychology at The City College of New York, and his wife Ellen, a pediatrician, opened Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary in Poughquag, New York. The sanctuary provides a permanent home to over 70 animals rescued from slaughter and abusive situations, including goats, sheep, chickens, turkeys, ducks, partridges, and a mini-horse. It also has afforded Bill a tremendous opportunity to observe animals in all manner of emotional states and how their behavior casts light on the emotions of human children. In The Emotional Lives of Animals and Children, Crain honors the work of John Bowlby a psychoanalyst who began his major writings in the 1950s. Bowlby drew on biologists’ observations of animals to provide a compelling account of children’s attachment to their caretakers. “Today, the study of attachment is extremely popular,” Crain writes, but “one would hardly know that the initial inspiration came from observations of non-human animals. Moreover, there has been little effort to extend Bowlby’s work – to see how the study of animals illuminates other aspects of child development.” Crain suggests that the reluctance to follow Bowlby’s lead reflects the Western worldview that considers humans as different from and superior to other species. To think about children in the same category as animals seems to demean children. But Crain discovered that the farm animals’ emotional behaviors can help us understand those of human children. The Emotional Lives of Animals and Children is divided into two parts. Part one discusses six emotional behaviors that are shared by animals and children: fear, play, freedom, care, spirituality, and resilience. Part two addresses the broader social theme of our Western culture’s disparagement of animals. Initially, children do not set themselves apart from nature, but experience it with an instinctive empathy. However, they are eventually taught by our society to detach themselves and to devalue animals. Crain writes, “As people attempt to move beyond society’s dominant views of animals, they can also draw on a neglected idea that goes back to ancient times. This is the view that there is a special wisdom in the child’s ways of knowing. This view is found in the ancient Chinese Taoist statement, ‘wise souls are children.’” About Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary is located in Poughquag, New York, about an hour and a half outside of New York City. Its focus is on the rescue of abused and neglected farm animals. In doing so, it hopes to raise awareness of the plight of animals raised for food and the benefits of a vegan diet for animals, human health, and the environment. Wherever possible, the sanctuary tries to implement environmentally sound practices such as solar heating and the use of reclaimed wood.

Book Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment from Rio to Rio   20  1992 2012

Download or read book Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment from Rio to Rio 20 1992 2012 written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UN. This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative publication, which is based on statistical evidence, illustrates major global environmental, economic and social changes since 1992. The numbers tell the story of how, in twenty years, the world has changed more than most of us could have ever imagined. The report has been produced within the framework of UNDP's fifth Global Environment Outlook assessment report, which will be published in May 2012 in advance of Rio+20.

Book The Universal Obligation of Nuclear Disarmament

Download or read book The Universal Obligation of Nuclear Disarmament written by Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fourth Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luciano Floridi
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2014-06-26
  • ISBN : 0191667692
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The Fourth Revolution written by Luciano Floridi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between life online and offline break down, and we become seamlessly connected to each other and surrounded by smart, responsive objects, we are all becoming integrated into an "infosphere". Personas we adopt in social media, for example, feed into our 'real' lives so that we begin to live, as Floridi puts in, "onlife". Following those led by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, this metaphysical shift represents nothing less than a fourth revolution. "Onlife" defines more and more of our daily activity - the way we shop, work, learn, care for our health, entertain ourselves, conduct our relationships; the way we interact with the worlds of law, finance, and politics; even the way we conduct war. In every department of life, ICTs have become environmental forces which are creating and transforming our realities. How can we ensure that we shall reap their benefits? What are the implicit risks? Are our technologies going to enable and empower us, or constrain us? Floridi argues that we must expand our ecological and ethical approach to cover both natural and man-made realities, putting the 'e' in an environmentalism that can deal successfully with the new challenges posed by our digital technologies and information society.

Book Contours of Ableism

Download or read book Contours of Ableism written by F. Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.

Book Principles for Building Resilience

Download or read book Principles for Building Resilience written by Reinette Biggs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the very latest research, this book provides an in-depth review of the role of resilience in the management of social-ecological systems and the ecosystem services they provide. Leaders in the field outline seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems, examining how these can be applied to advance sustainability.

Book Ci  ncia   saude coletiva

Download or read book Ci ncia saude coletiva written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Relations

Download or read book International Relations written by Rainer Baumann and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of international relations has been shaped by a sequence of 'Great Debates', in which leading scholars of the field advanced, challenged, and defended views about the assumptions that should inform the study of world politics. In this authoritative collection, the editors bring together for the first time the most important contributions to these inspiring intellectual exchanges and provide an excellent overview of the discipline's development since its inception in the early 20th century. Students and scholars in international relations as well as neighboring disciplines will find this title to be an indispensable and highly informative source of reference.

Book YouthXchange  green skills and lifestyles guidebook

Download or read book YouthXchange green skills and lifestyles guidebook written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legal standards on freedom of expression

Download or read book Legal standards on freedom of expression written by Singh, Avani and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: