Author: Collectif Publisher: IRD Éditions ISBN: 2709921731 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 276
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The mobilisation centred on the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) is an opportunity to highlight the vulnerability of environments and populations in the South in the face of climate warming. Some tropical regions are already suffering from its effects, with heat waves in the Sahel, disturbances to monsoon systems, the melting of the Andean glaciers, threats to biodiversity, a rise in sea level and other features. Research conducted by IRD and its partners provides key knowledge for better understanding of the complexity of these phenomena. This book is a synthesis in three parts: observing and understanding climate change, analysing its main impacts on environments and setting societies and national public policies at the heart of the climate challenge. Focused on the capacity for resilience of populations and ecosystems in the face of trends in the climate, the book explores solutions that reconcile mitigation and adaptation in response to climate change, conservation of the environment and a reduction of inequalities. The work is both well documented and explanatory, reviewing operations and the results of research that is firmly involved and interdisciplinary, closely associating partners in the North and the South.
Author: Beatriz Garcia Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139496689 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 405
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With a vast river network and rainforests extending over eight South American countries, the Amazon plays a vital role particularly in maintaining biodiversity and terrestrial carbon storage. Due to its ecological characteristics, the Amazon benefits not only those countries but also the international community at large. However, the Amazon forests are being rapidly cleared with a consequent loss of biodiversity and impact on global climate. This book examines whether international law has an impact on the preservation of the Amazon by inquiring into the forms of cooperation that exist among the Amazon countries, and between them and the international community, and to what extent international cooperation can help protect the Amazon. Given the role of this region in maintaining the balance of the global environment, the book examines whether the Amazon should be granted a special legal status and possible implications in terms of international cooperation.
Author: Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 285
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African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 7 2019 2019 ISSN: 2311-8970 Pages: 279 Print version: Available Electronic version: Free PDF available About the publication The African Disability Rights Yearbook aims to advance disability scholarship. Coming in the wake of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is the first peer-reviewed journal to focus exclusively on disability as human rights on the African continent. It provides an annual forum for scholarly analysis on issues pertaining to the human rights of persons with disabilities. It is also a source for country-based reports as well as commentaries on recent developments in the field of disability rights in the African region. Table of Contents EDITORIAL SECTION A: ARTICLES The implications of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the legal capacity of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in Ethiopia Merga Yadesa Dibaba Human rights and access to health care for persons with albinism in Africa Ebenezer Durojaye and Satang Nabaneh Conflicting discourses on conceptualising children with disabilities in Africa Shimelis Tsegaye Tesemma and Susanna Abigaêl Coetzee Right to self-representation for people with mental disabilities in Kenya’s courts Paul Juma The place of sign language in the inclusive education of deaf learners in Zimbabwe amid CRPD (mis)interpretation Martin Musengi Left in the periphery: An appraisal of voting rights for persons with disabilities in Zimbabwe Nkosana Maphosa, CG Moyo and B Moyo SECTION B: COUNTRY REPORTS Tchad Serge Marcellin Tengho Mali Marianne Séverin Burundi Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga Republic of Congo Marianne Séverin and Chretien Fontcha South Sudan Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi, Theophilus M Odaudu and Reshoketswe Mapokgole SECTION C: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS Leveraging the international human rights system to advance local change for South African women with disabilities Anastasia Holoboff & Suzannah Phillips The right to an adequate standard of living in the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Africa Yvette Basson BOOK REVIEW Simon Foley: Intellectual disability and the right to a sexual life (2019) Charles Ngwena
Author: Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN: 9251391440 Category : Languages : en Pages : 134
Author: Camille Kuyu Publisher: Les Editions du Net ISBN: 2312071509 Category : Law Languages : fr Pages : 860
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Les changements climatiques, longtemps contestés, sont aujourd’hui scientifiquement démontrés. Leurs conséquences sur notre environnement et notre qualité de vie commencent à peine à être connues. Les connaissances scientifiques s’organisent, mais des champs entiers d’investigation restent inexplorés. Des controverses existent sur les solutions à mettre en œuvre. Des politiques publiques émergent au niveau des États et de la communauté internationale, mais sans commune mesure avec les enjeux soulevés. Cet ouvrage rassemble une trentaine contributions permettant de confronter les connaissances actuelles sur le droit en lien avec les changements climatiques et une réflexion stratégique sur leurs conséquences pour les populations et les réponses des acteurs sociaux et institutionnels. Il est articulé autour des thèmes suivants : Le droit du changement climatique : droit de l’adaptation et adaptation du droit, Les droits des migrants environnementaux : quels migrants pour quelle protection ? ; Le droit et la gestion du patrimoine ; Le droit de la mise en œuvre du droit : responsabilités et effectivité du droit.
Author: Deborah S. Reisinger Publisher: Georgetown University Press ISBN: 1647120314 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 238
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A one-semester intermediate-high to advanced-level French textbook designed for French for Specific Purposes courses such as Business or Professional French, Affaires globales uses an interdisciplinary, multiliteracies approach to help students develop the cultural knowledge and language skills necessary for a career in the francophone world.
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