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This authoritative Research Handbook offers wide-ranging coverage of both traditional and emerging topics dealing with the regulation of ocean space and highlights the key academic debates around ocean governance. It provides a formidable interface between the 1982 UNCLOS Convention and the international law regulating ocean governance, while influencing its further evolution through suggestions for future research in the field.
This book presents a comparative analysis of energy efficiency policies in developing countries. Although there is a vast amount of literature available about renewable energy policy and implementation in the developing world, energy efficiency tends to lack attention. This book fills this lacuna by examining the current state of the field and scope for future improvements. Drawing on a wide range of case studies including Brazil, China and Chile, the authors use a comparative approach to examine the policies and programmes being implemented, looking at the existing legal frameworks and regulatory challenges. By showcasing stories of success, as well as barriers to energy efficiency, they highlight the opportunities for increased energy access and efficiency and demonstrate how these opportunities may directly impact on climate change mitigation. This volume will be a useful resource for scholars and practitioners with an interest in energy policy and efficiency, climate change and international development.
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This historic document constituted a transformative 'plan for action for people, planet and prosperity' with regards to the sustainable development efforts of all countries. The Sustainable Development Goals serves as an expert compendium, the most authoritative ready-reference tool for anyone interested in the SDGs. Each chapter comprises a detailed target-by-target analysis of one of the SDGs, including a methodical analysis of the preparatory proceedings that shaped each goal in its present form, an exhaustive examination of their content, and a critical assessment from an international law perspective. This commentary provides readers with the most up-to-date information on normative and legal questions arising from the incorporation of the SDGs into the international economic, social, and environmental legal frameworks, and on their implementation status. Scholars, practitioners, and those interested in the fields of law, politics, development, economics, environmental studies, and global governance will find this book a must-read.
How is capitalism represented in popular culture today? Are profits seen as a legitimate reward of entrepreneurship? Are thrift and effort still considered a cornerstone of a healthy society? Or is it that inequalities are eliciting scandal and reproach? How is the ecosystem portrayed, vis-à-vis profit seeking companies? Are they irreconcilable, or maybe not? Are there any established trends with respect to the presentation of entrepreneurship, and that complex legal artefact that is the modern limited liability company? These are questions that will be at the core of this book. But they are not examined through the usual theoretical point of references, but looking at TV series produced in 2000-2020. Each chapter of this book is a case studies, covering some of the most popular, successful and engaging TV shows of the last 20 years. And showing how deep economic ideas and biases lie, at the roots of some of our times' most successful entertainment products.
Se quisermos definir este Direito da Eficiência Energética em poucas palavras teremos de o caracterizar como abrangente e complexo. O nosso objectivo foi integrar num único volume a análise de todas as áreas jurídico-sectoriais que actualmente são abrangidas pela programação das políticasde eficiência energética e por isso o resultado final é abrangente. Procurámosatingir este desígnio juntando não apenas diversos contributos científicos,mas também diferentes visões, experiências e entendimentos do que é, doque pode ser e do que se espera que venha a ser mais esta especialização do“novo direito administrativo”. Queremos com isto alertar o leitor para ofacto de estar perante textos que não apenas representam diferentes competências e diversas experiências profissionais, como ainda diferentes mundividências, pois a preocupação não se cingiu a procurar as complementaridades entre académicos e profissionais do sector, mas igualmente entregerações. Este projecto permitiu assim aliar a valia científica, que agora é doconhecimento de todos, a um corpus imaterial que subjaz à urdidura destaspáginas.
Este livro reúne os textos de dezassete das vinte e oito intervenções no Congresso de Direito do Consumo. São abordados temas gerais e temas específicos de Direito do Consumo, o que permite ao leitor, por um lado, ter uma panorâmica geral dos problemas que esta área multidisciplinar levanta e, por outro lado, aprofundar aspetos específicos relevantes, em matéria de contratos bancários, contratos de compra e venda para consumo, contratos celebrados à distância e fora do estabelecimento, práticas comerciais desleais, cláusulas contratuais gerais, períodos de fidelização, entre muitos outros. São ainda tratados temas de Direito do Consumo na perspetiva, por um lado, das empresas e, por outro lado, das entidades reguladoras, percebendo-se desta forma como é que a proteção do consumidor é encarada por estes importantes intervenientes do mercado.
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Health-Promoting Food Ingredients during Processing presents a comprehensive science-based approach covering the latest naturally occurring bioactive compounds in seeds, dietary fiber, proteins, fermented bio-compounds, agro-industrial waste by-products, and lactic acid bacteria. A volume in the Food Biotechnology and Engineering Series, the book discusses their identification, characterization, biological activities in terms of their bioavailability, bioaccessibility, and their beneficial effects as inflammatory mediators, probiotics, antioxidants, and hypoglycemic agents, as well as in gastrointestinal digestion and colonic fermentation. Written by an international expert team of food scie...