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Whaling Diplomacy is the only book that addresses all of the
substantive issues relating to the conservation of whales through
the International Whaling Commission (IWC). It covers the law,
policy, science and philosophy at the heart of each element of the
debate, discussing how it has developed, the current problems that
beset it and what is necessary for the future. Together, all of the
issues involved in whaling form a single crucible through which the
future of conservation in international environmental law is being
debated. The intensity of this debate, despite being at the
forefront of international environmental problems for over three
decades has not dissipated, as ultimately, the clash of values,
science and law within whaling diplomacy is one of the key front
lines for international conservation in the 21st century. Studying
the contemporary developments in international environmental law
and policy, this book therefore is not just about whales, but also
how related debates are being reflected in other forums. Students
of law, politics, environmental economics and philosophy will find
this book of great value for it's cutting-edge relevance over the
three disciplines. Policymakers will also find it of interest for
the insight into one of the most controversial conservation debates
of our time.
Generating waste is a human condition. There is, however, very
little real knowledge about this important issue, as the
mishandling of wastes threatens lives and the environment.
Therefore, I strongly recommend Professor Gillespie's book, as it
is an in-depth, extremely competent holistic overview of waste
which covers both its management, and its economic impact. The
language is accessible to all interested in these issues, and the
book gives a unique insight into waste policy, with great attention
to detail that showcases Gillespie's vast knowledge in all
environmental matters.' - Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary
University of London, UK'Nature knows no waste, only humans do. The
modern industrial world seems to have forgotten that natural and
human systems are inextricably linked. Waste has been externalized
causing huge environmental, economic and social costs. This book
aims for reversing the trend. Taking a comparative and contextual
perspective, Gillespie shows how smart policies can lead to
minimizing waste and to creating material flows consistent with
ecological flows. An important book, rich in detail, very
accessible and with a powerful message.' - Klaus Bosselmann,
University of Auckland, New Zealand From human waste to nuclear
waste, the question of how we must manage what we no longer want,
in terms of either recycling or disposal, is one of the most
pressing issues in environmental law. Alexander Gillespie addresses
the gaps in previous literature by incorporating economics,
philosophy and the ideal of sustainable development in order to
provide context to the surrounding legal and policy considerations
for the management of waste. The book's premise is that all forms
of waste are expanding exponentially, and are often of a hazardous
nature. The author examines the size of the problem, considers how
it is evolving, and assesses the legal and political implications.
He then shows that existing solutions to reducing consumption and
recycling are limited, and concludes by discussing potential ways
forward. Students and scholars with an interest in environmental
law at the national, regional and international level will find
this book to be of use. The book will also be of interest to
practitioners looking to solve the issues surrounding waste and
recycling.
'Humanity has been gambling for generations with the extent to
which it can degrade nature and continue to prosper. Now the
environmental debt is being called in and the ability of
international diplomacy and law, government policy and political
will to deal with the issues is being tested. Conservation,
Biodiversity and International Law is a must read for any
practitioner in the high-stakes business of restoring our ability
to live in harmony with the natural world that sustains us.' -
Alastair Morrison, Department of Conservation, New Zealand
'Biodiversity is the cornerstone of life - our plants, animals, and
ecosystems are essential for livelihoods and have shaped our
culture and traditions around the world. However our precious
biodiversity is at risk as never before. Global targets to reduce
biodiversity loss have not been met and we continue to lose
biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. In fact we are currently in
the middle of an extinction crisis and scientists have advised that
one species from our planet is being lost every 38 minutes! The
nature of this crisis and the actions taken to address it are
clearly and articulately put forward in this landmark book by
Professor Al Gillespie. This book is particularly useful in
documenting the many policy and legal actions that have been taken
to address these issues, and how the application of these
instruments can be improved. Although focused on the law, the book
covers a range of disciplines including science, philosophy and
policy which lay the foundation for international law. This book
makes a major and highly valued contribution to the disciple of
environmental law and policy and is an invaluable reference for
policy makers, practitioners and academic audiences.' - David
Sheppard, CEO of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional
Environment Programme (SPREP) This important and timely book
provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues presently
facing conservation at international level. The author provides
detailed coverage of topics ranging from the classification of
species right through to access and benefit sharing, drawing on his
personal experience at intergovernmental level. Each question is
examined through the prism of dozens of treaties and hundreds of
decisions and resolutions of the key multilateral regimes, and the
law in each area is supplemented by the necessary considerations of
science politics and philosophy - providing much-needed context for
the reader. Combining expert scholarship and first-hand insight,
Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law will be an
invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in
international environmental law, as well as providing an accessible
guide for students.
Is 'sustainable development' a charade sold to an increasingly
misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating
critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author
argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally
sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of
legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as
consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or
manipulated in international policy and law. Analyzing the main
areas of concern - economic growth, market structure, trade, aid,
debt, security and sovereignty - he shows that the entire
development structure and the underpinnings of the debate are
leading down quite a different path to that intended by
sustainability.
'Humanity has been gambling for generations with the extent to
which it can degrade nature and continue to prosper. Now the
environmental debt is being called in and the ability of
international diplomacy and law, government policy and political
will to deal with the issues is being tested. Conservation,
Biodiversity and International Law is a must read for any
practitioner in the high-stakes business of restoring our ability
to live in harmony with the natural world that sustains us.' -
Alastair Morrison, Department of Conservation, New Zealand
'Biodiversity is the cornerstone of life - our plants, animals, and
ecosystems are essential for livelihoods and have shaped our
culture and traditions around the world. However our precious
biodiversity is at risk as never before. Global targets to reduce
biodiversity loss have not been met and we continue to lose
biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. In fact we are currently in
the middle of an extinction crisis and scientists have advised that
one species from our planet is being lost every 38 minutes! The
nature of this crisis and the actions taken to address it are
clearly and articulately put forward in this landmark book by
Professor Al Gillespie. This book is particularly useful in
documenting the many policy and legal actions that have been taken
to address these issues, and how the application of these
instruments can be improved. Although focused on the law, the book
covers a range of disciplines including science, philosophy and
policy which lay the foundation for international law. This book
makes a major and highly valued contribution to the disciple of
environmental law and policy and is an invaluable reference for
policy makers, practitioners and academic audiences.' - David
Sheppard, CEO of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional
Environment Programme (SPREP) This important and timely book
provides a rigorous overview of the defining issues presently
facing conservation at international level. The author provides
detailed coverage of topics ranging from the classification of
species right through to access and benefit sharing, drawing on his
personal experience at intergovernmental level. Each question is
examined through the prism of dozens of treaties and hundreds of
decisions and resolutions of the key multilateral regimes, and the
law in each area is supplemented by the necessary considerations of
science politics and philosophy - providing much-needed context for
the reader. Combining expert scholarship and first-hand insight,
Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law will be an
invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in
international environmental law, as well as providing an accessible
guide for students.
ALEXANDER GILLESPIE & WILLIAM C.G. BURNS The idea for this book
grew out of the Ecopolitics conference in Canberra, Australia in
1996. The conference captured the ferment of the climate change
debate in the South Pacific, as well as some its potential
implications for the region's inhabitants and e- systems. At that
conference, one of the editors (Gillespie) delivered a paper on
climate change issues in the region, as did Ros Taplin and Mark
Diesendorf, who are also c- tributors to this volume. This book
focuses on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand, and the
small island nations in the Pacific as the world struggles to cope
with possible the impacts of environmental change and to formulate
effective responses. While Australia and New Zealand's per capita
emissions of greenhouse gases are among the highest in the world,
their aggregate contributions are small. However, both nations may
exert a disprop- tionate influence in the global greenhouse debate
because their obstinate positions at recent conferences of the
parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on C- mate
Change (FCCC) may provide justification for other developed
nations, as well as developing countries, to refuse to make
meaningful reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions.
ALEXANDER GILLESPIE & WILLIAM C.G. BURNS The idea for this book
grew out of the Ecopolitics conference in Canberra, Australia in
1996. The conference captured the ferment of the climate change
debate in the South Pacific, as well as some its potential
implications for the region's inhabitants and e- systems. At that
conference, one of the editors (Gillespie) delivered a paper on
climate change issues in the region, as did Ros Taplin and Mark
Diesendorf, who are also c- tributors to this volume. This book
focuses on climate change issues in Australia, New Zealand, and the
small island nations in the Pacific as the world struggles to cope
with possible the impacts of environmental change and to formulate
effective responses. While Australia and New Zealand's per capita
emissions of greenhouse gases are among the highest in the world,
their aggregate contributions are small. However, both nations may
exert a disprop- tionate influence in the global greenhouse debate
because their obstinate positions at recent conferences of the
parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on C- mate
Change (FCCC) may provide justification for other developed
nations, as well as developing countries, to refuse to make
meaningful reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions.
This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series
charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day,
written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its
principal materials the documentary history of international law,
largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up
to them. These volumes seek to show why millions of people, over
thousands of years, slew each other. In departing from the various
theories put forward by historians, anthropologists and
psychologists, Gillespie offers a different taxonomy of the causes
of war, focusing on the broader settings of politics, religion,
migrations and empire-building. These four contexts were dominant
and often overlapping justifications during the first four thousand
years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.
This is the third volume of a projected five-volume series charting
the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a
leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials
the documentary history of international law, largely in the form
of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These
volumes seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of
years, slew each other. In departing from the various theories put
forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, Gillespie
offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing on the
broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and
empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often
overlapping justifications during the first four thousand years of
human civilisation, for which written records exist.
This book offers a unique insight into the key legal and social
issues at play in New Zealand today. Tackling the most pressing
issues, it tracks the evolution of these societal problems from
1840 to the present day. Issues explored include: illegal drugs;
racism; the position of women; the position of Maori and free
speech and censorship. Through these issues, the authors track New
Zealand's evolution to one of the most famously liberal and
tolerant societies in the world.
Title: Gleanings and Remarks: collected during many months of
residence at Buenos-Ayres, and within the Upper Country; with a
prefatory account of the expedition from England, until the
surrender of the ... Cape of Good Hope. With a map, etc.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes
geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of
competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and
Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France,
Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below
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British Library Gillespie, Alexander; 1818. 8 . 1050.i.23.
This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern
laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying
on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources
ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author
pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as
civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has
been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of
legitimising different forms of combatants and regulating the
treatment of captives. This first book on warfare deals with the
broad question of whether the patterns of dealing with combatants
and captives have changed over the last 5,000 years, and if so,
how? In terms of context, the first part of the book is about
combatants and those who can 'lawfully' take part in combat. In
many regards, this part of the first volume is a series of 'less
than ideal' pathways. This is because in an ideal world there would
be no combatants because there would be no fighting. Yet as a
species we do not live in such a place or even anywhere near it,
either historically or in contemporary times. This being so, a
second-best alternative has been to attempt to control the size of
military forces and, therefore, the bloodshed. This is also not the
case by which humanity has worked over the previous centuries.
Rather, the clear assumption for thousands of years has been that
authorities are allowed to build the size of their armed forces as
large as they wish. The restraints that have been applied are in
terms of the quality and methods by which combatants are taken. The
considerations pertain to questions of biology such as age and sex,
geographical considerations such as nationality, and the multiple
nuances of informal or formal combatants. These questions have also
overlapped with ones of compulsion and whether citizens within a
country can be compelled to fight without their consent.
Accordingly, for the previous 3,000 years, the question has not
been whether there should be a limit on the number of soldiers, but
rather who is or is not a lawful combatant. It has rarely been a
question of numbers. It has been, and remains, one of type. The
second part of this book is about people, typically combatants,
captured in battle. It is about what happens to their status as
prisoners, about the possibilities of torture, assistance if they
are wounded and what happens to their remains should they be killed
and their bodies fall into enemy hands. The theme that ties all of
these considerations together is that all of the acts befall those
who are, to one degree or another, captives of their enemies. As
such, they are no longer masters of their own fate. As a work of
reference this first volume, as part of a set of three, is
unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and
practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It
also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the
history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This is the third volume of a projected five-volume series charting
the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a
leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials
the documentary history of international law, largely in the form
of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These
volumes seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of
years, slew each other. In departing from the various theories put
forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, Gillespie
offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing on the
broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and
empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often
overlapping justifications during the first four thousand years of
human civilisation, for which written records exist.
This is the fourth volume of a projected six-volume series charting
the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a
leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials
the documentary history of international law, largely in the form
of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These
volumes seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of
years, slew each other. In departing from the various theories put
forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, the
author offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing
on the broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and
empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often
overlapping justifications during the first four thousand years of
human civilisation, for which written records exist.
This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series
charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day,
written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its
principal materials the documentary history of international law,
largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up
to them. These volumes seek to show why millions of people, over
thousands of years, slew each other. In departing from the various
theories put forward by historians, anthropologists and
psychologists, Gillespie offers a different taxonomy of the causes
of war, focusing on the broader settings of politics, religion,
migrations and empire-building. These four contexts were dominant
and often overlapping justifications during the first four thousand
years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.
This is the first volume of a projected four-volume series charting
the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a
leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials
the documentary history of international law largely in the form of
treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These volumes
seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of years,
slayed each other. In departing from the various theories put
forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, Gillespie
offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing on the
broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and
empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often
overlapping justifications for the first four thousand years of
human civilisation, for which written records exist.
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