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This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of
the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to
regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the
status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of
equality for LGBTQ+ persons. Twenty-eight jurisdictions worldwide
have now legalised same-sex marriage and many others some level of
civil partnership. In contrast other jurisdictions refuse to
recognise or even criminalise same-sex relationships. At a Council
of Europe level, there is no requirement for contracting states to
legalise same-sex marriage. Whilst the Court of Justice of the
European Union now requires contracting states to recognise
same-sex marriages for the purpose of free movement and residency
rights, unlike the US Supreme Court, it does not require EU Member
States to legalise same-sex marriage. Law and Sociology scholars
from five key jurisdictions (England and Wales, Italy, Australia,
Canada, and the Republic of Ireland) examine the role of the
Council of Europe, European Union and further international
regimes. A balanced approach between the competing views of
critically analytical rights based theorists and queer and feminist
theorists interrogates the current international consensus in this
fast moving area. The incrementalist theory whilst offering a
methodology for future advances continues to be critiqued. All
contributions from differing perspectives expose that even for
those jurisdictions who have legalised same-sex marriage, still
further and continuous work needs to be done. The book will be of
interest to students and scholars in the field of human rights,
family and marriage law and gender studies.
Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for
Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies is the most comprehensive and
up-to-date analysis of the legal issues in the Internet of Things
(IoT). For decades, the decreasing importance of tangible wealth
and power - and the increasing significance of their disembodied
counterparts - has been the subject of much legal research. For
some time now, legal scholars have grappled with how laws drafted
for tangible property and predigital 'offline' technologies can
cope with dematerialisation, digitalisation, and the internet. As
dematerialisation continues, this book aims to illuminate the
opposite movement: rematerialisation, namely, the return of data,
knowledge, and power within a physical 'smart' world. This
development frames the book's central question: can the law steer
rematerialisation in a human-centric and socially just direction?
To answer it, the book focuses on the IoT, the sociotechnological
phenomenon that is primarily responsible for this shift. After a
thorough analysis of how existing laws can be interpreted to
empower IoT end users, Noto La Diega leaves us with the fundamental
question of what happens when the law fails us and concludes with a
call for collective resistance against 'smart' capitalism.
This book focuses on the adoption of a Dynamic Performance
Management (DPM) approach to support the planning and management of
urban transportation systems. DPM allows one to embrace a dynamic
and systemic perspective and, as a result, to frame the
contribution of different stakeholders, in terms of outcome-based
performance, at an inter-institutional level. The discussed DPM
approach allows one to focus on the causal relationships and
feedback processes that characterize urban transportation systems'
governance. Particularly, through the adoption of such an approach,
it is possible to identify outcome-based performance measures that
help to monitor and drive the governance network toward the
creation of public value for the reference communities.Strategic
Planning for Urban Transportation: A Dynamic Performance Management
Approach begins with an examination of urban transportation,
highlighting the main criticalities and future challenges of
managing it. Next, the book examines the governance of urban
transportation including how to identify and engage stakeholders.
Finally, the book introduces the main application of DPM and system
dynamics to urban areas, with specific regards to transportation.
The framework is outlined, and a case study is provided as a
practical example of how to apply the model. This book should be
useful to urban transportation decision-makers at both the
managerial and political level.
This book focuses on the adoption of a Dynamic Performance
Management (DPM) approach to support the planning and management of
urban transportation systems. DPM allows one to embrace a dynamic
and systemic perspective and, as a result, to frame the
contribution of different stakeholders, in terms of outcome-based
performance, at an inter-institutional level. The discussed DPM
approach allows one to focus on the causal relationships and
feedback processes that characterize urban transportation systems'
governance. Particularly, through the adoption of such an approach,
it is possible to identify outcome-based performance measures that
help to monitor and drive the governance network toward the
creation of public value for the reference communities.Strategic
Planning for Urban Transportation: A Dynamic Performance Management
Approach begins with an examination of urban transportation,
highlighting the main criticalities and future challenges of
managing it. Next, the book examines the governance of urban
transportation including how to identify and engage stakeholders.
Finally, the book introduces the main application of DPM and system
dynamics to urban areas, with specific regards to transportation.
The framework is outlined, and a case study is provided as a
practical example of how to apply the model. This book should be
useful to urban transportation decision-makers at both the
managerial and political level.
This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of
the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to
regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the
status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of
equality for LGBTQ+ persons. Twenty-eight jurisdictions worldwide
have now legalised same-sex marriage and many others some level of
civil partnership. In contrast other jurisdictions refuse to
recognise or even criminalise same-sex relationships. At a Council
of Europe level, there is no requirement for contracting states to
legalise same-sex marriage. Whilst the Court of Justice of the
European Union now requires contracting states to recognise
same-sex marriages for the purpose of free movement and residency
rights, unlike the US Supreme Court, it does not require EU Member
States to legalise same-sex marriage. Law and Sociology scholars
from five key jurisdictions (England and Wales, Italy, Australia,
Canada, and the Republic of Ireland) examine the role of the
Council of Europe, European Union and further international
regimes. A balanced approach between the competing views of
critically analytical rights based theorists and queer and feminist
theorists interrogates the current international consensus in this
fast moving area. The incrementalist theory whilst offering a
methodology for future advances continues to be critiqued. All
contributions from differing perspectives expose that even for
those jurisdictions who have legalised same-sex marriage, still
further and continuous work needs to be done. The book will be of
interest to students and scholars in the field of human rights,
family and marriage law and gender studies.
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