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Less As More: Rethinking Supernational Litigation Of Economic And Social Rights In The Americas, James L. Cavallaro, Emily J. Schaffer Jan 2004

Less As More: Rethinking Supernational Litigation Of Economic And Social Rights In The Americas, James L. Cavallaro, Emily J. Schaffer

UC Law Journal

Over the last few decades, scholars and activists have attacked the conceptual division of human rights into justiciable civil and political rights on the one hand, and largely non-justiciable economic, social and cultural rights on the other. Academics and practitioners have defended the extension of supranational judicial oversight to individual instances of economic and social rights abuse, on the premise that international litigation of these rights would promote their recognition in practice. This article questions the presumed benefits of supranational litigation in the promotion of economic and social rights. Focusing on the Inter- American system for human rights protection, we …

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Transmission In Transition: Analyzing California's Proposed Electricity Transmission Regulatory Reforms, Brian Orion Jan 2004

Transmission In Transition: Analyzing California's Proposed Electricity Transmission Regulatory Reforms, Brian Orion

UC Law Journal

California's experiment with electricity deregulation is the most recent example of the State's willingness to be an energy policy maverick. Rolling blackouts and expensive long-term contracts are some of the constant reminders of this failed experiment. But another dramatic legacy of deregulation, one which is littleknown beyond inside players in regulation and industry, relates to the planning and licensing of California's system of highpower transmission lines. Thousands of miles of copper and steel wires supply families and businesses with the electricity they need to light their homes, water their crops, and manufacture their silicon chips. A well-planned and robust transmission …

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How To Keep The Lights On: An Exploration Of The Abrogration Of Wholesale Energy Contracts, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 303 (2004), Brian Bassett Jan 2004

How To Keep The Lights On: An Exploration Of The Abrogration Of Wholesale Energy Contracts, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 303 (2004), Brian Bassett

UIC Law Review

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Emissions Trading: A Cost-Effective Approach To Reducing Nonpoint Source Pollution, Sonya Dewan Jan 2004

Emissions Trading: A Cost-Effective Approach To Reducing Nonpoint Source Pollution, Sonya Dewan

Fordham Environmental Law Review

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Preserving Justice: Defending Toxic Tort Litigation, Anthony Roisman, Martha Judy, Daniel Stein Jan 2004

Preserving Justice: Defending Toxic Tort Litigation, Anthony Roisman, Martha Judy, Daniel Stein

Fordham Environmental Law Review

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Environmental Protection In The Developing World, Samuel Labudde Jan 2004

Environmental Protection In The Developing World, Samuel Labudde

Fordham Environmental Law Review

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The Case For Cautious Optimism: California Environmental Propositions In The Late Twentieth Century, Marie Bolton, Nancy Unger Jan 2004

The Case For Cautious Optimism: California Environmental Propositions In The Late Twentieth Century, Marie Bolton, Nancy Unger

History

The efficacy of direct democracy throughout California's history continues to be a subject of intense debate, a state-wide phenomenon with an international audience. California boasts the world's fifth largest economy, and plays a leadership role in national, and sometimes even international, politics. British scholar Wyn Grant, studying the politics of air quality management in California, succinctly sums up the burning issue for environmentalists worldwide who are striving to understand the efficacy of California's activists' efforts: in "Direct Democracy in California: Example or Warning?" Grant concludes that although direct democracy has its merits, its history in California ultimately provides more of …

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Race And Ethnicity, Rawls, Race, And Reason, Sheila R. Foster Jan 2004

Race And Ethnicity, Rawls, Race, And Reason, Sheila R. Foster

Fordham Law Review

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The Electronic Waste Recycling Act Of 2003: California's Response To The Electronic Waste Crisis, Danielle M. Bergner Jan 2004

The Electronic Waste Recycling Act Of 2003: California's Response To The Electronic Waste Crisis, Danielle M. Bergner

Marquette Law Review

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Ic107: Program: 9th Biennial Symposium On Minorities, The Medically Underserved & Cancer. From Awareness To Action, The Unequal Burden Of Cancer, Intercultural Cancer Council Jan 2004

Ic107: Program: 9th Biennial Symposium On Minorities, The Medically Underserved & Cancer. From Awareness To Action, The Unequal Burden Of Cancer, Intercultural Cancer Council

Informational and Promotional Materials

Program details the events, speakers, attendees, and discussions during the 9th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer presented by Intercultural Cancer Council and Baylor College of Medicine. The symposium took place March 24-28, 2004 at the OMNI Shoreham in Washington, DC. See more at Intercultural Cancer Council Records.

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The Forum: Winter 2004, Beth Eslinger, Tessa Sandstrom, Jeremy Bold, Amanda Licht, Elizabeth Blazek, Katie Rau, Heather Monasky, Tiffany Stratton, Martine Natasha Johnson, Christopher Pieske, Kristin Palm, Rebecca Thoreson Jan 2004

The Forum: Winter 2004, Beth Eslinger, Tessa Sandstrom, Jeremy Bold, Amanda Licht, Elizabeth Blazek, Katie Rau, Heather Monasky, Tiffany Stratton, Martine Natasha Johnson, Christopher Pieske, Kristin Palm, Rebecca Thoreson

UND Publications

Winter 2004 journal of the Honors Program at the University of North Dakota. The issue includes stories, poems, essays and art by undergraduate students.

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Who Is An Environmentalist? The Polysemy Of Environmentalist Terms And Correlated Environmental Actions, Danielle Tesch, Willett Kempton Jan 2004

Who Is An Environmentalist? The Polysemy Of Environmentalist Terms And Correlated Environmental Actions, Danielle Tesch, Willett Kempton

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Conducting and interpreting an interview is more problematic when informants use a word that has multiple meanings and interpretations. In this case, the problematic word, “environmentalist,” labeled several socially-defined identities that were central to the study. The analysis is based on interviews with 156 members of 20 diverse environmental groups (and two comparison groups) in the Eastern United States, including their views on environmentalists, their history with the movement, their self-identification as an environmentalist, and their environmental actions. From these data, principles of classification and naming are used to distinguish the multiple meanings of the identity “environmentalist.” We found that …

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Private Property And The Politics Of Environmental Protection, Thomas W. Merrill Jan 2004

Private Property And The Politics Of Environmental Protection, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

Private property plays two opposing roles in stories about the environment. In the story favored by most environmentalists, private property is the bad guy. It balkanizes an interconnected ecosystem into artificial units of individual ownership. Owners of these finite parcels have little incentive to invest in ecosystem resources and every incentive to dump polluting wastes onto other parcels. Only by relocating control over natural resources in some central authority like the federal government, can we make integrated decisions designed to preserve the health of the entire ecosystem. For these traditional environmentalists, private property is the problem; public control is the …

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Theory And History Of Social Indicators With Demonstration, David Edward Roemer Jan 2004

Theory And History Of Social Indicators With Demonstration, David Edward Roemer

Master's Projects

This planning report outlines the history and evolution of social indicators into community indicators and examines their use in regional and urban planning. Second, this planning report is a study of the uses and types of indicators that have been, and are being, used for planning at the regional and community level. As such, this report also examines what it means for indicators to be appropriate” and describes how they may also be misused. Third, this report demonstrates the recreation of a Santa Clara County social indicator index based on a 1984 published report updated to the year 2000. The …

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Terrorism, Security, And Environmental Protection, Stephen M. Johnson Jan 2004

Terrorism, Security, And Environmental Protection, Stephen M. Johnson

Articles

Part I of this Article examines the post-September 11 trend of reduced access to environmental, health, and safety information. Part II introduces the tools that governments might use to protect the environment while protecting homeland security, including planning and information disclosure, command and control measures, and pollution prevention measures. Part II also criticizes the reliance on command and control measures as the primary means of addressing the security issues created by businesses that engage in activities that could harm the environment, health, or safety. Part III explores the advantages of planning and information disclosure programs over command and control programs …

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Improving Laws, Declining World: The Tort Of Contamination, William H. Rodgers Jr. Jan 2004

Improving Laws, Declining World: The Tort Of Contamination, William H. Rodgers Jr.

Valparaiso University Law Review

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Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: A Standard For States, Elizabeth F. Defeis Jan 2004

Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: A Standard For States, Elizabeth F. Defeis

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Action Planning: An Overview, Adam Rose Jan 2004

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Action Planning: An Overview, Adam Rose

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

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The Access Initiative: Promoting Sustainable Development Through Good Governance , Melissa Dasgupta Jan 2004

The Access Initiative: Promoting Sustainable Development Through Good Governance , Melissa Dasgupta

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

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Shout From Taller Rooftops: A Response To Deborah L. Rhode's Access To Justice Colloquium: Deborah L. Rhode's Access To Justice, Steven H. Hobbs Jan 2004

Shout From Taller Rooftops: A Response To Deborah L. Rhode's Access To Justice Colloquium: Deborah L. Rhode's Access To Justice, Steven H. Hobbs

Articles

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The International Significance Of An Instance Of Urban Environmental Inequity In Tijuana, Mexico, Tseming Yang Jan 2004

The International Significance Of An Instance Of Urban Environmental Inequity In Tijuana, Mexico, Tseming Yang

Faculty Publications

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Foucault's Approach To Power: Its Allure And Limits For Collaborative Lawyering, Ascanio Piomelli Jan 2004

Foucault's Approach To Power: Its Allure And Limits For Collaborative Lawyering, Ascanio Piomelli

Utah Law Review

This Article examines the considerable influence that French philosopher Michel Foucault's conceptualization of power has had on U.S. theorists of lawyering for social change. Led by Professors Gerald L6pez of New York University and Lucie White of Harvard, a substantial literature has emerged in the past two decades urging progressive lawyers to reshape their lawyering practices to collaborate more closely with clients and community groups. Proponents of this model of activist law practice have often invoked Foucault and acknowledged that his ideas about power underlie and inform their visions of lawyering. But until this Article, theorists of collaborative lawyering have …

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Our Toxics Regulatory System And Why Risk Assessment Does Not Work: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals As A Case In Point, Valerie J. Watnick Jan 2004

Our Toxics Regulatory System And Why Risk Assessment Does Not Work: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals As A Case In Point, Valerie J. Watnick

Utah Law Review

Our current toxics regulatory system is based on the fundamental premise that the public expects a high degree of safety-close to absolute safety 2-in the regulation of toxins in our environment. To implement a system based on this fundamental assumption, we assume further that we can use risk assessment to develop "health-based" safety standards and use command and control regulation to implement them. This Article suggests that the fundamental premise that we can and should develop and apply standards that ensure safety to human health in our toxics regulatory schemes has little basis in current political and scientific reality. Politically, …

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2004-2005 - Appropriations 5.5, Office Of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez Jan 2004

2004-2005 - Appropriations 5.5, Office Of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez

By year (2001-2019)

This series consists of appropriations supported by the Office of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez. Appropriations included: Child Nutrition Programs, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, Minority Farmer and Rancher Outreach and Technical Assistance Program, Rural Housing Grants for Farmworker and Poor Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), Emergency Grants for assist low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers, USDA Rural Drinking Water and Waste Water loan & grant fund, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) research, Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (MEP), Technologies Opportunities Program (TOP), Community Technology Centers (CTC), Department of Defense's (DOD) Peer-Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program, U.S. Army's Neurotoxin Exposure …

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An Econometric Analysis Of Infant Mortality, Pollution, And Income In The U.S. Counties, Margarita Yuri Somov Jan 2004

An Econometric Analysis Of Infant Mortality, Pollution, And Income In The U.S. Counties, Margarita Yuri Somov

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The concept of economic development has broadened to include environmental quality and population health. Interactions between income and pollution, income and health, and pollution and health have been studied separately by researchers from various disciplines. This study attempts to unify several different research strands and analyze simultaneous interactions between population health, measured by the infant mortality rate, pollution, and income in one endogenous system. Socioeconomic, racial, and rural urban disparities in infant mortality, pollution, and income are analyzed. The simultaneous equation system, estimated using the two-stage least squares method, tests whether pollution effects on infant mortality are outweighed by income …

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The Continuing Relevance Of Race-Concious Remedies And Prgrams In Integrating The Nation's Workforce, Michael L. Foreman, Kristin M. Dadey, Audrey J. Wiggins Jan 2004

The Continuing Relevance Of Race-Concious Remedies And Prgrams In Integrating The Nation's Workforce, Michael L. Foreman, Kristin M. Dadey, Audrey J. Wiggins

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

The authors argue that achieving diversity should be one of the main legitimate justifications for affirmative action programs, in addition to the traditionally cited "remedy for past discrimination" justification. The authors describe the legal framework for affirmative action beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They discuss the various types of affirmative action plans - public and private, court ordered and voluntary. The article concludes with a discussion of Department of Justice and EEOC policies towards affirmative action, arguing that the federal government should be the biggest proponent of such programs.

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Solving A Locational Distribution Problem Of Non-Toxic Solid Waste On The Island Of Puerto Rico, Sandra A. Soto Jan 2004

Solving A Locational Distribution Problem Of Non-Toxic Solid Waste On The Island Of Puerto Rico, Sandra A. Soto

LSU Master's Theses

The island of Puerto Rico is confronting a crisis in waste management due to inadequate management from the local government, the decreasing number of landfills available, high population density, and paucity of places for waste disposal. This research develops a least-cost model for the disposal and transportation of non-hazardous solid waste. Location-allocation (LA) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software are used to analyze the efficiency of the present pattern of waste allocation and to identify a near-to-optimal assignment of waste for the landfills in operation today and the landfills that will be open by 2008. The “near-to-optimal” models obtained from …

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Environmental Equity: Gradient Measures Of Race And Social Class In The Areas Surrounding Pennsylvania Superfund Sites, Mark A. Jablonski Jan 2004

Environmental Equity: Gradient Measures Of Race And Social Class In The Areas Surrounding Pennsylvania Superfund Sites, Mark A. Jablonski

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the socioeconomic and racial characteristics of the areas surrounding the 120 National Priority List Superfund hazardous waste sites in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Using three distinct concentric distance measures, the study uses 1990 census tract data to determine whether Nonwhite and low-income populations live in closest proximity to Pennsylvania's most toxic sites and consequently bear the brunt of the negative externalities associated with having Superfund sites nearby. The results of the study suggest that environmental inequities are not prevalent in the areas surrounding Pennsylvania Superfund sites. Rather, the areas between 1.667 and 3.333 miles away from the …

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Social Issues And Education: Commentary On The Use Of Freirian, Hortonian And Boalian Pedagogies In A Graduate College Classroom, Michael Sanders Jan 2004

Social Issues And Education: Commentary On The Use Of Freirian, Hortonian And Boalian Pedagogies In A Graduate College Classroom, Michael Sanders

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

My purpose for writing this commentary is to reflect on how one teacher attempted to utilize the philosophies and practices of Paolo Freire, Augusto Boal, and Myles Horton in a graduate level, educational foundations classroom. I take as my premise the view that pedagogical practice is political and that the processes of studying and changing practice are also political (Kemmis and McTaggart, 2000). The commentary is a testimony about how I attempted to construct ways in which classroom relations would encourage participants to engage with each other and the instructor in confrontational interaction to expose and examine held values and …

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The Effects Of Neo-Liberalism: A Proposal To Measure Women's Feeling Of Safety And Job Satisfaction In Two Garment Factories, Briana Henscheid Jan 2004

The Effects Of Neo-Liberalism: A Proposal To Measure Women's Feeling Of Safety And Job Satisfaction In Two Garment Factories, Briana Henscheid

Honors Program Theses

Neo-liberal policies have facilitated increased globalization. ln tum, environmental, as well as occupational concerns have increased. The following is an overview of principle neo-liberal ideologies as well as their contribution to globalization. The detrimental effects of globalization on the environment as well as occupational health and safety are examined. To narrow the scope, a proposal is set forth which would examine specifically the attitudes of women workers in two garment factories, one with production in the United States, the other with production in Mexico. Although no research is conducted, the format is clear and preliminary conclusions are drawn.

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