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There are numerous international treaties that address the subject of marine pollution. Of these the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, which was adopted at London on 12 may 1954, prohibits pollution of the sea and prescribes preventive methods without assigning responsibility for the act of pollution. This was superseded in part by the MARPOL Convention of 1973/78 which has a multiplicity of Annexes dealing extensively with oil pollution in the sea. A landmark treaty was the OPRC Convention of 1990 which addresses emergency and contingency plans to counter oil pollution by ships and offshore installations. The London Convention of 1972 requires Contracting States to adopt effective measures that would prevent marine pollution by ocean dumping and calls for the unification of policies and practices in that regard. The United States is a Party to the MARPOL and London Conventions, along with the Intervention on the High Seas Convention of 1969 and can legislate on marine pollution at two levels - at the Federal level and State level.

The effects that natural events have on the environment directly and indirectly may be harmful to people. Forest fires and volcanoes harm air quality. Hurricanes and floods can contaminate water supplies and damage wastewater facilities. Any of these can spread contaminated materials into the environment. People's response to natural events can also harm either themselves or the environment. Improper use of portable generators or supplemental heating devices can release deadly carbon monoxide. De-icing agents and ice melting compounds can pollute waterways. Exceptionally large amounts of debris can present serious disposal problems for state and local communities.

The central goal of this book is to provide a state of the art overview of the literature with respect to the economic analysis of tort law. It sure meets the challenge, offering with great expertise a comprehensive presentation of tort law in both economic and comparative perspectives. The clarity of the text, unusual in the law and economics literature, makes the book accessible to a broad readership of economists with a limited legal background and lawyers with limited economic skills.' Olivier Moreteau, Louisiana State University, US 'Tort Law and Economics, ed. Michael Faure, provides a highly useful economic overview of the most important topics of tort law. The authors clearly show the main developments of the discussion, examining the results of recent studies and stating their own opinions. Detailed bibliographies are included. The volume has to be warmly recommended to friends and foes of economic analysis who are provided with a comprehensive update in this field while also indicating areas which critics have to focus on.' Helmut Koziol, European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, Austria This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the literature on the economic analysis of tort law. In sixteen chapters, the specialist authors guide the reader through the often vast literature in each domain providing a balanced and comprehensive summary. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of the field, further refinements to economic models and relevant conclusions and lessons for the policymaker. Tort Law and Economics is part of the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, and enables readers, some not familiar with law and economics, to obtain an insight in the relevant economic literature concerning tort law and economics. This book will be of interest to lawyers and economists, practitioners and academics interested in accident law, tort law, insurance and regulation. It will also appeal to students in economic analysis of law and policymakers working on

Emergency response planning for corporate and municipal managers Paul A. Erickson 0 Resenhas Academic Press, 1999 - 564 páginas Emergencies wreak havoc on businesses and governments on a daily basis. Whether it is a hurricane pounding a coastal community, a terrorist attack on a company's headquarters, or a hazardous chemical spill at a local school, the results can be loss of life, health, and property. How can you prevent or reduce the effects of such occurrences? By planning ahead. Emergency Response Planning is designed to help corporate and municipal managers quickly understand their roles in proactive and reactive emergency management. Author Paul Erickson shows how to develop partnerships with federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as community groups in order to prevent, prepare for, and respond to natural disasters and manmade emergencies. Emergency Response Planning provides essential information to help you comply with government regulations, design an emergency response plan, train personnel, use the proper safety equipment, safeguard information systems, and resume normal operations after an emergency as quickly as possible. It will also help consultants design emergency response plans for their clients, and provide practical information for students studying business continuity and emergency issues. Is an important resource for: * Corporate and municipal managers involved in emergency management * Organizational safety committee members * Industrial health and safety consultants and their clients * Graduate and undergraduate students studying emergency response issues * Outlines both proactive and reactive strategies to reduce risk to human life, health, and property * Describes how to form effective partnerships with government agencies and community support resources * Defines the roles of corporate and municipal managers, planning team members, and response personnel * Explains regulations and guidelines from key agencies includi

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Data de Defesa - 06/08/2008Carinna Gonçalves SimplícioA responsabilidade do acionista controlador para a reparação do dano ambientalOrientador: Profª. Doutora Nanci de Melo e Silva

My company, Intellectual Ventures, is misunderstood. We have been reviled as a patent troll-a renegade outfit that buys up patents and then uses them to hold up innocent companies. What we're really trying to do is create a capital market for inventions akin to the venture capital market that supports start-ups and the private equity market that revitalizes inefficient companies. Our goal is to make applied research a profitable activity that attracts vastly more private investment than it does today so that the number of inventions generated soars. "That's preposterous," some might say. "Inventing can't be a business in its own right. It's too risky, and inventions are too intangible to generate sufficient profits by themselves. Inventing and inventions can't be separated from the companies that turn the ideas into actual products. And the notion of creating a liquid market for inventions is absurd." I couldn't disagree more. In the 1970s, people said the same thing about another type of intangible intellectual property: software. Back then, everyone in the computer industry believed that software was valuable only because it helped to sell mainframes or minicomputers and that you could never sell software by itself. As a result, software engineers worked for computer manufacturers or for companies that used computers. Very few independent software vendors existed, and those that did were barely profitable. As a business, software was hopeless. Everyone said so. Everyone was wrong, of course. Over the next three decades, software became one of the most profitable businesses in history. I know because, as a manager and ultimately the chief technology officer at Microsoft, I had a ringside seat to this amazing success story. Software owes its ascent largely to two crucial developments. First, software vendors gradually persuaded software users-through both education and lawsuits-to respect intellectual property rights and pay for somethi

Often, discussions about improving long-term Flood Risk Management (FRM) refer to spatial planning as one of the most promising policy instruments (non-structural measures), especially after flood disasters like in Dresden in August 2002. However, up to now, evidence is limited that spatial planning is used intensively and systematically for long-term FRM, for instance, to reduce vulnerability in flood-prone areas by controlling developments on floodplains and providing development possibilities in non-hazardous areas (Burby et al., 2000). Based on the literature on strategic spatial planning (e.g., Albrechts, 2004a; Bryson, 2004; Healey, 2007) and risk management (e.g., Klinke & Renn, 2002

RM Solow, Intergenerational equity and exhaustible resources - The review of economic studies, 1974 - JSTOR ... In the absence of technical progress, the only way a positive consumption flow can be maintained is through fast enough capital accumulation to drive KIL toward infinity as R/L drops toward zero. But, in the absence of technical progress, conventional growth theory tells us that ... Citado por 1120 - Artigos relacionados - Todas as 3 versões

Energy Frank M. Truesdale Jan 7, 2010For the last month "Energy" has become a chronology of the BP Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, built from news releases, news reports, and blogs.

Prohibición de dañar. Raíz constitucional.Consecuencias para víctimas y responsables.Libertad de actuar Responsabilidad contractual, extracontractual y precontractual Los daños.Distinciones y múltiples efectosAutoría del perjuicio y extensión del resarcimiento Conductas antijurídicas y daños injustos Culpa, riesgo, garantía, equidad, abuso e igualdad El derecho a prevenir y las actuaciones preventivas Reparación integral y justa; en especie y en dinero."Chances".Omisiones.Solvencia del responsable. Circunstancias de la víctimaPautas para cuantificar por daños morales Valuación y liquidación de daños patrimoniales Indemnizaciones punitivas. Destino de las multas civiles. Normativa Legitimación pasiva por daños.

"Contractual y extracontractual "Contenido:Parte general.La responsabilidad civil.Culpa y riesgo.La responsabilidad objetiva por riesgo creado desde la perspectiva axiológica y económica. Las objeciones a la teoría del riesgo creado.El fundamento de la responsabilidad civil a través de la historia. Derecho comparado. Eximentes en materia de responsabilidad objetiva. La extensión y límites del resarcimiento en la responsabilidad objetiva del riesgo creado.La responsabilidad civil por riesgo creado en el proceso penal. Parte especial. La responsabilidad extracontractual por el hecho de las cosas en el Código Civil. El art. 1113.Responsabilidad por actividades riesgosas.Órbita extracontractual. Responsabilidad por el hecho ajeno con fundamento en el riesgo creado y en el riesgo de empresa.Órbita contractual y extracontractual. Responsabilidad contractual objetiva por riesgo creado y de empresa.Otros supuestos de importancia.

Tomo 1: Doctrinas civilistas en torno a la culpa contractual y extracontractual. Culpa civil y culpa penal. Incumplimiento y responsabilidad del deudor. Culpa aquiliana y culpa contractual. La culpa profesional. El dolo. Glosario Tomo 2: El daño injusto. Imputabilidad y causas de justificación. Daño resarcible y nexo causal. Responsabilidad por el hecho ajeno. Padres, guardadores, preceptores, maestros de arte, patrones, comitentes, auxiliares. Daños derivados de las cosas inanimadas, de los animales, de los productos defectuosos y de la actividad peligrosa. Sistematización y concordancias del Código civil italiano con los principales códigos latinoamericanos y con el español. Bibliografía esencial y sistematizada.

El derecho de daños en la actualidad: teoría y práctica. Teoría general de la responsabilidad civil. Fuentes de la obligación resarcitoria. Presupuestos de la responsabilidad civil. Responsabilidad contractual y extracontractual. Responsabilidad por el hecho de otro. Daños causados por las cosas. Responsabilidad civil por daño ambiental. Daños causados por accidentes de automotores. Responsabilidad del Estado. Ejercicio de la acción indemnizatoria. Cuantificación del daño.

-Responsabilidad extracontractual del principal por el hecho del dependiente:La responsabilidad del principal en el derecho comparado. Presupuestos de la responsabilidad del principal en el derecho argentino.Fundamento de la responsabilidad del principal.La relación de dependencia.Acto ilícito del dependiente.La relación causal entre la función y el daño.Responsabilidad del principal por actos ilícitos del dependiente. Las eximentes en la responsabilidad patronal. -Responsasbilidad contractual del deudor por el hecho del tercero:Denominación del instituto:La importancia práctica del tema. El tratamiento normativo, doctrinario y jurisprudencial del tema en el derecho comparado.La cuestión en nuestro derecho positivo. Fundamiento de la responsabilidad civil del deudor por el denominado "hecho ajeno" en nuestro derecho actual. Diferentes teorías.Nuestra opinión.

El daño y su cuantificacion.Incapacidad sobreviniente.Daño psicologico. Daño estetico.Indemnizacion por fallecimiento de la victima. Daño emergente. Lucro cesante. Daño moral. Cuestiones accesorias en el juicio de daños.

 Derecho de daños. Aspectos generales del Derecho de daños: Responsabilidad civil. Los presupuestos de la responsabilidad civil (Antijuridicidad; daño; relación de causalidad; factores de atribución subjetivos de la responsabilidad civil; factores de atribución objetivos de la responsabilidad civil).  Aspectos particulares del derecho de daños: Responsabilidad civil por el hecho propio: los hechos ilícitos. Responsabilidad civil extracontractual por el hecho ajeno. Responsabilidad civil por el hecho de las cosas. Responsabilidad civil por daños causados por animales. Responsabilidad civil de las personas jurídicas y de los funcionarios públicos. Responsabilidad civil de los profesionales. Cuestiones novedosas y controvertidas en el Derecho de daños. La acción civil y la acción penal: independencia, relaciones y efectos entre ellas: La coexistencia de la acción civil con la acción penal.

El paradigma ambiental. El derecho ambiental. Incertidumbrre y riesgos ambientales. Prevencion y precaucion. Teoria de la implementacion. Cumplimiento obligatorio de las normas ambientales. Enforcement.

 Derecho y economia. Analisis economico del derecho y el papel estatal en materia ambiental. Analisis de casos, metodologia y enfoques complementarios.

Visions and Pathways for a Hopeful Future A Great Transition to a future of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is possible. The Great Transition Initiative is a growing international network of scholars and activists that analyzes alternative scenarios and charts a path to a hopeful future. At once rigorous and inspiring, the Great Transition story brings the message that we can create a better world if we shift our values and transform our institutions. Critical to this transition is growing public awareness of the dangers ahead and the need to revise our ways of living - and living together - on this planet. In this, our time of choice, we need a vast movement of global citizens to carry forward a Great Transition.