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  • Climate Change and Starvation
    Laura Westra
    There is a lot written on climate change from various points of view, but this is the first work that demonstrates the connection between the hunger of the poor, the deprivation of safe and healthy food on the part of those who can afford it in the wealthy countries, but still face starvation in the sense of lack of nourishment, and climate change itself. It looks at the case l...
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    73,11 €

  • Climate Change and Starvation
    Laura Westra
    There is a lot written on climate change from various points of view, but this is the first work that demonstrates the connection between the hunger of the poor, the deprivation of safe and healthy food on the part of those who can afford it in the wealthy countries, but still face starvation in the sense of lack of nourishment, and climate change itself. It looks at the case l...
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    71,51 €

  • On Hunger
    Laura Westra
    On Hunger focuses on the interface between food and public health and on the flawed regulations intended to protect us. Food not only represents nourishment for the body; it also possesses other valuable aspects that are protected by international legal instruments. Westra argues for the importance of effecting radical changes: to protect and improve the present system of food ...
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    77,03 €

  • Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum
    Laura Westra / Satvinder Juss
    This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and the deprivation of natural resources. They argue that all of these problems eithe...
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    96,99 €

  • Child Law
    Laura Westra
    Child Law starts with the question 'Who is the Child?' In direct contrast to the CRC, which calls for putting the interests of the child first in all policies dealing with children, it appears that the interests of others are the major consideration de facto. In law, children’s right to protection is severely limited by the presence of a maximum age limit, with no consideration...
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    135,94 €

  • Ecological Integrity and Global Governance
    Laura Westra
    This book demonstrates that the concept of ecological integrity is a necessary basis for any environmentally motivated system of governance and explores the conflicts which have so far prevented its acceptance in international law. ...
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    302,00 €

  • Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum
    Laura Westra / Satvinder Juss
    This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they continue to face. The authors explore the causality that generates displacement, discuss how migrants are received and the problems they face on arrival, and conclude by confronting the fate and status of asylum seekers after arrival. The authors propose ways of...
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    270,46 €

  • Child Law
    Laura Westra
    Child Law starts with the question 'Who is the Child?' In direct contrast to the CRC, which calls for putting the interests of the child first in all policies dealing with children, it appears that the interests of others are the major consideration de facto. In law, children’s right to protection is severely limited by the presence of a maximum age limit, with no consideration...
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    134,60 €

  • Living in Integrity
    Laura Westra
    This innovative book takes a new look at environmental ethics and the need for ecological and biological integrity. Laura Westra explores the necessity for radical alteration not only of interpersonal ethics, but also of social institutions and public policy. In the process, Westra denies the validity of majority rule in environmentally ethical concerns. Issues discussed in the...
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    72,20 €

  • Greeks and the Environment
    Laura Westra / Thomas M. Robinson / Thomas MRobinson
    Environmental ethicists have frequently criticized ancient Greek philosophy as anti-environmental for a view of philosophy that is counterproductive to environmental ethics and a view of the world that puts nature at the disposal of people. This provocative collection of original essays reexamines the views of nature and ecology found in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Sto...
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    72,22 €

  • Greeks and the Environment
    Laura Westra / Thomas M. Robinson / Thomas MRobinson
    Environmental ethicists have frequently criticized ancient Greek philosophy as anti-environmental for a view of philosophy that is counterproductive to environmental ethics and a view of the world that puts nature at the disposal of people. This provocative collection of original essays reexamines the views of nature and ecology found in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Sto...
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    208,04 €

  • Environmental Proposal for Ethics
    Laura Westra
    Westra asks the questions, ’What does ’integrity’ mean?’ and ’Is there a moral doctrine that would support both the ideal and the obligation that integrity engenders?’ The answers to these questions lead to the formulation of a principle which proposes that all our moral doctrines should be preceded by a principle aimed at preserving a philosophical analysis and defense of envi...
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    43,42 €