Tag: Treaty

Free Download Sikina Jinnah, "Post-Treaty Politics: Secretariat Influence in Global Environmental Governance "
English | ISBN: 0262526557 | | 245 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
An argument that secretariats-the administrative arms of international treaties-are political actors in their own right.

Free Download Viriato Soromenho-Marques Paulo Magalhães, Will Steffen, Klaus Bosselmann, Alexandra Aragão, "The Safe Operating Space Treaty"
English | ISBN: 1443889032 | 2016 | 315 pages | PDF | 2 MB
It is clear that international law is not yet equipped to handle the ecological goods and services that exist simultaneously within and outside of all states. The global commons have always been understood as geographical spaces that exist only outside the political borders of states. A vital good such as a stable climate exists both within and outside all states, and shows traditional legal approaches to be ecological nonsense. With the recent possibility of measuring and monitoring the state and functioning of the Earth System through the Planetary Boundaries framework, it is now possible to define a Safe Operating Space of Humankind corresponding to a biogeophysical state of Earth. In this sense, the Common Home of Humanity is not a planet with 510 million square kilometres, but is a specific favourable state of the Earth System. Recent major scientific advances anticipate a legal paradigm shift that could overcome the disconnection between ecological realities and existing legal frameworks. If we recognize this qualitative and non-geographic space as a Common Natural Intangible Heritage of Humankind, all positive and negative externalities end up being included within a new maintenance system of the Common Home.

Free Download Donna Brunero, Stephanie Villalta Puig, "Life in Treaty Port China and Japan"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9811073678, 9811339449 | PDF | pages: 307 | 6.3 mb
This edited volume moves beyond the traditional examination of the treaty ports of China and Japan as places of cultural interaction. It moves ‘beyond the Bund’,presenting instead the history of material culture, the everyday life of the residents of the treaty ports beyond the symbology of Shanghai’s waterfront. Bringing for the first time together scholars of China and Japan, museum curators, legal, economic and architectural historians, it studies the treaty ports not only as sites of cultural exchange, but also as sites of social contestation, accommodation and mobility, covering topics as varied as day to day life itself, such as family, property and law, health and welfare, travel, visual culture and memory. The call of this volume is to peel the multiple layers of the encounter between East and West in the treaty ports of China and Japan.