Landscape Protection in International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape Protection in International Law write by Amy Strecker. This book was released on 2018-08-23. Landscape Protection in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Once the exclusive prerogative of domaine réservé, landscape has gained increasing importance in international law in recent years. Since the introduction of cultural landscapes within the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, and particularly since the adoption of the European Landscape Convention (ELC), emphasis has shifted beyond a scenic, preservationist approach towards a more dynamic, human-centred one. The focus is not only on outstanding landscapes, but also on the everyday and degraded landscapes where most people live and work. Landscape is land shaped by people, after all, and its protection, management and planning have a number of implications for democracy, human rights and spatial justice. Despite these links, however, there has been little legal scholarship on the topic. How does international law, which deals for the most part with universality, deal with something so region-specific and particular as landscape? What is the legal conception of landscape and what are the various roles played by international law in its protection? Amy Strecker assesses the institutional framework for landscape protection, analyses the interplay between landscape and human rights, and links the etymology and theory of landscape with its articulation in law.
Virtual Law
Virtual Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtual Law write by Benjamin Tyson Duranske. This book was released on 2008. Virtual Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If you are one of the many who have read about and heard about virtual worlds but do not really understand what a virtual world is, or even how to use appropriate terminology when discussing them, then this is the book for you."--Jacket.
Law and the Kinetic Environment
Law and the Kinetic Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and the Kinetic Environment write by Sarah Marusek. This book was released on 2021-02-11. Law and the Kinetic Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic. Within the field of legal geography, the spatial relationship of law to landscape is usually considered to be static. Environments are often considered fixed, and consequently inert, as places that literally don’t go anywhere. Typically, then, it is what happens in these places, rather than the place itself, that commands academic attention. In contrast to this static viewpoint, Law and the Kinetic Environment considers how many landscapes are in flux and, as a result, may be seen as dynamic. Natural phenomena, such as oozing lava, moving glaciers, or bubbling geothermal pools, challenge and test the normative conceptualizations of stability of place, property ownership, and legal regulation. Consequently, such dynamic landscapes enliven and transform law, offering new jurisprudential insights into what law is and how it operates in response to the kineticism that, this book argues is, to some degree, inherent in all landscapes. This original engagement with legal geography will appeal to those with general interests in this area, as well as specific concerns with questions of law and place, property and the environment.
Landscapes of the Secular
Landscapes of the Secular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of the Secular write by Nicolas Howe. This book was released on 2016-09-05. Landscapes of the Secular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?” asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It’s a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren’t seeing American landscapes through a non-religious lens, but rather as inflected by complicated, little-examined concepts of the sacred. Fusing geography, legal scholarship, and religion in a potent analysis, Howe shows how seemingly routine questions about how to look at a sunrise or a plateau or how to assess what a mountain is both physically and ideologically, lead to complex arguments about the nature of religious experience and its implications for our lives as citizens. In American society—nominally secular but committed to permitting a diversity of religious beliefs and expressions—such questions become all the more fraught and can lead to difficult, often unsatisfying compromises regarding how to interpret and inhabit our public lands and spaces. A serious commitment to secularism, Howe shows, forces us to confront the profound challenges of true religious diversity in ways that often will have their ultimate expression in our built environment. This provocative exploration of some of the fundamental aspects of American life will help us see the land, law, and society anew.
The Legal Landscape
The Legal Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legal Landscape write by Richard C. Smardon. This book was released on 1993. The Legal Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
