Bioseguridad y Derecho

la Administración ante los riesgos de la tecnología de la vida

El presente libro debe buena parte de su existencia a un Proyecto de Investigación concedido por la entidad Cajamar y la Universidad de Almería al profesor Iñigo del Guayo Castiella, Catedrático de Derecho Administrativo de la Universidad de Almería, y al autor, cuyo objetivo era ...

Los inventores de enfermedades

cómo nos convierten en pacientes

Jörg Blech nos descubre de qué manera la industria farmacéutica nos manipula y hace todo lo posible por convertirnos sistemáticamente en pacientes y da las claves sobre cómo podemos protegernos de ello. En los últimos años, en el mundo industrializado, han hecho su aparición una ...

The power to protect

trade, health and uncertainty in the WTO

This book examines the intersection of WTO trade liberalisation rules and domestic health protection, a subject that is of considerable interest to those concerned that the WTO impinges on national regulatory autonomy. In analysing the tension between health protection and trade liberalisation, the book focuses ...

Mobilités.net

villes, transports, technologies face aux nouvelles mobilités

Le numérique et les réseaux étaient censés substituer au bruit et à la fureur des villes (et des usines) la fluidité, l#infinie légèreté des mondes virtuels. Déplacées à la campagne, les villes redevenaient villages, chacun dans son chez soi attendant la prochaine livraison tout ...

Energy security

managing risk in a dynamic legal and regulatory environment

This volume examines energy security in a privatized, liberalized, and increasingly global energy market, in which the concept of sustainability has developed together with a higher awareness of environmental issues, but where the potential for supply disruptions, price fluctuation, and threats to infrastructure safety must ...

L'ordine giuridico del mercato

Contro le pretese di naturalità del mercato, un#autorevole e lucida analisi della funzione conformatrice del diritto. Contro le pretese di neutralità tecnocratica, l#attesa della decisione politica. INDICE Il carattere politico-giuridico del mercato (a mo# di prefazione) - I. L#ordine giuridico del mercato - II ...

Droit public de la régulation économique

La mondialisation des flux économiques et l'irruption de la concurence dans le fonctionnement des services publics mettent profondément en cause les relations entre l'Etat et le marché. Depuis une dizaine d'années, le droit public économique est particulièrement le théâtre de ces évolutions ...

The challenges of privatization

an international analysis

This book provides the first systematic empirical analysis of privatization processes worldwide to explain how and why governments privatize, and whether privatization has proved successful or not. Privatization is shown to be a difficult process, shaped by political preferences and budgetary constraints, often pursued in ...

The politics of regulation

institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of ...

Veinte años de privatizaciones en España

La privatización de empresas públicas tiene muchas facetas. Ha sido un instrumento adecuado para aumentar la eficiencia de las empresas implicadas, introducir competitividad, ayudar a la eliminación del déficit público, ampliar los mercados financieros y estimular el ahorro particular. Más allá del volumen de ingresos ...

Principios de Derecho público económico

modelo de Estado, gestión pública, regulación económica

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Teoría y política de privatizaciones

su contribución a la modernización económica: análisis del caso español

El libro Teoría y Política de Privatizaciones:su contribución a la modernización económica.Análisis del caso español, ofrece al lector nuevas aportaciones sobre el proceso de privatizaciones en generaly,particularmente ,sobre el caso español. En sus páginas,se presentan treinta y un estudios que contienen ...

Contributo allo studio della societá in mano pubblica come persone giuridiche

"The Public interest" in regulation

The concept of 'the public interest' is often used in legal and political discourse, lending an air of legitimacy and respectability to exercises of power. However the term is rarely defined in any meaningful sense. This book considers abstract concepts of public interest from the ...

Regulation

legal form and economic theory

This is a reprint of Anthony Ogus' classic study of regulation, first published in the 1990s. It examines how, since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been fundamental changes in the relationship between the state and industry. With the aid of economic ...

Environmental Law

Environmental Law provides the reader with a clear and current picture of the framework of environmental regulation. The text highlights the major themes and principles, and provides practical examples of the law in operation. The new edition has been completely restructured to meet the changing ...

Eco-efficiency,regulation and sustainable business

towards a governance structure for sustainable development

This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefits. The distinguished authors discuss a ...

Institutional change for sustainable development

This volume presents a flexible conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of instututional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and ...

The green state

rethinking democracy and sovereignty

What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state--seeking, she ...

Green giants

environmrntal policies of the United States and the European Union

The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability ...