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Diversion effects, incentive effects, and the goals of research ethics promulgations

ethics (nor much of political philosophy more broadly) without encountering and wrestling with his careful contributions. He was welcoming of discussion and generous with his intellectual energies. Ongoing ... pathologies on the legitimate functioning of political decision-making institutions 1 Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University , Baker Hall 155C, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 , USA A B S T R A C T It was

Political economy, stakeholder voices, and saliency: lessons from international policies regulating insurer use of genetic information

, there have been persistent murmurings for a ‘GINA 2.0’ to extend the protections of the original law. Although it is plausible to assume that the insurance industry has the political economy to control ... information that balances between social and economic considerations. Without compromise, continued saliency and a weakened political economy of insurers will foster continued entrenched debate on the issue

Translational invasion ecology: bridging research and practice to address one of the greatest threats to biodiversity

constraints of resource managers and policy makers. However, many scientific fields including invasion ecology suffer from a disconnect between research and practice. Despite strong socio-political imperatives ... which researchers, stakeholders, and decision makers collaborate to develop and implement ecological research via joint consideration of the ecological, sociological, economic, and/or political contexts

Getting invasive species on the political agenda: agenda setting and policy formulation in the case of ash dieback in the UK

This study reviews how the issue of ash dieback has been placed on the political agenda in the UK, a country where the disease has affected one of the largest national extents, thus representing a ... member states are constrained to act unilaterally on invasive species. In addition, there is also a great difference in how political systems, as opposed to the natural sciences, manage crisis. The logic

Kezia Barker and Robert A. Francis (Eds): Routledge handbook of biosecurity and invasive species

, a survey study of Swedish gardeners’ perceptions of non-native and invasive plants, and an excellent and terrifying contribution by Robert G. Wallace and colleagues on the political economy of

The Corporate Waqf in Law and Practice

contribute to this growing literature and offer the beginnings of institutional knowledge transfer between regions with differing cultural, legal, political, and economic contexts. This article offers the ... brings to light a modern institution with classical roots, which has taken various shapes informed by religious, cultural, and political influences. A. Foundations of the Waqf in Islamic Law The waqf

An updated assessment of the direct costs of invasive non-native species to the United Kingdom

hundreds of times in the scientific literature, in traditional newspapers and in political discourse. The estimates of economic costs of INNS presented in peer-reviewed manuscripts and reports are used as

Egg freezing, stratified reproduction and the logic of not

This commentary examines social and political implications of social egg freezing in a market that is stratified, globalized, and part of a larger bioeconomy. John Robertson's article and public ... . Supply of the cells and bodies necessary for assisted reproductive technology use depends on market thinking and structural inequality. What the industry produces are carefully calibrated social-political

Surrogacy, privacy, and the American Convention on Human Rights

at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; the United Kingdom Latin America Political Philosophy Research Network Workshop on Economic and Social Human Rights at the School of Law, Universidad de ... , in this view, the maternal bond reflects an important social value that our legal and political institutions ought to promote. In its best light, this objection could be founded in a form of

Military genomic testing: proportionality, expected benefits, and the connection between genotypes and phenotypes

evolutionary theory and the philosophy of biology, however, renders it doubtful that such knowledge is forthcoming. The complexity of the relationship between genotypic factors and realized traits (the so-called ... YPE S TO PHEN OT YPE S The fundamentals of my critique are drawn from recent work in both biology and the philosophy of biology. But first, a brief introduction. An organism is born with a particular

Correction to: Managing biological invasions: the cost of inaction

according to the first record in InvaCost for each region based on the rworldmap package, where applicable. The authors have created this map for illustrative purposes and do not make any political claims

A critique of national solidarity in transnational organ sharing in Europe

on the right to die and organ transplantation in China and the USA. He is also interested in different topics in political and moral philosophy and bioethics, such as theories of global justice ... on solidarity as a legal conception as applied to organ sharing, I do not spend much time on discussing the general idea of solidarity in political and moral philosophy except where such discussion is

Synthesising 35 years of invasive non-native species research

monitoring INNS, including detection, identification, and distributional mapping; (iii) Management and decision-making: topics discussing the management and socio-political aspects of invasion  science, such

The assessment of marine bioinvasion diversity and history

regional cultural, social, economic, political, or legal—but not scientific—perspectives may regard some earlier introductions as “native”. Native (indigenous, endemic, autochthonous) species are those that

Should tourists care more about invasive species? International and domestic visitors’ perceptions of invasive plants and their control in New Zealand

draws upon broader social and political support than can be provided by the residents of the immediate area effected by the invasion, it is pertinent to expand the boundaries of who we consider to be IAS ... 63 ( 14 ): 2646 - 2662 . https://doi. org/10.1080/09640568. 2020 .1742676 Sage E ( 2019 ) Visitors to Aoraki/Mt Cook exceed 1 million . Government Press Release. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ political

Neophyte invasions in European heathlands and scrub

patterns of invasions, we delimited 50 European regions. Regions usually corresponded to political units (i.e., countries), except for large islands or archipelagos (the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Crete ... sand dune scrub, are at high invasion risk if human pressures increase. Because political boundaries do not usually act as the barriers to dispersal of alien plants, continental-scale studies with

Lack of anti-predator recognition in a marine isopod under the threat of an invasive predatory crab

species misrepresented? A review of the “native good, alien bad” philosophy . Community Ecol 11 : 13 - 21 . https://doi. org/10.1556/ComEc.11. 2010 . 1 . 3 Hammill E , Rogers A , Beckerman AP ( 2008 ) Costs

The Egyptian Second Republic: The Future of Litigating Islam Before the Supreme Constitutional Court

OTTOMAN EMPIRE 60WORD CONSTITUTION (2003). 42. CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA, Feb. 1850. BERKELEY J. OF MIDDLE EASTERN & ISLAMIC LAW clear political philosophy behind incorporating this Clause ... Brinton and Marwa Ghazali, co-panelists in “Egypt 2013: Uncovering Political, Social and Religious Misconceptions” at the University of Kansas. Many thanks to Samir Safar- Aly, Shahmeer Alam Halepota and

The Egyptian Second Republic: The Future of Litigating Islam Before the Supreme Constitutional Court

OTTOMAN EMPIRE 60WORD CONSTITUTION (2003). 42. CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA, Feb. 1850. BERKELEY J. OF MIDDLE EASTERN & ISLAMIC LAW clear political philosophy behind incorporating this Clause ... Brinton and Marwa Ghazali, co-panelists in “Egypt 2013: Uncovering Political, Social and Religious Misconceptions” at the University of Kansas. Many thanks to Samir Safar- Aly, Shahmeer Alam Halepota and

The role of invasive alien species in the emergence and spread of zoonoses

social-political and environmental change is the dramatic shifts and expansion of animal hosts (Johnson et  al. 2020) which can increase the probability of contact amongst humans, animal hosts and disease