Role of the United Nations General Assembly in the norm life cycle, The

2013 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.In the last few decades the study of norms coupled with a constructivist approach has brought new insights into the area of international relations. The UNGA is the premier global IGO making it an important and interesting topic of study in terms of global legislation. This research fills a gap in the literature, which does not sufficiently cover the relationship between norms and the UNGA. The case studies here yield individual and comparative results which may help to answer broader questions dealing with both global governance and international relations. This research finds that the UNGA is able to play an influential role in the norm life cycle, which is expanded from Finnemore and Sikkink's (1998) iteration. The type of issue, the type of promoting state, and the type of state benefiting from the norm all seem to play a role in the level of UNGA participation as well as how and when the UNGA participates in the norm life cycle

Zones humides et marais d'eau douce

National audienceCet article d'ouvrage de deux pages développe des notions de base sur le fonctionnement, la dynamique et le devenir des zones humides et marais d'eau douce, dans le contexte du changement global et de l'anthropocène

The Definition of Damage Resulting from Transboundary Movements of Living Modified Organisms in Light of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

P. 319-342The concept of risk requires preventative measures as well as measures of liability and redress in the case that damage is actually caused. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety limits itself in Article 27 to the establishment of a mandate for the elaboration of norms and procedures in regard to liability and redress. The development of this Article 27 requires firstly a definition of the concept of damage to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, secondly a survey of the extent of damages to health, and the consideration of socioeconomic aspects. With this aim, we will analyse the concept of damage in the international instruments which deal with this material, taking into account levels of implantation. We will conclude by presenting the definition of damage in the context of the tasks to develop the content of the Article 27 determining an administrative focus as regards the liability of the status and the concept of damage for a civil liability fitting with national rights. - La idea de riesgo requiere tanto medidas de prevención como de responsabilidad y compensación en el supuesto de que se origine un daño. El Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety se limita a establecer, en su artículo 27, un mandato para la elaboración de unas normas y procedimientos sobre responsabilidad y compensación. El desarrollo del artículo requiere la delimitación del concepto de damage to the conservation an sustainable use of biological diversity, el estudio de la extensión a los daños a la salud, y la consideración de aspectos socioeconómicos. Con esta finalidad, se analiza la idea de daño en los instrumentos internacionales que abordan esta materia teniendo presente su grado de implantación. Concluye exponiendo la definición de daño en el marco de los trabajos de desarrollo del artículo 27 determinando un enfoque administrativo sobre la responsabilidad de los Estados y una noción de daño para una responsabilidad civil acorde con los derechos nacionalesS

Nathalie Carcaud, Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta et Caroline Evain (dir.), 2019, Villes et rivières de France, Paris CNRS Éditions, 296 pages.

Villes et rivières de France est un ouvrage collectif qui analyse le rapport de cohabitation qu'entretiennent 29 villes françaises avec leurs cours d'eau. À travers des monographies illustrées par de nombreux documents iconographiques et cartographiques, les éditeurs visent à « revisiter l'une des relations primordiales du citadin à la nature ». Pour chacun des sites étudiés, de Paris à Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, des spécialistes de la géographie des milieux naturels, des urbanistes, des histor..

"Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur": Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-1925

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Le Corbusier and Louis Soutter: ‘Complications and Attacks on the Beauty of Unity'

The sources of Le Corbusier’s status as the most influential architect of the twentieth-century may be traced above all to his theoretical writing, as communicated in his own carefully supervised book publications. A detailed and profound response to them comes in the form of unique artist’s books made from several of these works by the architect’s own cousin Louis Soutter, an artist often categorized as an ‘art brut’ visionary. This essay examines the ways in which Soutter’s dense figurative and decorative marginal drawings on the books emphasize the ambivalent tensions and exchanges between the two men and their apparently contradictory but equally complex world views. Krzysztof Fijalkowski is Professor of Visual Culture at Norwich University of the Arts. Recent publications include: Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia (Ashgate, 2013, with Michael Richardson and Ian Walker); ‘Poétique/Politique: Picasso, Surrealism and Politics after 1944’, in Jonathan Harris and Richaerd Koeck, eds, Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation (Liverpool University Press, 2013); and the translation and introduction of Gherasim Luca’s The Passive Vampire (Twisted Spoon Press, 2008)