Rechtliche Evaluierung des Behindertengleichstellungsrechts

Im Rahmen einer Evaluierung des im Jahr 2005 beschlossenen österreichischen Behindertengleichstellungspaketes wurden Vorschläge und Empfehlungen für folgende Fragestellungen der Behindertengleichstellungspolitik zusammengetragen: • Welche zusätzlichen Rechtsinstrumente sind sinnvoll, um die Behindertengleichstellung weiter zu entwickeln? • Wie kann der Zugang zum Behindertengleichstellungsrecht erleichtert werden? • Wie kann man bei privaten Versicherungen und Finanzdienstleistungen etwaige Benachteiligungen wegen einer Behinderung verhindern und der Rechtsschutz verbessert werden? • Wie kann das Instrument der Verbandsklage effizienter gestaltet werden? • Ist eine Adaptierung des Schlichtungsverfahrens erforderlich? Sind beim Schlichtungsverfahren Sanktionen möglich und sinnvoll? • Wie ist das Verhältnis der Diskriminierungsverbote im BGStG und BEinstG zum Gebot der „angemessenen Vorkehrungen“ für ArbeitgeberInnen in § 6 Abs 1a BEinstG? • Wie kann die Einrichtung der Behindertenanwaltschaft verbessert werden? Soll der Behindertenanwalt/die Behindertenanwältin zusätzliche Befugnisse bekommen? • Sollten für den Behindertenanwalt/die Behindertenanwältin Regelungen getroffen werden über die Bestellung, die Bezahlung sowie über seine Vertretung im Fall vorübergehender Verhinderung

Efficiency review of Austria’s social insurance and healthcare system: volume 1 – international comparisons and policy options

In 2016, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE Health) was engaged by the Austrian Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection to undertake an efficiency review of the country’s social insurance system (see Appendix A for the original Concept Note). The review was specifically targeted at health competencies within the social insurance system; for this reason, consideration of accident and pension insurance, as well as other forms of care covered by Federal and Länder governments, were only examined where directly applicable

Perspectives and Integration in SOLAS Science

Why a chapter on Perspectives and Integration in SOLAS Science in this book? SOLAS science by its nature deals with interactions that occur: across a wide spectrum of time and space scales, involve gases and particles, between the ocean and the atmosphere, across many disciplines including chemistry, biology, optics, physics, mathematics, computing, socio-economics and consequently interactions between many different scientists and across scientific generations. This chapter provides a guide through the remarkable diversity of cross-cutting approaches and tools in the gigantic puzzle of the SOLAS realm. Here we overview the existing prime components of atmospheric and oceanic observing systems, with the acquisition of ocean–atmosphere observables either from in situ or from satellites, the rich hierarchy of models to test our knowledge of Earth System functioning, and the tremendous efforts accomplished over the last decade within the COST Action 735 and SOLAS Integration project frameworks to understand, as best we can, the current physical and biogeochemical state of the atmosphere and ocean commons. A few SOLAS integrative studies illustrate the full meaning of interactions, paving the way for even tighter connections between thematic fields. Ultimately, SOLAS research will also develop with an enhanced consideration of societal demand while preserving fundamental research coherency. The exchange of energy, gases and particles across the air-sea interface is controlled by a variety of biological, chemical and physical processes that operate across broad spatial and temporal scales. These processes influence the composition, biogeochemical and chemical properties of both the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers and ultimately shape the Earth system response to climate and environmental change, as detailed in the previous four chapters. In this cross-cutting chapter we present some of the SOLAS achievements over the last decade in terms of integration, upscaling observational information from process-oriented studies and expeditionary research with key tools such as remote sensing and modelling. Here we do not pretend to encompass the entire legacy of SOLAS efforts but rather offer a selective view of some of the major integrative SOLAS studies that combined available pieces of the immense jigsaw puzzle. These include, for instance, COST efforts to build up global climatologies of SOLAS relevant parameters such as dimethyl sulphide, interconnection between volcanic ash and ecosystem response in the eastern subarctic North Pacific, optimal strategy to derive basin-scale CO2 uptake with good precision, or significant reduction of the uncertainties in sea-salt aerosol source functions. Predicting the future trajectory of Earth’s climate and habitability is the main task ahead. Some possible routes for the SOLAS scientific community to reach this overarching goal conclude the chapter