Liability in Air Travel for Real Estate Agents

Real estate agents who travel are subject to international conventions relating to safety and liability. This article examines the Warsaw Convention and some of the legal issues that arise out of that convention and other Australian legislation including The Civil Aviation (Carriers Liability) Act 1959 (Cth.)

Privacy and the Health Industry

This article examines confidentiality and freedom of information in the health industry and access to medical records in both the public and private sector. In particular, it considers changes to the access of medical records in the private health sector after the amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in 2003

Policy review and institutional analysis of the hydropower in Laos

The   report   reviewed   existing   policies   and   legal   frameworks   relating   to   land-­‐water-­‐environment   management   with   a   focus   on   hydropower   development   and   livelihood   options   in   Lao   PDR,   Cambodia,   and  Vietnam.  It  described  and  analyzed  the  sectoral  decision-­‐making  set  up  at  national  level.  Later,  this   decision-­‐making  set  up  was  linked  with  operational  rules  and  procedures  of  hydropower  projects  in  each   of  the  three  countries.

Environment, aid and regionalism in the South Pacific

The island countries of the South Pacific are in rapid transition. After hundreds of years of an essentially subsistence economy, the vigorous industrial and commercial developments of recent decades have placed new demands on the island environment; demands which cannot be sustained without strict controls. Countries have acknowledged their shared environmental problems and limited resources by pooling their effort through the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). The Programme is facilitating moves by governments to manage their own activities and those of outsiders by adopting international legal agreements which define responsibilities and set environmental management guidelines and procedures. The work of SPREP has stimulated some aid organizations to reduce the nature and focus of their assistance and the extent to which they accept responsibility for the environmental implications of aid projects. Greater initiative from the aid community is required in helping countries to take on the burdens of environmental assessment and management. Some of the important advances made by South Pacific governments and the aid community in environmental management are recorded, while suggesting cooperative approaches to sustainable development which might be applied in the region to build upon past successes

MK3: On optimizing the management of cascades or systems of reservoirs at catchment level

This project is about scaling up to the catchment level the results obtained from optimizing the management of individual reservoirs. As such, it draws on results from MKs 1 and 2. It seeks to understand at the catchment scale the cumulative upstream and downstream consequences of management decisions taken for multiple reservoirs. It includes the study of land degradation and reservoir siltation processes

The comparative analyses of selected aspects of conservation and management of Vietnam’s national parks

The national parks in Vietnam are protected areas in the national system of special-use forests created to protect natural resources and biodiversity. In order to improve the effectiveness of management of national parks, the study assesses some current aspects of conservation and management of natural resources with respect to management plans, financial sources, staff, cooperative activities, causes of limited management capacity and threats to natural resources. Out of the total of 30 national parks, six are under the responsibility of the Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST) and 24 national parks are managed by provincial authorities. It was found that most of the national parks have updated their management plans. Financial sources of funding for national parks mainly originated from the central and provincial budgets, with an average of 51% and 76% respectively. Fifty percent of national parks spent 40–60% of their total funding on conservation activities. About 85% of national parks’ staff had academic degrees, typically in the fields of forestry, agriculture and fisheries. Biodiversity conservation was considered a priority cooperative action in national parks with scientific institutes. Major causes of a limited management capacity of national parks included human population growth and pressure associated with resources use, lack of funding, limited human and institutional capacity and land use conflict/land grab. Illegal hunting, trapping, poaching and fishing, the illegal wildlife trade, illegal logging and firewood collecting appeared to be the most serious threats to the conservation and management of natural resources. In addition to these results, significant differences were found between the VNFOREST and provincial parks in terms of financial sources, staff and the threat of illegal logging and firewood collecting. The authors’ findings offer useful information for national park planners and managers, as well as policy makers and researchers in seeking solutions for the sustainable management of natural resources in national parks

Regulation of Coronary Blood Flow

The heart is uniquely responsible for providing its own blood supply through the coronary circulation. Regulation of coronary blood flow is quite complex and, after over 100 years of dedicated research, is understood to be dictated through multiple mechanisms that include extravascular compressive forces (tissue pressure), coronary perfusion pressure, myogenic, local metabolic, endothelial as well as neural and hormonal influences. While each of these determinants can have profound influence over myocardial perfusion, largely through effects on end-effector ion channels, these mechanisms collectively modulate coronary vascular resistance and act to ensure that the myocardial requirements for oxygen and substrates are adequately provided by the coronary circulation. The purpose of this series of Comprehensive Physiology is to highlight current knowledge regarding the physiologic regulation of coronary blood flow, with emphasis on functional anatomy and the interplay between the physical and biological determinants of myocardial oxygen delivery. © 2017 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 7:321-382, 2017

Strategies for National Sustainable Development

203 hlm.; 24,5x21 c

Strategies for National Sustainable Development

203 hlm.; 24,5x21 c