The Promise of Johannesburg: Fisheries and the World Summit on Sustainable Development

This article briefly examines the world fish crisis and the factors that drive overuse of ocean resources. It identifies some of the major trends in ocean fishing that have led to over-exploitation and briefly reviews the weaknesses of international fishery arrangements that led to WSSD. It describes and evaluates the outcomes of the WSSD and suggests some measures that can and must be taken to the address the crisis facing world ocean fish stocks

Climate Change and the Public Trust Doctrine: Using an Ancient Doctrine to Adapt to Rising Sea Levels in San Francisco Bay

The predicament faced in San Francisco Bay is confronted in bays and estuaries throughout the nation. Using BCDC as a case study, this Article examines the threats posed by climate change to San Francisco Bay, the relationship between the public trust doctrine and the Takings Clause, and how the public trust doctrine can help public agencies address the impacts of climate change and sea level rise by: enhancing limited permit authority; requiring fees to mitigate the impacts of climate change; addressing the impacts of shoreline armoring; utilizing rolling easements and other legal mechanisms; protecting wetlands, marshes, and salt ponds; implementing the California Environmental Quality Act and Coastal Zone Management Act; and pursuing common law remedies to preserve open space and public access

The Promise of Johannesburg: Fisheries and the World Summit on Sustainable Development

This article briefly examines the world fish crisis and the factors that drive overuse of ocean resources. It identifies some of the major trends in ocean fishing that have led to over-exploitation and briefly reviews the weaknesses of international fishery arrangements that led to WSSD. It describes and evaluates the outcomes of the WSSD and suggests some measures that can and must be taken to the address the crisis facing world ocean fish stocks

Climate Change and the Public Trust Doctrine: Using an Ancient Doctrine to Adapt to Rising Sea Levels in San Francisco Bay

The predicament faced in San Francisco Bay is confronted in bays and estuaries throughout the nation. Using BCDC as a case study, this Article examines the threats posed by climate change to San Francisco Bay, the relationship between the public trust doctrine and the Takings Clause, and how the public trust doctrine can help public agencies address the impacts of climate change and sea level rise by: enhancing limited permit authority; requiring fees to mitigate the impacts of climate change; addressing the impacts of shoreline armoring; utilizing rolling easements and other legal mechanisms; protecting wetlands, marshes, and salt ponds; implementing the California Environmental Quality Act and Coastal Zone Management Act; and pursuing common law remedies to preserve open space and public access

AAL-Onto: A formal representation of RAALI integration profiles

The integration and commissioning of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems are time consuming and complicated. The lack of interoperability of available AAL system components has to be considered as an obstacle especially for innovative SMEs. In order to ease integration and commissioning of systems, knowledge based methods should be taken into account to enable innovative characteristics such as design automation, self-configuration and self-management. Semantic technologies are suitable instruments for mastering the problems of interoperability of heterogeneous and distributed systems. As an important prerequisite for the emergence of knowledge-based assistance functions a standard for an unambiguous representation of AAL relevant knowledge has to be developed. In this article, the development of an AAL ontology is proposed as a formal basis for knowledge-based system functions. A prototype of an AAL specific ontology engineering process is presented through the modeling example of a formal representation of a sensor block that is part of an AAL Integration Profile proposed by the RAALI project consortium

Selective Remembering: Minorities and the Remembrance of the First World War in Britain and Germany

Remembering the war dead, so historical writing suggests, was considerably easier for the victors than for the vanquished. Yet, as this essay suggests, this strict dichotomy was not quite as rigid as the historiography implies. In both Britain and Germany, ethnic, religious and national minorities did play some role in nascent memory cultures. However, while some groups were remembered, other minorities, such as Britain’s African troops or Germany’s Polish soldiers, were all too often missing from the commemorative landscape. The absence of minorities from the remembrance process, then, had less to do with the outcome of the war, but was rather contingent on place, time and the minority group in question