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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Public interests"”.
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Mallville : mixing uses in the shopping center of the future
… and power centers. The alignment of private and public interests in the development of mixed-use projects create the potential for an attractive (and rare) win-win situation for developers and cities, alike, and the potential for lasting economic and social value.
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Adams Morgan Parkway: Envisioning a Network of Green Streets
… of urban streets have become conflict zones of interests; ranging from efficient automobile infrastructure, building restriction lines, economical interests, shy efforts to introduce nature, services, etc. How can we, as urban designers, retrieve a portion of this footprint to nature by taking …
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A General Legal Right to Conscientious Exemption: Beyond Religious Privilege
… to protect the rights of others or important public interests. The thesis then investigates whether such a legal right is exclusively reserved for religious believers. The thesis shows that it is not: it is available to those that object on the basis of conscience, irrespective of whether …
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Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japanese Intellectual Property Regimes
… responded to market forces, competing private interests, and international pressure for policy harmonization in the construction and implementation of intellectual property regulation reforms. This study will show that ideological and structural arrangements of state institutions have …
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The electronic spiders' web: Food, fodder, problems, and possibilities of a Global Information Infrastructure
… conglomerates. This control is facilitated by public policy which respects business interests over public interests. A fundamental tension created by this trend, and analyzed in this dissertation, is one between both pursuing social betterment and seeking economic gain through a GII. Analysis …
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Problémy současné právní úpravy ochrany oznamovatelů
… to contribute significantly to the protection of public interests and the effective prevention of illegal conduct violating or jeopardizing such interests. However, its current form suffers from a number of shortcomings preventing it from fulfilling the aforementioned potential. According to the …
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Charitable women from mercantile literati families: women and public culture in late Qing China
… the mercantile literati played a major role in public charity. The scope and types of charity women were involved, however, changed after 1898. By examining two types of charitable activities before the Hundred-Day Reform in 1898—establishing charitable institutions and participating in charity …
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Colonel William Preston, 1729-1783
… magnate. By taking advantage of his multiple public and military offices--surveyor, sheriff, county lieutenant, justice of the peace and Eurgess--Preston assumed the foremost place of leadership and responsibility in the western counties of Augusta, Botetourt, Fincastle and Montgomery. …
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The Strategic Balance between the Public and Allies: A Theory of Authoritarian Distribution in China
… the demands of both the ruling coalition and the public from a perspective of distributional politics. This challenge is particularly severe since authoritarian regimes face increasing pressure to expand public goods and welfare. This project proposes a theory of authoritarian distribution that …
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Probation officers’ attitudes towards balancing public protection and human rights in the risk management framework of Mappa
… other expectations in relation to punishment, public protection and risk become the service’s priority. The same concepts have created dilemmas for probation practitioners who find themselves in the arena of rehabilitation where offenders, victims and the public coexist. The thesis’ emphasis is …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… Plum Creek Timber Company lands to private and public interests as an alternative to subdivision and fragmentation of the landscape. In line with the project’s goal to maintain the working landscapes of the Blackfoot Valley and rural lifestyle through a “community-driven” process, the …
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Human Bonds with Public Wildland Places: Segmenting Communities to Inform Natural Resource Management
<p> Public land managers must consider a broad range of information to develop effective and equitable plans for addressing contentious management issues. Appropriately designed social science research may contribute to better understanding of public interests regarding resource use, thus reducing …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… Plum Creek Timber Company lands to private and public interests as an alternative to subdivision and fragmentation of the landscape. In line with the project’s goal to maintain the working landscapes of the Blackfoot Valley and rural lifestyle through a “community-driven” process, the …
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Human Bonds with Public Wildland Places: Segmenting Communities to Inform Natural Resource Management
<p> Public land managers must consider a broad range of information to develop effective and equitable plans for addressing contentious management issues. Appropriately designed social science research may contribute to better understanding of public interests regarding resource use, thus reducing …
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Crowd funding: between politics and antipolitics
… or corporations. This realm is not precisely public but allows this community to sustain strong political claims. The tension in the divide between the public and the private is the core of this investigation: the emphasis put on action within the crowd funding community rein- forces a world …
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Participating as amicus curiae in exclusionary zoning litigation : developing the court's understanding of the principles of environmental justice
… approach that still allows groups to enter the public policy forum of the court system while avoiding the confines of acting as a party in litigation. Discovering the shortcomings in environmental laws and regulations to address the substantive issues of environmental justice, and finding the …
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Savivaldybių sudaromos civilinės sutartys (kontraktai): teorinės ir praktinės problemos /
… legal relationship, based on representation of public interests (these interests reflect the local community), shall not be clarified as the invention of recent years. It could be said that this concept comes from Lithuanian legal tradition, and what is more, participation in private legal …
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The development of concept of arbitrability - an international comparison
… in South Africa subject matters which concerned public policy or involved public interests, such as antitrust, were restricted from arbitration for longer. This changed when legislators and jurisdiction gained trust in arbitral tribunals and statues and sets of rules for the conduction of …
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At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
… of theory and ideals regarding this key public space into planning policy. The sidewalk is defined morphologically by its existence in the marginal space between buildings and road, representing powerful private and public interests respectively. It is demonstrated that key moments in the …
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Alle origini delle problematiche sul formalismo convenzionale: una nuova riflessione intorno a C. 4.21.17
… to concrete problems that were mostly related to public interests, rather than by the need to redesign the structure of private law with wide-ranging reforms. The lack of consistency of the legislative measures and their occasional, confused and imprecise nature, allow us to consider that citizens …
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