Applying Stone in a Western Landscape: Ranchers,Conservationists, and Causal Stories in the “American Serengeti”

As the emergence of nongovernmental conservation efforts generates conflict among various stakeholders, the causal story that each party articulates regarding conservation and the causes of land degradation reflects their unique interests. This study uses existing literature to evaluate causal stories surrounding a contemporary conservation effort: Montana's American Prairie Reserve. Through qualitative review of web‐based documents and newspaper articles, it generates a preliminary account of key stakeholders' causal stories. The case study suggests that parties who might be disadvantaged by ascribing responsibility for environmental harms in an adversarial fashion may instead elect to articulate causal stories that are more neutral than existing approaches might forecast. The study concludes by suggesting that further development of causal story literature may enable it to better address contemporary conservation efforts.     

Verfahren nach §§ 18, 19 MRG – keine Auswirkungen auf Präklusivfrist des § 16 Abs 8 MRG

§ 16 Abs 8 Satz 2 MRG idF des 3. W?G ist auch auf vor dem 1. 3. 1994 abgeschlossene Mietzinsvereinbarungen dergestalt anzuwenden, dass die in dieser Gesetzesstelle normierte Pr?klusivfrist am 1. 3. 1994 zu laufen beginnt und am 1. 3. 1997 endet. Aus der Anh?ngigkeit und dem Ergebnis eines Verfahrens nach §§ 18, 19 MRG kann keine Fristerstreckung oder -unterbrechung abgeleitet werden.     

Anspruch der Eigentümergemeinschaft auf Herausgabe der Verwaltungsunterlagen nach Kündigung des WE-Verwalters

Der gekündigte WE-Verwalter ist verpflichtet, nach beendetem Verwaltungsverh?ltnis der Eigentümergemeinschaft die Original-Verwaltungsunterlagen auch für bereits abgeschlossene Abrechnungsperioden herauszugeben. Der Herausgabeanspruch ist – entgegen der E 5 Ob 115/05f: streitiger Rechtsweg – nach nunmehr gefestigter Rsp auf Grund schlüssiger Verweisung des § 52 Abs 1 Z 6 WEG 2002 im wohnrechtlichen Au?erstreitverfahren geltend zu machen.     

EV gegen vereinsinterne Disziplinarmaßnahme / Vorrang des vereinsinternen Instanzenzuges

Vereinsinterne Ma?nahmen – hier der Ausschluss eines Fu?ballspielers von der Teilnahme an Pflichtspielen – k?nnen gem §§ 7 und 8 VerG erst nach Aussch?pfung des vereinsinternen Instanzenzuges oder nach Ablauf von sechs Monaten gerichtlich überprüft werden. Das schlie?t es aber nicht aus, dass bei Drohen eines unwiederbringlichen Schadens durch einstweilige Verfügung der (erst künftig einklagbare) Anspruch auf Feststellung der Unwirksamkeit oder Unterlassung gesichert werden kann. Die gerichtliche überprüfung von Vereinsbeschlüssen ist jedenfalls insoweit zul?ssig, als grundlegende Verfahrensregeln missachtet wurden oder der Beschlussinhalt gesetz- oder sittenwidrig ist.     

论《消费者权益保护法》第49条对医疗纠纷的适用问题

医患关系是以生活消费为内容的消费关系 ,存在医患双方事实上的实力对比的悬殊 ,对医疗纠纷应当适用《消费者权益保护法》第 49条有关惩罚性赔偿的规定     

中共八大对社会主义体制改革的探索

中共八大从政治体制和经济体制两方面对我国社会主义体制改革进行了探索,文章认为这些有益的探索初步指明了社会主义体制改革的方向,是中国共产党探索中国特色社会主义建设道路的伟大起点。     

To revise or not to revise: the ‘peace constitution’, pro-revision movement,and Japan's national identity

Why do conservative nationalists in Japan continuously seek to revise the constitution despite the past failures, and what is the likelihood of successful revision and its impact on Japan's norm of pacifism and its use of force? The article offers an analytical framework for the issue based on national pride and national security, and argues that the ‘revisionists’ seek to create a new national identity, one that infuses a greater sense of national pride among the public and enables the exercise of collective self-defense, thereby removing Japan's postwar psychological and institutional limitations on nationalism and military activities. The LDP's 2012 draft is most explicit and ambitious in this regard, with the current revision attempt under Abe having the highest chance of success since the 1950s. Successful revision would significantly expand Japan's security activities, particularly within the framework of the US–Japan Security Alliance, and entail the end of Japan's unique postwar institutionalized pacifism, although the norm of pacifism will linger on as a constitutional principle. For a smoother return to the international military scene, the Japanese government must distance itself from historical revisionism and utilize its enhanced military role to promote regional public goods rather than merely protecting its narrow national interests.     

Congressional Attention and Opportunity Structures: The Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee

This article examines the role that overlapping committee jurisdictions play in fostering or hindering attention to environmental and energy issues in the U.S. Congress. The Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, created by House Democrats in 2007 , and its chairman Rep. Ed Markey took advantage of opportunities within the existing jurisdictional arrangement to increase attention to these issues despite lacking any legislative authority. Data from the 110th and 111th Congresses show that the Select Committee held more hearings on climate change and alternative energy, and on environmental and energy policy generally, than any other committee. The committee also increased the range of sources informing debate on these issues by calling different witnesses than other committees. These findings have important implications for the relationship between institutional structure and agendas and for Congress' policy‐making role on energy and the environment.     

THE INDIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AND THE MAKING OF HINDUS AND MUSLIMS IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Article 370 of the Indian constitution gives the northern province of Jammu and Kashmir special status within the union. Today that provision forms a nucleus of fierce political contention between secularists and religious nationalists in India, despite the manifest whittling down of the article's most significant aspects. This development is counterintuitive: the original intent of the article's introduction had no relation to questions of religion. This essay attempts to understand this unanticipated role, as a marker of the state's secularity or lack thereof, the article has come to play in Indian politics. It contends that the seeds were sown even at the time of shaping the Indian constitution of a perspective that viewed the people of Jammu and Kashmir according to their religious affiliations.