Naturschutz bei der Ausbringung von gentechnisch veränderten Organismen – Teil 1

Die Ausbringung von gentechnisch ver?nderten Organismen (GVO) in das Freiland – namentlich in Gestalt von gentechnisch modifiziertem Saatgut – erfolgt im Wege der (meist experimentellen) Freisetzung oder des gro?fl?chigen Anbaus. Die damit verbundenen Umweltrisiken werden mittels der Freisetzungsgenehmigung und der Genehmigung des Inverkehrbringens (IVB) kontrolliert. Nach Erteilung der IVB-Genehmigung finden zus?tzlich Kontrollen beim Ausbringen des GVO statt. Das gilt nach den allgemeinen Regeln des Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrechts insoweit, wie die Einhaltung der Genehmigung zu überwachen ist. Hinzu kommt jedoch, dass die Genehmigung des Inverkehrbringens, die für alle Standorte in der EU gilt, m?glicherweise nicht alle Risiken der konkreten Ausbringung erfassen kann und deshalb nachgeschaltete sog. nachmarktliche Ma?nahmen notwendig werden. Dieses Problem entsteht in ?hnlicher Weise bei den sog. vereinfachten oder differenzierten Verfahren der Freisetzungsgenehmigung, wenn die Genehmigung erteilt wird, aber die Ausbringungsstandorte noch offengelassen werden. Auf allen vier genannten Stufen – bei der Freisetzungsgenehmigung, der IVB-Genehmigung, den nachmarktlichen Ma?nahmen und den vereinfachten/differenzierten Verfahren – stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit dafür gesorgt wird, dass die Schutzgüter des Naturschutzrechts vor Sch?den bewahrt werden. Weitergehend ist denkbar, dass manche Fl?chen von GVO ganz freigehalten werden. Das Schutzziel best?nde dabei nicht in der Bewahrung der Umwelt vor Sch?den, sondern in der Koexistenz naturnaher ?kosysteme mit menschlich st?rker beeinflussten ?kosystemen. Für die Koexistenz gentechnikfreier konventioneller und organischer Landwirtschaft ist dies anerkannt. Für die Koexistenz gentechnikfreier Naturgebiete ist der Gedanke erst noch zu entwickeln. Hieraus ergeben sich für diesen Beitrag die folgenden Fragen: (1) Inwieweit sind Naturschutzbelange zu beachten a) bei der Freisetzungsgenehmigung b) bei der Genehmigung des IVB von GVO c) bei der Kontrolle des Ausbringens nach IVB-Genehmigung d) bei der Kontrolle des Ausbringens nach einer im vereinfachten oder differenzierten Verfahren erteilten Freisetzungsgenehmigung? (2) Inwieweit ist Gentechnikfreiheit mancher Gebiete als eine besondere Art von Naturschutz zul?ssig? Die vier ersten Fragen richten sind auf Regime der Vermeidung von Umweltsch?den (dazu unten B), die letzte Frage auf ein Regime der Koexistenz naturnaher ?kosysteme mit gentechnikverwendender Landwirtschaft (dazu unten C). Vorab ist das einschl?gige Recht zu bestimmen (A).     

Ten-Year outcome in adolescent onset anorexia nervosa

The purpose of the present study was to characterize the psychopathology measured ten years posttreatment in 51 women who had an adolescent onset of anorexia nervosa. Outcome status was determined using the modified categories of Ratnasuriya et al.[1991]. Anorexia Nervosa: Outcome and Prognostic Factors After 20 Years, British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 158, pp. 495–502). Psychopathology was assessed using a number of self-report questionnaires: Beck Depression Inventory, Hamilton Depression Inventory, Leyton Obsessionality Inventory, Social Adjustment Scale, and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Within this adolescent age of onset sample of anorexia nervosa, age of onset was not, in and of itself, associated with increased psychopathology at follow-up. Rather, severity of eating disorder outcome was associated with general psychopathology, with patients in the poor outcome group displaying elevations on several of the measures of psychopathology.Received Ph.D. in psychology from Rutgers Univesity. Major research interests are in eating behavior and attitudes toward foods in anorexia and bulimia nervosa, preoccupations and rituals associated with eating disorders, and comorbidity and eating disorders.Received M.D. from the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey. Research interests are in eating disorders.Received M.D. from University of Minnesota Medical School-Minneapolis, MN. Major research interests are anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders.Received M.D. from the University of Iowa—Iowa City. Research interests are in eating disorders.     

Two Models of Monetary Redress: A Structural Analysis

Monetary redress is a developing area of human rights policy. The article examines how a redress program’s design affects the interests of program applicants. It distinguishes two program models, individual assessment and common experience, and explores their differing effects on applicants’ interests. Analyzing two Irish cases, redress for survivors of the industrial schools and the Magdalene laundries, the discussion is applicable to a wide range of redress programs including those in postconflict, transitional justice, and postcolonial contexts.     

Applying a Dynamic Performance Management Framework to Wicked Issues: How Coproduction Helps to Transform Young People’s Services in Surrey County Council,UK

ABSTRACT

This article explores how a dynamic performance management (DPM) approach can give policy makers a more integrated, time-related understanding of how to address wicked problems successfully. The article highlights how an outcome-based approach to solving wicked policy problems has to balance three very contrasting objectives of stakeholders in the policy making process – improving service quality, improving quality of life outcomes and improving conformity to the principles of public governance. Simultaneous achievement of these three objectives may not be feasible, as they may form an interactive dynamic system. However the balancing act between them may be achieved by the use of DPM. Policy insights from this novel approach are illustrated through a case study of a highly successful co-production intervention to help young people with multiple disadvantages in Surrey, UK. The implications of DPM are that policy development needs to accept the important roles of emergent strategy and learning mechanisms, rather than attempting ‘blueprint’ strategic planning and control mechanisms. Some expectations about the results may indeed be justifiable in particular policy systems, as clustering of quality of life outcomes and outcomes in the achievement of governance principles is likely, because behaviours are strongly inter-related. However, this clustering can never be taken for granted but must be tested in each specific policy context. Undertaking simulations with the model and recalibrating it through time, as experience builds up, may allow learning in relation to overcoming barriers to achieving outcomes in the system.     

Schönheitschirurgie-Patientinnen als „ugly dopes“? Zur Medialität der Entscheidungsfindung für plastisch-chirurgische Eingriffe

The mass media’s view on the current practices of aesthetic surgery is typically negotiated in the social sciences within the realm of ideology critique: The claim is that the mass media culture industry encourages particularly female consumers to undergo surgical interventions in order to optimize their body and thus instructs them to better market themselves (their entrepreneurial self). Furthermore, this process is not sufficiently reflected by the patients; according to the discourse in social science, they mutate to “ugly dopes” who are not truly aware of the conditions to which their decision for physical optimization is subject. This paper proposes a different reading of the mediality of plastic surgery, based on an empirical analysis of interviews with plastic surgery patients. The media certainly play a crucial role as carriers of format templates for body images, but they also are being translated in particular practical contexts. There is no continuum between the body images that are displayed by the media and their individual acquirement. The medial format templates must be actively incorporated into the conflictual everyday contexts of decision making. The effect of the media is therefore accounted for by their connectivity to life-world and has a permanent, continuous irritation as a result, caused by body images.     

Compensating Plaintiffs and Punishing Defendants: Is Bifurcation Necessary?

Critics of the civil jury have proposed several procedural reforms to address the concern that damage awards are capricious and unpredictable. One such reform is the bifurcation or separation of various phases of a trial that involves multiple claims for damages. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of bifurcating the compensatory and punitive damages phases of a civil tort trial. We manipulated the wealth of the defendant and the reprehensibility of the defendant's conduct (both sets of evidence theoretically related to punitive but not to compensatory damages) across three cases in a jury analog study. We wondered whether jurors would misuse the punitive damages evidence in fixing compensatory damages and whether bifurcation would effectively undo this practice. Our findings indicated that mock jurors did not improperly consider punitive damages evidence in their decisions about compensation. Moreover, bifurcation had the unexpected effect of augmenting punitive damage awards. These findings raise questions about the merits of bifurcation in cases that involve multiple claims for damages.     

Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse: Current findings and their legal implications

Recent research on recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse has shown that there are at least two types of recovered memory experiences: those that are gradually recovered within the context of suggestive therapy and those that are spontaneously recovered, without extensive prompting or explicit attempts to reconstruct the past. By focusing on well‐known imperfections of human memory, we were able to find differing origins for these recovered memory experiences, with people recovering memories through suggestive therapy being more prone to forming false memories, and with people reporting spontaneously recovered memories being more prone to forgetting prior incidences of remembering. Moreover, the two types of recovered memory reports are associated with differences in corroborative evidence, suggesting that memories recovered spontaneously, outside of suggestive therapy, are more likely to correspond to genuine abuse events. In this paper, we summarize recent research on recovered memories and we argue that these scientific findings should be applied in the justice system, but also in clinical practice.