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  • Negotiating Health

    Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines

    Edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey ...
    In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for instance, more than one million children die each year from malaria alone, a figure which could soon be far higher with the extension of patent rules for pharmaceuticals. Previously, access to essential medicines was made possible by the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The ACTA and the Plurilateral Enforcement Agenda

    Genesis and Aftermath

    Edited by Pedro Roffe, Xavier Seuba ...
    The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is the most important effort undertaken to lay down a plurilateral legal framework for the enforcement of intellectual property rights. With the view to learn more about the origins of this treaty, the process leading to its conclusion and its implications for law making in this field, The ACTA and the Plurilateral Enforcement Agenda: Genesis and ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Public-Private Partnerships, Intellectual Property Governance, and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Margaret Chon, Pedro Roffe, Ahmed Abdel-Latif ...
    Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
    Public–private partnerships (PPPs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing global development challenges. United Nations agencies and other organizations are relying on PPPs to improve global health, facilitate access to scientific information, and encourage the diffusion of climate change technologies. For this reason, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights their ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Protecting Traditional Knowledge

    The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore

    Edited by Daniel F. Robinson, Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Pedro Roffe ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    This is the first comprehensive review of the Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) established in 2000. It provides an in-depth consideration of the key thematic areas within WIPO discussions – genetic resources (GRs), traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) through the perspectives of a broad range of experts and ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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    Revitalizing Canada's Constitution

    by David R. Boyd ...
    Series series Law and Society Series
    Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Public-Private Partnership Projects in Infrastructure

    An Essential Guide for Policy Makers

    by Jeffrey Delmon ...
    Investment in infrastructure is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, healthcare, and achieving many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can help; they provide more efficient procurement, focus on consumer satisfaction and life cycle maintenance, and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Whole Life Prostate Book

    Everything That Every Man-at Every Age-Needs to Know About Maintaining Optimal Prostate Health

    by Dr. H. Ballentine Carter, Gerald Secor Couzens ...
    MEN TODAY face a growing health crisis. More than twenty million nationwide are affected by a prostate health issue, and more than two hundred thousand are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. Many of these problems are preventable because they are related to the chronic diseases of age associated with poor health choices. Dr. H. Ballentine Carter is a preeminent expert in the diagnosis and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature

    A Constructivist Approach

    Edited by Keith H. Hirokawa ...
    Law's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market transaction or governmental intervention. Recognizing that law has embedded discrete constructions of nature helps in understanding how humans value ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • A Trust Betrayed

    The Untold Story of Camp Lejeune and the Poisoning of Generations of Marines and Their Families

    by Mike Magner ...
    Series series Merloyd Lawrence Novels
    While the big bad corporation has often been the offender in many of the world's greatest environmental disasters, in the case of the mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune the culprit is a revered institution: the US Marine Corps. For two decades now, revelations have steadily emerged about pervasive contamination, associated clusters of illness and death among the Marine families stationed there, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements

    Designing Flexible Solutions for Public Procurement

    by Gian Luigi Albano, Caroline Nicholas ...
    Framework agreements have arisen in response to the well documented and high costs of public procurement procedures. The agreements have significant potential to improve procedural efficiency in public procurement, but are complex to operate. Inadequate preparation and implementation can also frustrate their potential both to tackle waste, abuse and corruption and to enhance value for money. In ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Responsibilities and Liabilities for Commercial Activity in the Arctic

    The Example of Greenland

    Edited by Vibe Ulfbeck, Anders Møllmann, Bent Ole Gram Mortensen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    Given the magnitude of the risks associated with commercial activities in the Arctic arising as a result of the milder climate, new business opportunities raise important questions of responsibility and liability. This book analyses the issues of responsibility and liability connected with the exploitation of natural resources, marine transport and other activities in the Arctic. Applying a ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement

    The Regionalisation of Laws and Policy on Foreign Investment

    by Julien Chaisse, Sufian Jusoh ...
    The International Investment regime is one of the fastest growing areas of international economic law which increasingly rely on large membership investment treaties such as the ASEAN comprehensive Investment Agreement. This book comprehensively examines the role of this specific agreement and situates it in the wider trend towards the regionalisation of laws and policy on foreign investment. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD