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Sturla F. Kvamsdal
Dorothy Dankel
Nils-Arne Ekerhovd
Alf Håkon Hoel
Angelika Renner
Anne Britt Sandø
Stein Ivar Steinshamn
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
Many areas in the Arctic are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. We observe large-scale effects on physical, biological, economic and social parameters, including ice cover, species distributions, economic activity and regional governance frameworks. Arctic living marine resources are affected in various ways. A holistic understanding of these effects requires a multidisciplinary enterprise. We synthesize relevant research, from oceanography and ecology, via economics, to political science and international law. We find that multidisciplinary research can enhance our understanding and promote new questions and issues relating to impacts and outcomes of climate change in the Arctic. Such issues include recent …
Takayuki Nakatsubo
Mitsuru Hirota
Ayaka W. Kishimoto-Mo
Noriko Oura
Masaki Uchida
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Moss tundra with a thick peat layer dominated by bryophytes is one of the most important ecosystems in the High Arctic of Svalbard, but little is known about the carbon dynamics of moss tundra. Here, we estimated the net primary production (NPP) and net ecosystem production (NEP) of moss tundra on Brøggerhalvøya (Brøgger Peninsula) of north-western Svalbard (79°N). The net photosynthetic and respiration rates of the two dominant moss species, Calliergon richardsonii and Tomenthypnum nitens, were measured under laboratory conditions. On the basis of the photosynthetic and respiration characteristics and climatic data, we estimated the cumulative NPP of the dominant …
Daniel M. Moore
Anna Elina Flink
Eva Prendergast
Antony Gilbert
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Underwater biological surveys have been conducted around the Antarctic continent for several decades, and our knowledge of the species present in the shallow waters (<50 m) is reasonably comprehensive. However, the waters below 50 m remain underexplored on the account of difficulty of access, financial barriers and relatively few operational platforms capable of deployment to such depths. Here, we demonstrate that personal submersibles, now increasingly deployed by the expedition cruise industry, can be vessels of opportunity for biological research in the polar regions. We describe direct observations of the rarely encountered scyphozoan Stygiomedusa gigantea at water depths of 80–280 …
Christian Lydersen
Kerstin Langenberger
Kit M. Kovacs
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Herein we describe mating behaviour observed in a group of 20 white whales in Svalbard, Norway. A single female was the centre of attention during the 45-minute encounter, which was observed, photographed and videotaped at an ice edge in Storfjorden in June 2022. Several males surrounded the female and vigorously herded her from all sides. The female spy-hopped regularly, and sometimes her whole body was pushed out of the water by the other animals. High tail-lifts and tail-slapping were frequently performed by males, and erect penises were observed many times. Trumpet calls were also heard. At one point, three males …
Антонов М.В.
Published: April 1, 2020
Рецензия на книгу: Lebel L. L’art de juger. Québec City:Presses de l’Université Laval, 2019, 369 p. Для цитирования: Антонов М.А. Искусство судить // Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2020. № 2. С. 254–260. Библиографическое описание: Антонов М.А. Искусство судить // Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2020. № 2. С. 254–260.
Nurullaev Ruslan
Published: July 1, 2015
In July, 2015, the Russian President signed Law No. 264-FZ which grants to Russian citizens the right to request delisting of search results which link to inaccurate or irrelevant information about them (“the right to be forgotten”). According to its drafters, the law is expected to adapt Russian law to the European practice. This article recounts the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Google Spain v. AEPD and Mario Costeja González, the case which inspired Law No. 264-FZ, and analyses commonalities and differences between the judgment of the Court of Justice and Law No. 264-FZ.The …
Reeta Sony A.L.
Sri Krishna Deva Rao
Devi Prasad Bhukya
Sai Deep B.
Published: Jan. 1, 2015
The adoption and benefits of cloud computing services in various government ministry/department projects can help support the government’s decision-making processes in relation to a wide variety of issues by providing a more effective integrated working environment. Internally, it improves the operational efficiency of the government and, externally, it provides effective services to citizens anywhere at anytime. Its dynamic nature can maintain uniformity of services across the nation by providing better services in all e-governance projects. It allows people to access data and computer resources, and, in this digital economy, data is considered a nation’s asset and fuel for the economy. …
Krawietz Werner
Published: Dec. 1, 2014
In the present article the author considers the issues connected with globalization and structural changesin the contemporary societies. In author’s opinion, development of legal regulation encompasses not onlythe practical and theoretical argumentation in the law. It also includes the informative and communicativeperspectives of our analytical and conceptual legal thinking and of our legal world-outlook which is formedaccordingly to the social world of law. The author stresses that there are continued processes of genesisof autonomous, socially out-differentiated spheres for activities and of normative programs and criteria ofjuridical rationalization of human emotions and actions. In the light of such ideas the general …
Alexander Zemlin
Alexander Pishchelko
Yulia Kharlamova
Published: Jan. 1, 2020
This paper is based on the analysis of transport, counterterrorism and public oversight statues law and common practice, examines legal points of using public oversight for the convenience of the transport counterterrorism safety precautions. Terrorism on transport networks is a problem which may hardly be combated beyond transport security, which, in turn, is constitutionally and legally grounded in the Russian Federation due to its high importance. For example, Article 71 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation classifies economic development, federal transport and rail transport, defense and security as falling under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. Public security protection, …
Anna V. Shashkova
Published: April 1, 2017
The article focuses on different theoretical approaches towards establishing corporate criminal liability in national legislature of the Russian Federation. The article focuses on the roots and evolution of the problem of introducing criminal corporate liability, analyses arguments pro et contra corporate criminal liability as an instrument of prevention and combat against corporate and other forms of white-collar crime. The central part of the article examines different theoretical and practical views on introduction of corporate liability in general and in the Russian Federation in particular. The author aims to shed light on different dimensions of the matter, pointing to interdependency of …