浅谈严格行政执法

严格环境行政执法具有对执法主体和执法对象双重的重要性。现在环境行政执法尚存在不少问题。对严格行政执法的途径作了阐述。     

完善环境保护强制性政策的探讨

从目前我国实施强制性政策的现实必要性出发，合理界定强制性政策的科学内涵，剖析了其执行不力的症结与难点，探讨进一步完善、强化和实施的若干对策。     

陕西崩塌灾害及其时空分布特征

本文论述了陕西的崩塌灾害，并根据陕西的地质地貌特征和地质灾害防御实践，对区内的崩塌进行了分类，在此基础上分析总结了陕西崩塌灾害的时空分布特征。     

当代中国的环境资源法学研究

分析了当代中国环境资源法学研究的发展概况。介绍了当代中国环境资源法学研究的主要领域，总结了当代中国环境资源法学研究的经验和特点，提出了今后中国环境资源法学研究的主要问题。     

论构建我国环境修复法规体系的必要性与原则

通过比较我国与美国的环境法律体系,初步探讨了两者在环境修复立法方面的差异。我国现有环境保护法律法规体系不足以解决我国在环境修复实践过程中的环境责任、环境修复资金分担、环境修复标准以及保障环境修复工程顺利到位实施等方面的实际问题,借鉴国内外环境修复相关的法律规定和实践经验,构建我国环境修复法律法规体系是必要的。遵循“谁污染谁付费”,评价环境修复效果的标准考虑污染物检测限,与现有与环境相关的标准一致的前提下适当提高环境修复标准,做到符合科学性、合理性、应急性、跟踪治理等原则。最后对我国环境修复法规体系的内容提出了建议。     

执法环境监测数据的有效性审核要点

简述了环境监测数据在环境执法中的证据效力,指出,环境监测数据作为环境执法依据和行政处罚证据时,应对监测机构资质、监测样品、分析方法、仪器设备、质控措施、监测记录及结果等进行有效性审核。结合案例,分析了环境监测资料中存在的问题和改进措施,提出,环境监测数据作为证据资料提交给法庭时,需要所有与此项监测工作有关的资料作为支撑,监测机构在提交监测数据之前必须进行严格的审核和把关,只有合法有效的环境监测数据才具备证据能力,真正服务于环境执法和环境管理。     

关于提升环境监察执法效能有效途径的探索

提高环境监察水平的目的是为促使环境监察执法效能的发挥,本文针对此课题,做了简单的论述,提出了提升环境监察执法效能的策略,共享给相关人员参考。现阶段,各地区全面打响"守护蓝天战役",推行了各项政策,制定了工作要求,力求实现对环境问题的有效防治,推动社会经济持续化发展。因此,深度分析此课题,提出有效的环境监察工作策略,做好蓝天的"守护者",有着重要的意义。     

Working with cognitively impaired drivers: Legal issues for mental health professionals to consider

Introduction

Mental health professionals are gatekeepers of patient confidentiality. Yet, confidentiality held too strictly, by allowing a potentially dangerous driver to assume control of a car, endangers society. Recent court cases have mandated that mental health professionals must warn those who may be potentially harmed by patients. In spite of this, disagreements linger as to whether it is the responsibility of governmental agencies or mental health professionals to decide who is unfit to operate a vehicle because of cognitive impairment. Methods: This article addresses the legally relevant considerations when working with cognitively compromised individuals who operate a motor vehicle. Legal issues surrounding confidentiality, patient rights, foreseeable risk, and the duty to warn and protect are presented in order to understand their relationship to recent court rulings.

Impact on industry

The impact on the mental health care industry includes not only concerns about increased insurance premiums or costs due to alleged negligence or litigation expenses secondary to failure to ensure the safety of an impaired client under their care. Mental health care providers are aware that the welfare of clients with impairment to cognitive decision making ability may require unique considerations for safety such as ensuring safe and appropriate transportation.     

Between war and peace: humanitarian assistance in violent urban settings

Cities are fast becoming new territories of violence. 1 The humanitarian consequences of many criminally violent urban settings are comparable to those of more traditional wars, yet despite the intensity of the needs, humanitarian aid to such settings is limited. The way in which humanitarian needs are typically defined, fails to address the problems of these contexts, the suffering they produce and the populations affected. Distinctions between formal armed conflicts, regulated by international humanitarian law, and other violent settings, as well as those between emergency and developmental assistance, can lead to the neglect of populations in distress. It can take a lot of time and effort to access vulnerable communities and implement programmes in urban settings, but experience shows that it is possible to provide humanitarian assistance with a significant focus on the direct and indirect health consequences of violence outside a traditional conflict setting. This paper considers the situation of Port‐au‐Prince (Haiti), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Guatemala City (Guatemala).     

Marine mineral resources: Effect of the low of the sea convention

The degree of security of investment afforded by the applicable legal regime is one of the most important factors affecting minerals projects. This article outlines the deep-sea mining regime contained in the recently adopted Law of the Sea Convention. A history of subsea mining, including petroleum mining, is presented and the events leading to adoption of the Convention are described. Those parts of the Convention relating to deep-sea mining are analysed, and the International Sea-Bed Authority is examined. It is concluded that deep-sea mining on a commercial scale is unlikely before the end of the decade.