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the safety of other people? As we shall see, the law is complex and raises fundamental questions of human rights, requiring examination of the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 1 Health professionals and health providers face challenging questions in ensuring that they both respect the rights of patients with mental disorders and also protect vulnerable patients from harm, including self-harm. 2 The law relating to decision-making on behalf of people who lack mental capacity is now
1 Regional capacity building in Europe Much of the devolution debate in Wales has centred upon the uniqueness of Welsh constitutional arrangements and political traditions. There has been a strong temptation to resort to a form of Welsh exceptionalism to explain the emergence of the new Welsh quasi-polity. A comparative dimension facilitates a just appreciation of what really is distinctive within Wales and which trends are more generally applicable in similar regions. In Beyond Devolution and Decentralisation, the intention has been to deepen the understanding
myriad contrivances of modern technical ingenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability. David McCullough, 1992 As discussed in the preceding chapters, resorting to capacity-increasing technologies for soldiers is not morally problematic. On the contrary
8 Regional political capacity in Wales and Brittany This book set out to deepen the understanding of processes of comparative regional governance by investigating two historic regions (Wales and Brittany) in two neighbouring European Union states. Chapter 1 presented a theoretical framework based on regional political capacity, defined as an interactive process encompassing institutions and institutional processes, actors and their relationships, socially constructed identities and forms of overarching regulation (Kooiman, 2003; Le Galès, 2002; Loughlin, 2001
4 Building community-based research capacity with communities: the PRIA experience Mandakini Pant Introduction Indian society has been traditionally divided into endogamous hereditary groups (castes) ranked by ritual status. The castes in lower hierarchy were historically associated with ritually impure occupations such as killing, handling of animal cadavers or night soil. Social distance from upper castes was maintained by restrictions of contact and commensality with members of upper castes. Castebased positioning created caste-based inequalities. Marginalized
5 Decentralisation and political capacity building in Brittany This chapter addresses the theme of decentralisation and political capacity building in Brittany. Venturing inside the Brittany regional council provides an opportunity to investigate the functioning of the region as a political institution, and to explore the theme of public policy-making within Brittany. It will be argued that the influence of the French regions (and Brittany in particular) is tied up with interdependent policy-making and the quality of horizontal and vertical relationships. The
As discussed in the previous chapter, there is a need to establish criteria in order to determine which capacity-increasing technologies can be used on the battlefield without infringing moral principles. However, this debate would not be complete without a reflection on how these technologies ought to be developed. More precisely, we need to analyse how the technologies should be tested on soldiers
Rights are the basis of our liberal democratic political order and key to contemporary thinking about moral and ethical issues. Francis Fukuyama, 2002 So far, this book has argued that the use of capacity-increasing technologies can be seen as a moral duty on the part of the
relating to decision-making on behalf of people who lack mental capacity is now largely but not exclusively to be found in the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The Act is accompanied by a Code of Practice 3 addressing the health and other needs of people who lack capacity. A consultation on a new draft Code was launched in 2022. 4 If an elderly person develops dementia, decisions have to
12 Enhancing local policymakers’ capacity in environmental governance in the Philippines Joy Molina Mirasol, Felix S. Mirasol, Jr., Estela C. Itaas and Benjamin Maputi Context The forest land in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines, is continuously declining in terms of its economic and environmental capacity. Forest destruction by timber poachers and conversion of forest land for agriculture are rising to an alarming level, leaving the remaining forest cover significantly below the desired 45 percent cover to sustain its services. Such decline and