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Fletcher Angus |
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The Topological imagination : spheres, edges, and islands / / Angus Fletcher [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2016] |
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1 online resource (224 p.) : 1 halftone, 1 line illustration |
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Art and science |
Knowledge, Theory of |
Mathematics - Philosophy |
Topology |
PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics |
Electronic books. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Topology and the Idea of Form -- II. The Mind Imagining -- III. Disparities in Metaphor -- IV. Euler Discovers the First Edge -- V. Vico and the Cycles of Human History -- VI. “The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” -- VII. Notes on a Family of Edges -- VIII. Shape and the Ethics of Scale -- IX. “No Man Is an Island” -- Background Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us. |
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UNINA9910495818203321 |
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Walker Sandra L |
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Environmental Protection versus Trade Liberalization : Finding the Balance : An examination of the legality of environmental regulation under international trade law regimes / Sandra L. Walker |
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Bruxelles, : Presses de l’Université Saint-Louis, 2019 |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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HotyatRobert |
SadeleerNicolas de |
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Environmental policy |
Environmental protection |
Environmental law |
Trade regulation |
International trade |
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Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of laws regulating the environment. Such laws aim to protect the environment of the legislating country and increasingly, the environment beyond its borders. While the objectives of these rules appear to be laudable ones, environmental regulation is frequently criticized as trade-restrictive and protectionist. In addition, attempts to regulate foreign production processes are attacked as interfering with the sovereign right of foreign countries to determine their own standards of environmental management. Environmental protection goals may also hinder international trade and consequently, become vulnerable to legal challenge under international trade law. The manner in which international trade law weighs the competing objectives of environmental protection and trade liberalization is the subject of this book. The experience of the European Economic Community in this regard provides a useful backdrop against which the treatment of environmental regulation under the GATT can be both examined and |
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improved. The author concludes that GATT reforms, such as the incorporation of environmental principles into GATT jurisprudence, are critical to ensuring the legality of legitimate environmental protection measures. Such efforts would serve to safeguard both the environment and a more stable international trading system. The study was financed by the Brussels Capital Region through the Visiting Scientist's Programme. |
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