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Abstract. Pacific Islanders have been exposed to risks associated with climate change. Samoa, as one of the Pacific Islands, is prone to climatic hazards that will likely increase in the coming decades, affecting coastal communities and infrastructure around the islands. Climate models do not predict a reduction of such disaster events in the future in Samoa; indeed, most predict an increase. This paper identifies key infrastructure and their functions and status in order to provide an overall picture of relative vulnerability to climate-related stresses of such infrastructure on the island. By reviewing existing reports as well as holding a series of consultation meetings, a list of critical infrastructure was developed and shared with stakeholders for their consideration. An indicator-based vulnerability model (SIVM) was developed in collaboration with stakeholders to assess the vulnerability of selected infrastructure systems on the Samoan Islands. Damage costs were extracted from the Cyclone Evan recovery needs document. Additionally, data on criticality and capacity to repair damage were collected from stakeholders. Having stakeholder perspectives on these two issues was important because (a) criticality of a given infrastructure could be viewed differently among different stakeholders, and (b) stakeholders were the best available source (in this study) to estimate the capacity to repair non-physical damage to such infrastructure. Analysis of the results suggested a ranking of sectors from the most vulnerable to least vulnerable are: the transportation sector, the power sector, the water supply sector and the sewerage system.

Considered a conservation hotspot of the world biodiversity and a key region for the agriculture production in Brazil, the Cerrado biome has only 7.5% of its native vegetation as fully protected areas. Given this, in 2016 the Brazilian government started an official project to monitoring deforestation in the biome, through the so-called PRODES-Cerrado, responsible for mapping deforested areas from 2000 on, and DETER-Cerrado, responsible to generate deforestation alerts. Seeking to contribute with both context information and confidence levels for the polygons produced by these two monitoring systems, we developed the Deforestation Polygon Assessment Tool. This web-based platform process and presents several analysis for PRODES-Cerrado and DETER-Cerrado polygons using automatic assessments (e.g. BFastMonitor and Weights of Evidence), field validation and spatial analysis with key datasets (e.g. National Land Registry, Land-Use and Land-Cover maps). The platform implements an interactive map which allows a fast and comprehensive visualization of different layers, as well as a Deforestation Report at the polygon level, which gathers all the information about each polygon, providing greater reliability and understanding of the deforestation dynamics in the Cerrado. Future improvements in the platform will consider additional, spatial relations in order to assist government agencies to either prevent or reduce deforestation occurrences in each municipality in the Cerrado biome.

The present work focussed on the concerns of the existence of coliform, faecal coliform, and other pathogens in both tap water and commercially available bottled water, along with the drug resistant pattern of the isolates. The physico-chemical features of the bottled water samples were satisfactory, but most of the tap water exceeded the marginal limit. A total of 21 samples (10 of tap water and 11 of bottled water) were collected and processed for microbiological analysis. All the samples were found to be contaminated with total viable bacteria up to 108 CFU/mL. Among the 21 samples, seven samples were found to be contaminated with E. coli up to 106 CFU/mL, and six samples had Klebsiella spp. up to 102 CFU/mL. Faecal contamination was totally absent in all bottled water, but present in four tap water samples. Fungi was found in six samples within the range of 102 to 103 CFU/mL. Surprisingly, Staphylococcus spp. were observed in all bottled water. Vibrio spp. were detected in three samples. An elevated number of faecal coliforms, Klebsiella spp., Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Vibrio spp., and Pseudomonas spp. were estimated among the tap water samples up to 105 CFU/mL. The water samples, especially tap water, collected from the different areas were microbiologically unsafe, as few pathogenic microorganisms were found in several samples. This indicated as public health threat. Most of the isolates from both tap and bottled water samples were found to be resistant against more than one antibiotic tested, which is extremely alarming for the consumers. Very few antibiotics were found to be effective against the bacterial isolates.

Purpose: As ocean transportation instrument, the ocean vessel has an important role in improving the growth of economic rate, particularly naval economic business. The high cost of ocean vessel make businessmen difficult to acquire business capital, so they propose the application of credit and ocean vessel is made into mortgage. Although Indonesia is party in International Convention on Maritime Liens and Mortgages 1993, there is not any specific regulation arranging the execution of ocean vessel registered in Indonesia up to now. International Civil Law considers efforts to settle the issues must be started up by contract and agreement in advance. Based on the description, it is necessary to analyse to which extent International Civil Law might settle issues on the execution of ocean vessel and to which extent a court must pay attention and recognize foreign legal verdicts or rights emerged based on Foreign Court Verdicts or laws. Methodology: This study uses a normative juridical approach, the study of which refers to legal norms contained in the legislation, court decisions and legal norms that exist in society. The research specifications used are descriptive analytics. The sources of legal materials used are primary and secondary data and data collection techniques carried out by means of library research, interviews and observations. Meanwhile, the data analysis technique in this paper uses qualitative analysis. Main Findings: An international agreement or agreement must contain a legal choice that will be used later because it will be a very complex problem if it is not determined from the beginning of the law which will be used if a dispute occurs. Ships that can be secured by mortgages are registered ships and ships weighing more than 20m3. In carrying out ship executions even though Indonesia has ratified the 1993 International Convention on Liens and Mortgage, the provisions for the execution of ships in Indonesia still refer to the provisions contained in Article 224 HIR or RIB and Article 258 Rbg. Implications/Applications: This study will be helpful for practitioners and law-making authorities in formulating different policies and amendments in existing international law on the implementation of the sea ship execution related to bad credit.

ABSTRACTSince the Act Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Election,the electoral systemin Indonesia has undergone many changes,one of the changes was seen in the authorityof Bawaslu, Bawaslu which initially only as an election supervisory institution now hasthe authority to decide violations of election administration.The formulation of theproblem in the research is;1)What is the authority of the Bawaslu of West SumatraProvince in resolving administrative violations in 2019 committed by the KPU of WestSumatra Province? 2) How is the mechanism of the Bawaslu of West Sumatra Provincein resolving administrative violations in 2019 mcommitted by the KPU of West SumatraProvince? 3) How is the adjudication session mechanism in facing election violations in2019 by the KPU of West Sumatra Province? The research method used of thisresearch is juridical and normative approach. Furthermore, from the results ofresearch and discussion of the conclution is : 1) Authority to resolve electoraladministrative violations carried out by the West Sumatra KPU as reported by FauziBahar, Amril Jiha and Syahril Hamid are the authorities of the Bawaslu of WestSumatra Province; 2) Mechanism for resolving election administration violations andthe mechanism for adjudication session is regulated in the General ElectionSupervisory Agency Regulation Number 8 of 2018 concerning the Settlement ofAdministrative Election Violations; 3) The mechanism for adjudication to is regulatedin the General Election Supervisory Agency Regulation Number 8 of 2018 concerningthe Settlement of Administrative Election Violations.

Restoration of degraded land is recognized by the international community as an important way of enhancing both biodiversity and ecosystem services, but more information is needed about its costs and benefits. In Cambridgeshire, U.K., a long-term initiative to convert drained, intensively farmed arable land to a wetland habitat mosaic is driven by a desire both to prevent biodiversity loss from the nationally important Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve (Wicken Fen NNR) and to increase the provision of ecosystem services. We evaluated the changes in ecosystem service delivery resulting from this land conversion, using a new Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA) to estimate biophysical and monetary values of ecosystem services provided by the restored wetland mosaic compared with the former arable land. Overall results suggest that restoration is associated with a net gain to society as a whole of $199 ha ^-1 y ^-1, for a one-off investment in restoration of $2320 ha ^-1. Restoration has led to an estimated loss of arable production of $2040 ha ^-1 y ^-1 , but estimated gains of $671 ha ^-1 y ^-1 in nature-based recreation, $120 ha ^-1 y ^-1 from grazing, $48 ha ^-1 y ^-1 from flood protection, and a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worth an estimated $72 ha ^-1 y ^-1. Management costs have also declined by an estimated $1325 ha ^-1 y ^-1. Despite uncertainties associated with all measured values and the conservative assumptions used, we conclude that there was a substantial gain to society as a whole from this land-use conversion. The beneficiaries also changed from local arable farmers under arable production to graziers, countryside users from towns and villages, and the global community, under restoration. We emphasize that the values reported here are not necessarily transferable to other sites. ; This research was funded by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Collaborative Fund and Arcadia (Research grant no. PFPA.GAAB), a U.K. Government Darwin Initiative grant (18-005) to BirdLife International, UNEP-WCMC, Anglia Ruskin University, RSPB, and an AXA Postdoctoral Fellowship (to KSHP at University of Cambridge). ; Peer-reviewed ; Publisher Version

Illustrative matter by or after E. Sheldrick, M. Rees, M. A. Sulman, A. F. F., G. Halliday, J. F. Swallow, A. Finden, H. M. S., G. Mateaux, M. M. Hutton, S. A. Wheeler, and H. M. Sparling. "The engraved cuts . have been chiefly executed . by the female students of the Wood-engraving Class at Marlborough House."--p. iv. ; "Printed by G. Barclay." ; With several bibliographies of "Illustrated literature." ; Mode of access: Internet.