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Obálka -- OBSAH -- Předmluva -- I: ŽIJEME V ANTROPOCÉNU -- I.1 Antropocén -- Historie vztahů mezi lidmi a přírodou -- Novodobá "revoluce": antropocén -- Formule "IPAT" -- I.2 Demografický rozvoj -- Rostoucí globální populace -- Zdraví -- Města -- Světové regiony -- I.3 Společenský rozvoj -- Lidský rozvoj, svoboda a demokracie -- Chudoba a nerovnost -- Vliv globalizace -- I.4 Ekonomický rozvoj a technologie -- Ekonomický růst -- Vzorce spotřeby -- Využití energie -- Široká škála nových technologií -- Nebezpečí nových technologií -- I.5 Základna přírodních zdrojů a odpady

Arctic environmental protection and the protection of species living in the Arctic are subject to a number of multilateral international treaties, bilateral agreements, and instruments of soft law, and they are touched upon by the national laws of the Arctic coastal countries as well. Based on the theoretical approaches of Oran Young, the paper construes the current environmental protection in the Arctic as an international regime. The paper defines the basic features of the Arctic and Antarctic environmental regimes, such as duration, resilience, an institutional structure, internationalization and the agreed procedures and processes of the regime's development. The paper discusses whether their differences (e.g. ocean versus continent, inhabitants, military use) have been reflected in their environmental regimes. By comparing these features and regimes, the paper concludes that the procedure used in the Antarctic might not be fully transferrable to the case of the Arctic. Adapted from the source document.

The article first describes the specific conditions of Czech "green politics" closely before & after November 1989 & argues that these conditions not only account for the Green Party's unsuccessful involvement in Czech politics, but also led to the exclusion of politicians focused on environmental issues from decisive positions in the important political parties. It offers a detailed description of the developments in the Green Party around 2002, especially of the agreement between the Brandys forum & the "old" Green Party, the "dark-green" fraction's takeover of the Green Party, & the improvement of the Green Party's political position that was nevertheless accompanied by internal conflict. An extensive subsequent part of the article deals with the policy of the Czech Ministry of the Environment. Finally, the article discusses the internal split within the Green Party & the future prospects of environmental policy in the Czech Republic. References. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Obsah -- Slovo úvodem -- Co je to environmentální výzkum, z čeho vychází a kam směřuje? -- Globální změna klimatu -- Vliv klimatických změn na biodiverzitu -- Nepůvodní druhy rostlin, možné příčiny a důsledky invazí -- Antropogenní disturbance v krajině a ochrana životního prostředí -- Příklad disturbance: gradace lýkožrouta na Šumavě -- Antropogenní acidifikace povrchových vod -- Nové typy polutantů - endokrinní disruptory v životním prostředí a jejich biodegradace -- Nové poznatky a výzvy v ochraně ovzduší -- Vliv životního a pracovního prostředí a životního stylu na lidské zdraví -- Člověk a příroda v minulosti Českých zemí. Od pravěku ke globální společnosti -- Indikátory společenského metabolismu -- Globální změny a environmentální bezpečnost lidské společnosti -- Hodnocení environmentálních efektů jako součást "evidence-based policy": Případová studie - Skryté náklady těžby uhlí za limity -- Environmentální vzdělávání a výchova -- Účinnost a působení českého práva životního prostředí -- Bibliografie -- Summary.

The fight against illegal migration has become one of the key issues in EU politics in recent years. The author of this publication deals profoundly with the way how EU protects its borders and with the role that the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders, generally known as FRONTEX, plays in border protection. This young agency, which was established only in 2005, has gained a position in the area of border protection in the EU. The aim of this book is to analyse the space FRONTEX has for autonomous action vis-a-vis the positions of the member states which perceive border protection to be one of their important competences

This paper examines two rules concerning translation right as a part of copyright -- the existing rule which gives an author or a copyright owner control over the translation of his works and a new rule that removes the translation right from the copyright owner. It adopts the approach of Gordon (1992) and evaluates these rules using the concept of asymmetric market failure and a game-theoretic framework. In each case, conditions are stated -- mostly related to the cost of creation and translation -- under which one rule or the other is more efficient. A short remark on protection of authors' "trademark" is added. The conclusions should be relevant for political discussion over the extent of intellectual property protection. Adapted from the source document.

Foreign and Internal Trade as the main disciplines in the field of research and study have developed theoretical systems that reflected historical development of international economic and business environment, governmental trade policy and international and domestic businesses. They created a basis, on which the Faculty of International Relations after 1989 has designed a new profile discipline "International Trade" in the framework of the "International Economic Relations" program. Very important features of the discipline, both of study and research areas, are a deep internationalization and an interdisciplinary approach. The discipline's development reflects world trends, international scientific knowledge and domestic specificities and introduces new terminology for new qualitative processes of international business to the Czech economy. To the discipline's development, very many excellent teachers and important personalities of the Czechoslovak and Czech economy contributed. The modern discipline comprehends analysis of global economic and institutional relations and of theoretical concepts, together with practical managerial branches. A prove of high standards of teaching and research is a prestigious accreditation EPAS by which the discipline "International Trade" has been awarded by the European Foundation of Management Development in 2012. Adapted from the source document.

Starting from endogenous growth models we test the impacts of both taxes (distortionary and non-distortionary) and expenditures (taking into account economic and functional classification of general government expenditure) using the government constraint. We do not neglect the implicit financing assumptions built into the specification of regression utilising both control and fiscal variables. Static and dynamic panel analysis (fixed effects model) of the 25 EU countries covers the period 1995-2008 for the majority of observations. Forward looking moving averages of the growth rate of GDP (2-5 years) are the dependent variable. We find that productive government expenditure supports growth, whilst non-productive expenditure, especially social protection (COFOG) or social payments (Amoco) does not. Distortionary and indirect taxes reduce economic growth. Adapted from the source document.

This paper describes the main theoretical concepts of the competition, which is thought to be the fundamental social process in the economy. The protection of competition (or the competition policy) is the one of the most important parts of economic policy, because the competition ensures the freedom of choice. The theory of competition provides large number of assumptions, which were developed within the frame of various economic schools & approaches. This paper starts with the description of the history of competition policy before the coming of Adam Smith. In the middle part of the work there have been formulated basic ideological theses about economic policy. Represented are, for example, the Classics, Ordo-liberalism or Neo-austrian School. Paper is finalized by the major theses of the Harvard & Chicago school. References. Adapted from the source document.

Relationship between European Union & The People's Republic of China declared in 2003 as the "strategic partnership" attracts attention as a new & remarkable phenomenon within post-bipolar international framework. This article reviews essentials & motives of both partners' mutual & deepening relations by pointing at their growing economic interdependence, upgrading political relations, & further developing their cultural, science & technology, academic, environmental etc. cooperation. However, while critically analyzing EU-China basic agenda of the strategic partnership & its real outcomes, this article points at poor Chinese human rights record, persistence of EU arms embargo, mutual trade disputes, Chinese failure at obtaining the EU's Market Economy Status, as well as insufficient intellectual property & trade mark protection in China. This study concludes with finding an attaining the real EU-China strategic partnership questionable, considering that as a mere term of official-level politeness, lacking behind expectations & potential. Adapted from the source document.