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William A Kerr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the biosafety protocol Multilateral Agreement on protecting the environment or protectionist club
    Journal of World Trade, 2005
    Co-Authors: Anna L Hobbs, Jill E Hobbs, William A Kerr
    Abstract:

    On 11 September 2003, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (hereafter the Biosafety Protocol (BSP)) entered into force with ratification by the 50th country. It is generally considered to fall into the classification of international arrangement known as Multilateral environmental Agreements (MEAs). While the BSP was negotiated under a veil of environmental respectability, it is, fundamentally, a trade Agreement pertaining to agricultural commodities produced using modern biotechnology that is solely concerned with establishing the rules under which countries can limit imports. Further, these rules are crafted in such a way as to allow unfettered restrictions on imports. This leaves the regulation of imports of these products open to influence by a broad range of protectionist interests that have nothing to do with protection of the environment. The result is that the Agreement is losing its Multilateral inclusivenessÐnone of the major producers and exporters of agricultural crops based on biotechnology (e.g., the United States,1 Canada, Argentina and China) have ratified the Protocol. Hence, there is the possibility that the BSP will become little more than a club of protectionist countries and a failed MEA. This judgment may be too harsh as it is still early days for the BSP but the Protocol and the negotiations leading up to it are a worthy topic for examination given what is at stake. Multilateral environment Agreements represent important international instruments to deal with environmental concerns that cannot be dealt with by nation states acting unilaterally. While MEAs are not new (Kerr and Hall, 2003), their importance and number increased considerably in the final decades of the twentieth century as awareness of environmental issues increased and the need for cooperative international action to deal effectively with them was recognized. Important MEAs negotiated in recent years include the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that

Miguel San Sebastian Chasco - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the Multilateral Agreement on investment public health threat for the twenty first century
    European Journal of Public Health, 1999
    Co-Authors: Carolyn Stephens, Giovanni Leonardi, Simon Lewin, Miguel San Sebastian Chasco
    Abstract:

    Our lives are the rivers that flow out into the sea, which is death. There, lordships go straight to their ends to be consumed. There the great rivers, and there the others, of middling size and smaller, are equal when they arrive: those who live by their hands and the rich. ... This world would be good, if we made the good use of it that we ought. — Jorge Manrique, Copias pm la muerte de su padre (1460) Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund or private corporations. Into this policy context comes the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). The majority of public health practitioners have not heard about the MAI, let alone debated it. This editorial aims to contribute to the initiation of this debate a step which we believe is crucial in the interests of international public health. We will briefly discuss the provisions of the MAI; its potential health impacts; and the contribution by health professionals to the debate.

Josep Pegueroles-vallés - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • eHealth - The MOSAIC System - A Clinical Data Exchange System with Multilateral Agreement Support.
    2020
    Co-Authors: Magi Lluch I Ariet, Josep Pegueroles-vallés
    Abstract:

    josep.pegueroles@upc.eduAbstract. As more and more data become available, the task of accessing andexploiting the large number of distributed clinical data repositories becomes in-creasingly complex. Moreover, accessing to a certain data set in a federated datawarehouse may have constrains, and Multilateral Agreements may solve it. SuchAgreements may be very complex to be solved manually.Current systems for clinical data sharing do not support Multilateral Agreements.MOSAIC, intends to give a modular and efficient solution to the clinical dataexchange problem with Multilateral Agreements. The proposed system takes ad-vantage of agent based systems and the current standarised Interaction Protocolstogether with the current protocols for clinical data transfer.

  • CISIS - Security Analysis of a Protocol Based on Multiagents Systems for Clinical Data Exchange
    2013 Seventh International Conference on Complex Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2013
    Co-Authors: Albert Brugues De La Torre, Magi Lluch-ariet, Josep Pegueroles-vallés
    Abstract:

    This work describes the security architecture of MOSAIC, a protocol for clinical data exchange with Multilateral Agreement support. The blocks of the architecture are derived from a series of common attacks that can be done to the protocol. The fair exchange problem of the protocol is analyzed introducing the management messages that the agents must exchange in order to authorize or not the use of data. Due to Multilateral Agreements, loops can appear in the negotiation stage of the protocol. We describe the mechanisms to manage this loops, and we propose a solution to avoid that malicious agents can take advantage when there is a loop in the negotiation stage of the protocol.

  • Security Analysis of a Protocol Based on Multiagents Systems for Clinical Data Exchange
    2013 Seventh International Conference on Complex Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2013
    Co-Authors: Albert Brugués De La Torre, Magi Lluch-ariet, Josep Pegueroles-vallés
    Abstract:

    This work describes the security architecture of MOSAIC, a protocol for clinical data exchange with Multilateral Agreement support. The blocks of the architecture are derived from a series of common attacks that can be done to the protocol. The fair exchange problem of the protocol is analyzed introducing the management messages that the agents must exchange in order to authorize or not the use of data. Due to Multilateral Agreements, loops can appear in the negotiation stage of the protocol. We describe the mechanisms to manage this loops, and we propose a solution to avoid that malicious agents can take advantage when there is a loop in the negotiation stage of the protocol.

David Singh Grewal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • network power and global standardization the controversy over the Multilateral Agreement on investment
    Metaphilosophy, 2005
    Co-Authors: David Singh Grewal
    Abstract:

    : This essay examines the controversy over the attempt to establish rules governing global capital flows in the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), which became a target of “antiglobalization” activism. Making sense of the activists' concerns about the MAI requires understanding how the emergence of transnational standards in contemporary globalization constitutes an exercise in power. I develop the concept of “network power” to explain the way in which the rise of a single coordinating standard for global activity can be experienced as coercive, as it eclipses alternative standards and abrogates the genuinely free choice among different conventions. Using a network-power analysis, I reinterpret the controversy over the MAI as a concern about the processes by which neoliberal globalization is being brought about.

Gonzalo Espinoza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • transboundary cooperation in international basins clarification and experiences from the orontes river basin Agreement part 2
    Environmental Science & Policy, 2013
    Co-Authors: Georges F Comair, Daene C Mckinney, M J Scoullos, R H Flinker, Gonzalo Espinoza
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    Abstract This article analyzes the water security risks in the Orontes basin shared between Syria, Lebanon and Turkey. A complete description of the watershed's hydrography and hydrology is presented, and then, using a geographic database, an optimization method is used based on the nine factors of the UN Convention to allocate water equitably between the co-riparians. The optimization results show that Turkey and Lebanon could benefit from additional water if new negotiations are initiated. We conclude that the role of Geographic Information System (GIS) in transboundary basins is essential once a Multilateral Agreement occurs, whereby GIS will assist in data sharing and standardization to evaluate future policy alternatives.