Connecting Environmental Law and Corporate Transactions to Each Other: Transaction Triggered Environmental Acts

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-450
Author(s):  
Rik Mellenbergh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Corporate Mergers ◽  
Corporate Mergers And Acquisitions

AbstractEnvironmental issues, such as site contamination and compliance with environmental permits and rules, are often of importance with respect to corporate mergers and acquisitions or transfers of sites. This paper focuses on specific environmental acts applicable in some states in the United States and in the region of Flanders (Belgium), the so called transaction (or transfer) triggered environmental acts. These acts are applicable—'triggered'—if a transaction or transfer as defined in the transaction triggered environmental act occurs. The applicability of these acts is thus linked to a transaction or transfer as defined in the transaction triggered environmental act. In this paper these transaction triggered environmental acts will be analyzed, and both possible positive and negative effects linked to the introduction of such an act will be discussed with respect to the transaction triggered environmental acts currently applicable in certain states in the United States and in the region of Flanders (Belgium).

Environmental Laws

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Hill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Environmental Disputes

What is environmental law in the United States? In the United States environmental law consists of laws enacted by Congress and by state legislatures to address environmental issues, and the written legal decisions of judges resolving environmental disputes arising from these laws. Both are now...

Effectiveness of Programs for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaia Del Campo ◽  
Marisalva Fávero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse Prevention ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Abstract. During the last decades, several studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of sexual abuse prevention programs implemented in different countries. In this article, we present a review of 70 studies (1981–2017) evaluating prevention programs, conducted mostly in the United States and Canada, although with a considerable presence also in other countries, such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The results of these studies, in general, are very promising and encourage us to continue this type of intervention, almost unanimously confirming its effectiveness. Prevention programs encourage children and adolescents to report the abuse experienced and they may help to reduce the trauma of sexual abuse if there are victims among the participants. We also found that some evaluations have not considered the possible negative effects of this type of programs in the event that they are applied inappropriately. Finally, we present some methodological considerations as critical analysis to this type of evaluations.

Advanced Introduction to U.S. Environmental Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Donald Elliot ◽  
Daniel C. Esty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Law ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Administrative Agencies ◽  
The Creation

Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and developing state of environmental governance in the United States, this Advanced Introduction lays out the foundations of U.S. environmental law. E. Donald Elliott and Daniel C. Esty explore how federal environmental law is made and how it interacts with state law, highlighting the important role that administrative agencies play in the creation, implementation, and enforcement of U.S. environmental law.

Hard Time

Affilia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel C. Casey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Criminal Justice Reform ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Personal Accounts

As the number of women incarcerated in the United States continues to rise and their complex needs become more apparent, social workers must fortify their historical commitment to criminal justice reform. However, crafting more effective and compassionate responses to the needs of justice-involved women may very well require a more nuanced understanding of the holistic impact of incarceration on women’s well-being than the current literature offers. Utilizing the framework of feminist standpoint epistemology, the researcher engaged in qualitative content analysis to examine published personal accounts from 43 women to better understand their experiences in prisons and jails in the United States. Two overarching themes emerged from the analysis. First, the personal accounts illustrated that women experience prisons and jails as environments of denial insofar as these carceral environments deny women’s basic needs, their sense of humanity, and their personal power. The second overarching theme pertains to the holistic impact of the carceral environment upon women’s lives, meaning it has expansive effects on women’s biopsychosocial–spiritual functioning. Social workers should dedicate efforts to dramatically reducing the number of women behind bars and engaging in holistic intervention approaches that might counteract the negative effects of incarceration across domains of well-being.

scholarly journals Implementation of U.S. Immigration Policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Burçak Gündal ◽  
Sıddıka Öztekin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Immigrant Policies

Immigration and refugees are sets of global flows of people who are seeking information, technology, economic stability, and military, political, and social asylum. Immigrants and refugees, which is one of the categories of migrants, represent only one of many global exchanges in an increasingly independent world. As the number of immigrants increases, the national, demographic, and socio-economic composition of the foreign residents in a host country are impacted by the immigration and immigrant policies of the receiving country. Immigration is inseparably part of the American national identity and always will be, and the United States would not continue to grow without immigration. In setting immigration policy in the United States, policymakers must be sensitive to both the U.S. vulnerabilities and the effects of American policies on the countries of origin. Since the post 9/11 period in the United States, immigration, immigration policy and implementation have been debated issues. Especially after Donald Trump was elected, the debate about migrants and immigration issues has increased even more. The purpose of this study is to show the development of immigration in American history, the positive and negative effects of immigrants on American economy and social life, and the question of the effects of social inclusion policies on the immigrant problem.

scholarly journals Individual-Level Determinants of Employee Shirking

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy A. Judge ◽  
Timothy D. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Organization Level

Employee shirking, where workers give less than full effort on the job, has typically been investigated as a construct subject to organization-level influences. Neglected are individual differences that could explain why employees in the same organization or work-group might shirk. Using a sample of workers from the health care profession in the United States, the present study sought to address these limitations by investigating subjective well-being (a dispositional construct), job satisfaction, as well as other indiuidual-level determinants of shirking. Results indicate that whites shirk significantly more than nonwhites, and that subjective well-being, job satisfaction, and age have significant, negative effects on shirking. The implications of these results are discussed.

Parental Incarceration’s Effect on Family: Effects on Mothers, Fathers, Marriage, Children, and Socioeconomic Status

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Hardy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Effects ◽  
Child Relationship

The objective of this paper is to provide a qualitative analysis of the effects incarceration has on family members. Incarceration affects a very large number of families in the United States and Canada, especially since the mass incarceration between the 1970s and 2000s that occurred in the United States. Incarceration was found to have both negative effects on incarcerated mothers and fathers, and it was found to increase the risk of divorce. Children were also affected by parental incarceration by raising their risks of developing mental illness, engaging in delinquent behaviour, having negative social experiences and damaging their parent-child relationship. Moreover, parental incarceration had little to no effect on a child’s academic performance and it displayed the child’s resiliency. Lastly, incarceration had negative effects on a family’s socioeconomic status and it increased the risk of second-generation offenders.

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