principle of regional responsibility
1Responsibility to protect — (R2P) is a recently developed concept in international relations which relates to a state s responsibilities towards its population and to the international community s responsibility in case a state fails to fulfil its responsibilities. One… …
2Regional Broadband Consortium — Regional Broadband Consortia were created in 2000 under the auspices of what was then known as the Department for Education and Skills DfES National Grid for Learning (NGfL) programme. The NGfL title was subsequently dropped in favour of ICT in… …
3Responsibility for the Holocaust — Historians differ as to where the responsibility for the Holocaust lies. Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and that he personally oversaw its… …
4Regional Planning Association of America — The Regional Planning Association of America ( RPAA ), formed by Clarence Stein was an urban reform association developed in 1923. The association was a diverse group of people all with their own talents and skills. The goal of this group was to… …
5Precautionary principle — The precautionary principle is a moral and political principle which states that if an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not… …
6Polluter pays principle — Environmental law …
7Mid-West Regional Authority — The Mid West Regional Authority (Irish: Údarás Réigúinach an Mheán Iarthair) is one eight statutory Regional Authorities in Ireland. The region comprises about 10% of the national land area and population of the country. The Authority comprises… …
8education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
9Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
