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A second definition comes from Sean Wilken and Theresa Villiers: [22]: para. 9.02 [verification needed] An estoppel by representation [of fact] will arise between A and B if the following elements are made out. First, A makes a false representation of fact to B or to a group of which B was a member.
For example, "green water" use is evapotranspirational use of soil water that has been provided directly by precipitation; and "green water" has been estimated to account for 94% of global beef cattle production's "water footprint", [90] and on rangeland, as much as 99.5% of the water use associated with beef production is "green water".
The level of pollution may depend on the context. For example, e-mail is likely to cause more information pollution in a corporate setting, [11] whereas mobile phones are likely to be particularly disruptive in a confined space shared by multiple people, such as a train carriage.
Why are there so many Bradford pear trees? The Callery pear’s biggest offense might be its apparent desire to take over the entire planet with its ever-increasing populations of seedlings.
Examples of commons-based peer production are Wikipedia, free and open source software and open-source hardware. [ 203 ] The tragedy of the commons has served as a pretext for powerful private companies and/or governments to introduce regulatory agents or outsourcing on less powerful entities or governments, for the exploitation of their ...
An erosion gully in Australia caused by rabbits, an unintended consequence of their introduction as game animals. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.