To achieve sustainable development, governments have increasingly turned to legislating new rights, restrictions and responsibilities over land. These laws are designed to control the community’s behaviour in relation to land. Examples include the creation of tradeable water rights and the reallocation of land to indigenous peoples. Whilst the new interests aim to improve land management, they ...

The issues raised by public health surveillance are typical of those involved in public health ethics. Surveillance calls, in particular, for the balancing of individual rights and collective interests, which are often in conflict. One of the issues most closely linked with public health surveillance is the collection and use of personal data for purposes of public concern. Numerous frameworks ...