Air Transport and its Socio-Economic Impacts

GM crops: The socio-economic impacts

World population has already exceeded 6.5 billion, out of which about 850 million (13 percent) are undernourished. With the current growth rate, the world community faces even a greater challenge of hunger and food security as the estimated the population will catch 9 billion by the year 2050 with doubled needs for food. At the same time, preservation of biodiversity, stopping deforestation and...

Assessing Socio-Economic Impacts of GMOs

Executive Summary This Report This report is motivated by the conclusions of EU Council of Environment Ministers of December 4, 2008, asking the European Commission to explore the possibility to consider other factors beyond health and environmental risks, i.e. " socioeconomic benefits and risks and agronomic sustainability " (all covered by the term socioeconomic in this report) in GMO market ...

Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts

Cruise tourism : economic , socio - cultural and environmental impacts

Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing sector of the travel industry in the last years. Arrivals in the Caribbean region increased from three million in 1980 to more than 25 million in 2007. In this paper we describe the evolution of the cruise industry and review the experiences of different cruise destinations. We als...

E-Adoption and Socio-Economic Impacts: Emerging Infrastructural Effects