Can Science and Religion Better Save Nature Together?

How Tourism Can Save Nature

This paper sets up a two-sector, two-period trade model of a developing country which is abundant in a non-renewable natural resource but scarce in industrial goods. It shows that lower future travel costs, rising demand for tourism and higher preferences for the environment slow down today’s optimal depletion of the natural resource that can be used for consumption or for exporting tourism ser...

Can better health statistics save lives?

One of the central themes of this year’s International AIDS Conference, held in Toronto, Canada in August, was a renewed call for universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS. For Dr Peter Ghys this was all the more reason to pursue one of his main assignments at UNAIDS — improving the quality of data that measure the epidemic. Faced with discrepancies in published statistics and demands from don...

Save Can

This article discusses the possibilities that a deeper engagement with the work of Gabriel Tarde opens for Actor-Network Theory (ANT). It argues that the combination of ANT’s methodological and analytical orientation and Tarde’s neo-monadology offers an appropriate framework for the study of new forms of political activism. Findings from an ethnographic research on the conflict surrounding the ...

Equity in forecasting climate: can science save the world’s poor?

For the past ten years, the role of seasonal climate forecasting (SCF) in decreasing the vulnerability of poor populations in many countries to climate variability and change has been discussed in the scholarly literature and policy circles. This paper reviews the literature on climate forecasting information and explores three main equity implications of SCF use. First, while investment in SCF...

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