Municipal governance and environmental crises: threats and thoughts

Environmental threats

crops for biofuel are becoming increasingly apparent. Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London recently estimated that it would require the entire production of biofuel crops from 20 hectares to replace the kerosene for just one transatlantic flight from London to New York. Just a few kilometres from Heathrow is Windsor Great Park, a 2,000 hectare former Norman ...

Environmental Crises: Past, Present and Future

Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are di¢ cult if not impossible to reverse. Examples would be major extinctions and signi…cant degradations of an ecosystem. I argue there are three preconditions for crisis: failures in governance, an ecological system exhibiting a tipping point, and an economy/environment interaction wi...

Demographic Responses to Economic and Environmental Crises

In this paper mortality crises in a rural area in southern Sweden are analysed by using a new approach. We start off with a combined life-event and time-series analysis approach in which the influences of food prices, agricultural production and air temperature on mortality by age, sex and socio-economic status is analyzed, much in line with our previous work. Special attention is given to year...

روسیه و دورنمای گاز در آسیای مرکزی و قفقاز فرصتهاو تهدیدهای ایران russia and outlook of gas in central asia and caucasus opprtunities and threats of iran

بر اساس قانون عرضه و تقاضا افزایش عرضه هر کالا به کاهش قیمت آن منجر میشود گاز طبیعی هم بعنوان یک کالای مهم و پر مصرف از این قاعده مستثنی نیست و فروش بی رویه گاز از طرف کشورهای دارنده آن در آسیای مرکزی و قفقاز میتواند منافع ملی ایران و روسیه را تحت الشعاع قرار دهد . این رساله فرصت ها و تهدید های ایران را در این زمینه مورد مطالعه قرار میدهد.

Trademarks and Private Environmental Governance