New Climate Change Data Place Policymakers in the Hot Seat

Evaluating Cypress Sustainability—FIA Data “In the Hot Seat”

The use of cypress (Taxodium species) for mulch boomed during the 1990s, and its growth in popularity created concerns about the sustainability of cypress forests in the Southern United States. A combination of factors, including Hurricane Katrina, cypress harvesting practices, and the unique requirements for successful regeneration of cypress drew media attention and fueled debates over sustai...

Pharma on the hot seat.

The pharmaceutical industry has been receiving greater scrutiny lately due in large part to the many public and private legal enforcement actions taken against pharmaceutical manufacturers. These enforcement actions, along with legal developments such as the OIG Compliance Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's statutory guidelines for public corporations, the HIPAA...

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE Summary for Policymakers to Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report of the IPCC Third Assessment Report

the place of iranian public diplomacy in central asia

چکیده: نسبت به کارکرد و ماهیت دیپلماسی عمومی در جهان امروز نظریه های متعددی بیان گردیده و جایگاه آن در کنار نظریه های دیگر در محافل آکادمیک و دانشگاهی بررسی و تحلیل گردیده است. نظر به اهمیت دیپلماسی عمومی و جایگاه آن در سیاست خارجی ایران این نوشتار با تمرکز بر دیپلماسی عمومی در منطقه آسیای مرکزی تهیه و تنظیم شده است. این ضرورت از آنجا ناشی می شود که اولاً مفهوم دیپلماسی عمومی در سیاست خارجی ای...

New climate change scenarios

whaling in the Southern Ocean is problematic. " The Japanese are still out catching fairly significant numbers of whales, and not just minkes, though that's what they're meant to be focusing on, " he commented. " If they stuck to their targets, and did their whaling as they say they do when they're at the IWC meetings, then I think they might have a little more support. They'd also need to do t...