Regional policy from a supra-regional perspective

Perspective | Regional Security Policy in West Africa

Regional and Supra-Regional Coherence in Limnological Variables

Limnologists and water resources managers have traditionally perceived lakes as discrete geographical entities. This has resulted in a tendency for scientific lake studies to concentrate on lakes as individuals, with little connection either to each other or to large-scale driving forces. Since the 1990s, however, a shift in the prevailing paradigm has occurred, with lakes increasingly being se...

Euthanasia: a regional perspective

81 ANNALS EDITORIAL It is paradoxical to talk about euthanasia when we are hearing people dying all over the world without willing to die such as in Iraq, Ukraine, Egypt, Palestine and so on. Life is full of contradictions, perplexing complexities, and infinite possibilities. If you ask anyone if he or she wants to die most likely you will get an answer 'no'. On the other hand, we hear every da...

Examining Agriculture from a Regional Perspective: Implications for the Common Agricultural Policy

Regional convergence is one of the major goals of the European Union. In this paper, the intention is to augment the existing literature on regional convergence across the NUTS-2 regions of EU-27 in terms of agricultural labour productivity during the period 1995-2004. A low annual rate of absolute convergence is estimated for the NUTS-2 regions over the period 1995-2004. The rate of regional c...

Incident and Emergency Medical Services Management from a Regional Perspective

Traffic crashes and other emergencies have impacts on traffic operations in transportation networks, often resulting in non-recurring congestion. Congestion, in turn, may impede the ability of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to provide timely response to those in need of medical attention. The work in this paper investigated the impact of incidents of varying severity and duration on transport...