The costs of saving nature: Does it make “cents”?

The costs of saving nature: Does it make “cents”?

Clearing wild forests to grow food, fibre, and fuel products can deliver large financial gains. However, the benefits that people obtain from forests-known as ecosystem services-are rarely considered in economic calculations, partly because there are few markets onto which they can be traded. In some regions, the benefits delivered by nature might be more economically valuable. A new study maps...

Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature”

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Does the Polysemic Nature of Energy Security Make it a 'Wicked' Problem?

Governments around the world are expending considerable time and resources framing strategies and policies to deliver energy security. The term ‘energy security’ has quietly slipped into the energy lexicon without any meaningful discourse about its meaning or assumptions. An examination of explicit and inferred definitions finds that the concept is inherently slippery because it is polysemic in...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?

One-Phase Commit: Does it make Sense?

1 Although widely used in distributed transactional systems, the so-called Two-Phase Commit (2PC) protocol introduces a substantial delay in transaction processing, even in the absence of failures. This has led several researchers to look for alternative commit protocols that minimize the time cost associated with coordination messages and forced log writes in 2PC. In particular, variations of ...