Western Australia's Domestic Gas Reservation Policy: The Elemental Economics

The Economics of Population Policy

Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relatively optimistic projections suggest that family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the coming decades. Since both activit...

Comparative Domestic Policy Program

Western bioethics on the Navajo reservation. Benefit or harm?

OBJECTIVE To understand the Navajo perspective regarding the discussion of negative information and to consider the limitations of dominant Western bioethical perspectives. DESIGN Focused ethnography. SETTING Navajo Indian reservation in northeast Arizona. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-four Navajo informants, including patients, biomedical health care providers, and traditional healers. RESULTS I...

Energy Economics and Policy

Copyright © 2013 Zhan-Ming Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are emerging concerns worldwide on management of energy resources and its development, such as control of the environmental impact of ene...

Agroforestry Economics and Policy

Essentially every living thing on Earth has applied the basic concepts of economics. That is, every living thing has had to use a limited set of resources to meet a minimum set of needs or wants. Although the study of economics is often confused with the study of markets or finance, economics is simply a social science that studies the choices people make. As a social science, economics is the ...