Climate change and social issues have multiple two-way interactions, yet they are often addressed separately in public policy-making processes. We present here an analysis grid developed to facilitate the identification of climate hotspots a national budget. Building on Budget Tagging exercises, this tool aims help governments easily review their entire budget bring out budgetary measures that ...

Social networks and their applications have become extremely popular during the last years, mostly targeting users via the web. However, it has been recently observed an interest to offer social network services to mobile users. Telecom operators attempt to integrate existing social networks to their systems or develop new ones, in order to offer new services to their subscribers. Subsequently,...

From .. to .., the Dagstuhl Seminar 07431 Computational Issues in Social Choice was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and idea...

INTRODUCTION OR BACKGROUND The UK is at the forefront of mitochondrial science and is currently the only country in the world to legalize germ-line technologies involving mitochondrial donation. However, concerns have been raised about genetic modification and the 'slippery slope' to designer babies. SOURCES OF DATA This review uses academic articles, newspaper reports and public documents. ...