The crisis of international markets following recent events such as terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East, high public debts, growing financial globalisation and integration have raised an interest in the analysis of country risk among industrialised countries as well as emerging nations....

One of the problems in epidemiologic studies and public governance is not whether next pandemics will happen, but when a new pandemic will emerge leading to heath emergency . The purpose of this study is to analyze main factors determining pandemic threats and how countries can design and...

Interesting problems for the studies of the Anthropocene are the analysis of effects of the predominant impact of human activities on ecosystems and population. This study considers the technological change as the human activity that generates a huge impact on ecosystems and also causes...