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Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law and policy today. This is both because of the critical role that electricity plays in modern society, acting as economic lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in...
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As technologies change and the scale of human activity grows, so, too, does the law. The surge of oil and gas production in the United States, spurred by hydraulic fracturing in shale formations, has fomented a sea change in oil and gas law, substantially infusing this area with more complex...
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Randal O'Toole reviews Robert Bruegmann's SPRAWL.Richard Gordon reviews Jan Kalicki and David Goldwyn's ENERGY AND SECURITY.George Leef reviews Joseph Vranich's END OF THE LINE.Richard Gordon reviews James Griffin and Stephen Puller's ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION
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Douglas and Wildavsky argue that environmental activism is rooted in an egalitarian cultural bias. Others, like Paehlke, counter that environmental commitments and concerns are autonomous from redistributive concerns. Students of the "New Politics" agree that environmentalism is autonomous from...
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A central issue in the context of the environment is that of its sustainability. This presumes the development of an index that encapsulates both the current state of the environment as well as its potential to provide support for future human activity. Once the broad contours are accepted the...
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The study details geological analysis of the South China Sea region. South China Sea is a marginal sea located in unique geographical region of west Pacific Ocean. It has a complex tectonics history being developed at subduction zone of three tectonic plates: Eurasian, Pacific and Indian....
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In the past decade, coworking spaces have emerged as a new and promising phenomenon within entrepreneurship. Due to its prevalence, popularity, and potential for disruptive change, coworking is increasingly relevant to theory, practice, and policy in entrepreneurship, yet its implications are...
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This research analyses the supply chains of manufactured building materials used by the residential housing industry so as to assist the housing industry in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Understanding the structure of building-material supply chains is essential for policy development...
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Stakeholders who seek to reward or punish businesses for their environmental programs often cannot observe these organizations’ internal policies and operations. To address these informational problems, and signal their beyond-compliance environmental commitments, some businesses are...
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This paper examines a variety of approaches to the issue of Nile river Basin planning with a special reference to the model of The Permanent Joint Technical Commission of the Nile Waters between Sudan and Egypt (PJTC) and experiences from eleven Sub-Saharan African (SSA) River Basin...
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