Marine Protected Areas are central to conservation in oceans and seas and serve as protected areas for fish populations. The rapid growth of Marine Protected Areas has been guided by several leading countries in recent years. This research examines whether countries with low level of protection...

Past projections of wind-powered electricity by several organizations including Energy Information Administration have been too conservative in the past. We generate alternative projections for China, the U.S., India, Canada, Japan and South Korea and compare them against the projections made by...

Many countries in the world have been experiencing widely varying rates of change in their carbon intensity of economic output. Dynamic trend of carbon intensity in this research is measured by the progress ratio from experience curve involving 127 countries during the period of 1980 to 2011....

Sustainable Development Goals adopted by The United Nations seek to protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species by 2020. Several countries even in the 1990s began expanding species protection to reach the 2020 goal early. This research investigates whether countries with low level...

This paper is one of five case studies which is a part of a larger project looking at the various effects that trade and investment can have on innovation. This paper studies the effect of trade and investment liberalisation on Korea’s Information and communication technology (ICT) sector and...

This case study analyses the effect of trade and investment liberalisation on Korea’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector and finds that trade and investment have played a crucial role in innovation in this sector. In the initial stages of development, imported capital goods...

Countries through the world have experienced increased globalization over the last several decades facilitated by reduced cost of transportation and communication and more recently by more rapid deployment of information technologies. However, a globalization gap exists dividing those countries...