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Deliberative Democracy And Environmental Rationality

Admin214 August 2017

Introduction The hegemony in environmental theory, has for sometime been, that environmental sustainability is most likely to be achieved through democracy. More recently, with the rise to prominence of deliberative...

Energy & Environment

Linkage Of Climate Change And Energy Security: Implications On India’s National Security

Admin213 August 2017

In this paper, the author has made an attempt to analyse the growing severity of two closely linked issues of climate change and energy security and its possible repercussions on...

Energy & Environment

On Earth Day 2017 I Ask What Will It Take to Not Have to Have an Earth Day 2100?

CESRAN Int.24 April 201723 July 2017

Today we honour the Earth in a tradition that is now going on almost 50 years. The first Earth Day was instituted during the administration of President Richard Nixon as...

Energy & Environment

The Mediterranean Climate Change Initiative: Realism or Idealism?

CESRAN Int.20 January 201723 January 2017

Regional strategic cooperation has the exceptional advantage of bringing together states and policy makers that share common concerns, ponder upon same risks and challenges, and aim at bridging differences in...

Energy & Environment Governance

Asymmetric Federalism and Decentralization May Be Best Solutions for Governance in Our 21st Century World

CESRAN Int.10 January 201710 January 2017

A survey of the geopolitics of our 21st century world demonstrates many cracks in the foundations of current government and policy. The late 20th century was all about globalization and...

Energy & Environment Europe

The EU’s Quest in South Caucasus: Energy Security and Pro-Active Engagement

CESRAN Int.8 November 201617 November 2016

The EU is implementing all the possible projects in order to lessen Russian gas dominance in the European market and in this regard one of those big projects is the...

Energy & Environment

Research Moves Closer to Carbon Capture Smokestack Solution

CESRAN Int.2 October 20162 October 2016

Carbon capture is the one back-end technology we have to make it possible to use fossil fuels to produce energy far into the future. You would think, therefore, that the...

Energy & Environment

What Happens When the Daily High Temperature Outside Exceeds 50 Celsius?

CESRAN Int.20 August 201620 August 2016

For those who only read temperatures in Fahrenheit, that’s 122 degrees. And that’s nothing when you compare it to some of the temperature readings this summer in the Middle East....

Energy & Environment

Visit to Hiroshima Reminds Us That a Nuclear Winter is Never Too Far Away

CESRAN Int.5 June 20165 June 2016

The visit by President Obama to Hiroshima a little over a week ago made me think about the legacy we still live with because of the invention of nuclear weapons....

Energy & Environment

What Happens if Climate Change Impacts Food Production In Vulnerable Countries?

CESRAN Int.21 May 2016

To adapt to temperature rises of 2 Celsius we will have to change the way we produce food. That has economic consequences. The most likely one we are already seeing...

Energy & Environment

The Front Line of Climate Change is Apparent in The Solomon Islands

CESRAN Int.14 May 201614 May 2016

In a newly released paper appearing in Environmental Research Letters, researchers from The University of Queensland, University of Wollongong, University of the Sunshine Coast and CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere in...

Energy & Environment

Post-COP21 Emission Reduction Pledges are Inadequate – Why?

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

For ten millennia preceding the Industrial Revolution the Earth has had a healthy carbon balance. Forests, soil and other vegetation roughly balanced the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the...

CESRAN Blog Energy & Environment

Will a 2 Celsius Warming Prove Dangerous? Ocean Circulation Models Say Yes

CESRAN Int.27 March 201627 March 2016

Studying climate is not something we invented in the 20th and 21st century. Humans have been observing environmental change associated with climate since the early 19th century when scientists first...

CESRAN Blog Energy & Environment

If We Are not Going to Burn Coal is There Another Reason to Mine It?

CESRAN Int.21 February 2016

According to a team of researchers from Penn State University, there are rare-earth elements to be found in coal seams. This has been known for awhile but extracting them was...

CESRAN Blog Energy & Environment Interviews Turkey and Neighbourhood

Interview with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Iseri on Energy Security

CESRAN Int.9 July 201521 January 2016

Considering Turkey's 2023 vision and energy policy objectives, what are the potential challenges that Turkey faces? Do you think that Turkey is pursuing a sustainable energy policy? As a country...