Environment and Democracy
Freedom to choose is the basis for current democratic systems and here exists two uncertainties: 1) whose freedom? And 2) whose choice? If it were my freedom and my choice,...
Ecological Modernisation And The Challenge To Democracy
To environmentalists, the contemporary liberal democratic state still looks like an ecological failure. Green issues are rarely prioritised within national or global politics, as self interest still dominates - meaning...
Deliberative Democracy And Environmental Rationality
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...
Linkage Of Climate Change And Energy Security: Implications On India’s National Security
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...
On Earth Day 2017 I Ask What Will It Take to Not Have to Have an Earth Day 2100?
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...
The Mediterranean Climate Change Initiative: Realism or Idealism?
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...
Asymmetric Federalism and Decentralization May Be Best Solutions for Governance in Our 21st Century World
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...
The EU’s Quest in South Caucasus: Energy Security and Pro-Active Engagement
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...
Research Moves Closer to Carbon Capture Smokestack Solution
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...
What Happens When the Daily High Temperature Outside Exceeds 50 Celsius?
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....
Visit to Hiroshima Reminds Us That a Nuclear Winter is Never Too Far Away
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....
What Happens if Climate Change Impacts Food Production In Vulnerable Countries?
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...
The Front Line of Climate Change is Apparent in The Solomon Islands
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...
Post-COP21 Emission Reduction Pledges are Inadequate – Why?
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...
Will a 2 Celsius Warming Prove Dangerous? Ocean Circulation Models Say Yes
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...