Green Blues
Tags: ENVIRONMENTAL protection; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; ENVIRONMENTALISM
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- Council takes on green problems. Harries-Rees, Karen // European Chemical News;3/22/2004, Vol. 80 Issue 2092, p23
Reports on the support of Sweden's Environmental Objectives Council to the adoption of Reach as a measure of solving the country's environmental problems. Environmental concern of Sweden; Other measures proposed by the council.
- ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN CHINA: PROBLEMS, POLICIES, AND GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS. Li, Xiaofan // International Social Science Review;2006, Vol. 81 Issue 1/2, p43
The article focuses on environmental concerns including, problems, policies and implications, in China. Various factors, including the conflict between economic development and environmental concerns, insufficient government regulation of China's environment, and lack of public awareness...
- Structure and policies. // Venezuela Country Profile;2009, p63
The article provides information on the structure and policies of Venezuela, relative to environmental regulations, actions, and its impact. It notes the regulatory authority Ministry of Environment which governs activities that concern on environmental protection within the country. It notes...
- Does the Environmental Kuznets Curve Describe How Individual Countries Behave? Deacon, Robert T.; Norman, Catherine S. // Land Economics;May2006, Vol. 82 Issue 2, p291
We examine within-country time series data on income and concentrations of SO2, smoke, and particulates to see if the shapes of pollution-income relationships in individual countries agree qualitatively with predictions of the environmental Kuznets curve. The shapes of these relationships are...
- education for survival. Bain, Helen Pate // Art Education;Oct70, Vol. 23 Issue 7, p14
The author offers her views regarding the issue of environmental pollution in the U.S. She believes that the fight against pollution must be addressed simultaneously by all elements of the society. According to her, every individual in the nation must be aware of the factors that contribute to...
- Mobilization potential for environmental protest. Kriesi, Hanspeter; Saris, Willem E.; Wille, Anchrit // European Sociological Review;Sep1993, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p155
Mobilization potential constitutes an important concept for the theory of political mobilization. Three types of mobilization potential and their interrelationships are studied for the domain of environmental policy in the Netherlands: the general protest potential introduced by the Political...
- Climate kerfuffle. // New Scientist;6/18/2005, Vol. 186 Issue 2504, p5
The article informs that a former senior administration official has accused the White House of subverting its Climate Change Science Program to serve political goals. Rick Piltz, who helped coordinate the $2 billion research effort, said programme assessments were being "misrepresented and...
- Raiders of the lost park. // New Internationalist;Jul2005, Issue 380, p8
Focuses on the increasing momentum behind the idea that nature is best protected by exposing it to the market. Effect of massive corporate lobbying efforts; Ability of companies to buy and sell "ecosystems services" while placing bulk orders for barrels of DDT online.
- Environmental Issues in a Federation: The Case of Malaysia. Saleem, Muhammad Yusuf // Intellectual Discourse;2005, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p201
From a constitutional perspective, the responsibilities over environmental issues cannot be precisely divided between federal and state governments. Environmental problems could only be dealt with successfully, as the Malaysian case exemplify, through a concurrent jurisdiction. The...
