© Robert Glenn Ketchum
- • Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development
Without the appropriate engagement and planning, the implementation of smart growth strategies in low-income and minority communities can displace existing residents due to rising rents and other costs of living. This unintended consequence has caused some environmental justice and equity proponents to question smart growth’s inclusivity, and has contributed to a divide between smart growth and environmental justice. However, some communities have worked hard to bridge that divide, and have found that a wide range of tools and strategies can be used to engage community members in neighborhood planning and visioning, provide affordable homes and transportation choices, support local businesses, and minimize displacement in other ways. Many of them are described in this publication. – February 2013 (pdf 3.55MB)
- • Milking Nature’s Bottom Line
An “industrial mega-dairy” (named Tradition Investments, LLC or Tradition Family Dairy, LLC) is attempting to site itself in the rolling hills of Jo Daviess County, a picturesque region of northwest Illinois, U.S., with a unique geology, geography, and ecology. The region retains a strong small-family-farming traditional rural identity. The project has been the subject of much controversy, with numerous objections having been raised on ecological and socioeconomic grounds. Like many business and public-policy decisions that are not explicitly being made with a sustainable ‘triple bottom line’ focus, the community’s economic cost-benefit conversation has focused primarily on the economic benefits the facility could bring to the region. – 2013 (pdf 1.49MB)
- • Working Papers on Arctic Security
The Working Papers on Arctic Security series is a joint project between the Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program and the ArcticNet project on The Emerging Arctic Security Environment. The papers fall into three categories. The first includes theoretically-and empirically-driven academic papers on subjects related to Arctic security broadly conceptualized. The second focuses on the impacts of defence and security practices on Arctic peoples, with a particular emphasis on the Canadian North during and after the Cold War. The third category of papers summarizes key Canadian and international policy documents related to Arctic security and sovereignty issues.
- • Gas Patch Roulette: How Shale Gas Development Risks Public Health in Pennsylvania
The shale gas (and oil) boom enabled by horizontal hydraulic fracturing has been accompanied by increasing reports of health problems attributed to pollution from oil and gas development. The relationship between expanding development and health problems is hotly dispute—and is the focus of this research project. Download the summary (pdf 3.80MB) – October 2012 (pdf 9.61MB)
- • A Change of Plans: Rethinking Rapid Growth in a Finite World
Population growth was once a key indicator of economic prosperity. Many economists continue to hold this view even though evidence clearly demonstrates that in recent decades, population growth has been associated with lower per capita incomes and higher rates of unemployment and poverty. What may have proven true in the past is no longer valid. This paper shows that in the U.S., there is an inverse correlation between a rising population and measures of local economic vitality... – May 2012 (pdf 1.17MB)
- • How to Manage Your Company’s Reputation Through a Crisis and Come Out on Top
On March 18, 2006, The Wall Street Journal unleashed a tsunami, reporting that several firms had falsified the dates they had awarded stock options to employees. This “stock options backdating scandal” ultimately cost Apple and the other firms involved an average of 3.6 percent of their share price. But some firms suffered steeper losses than others. One reason why some firms fared better might be their reputations. But how does a reputation for social responsibility reduce the negative stock market impact of a scandal? – April 2012 (pdf 202KB)
- • Bridging the Research—Practice Gap
Management research often bears little resemblance to management practice. Although this researchâpractice gap is widely recognized and frequently lamented, there is little discussion about how it can be bridged. We partly remedy this problem in this paper by describing our experiences with the Network for Business Sustainability. Our experiences showed that the paradoxes underlying the relationship between research and practice make bridging this gap difficult. We argue that the reason why the researchâpractice gap endures is that bridging it is beyond the capabilities and scope of most individuals, and we call for the creation of intermediary organizations like the Network for Business Sustainability. We close by outlining some of the activities that can be undertaken by these boundary-spanning intermediary organizations, with the hopes of better aligning management research and practice. – February 2012 (pdf 714KB)
- • A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: Can We Live Within the Donut?
This Discussion Paper sets out a visual framework for sustainable development – shaped like a doughnut – by combining the concept of planetary boundaries with the complementary concept of social boundaries. Achieving sustainable development means ensuring that all people have the resources needed – such as food, water, health care, and energy – to fulfil their human rights... – February 2012 (pdf 1.18MB)
- • United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
...Prompted by the desire to settle, in a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation, all issues relating to the law of the sea and aware of the historic significance of this Convention as an important contribution to the maintenance of peace, justice and progress for all peoples of the world,
Noting that developments since the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea held at Geneva in 1958 and 1960 have accentuated the need for a new and generally acceptable Convention on the law of the sea... (pdf 957KB)
- • The Lighthouses Act of 1789
The Lighthouses Act of 1789, one of several laws that the First Congress passed to regulate and encourage the trade and commerce of the new nation, extended federal control and funding to lighthouses that states had previously administered. Although the Senate records of the First Congress are substantially complete, until recently they included no record of the Lighthouseses Act, other than the Senate legislative journal. In the spring of 1991, however, the Senate... (pdf 2.94MB)
- • Smart Meter Data: Privacy and Cybersecurity
Fueled by stimulus funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), electric utilities have accelerated their deployment of smart meters to millions of homes across the United States with help from the Department of Energy’s Smart Grid Investment Grant program. As the meters multiply, so do issues concerning the privacy and security of the data collected by the new technology. This Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) promises to increase energy efficiency, bolster electric power grid reliability, and facilitate demand response, among other benefits. However, to fulfill these ends, smart meters must record near-real time data on consumer electricity usage and transmit the data to utilities over great distances via communications networks that serve the smart grid. Detailed electricity usage data offers a window into the lives of people inside... – February 3, 2012 (pdf 215KB)
- • Comments on the Draft Report by the California Council on Science and Technology, “Health Impacts of Radio Frequency from Smart Meters”
The draft report by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) does not appear to answer the questions asked of it by the requesting elected officials. Furthermore, rather than being an independent, science-based study, the CCST largely cuts and pastes estimates from a brochure by the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry group, issued some weeks earlier. The EPRI estimates appear incorrect in a number of... – January 31, 2012 (pdf 985KB)
- • Generational Differences in Young Adults’ Life Goals, Concern for Others and Civic Orientation, 1966-2009
“People born between 1982 and 2000 are the most civic-minded since the generation of the 1930s and 1940s,” say Morley Winograd and Michael Hais, co-authors of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, You-Tube, and the Future of American Politics. . . . – Jan. 23, 2012 (pdf 273KB)
- • American Academy of Environmental Medicine Urges Moratorium on “Smart Meters”
The Board of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine opposes the installation of wireless “smart meters” in homes and schools based on a scientific assessment of the current medical literature (references available upon request). Chronic exposure to wireless radiofrequency radiation is a preventable environmental hazard that is sufficiently well-documented to warrant immediate preventive public health... – January 19, 2012 (pdf 152KB)
- • Santa Cruz Public Health Official Smart Meter Report
On December 13,2011, your Board directed this office to return today with a report on issues associated with the current SmartMeter moratorium ordinance, and information on the possible extension of the moratorium for an additional year. Your Board also directed the Public Health Offcer to return with an analysis of the research on the health effects of SmartMeters, and directed County Counsel to return with a report regarding the legality of a public utility refusing service to customers who are willing to pay for service and are willing to have an analog meter. – January 18, 2012 (pdf 4.09MB)
- • Innovating for Sustainability: A Guide for Executives
This report answers the question: “What innovation activities do firms engage in to become sustainable?” Based on 127 leading academic and industry sources from 1992 to 2012, this guide: (1) Presents a sustainability roadmap for business leaders, including a 3-stage framework for assessing which stage(s) of the sustainability continuum your organization currently occupies. (2) Provides 38 practices for fostering innovation across each stage. (3) Highlights “how-to” case studies from leading organizations, large and small, that are actively finding new ways to serve people, profits and planet. – 2012 (pdf 4.1MB)
- • Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People
This report focuses on the role that coal-fired power plants have in the inequitable health outcomes of low income communities and communities of color in the U.S. and in the contribution of greenhouse gasses that drive climate change, the consequences of which also disproportionately impact people of color and low income communities globally. Coal plants have differing effects on low-income communities and communities of color – some are measurably worse than others. This report provides an empirical discussion of the effects of burning coal in power plants. Researchers focus on the coal plants in the U.S. with the worst records on environmental justice, and on the companies that own them. – 2012 (pdf 5.5MB)
- • Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future
Hunger and starvation in sub-Saharan Africa have lasted too long. But Africans are not consigned to a lifetime of food insecurity. The knowledge, technology and resources for closing the food security deficit are available today, and breakthroughs will continue to emerge from research and development. (Read the Summary, pdf 1.88MB.) – 2012 (pdf 7.96MB)
- • Water, the Major Environmental Factor Affecting Roads and Earthworks
Potential Sources and Mechanisms of Water Flow Through Convetionally Designed Road Structures – 2012 (pdf 264KB)
- • Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population
This report focuses on the size and geographic distribution of the world’s Christian population as of 2010. It is, in that sense, a snapshot in time. But because the true picture is not static, the Executive Summary also presents some comparisons with the world’s Christian population a century earlier. This is far enough back in time to allow us to see substantial change, yet not so far back that the population figures become hopelessly murky. – December 2011 (pdf 12MB)
- • State of Sustainable Business Poll 2011
The most important leadership challenge facing business today is integration of sustainability into core business functions. Almost two thirds of respondents selected this as the most significant challenge, followed by convincing investors that sustainability enhances value, and planning for the long term (both mentioned by 30 percent). – Nov. 2, 2011 (pdf 2.71MB)
- • The Green Evolution
In 2009, we undertook a study to understand how the green consumer product market was growing, including evaluating the different types of green consumers and the key attributes they associated with green products. Since then, the market has clearly evolved. There are now more green products entering the market, increasing competition and consumers sophistication on the topic. – November 2011 (pdf 1.29MB)
- • Vulnerability and Livelihoods before and after the Haiti Earthquake
This paper examines the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability in Haiti using various data sets. As living conditions survey data are not comparable in this country, we first propose to use the three rounds of the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) available before the earthquake. Decomposing household assets changes into age and cohort effects, we use repeated cross-section data to identify and estimate the variance of shocks on assets and to simulate the probability of being poor in the future... – October 2011 (pdf 2.31MB)
- • The Military-Civilian Gap: War and Sacrifice in the Post-9/11 Era
The report is based on two surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center: one of the nation’s military veterans and one of the general public. A total of 1,853 veterans were surveyed, including 712 who served in the military after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The general public survey was conducted among 2,003 adult respondents. – October 2011 (pdf 2.25MB)
- • IARC Classifies Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans
The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, associated with wireless phone use. – May 31, 2011 (pdf 248KB)
- • The Transatlantic Cocaine Market
Transnational cocaine trafficking has been affecting the Americas for the last 40 years. Although the value of the global market has declined greatly since the mid-1980s, the flow of cocaine in that region continues to have an impact on public health and to generate large revenues that fuel violence and corruption in many countries... – April 2011 (pdf 1.77MB)
- • Restructuring USAID: A Case Study on Haiti
The current model of foreign aid for disaster relief employed by USAID needs to be redeveloped. Following Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake in January 2010, USAID was highly influential in providing immediate relief. As time progressed, USAID shifted to providing for long term reconstruction and redevelopment. However, USAID policy in Haiti focuses on consequences and not their root causes. Shifting USAID’s focus to addressing the causes would allow problems to be resolved in the long-term and would facilitate Haitian development. In addition to restructuring USAID’s programs, US foreign policy itself must buttress USAID goals if USAID measures are to be effective... – Spring 2011 (pdf 183KB)
- • Jepsen Urges State Regulations to Reject CL&P’S Plan to Replace Electric Meters
Connecticut Light & Power Co.’s plan to replace existing electric meters with advanced technology would be very expensive and would not save enough electricity for its 1.2 million customers to justify the expense, Attorney General George Jepsen said... – February 8, 2011 (pdf 23.1KB)
- • New Jobs – Cleaner Air: Employment Effects Under Planned Changes to the EPA’s Air Pollution Rules
The CAA and its 1990 amendments have significantly reduced power sector air pollution. In 2011, EPA plans to implement regulations that will further reduce targeted emissions. Last July, the EPA proposed the Transport Rule to introduce new standards governing SO2 and NOx emissions from 31 states and the District of Columbia, emissions that hinder the ability of downwind states to comply with national ambient air quality standards... – February 2011 (pdf 616KB)
- • The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for
2010-2030
A little more than a year ago, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life published Mapping the Global Muslim Population, which estimated that there were 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages around the world in 2009. Now, with this report on The Future of the Global Muslim Population, we are taking the next step: using standard demographic methods to project – despite many uncertainties – how many Muslims there are likely to be in each of the world’s 232 countries and territories by 2030. – January 2011 (pdf 11.2MB)
- • Arfica Partnership Station: Improving Maritime Security through Collaborative Partnerships
An article from Naval Forces Magazine by Rear Admiral Gerard P. Hueber and Captian (N) Susan L. Dunlop, US Navy. – January 2011 (pdf 2.58MB)
- • The EMC SQUARED System from Soil Stabilization Products Company, Inc.
Soil Stabilization Products Company, Inc. (SSPCo) has a long relationship with the federal agencies (View USACE projects.) that have expansive road construction and road maintenance responsibilities. With individual agencies managing road networks that can include several hundred thousand miles of paved and unpaved roads, there are widespread opportunities with the availability of advanced stabilization product technology and highly experienced technical support services to build better roads, reduce construction costs and reduce environmental impacts. SSPCo’s EMC SQUARED System stabilization products (View comparison charts.) have been in service on federal agency projects for more than 20 years and SSPCo has been involved in hundreds of stabilization projects across the country and internationally, including arctic, desert and tropical rainforest locations... – 2011 (pdf 2.57MB)
- • Interstate 40 Freeway, 11 Year Update
The section of the Interstate 40 freeway just east of Grants, New Mexico, identified as Milepost 93 to 97 (MP 93-97), has in past years been a nightmare for the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT). Grants is at an elevation of approximately 6,500 feet, close to where Interstate 40 crosses the Continental Divide at the southern end of the Rocky Mountains. This section of freeway is impacted by a high frequency of heavy truck traffic and severe cold climate conditions in winter. Groundwater problems are extreme under the freeway alignment. The silty clay subgrade soils were regularly found to be in a highly saturated state when excavated during full depth repair and reconstruction efforts. This section of freeway prior to year 2000 had required full depth removal and replacement of the entire pavement structural section on a three to five year cycle... – 2011 (pdf 1.21MB)
- • Texas Highway Projects, 11 Year Update
Beginning in 1996, the EMC SQUARED® System was evaluated in a two year laboratory study at the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), which was funded by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Dallas District. The principal author of the study was Dr. Robert Lytton, Research Engineer for TTI, Director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering at Texas A&M University, and more recently the Distinguished Lecturer for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. The study focused on identifying effective treatment for sulfate bearing expansive clay soils. Soils used in the laboratory testing were sampled from problem locations... – 2011 (pdf 2.43MB)
- • Water Works, Rebuilding Infrastructure – Creating Jobs – Greening the Environment
This report estimates the economic and job creation impact of a major investment in water infrastructure in the United States. This number - $188.4 billion – is based on the level of investment necessary, as estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency, to manage stormwater and preserve water quality across the country... – 2011 (pdf 16.6MB)
- • The Potential Impact of Mobile Phone Use on Trends in Brain and CNS Tumors
All case-control studies which covered 10 years of use have reported an increased risk of brain tumors from the use of mobile phones. Mobile phone radiation exposure limits are based on thermal heating of the body and the brain. Many research studies have identified biological effects far below the thermally based exposure limits, such as increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier in the head, deleterious effects on sperm, double strand breaks in DNA, and stress gene activation indicating an exposure to a toxin... – 2011 (pdf 0.99MB)
- • Human Development Report 2011
This Report explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in generations to come. The point of departure is that the remarkable progress in human development over recent decades that the Human Development Report has documented cannot continue without bold global steps to reduce environmental risks and inequality. We identify pathways for people, communities, countries and the international community to promote environmental sustainability and equity in mutually reinforcing ways... – 2011 (pdf 5.6MB)
- • DOE Report on the First Quadrennial Technology Review
Access to clean, affordable, secure, and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of America’s economic growth. The Nation’s systems that produce, store, transmit, and use energy are falling short of U.S. needs. Maintaining energy security, bolstering U.S. competitiveness, and mitigating the environmental impacts of energy are long-standing challenges. Governments, consumers, and the private sector have worked for decades to address these challenges, yet they remain among the Nation’s most pressing issues... – 2011 (pdf 10.7MB)
- • Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2011
Humanitarian aid is being stretched. Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa are living with conflict and its legacy; natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan have the power to disrupt and sometimes even paralyse economic and social infrastructure; recovery and reconstruction remain uneven following large-scale conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan; and political turmoil is escalating... – 2011 (pdf 5.63MB)
- • Policy Options and Actions for Expediting Progress in Implementation: Mining
A number of significant changes have taken place in the mining sector since the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. Progress has been achieved on transparency and governance of the sector. Many companies have embraced progressive voluntary guidelines and principles as a framework for their operations, while pursing resource efficiency improvements. However, significant gaps remain. Many countries could enhance the contribution of their mineral wealth to their national economies... – December 2010 (pdf 84.5KB)
- • Different Race, Different Recession: American Indian Unemployment in 2010
There are two very different experiences of the recession in some regions of the country. While Alaska and the Northern Plains states have had some of the lowest unemployment rates for whites since the start of the recession, these regions have had among the highest rates of joblessness for American Indians... – November 18, 2010 (pdf 122KB)
- • The Haitian Economy and the HOPE Act
Haiti’s economic, political, and social development has been on a slow track since the transition from dictatorship to democracy began in the mid-1980s. The devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, was a major setback to what little progress had already been made. Haiti struggled with providing basic needs even prior to the catastrophe, but currently is without the physical, political, and economic infrastructure to provide adequately for its citizens. As the massive humanitarian relief effort continues, planning for Haitiâs economic reconstruction and development is also underway... – June 24, 2010 (pdf 385KB)
- • A New Era of Sustainability
The sustainability landscape is changing CEOs around the world are starting to see the shape of a new era of sustainability coming into view. In the face of rising global competition, technological change and the most serious economic downturn in nearly a century, corporate commitment to the principles of sustainability remains strong throughout the world: 93 percent of CEOs see sustainability as important to their company’s future success... – June 2010 (pdf 2.78MB)
- • West Africa Regional Fisheries Project: Estimation of the Cost of Illegal Fishing in West Africa
This study was conducted as part of the preparation for the World Bank’s West Africa Regional Fisheries Project. It had as its primary aim a focused case study on the economic impacts of illegal fishing activities in CSRP member states: Cape Verde, the Gambia and Guinea, plus the key study countries Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone... – May 2010 (pdf 1.91MB)
- • Embedding Sustainability in Organizational Culture: A How-to Guide for Executives
A 2010 Accenture global survey of more than 700 CEOs found that 93 percent see sustainability as important to their company’s future success. However, many business leaders struggle to build sustainability into their day-to-day operations. And, sustainability programs are often dependent on a key leader. Executives and senior managers want to know how to ‘sustain’ sustainability over the long term. To make sustainability an everyday, enduring part of the organization, it needs to become embedded in organizational culture. – 2010 (pdf 1.1MB)
- • Active for more comfort: The Passive House
Information for propert developers, contractors and clients. A Passive House combines high-level comfort with very low energy consumption. Passive components like thermal windows, insulation and heat recovery are the key elements. Each Passive House is an active contribution to climate protection. On the outside, Passive Houses are no different from conventional buildings, because the term “Passive House” describes a standard and not a specific contruction method. – 2010 (pdf 7.17MB)
- • World Jewish Population, 2010
At the beginning of 2010, the world’s Jewish population was estimated at 13,428,300—an increase of 80,300 (0.6 percent) over the 2009 revised estimate. The world’s total population increased by 1.25 percent in 2009. World Jewry hence increased at half the general population growth rate. – 2010 (pdf 3.26MB)
- • Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance Annual Report 2009
Fiscal Year 2009 was an exciting year for OFDA. In the face of challenges, OFDA staff worked tirelessly and responded vigorously to sudden-onset natural disasters and continuing complex emergencies... – 2010 (pdf 15.4MB)
- • Promoting Development, Saving the Planet
The central message of the World Economic and Social Survey 2009 is that addressing the climate challenge cannot be met through ad hoc and incremental actions. In the first place, it requires much stronger eff orts by advanced countries to cut their emissions. – June 2009 (pdf 1.78MB)
- • The Crisis of the 2020s
Demographics and Geopolitics in the 21st Century – April 29, 2009 (pdf 70KB)
- • Sustainability: The Rise of Consumer Responsibility
As the forecast for the economy remains gray, this new report sheds light on how consumers find the silver lining by living responsibly. – January 2009 (pdf 987KB)
- • Blood Oil in the Niger Delta
The recent resumption of attacks against the oil industry in the Niger Delta and the resultant increase in oil prices have reminded the world that the unrest there is not a problem for Nigeria alone. Indeed, the business of bunkering illegal oil, or blood oil, involves players far beyond the shores of Nigeria and will require an international effort to control it. Additionally, the broader issues of underdevelopment and overmilitarization of the Niger Delta, as well as the region’s lack of participation in the oil and gas industry, must be addressed before any lasting peace can be found... – 2009 (pdf 633KB)
- • Community Sustainability throughout Wisconsin
Mead & Hunt conducted a survey of town, village, and city representatives throughout Wisconsin during the months of September and October 2008. The goal of the study is to provide municipal professionals with an enhanced understanding of sustainable practices taking place throughout Wisconsin and to inform communities about current and future trends related to sustainability. The results depicted in this document are based on the 55 responses that were received. – 2009 (pdf 6.66MB)
- • Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World
We prepared Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World to stimulate strategic thinking about the future by identifying key trends, the factors that drive them, where they seem to be headed, and how they might interact. It uses scenarios to illustrate some of the many ways in which the drivers examined in the study (e.g., globalization, demography, the rise of new powers, the decay of international institutions, climate change, and the geopolitics of energy) may interact to generate challenges and opportunities for future decisionmakers. The study as a whole is more a description of the factors likely to shape events than a prediction of what will actually happen. – November 2008 (pdf 5.74MB)
- • U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Religious Affiliation: Diverse and Dynamic
An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious affiliation of the American public and explores the shifts taking place in the U.S. religious landscape. Based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans age 18 and older, the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey finds that religious affiliation in the U.S. is both very diverse and extremely fluid... – February 2008 (pdf 1.41MB)
- • Africa and World Trade
Increasing participation in the world economy has been a vital strategy for countries that have developed. It will also be crucial for Africa’s development. Africa’s relative performance in the global market has reached drastically low levels in the past thirty years. Although total levels of merchandise trade have increased for all African countries, sub-Saharan Africa’s share of world trade has been in decline for a long time, most markedly since the 1980s (see chart 1). Compare this with the performance of the Asian region, where shares of world trade have doubled over the same period reaching 27.8 percent in 2006, and Africa’s increased marginalisation in the world economy becomes even more apparent. In other words, Africa’s overall growth in trade is below – even far below... – 2007 (pdf 103KB)
- • Doing Our Part to Grow Greener Products
With our patented Greenlist™ process, SC Johnson continues to improve our products and minimize the impact they have on the environment and human health. Also, by participating in efforts such as the U.S. EPA’s Design for the Environment program, we continue to ensure product development decisions are made for the next generation. – 2007 (pdf 3.04MB)
- • Progress Can Kill: How Imposed Development Destroys the Health of Tribal Peoples
Across the world, from the poorest to the richest countries, indigenous peoples today experience chronic ill health. They endure the worst of the diseases that accompany poverty and, simultaneously, many suffer from ‘diseases of affluence’ – such as cancers and obesity – despite often receiving few of the benefits of ‘development’. – 2007 (pdf 3.04MB)
- • Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan
By the fall of 2005, Afghanistan had reached a critical transition point. In many parts of the country, there was broad-based support for the national government. Recent elections for the National Assembly and provincial councils unfolded with very little violence and, for the first time, Afghans elected representatives at the local level. However, corruption and violence in the provinces continue to threaten to undermine the legitimacy of the national government and reverse these gains... – June 2006 (pdf 454KB)
- • Haiti Profile
The country profile of Haiti from the Library of Congress – Federal Research Division. – May 2006 (pdf 152KB)
- • United Nations Security Council Resolution 1542
Information on establishing the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). – April 30, 2004 (pdf 34.3KB)
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