The 'green economy' has emerged as a strong policy direction in Obama's administration with $100 billion in dedicated funds over the next decade to provide infrastructure investment for a range of initiatives including alternative energy technologies that will lessen the reliant on foreign oil supplies. The concept of the 'green economy' has appeared at the point of the collapse of neoliberal ideology of deregulation and a new age of poverty after the worst global recession since WWII. First, this paper reviews the claims of 'green capitalism' examining, in particular the promise of distributed energy systems and the 'hydrogen economy' as proposed solutions to the energy problem of the U.S. economy. Second, it proposes a postmodern critique of neoliberal economics before examining conce...
... and There is a link between reducing ecological scarcity and improving the livelihoods of the poor... expansion that allegedly comes with globalization that accounts for the growth in economic power of ...dollar with collapsing trade balances and a yawning current account deficit. Taken toget...
Exploiting scientific illiteracy THE PEW APPROACH to polling described above is reminiscent of that used by the Idaho junior high school student Nathan Zohner, who found that 8 6 percent of survey respondents thought the substance "dihydrogen monoxide" should be banned when they were told that prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage, exposure to its gaseous form causes severe burns, and it has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.\n It is no coincidence, according to Taverne, that eco-fundamentalists are strongly represented in anti-globalization and anti-capitalism demonstrations around the world. [...] they are strikingly simi- lar to Alexander Hamilton's summary of the reasons that the United States Constitution would not, in some quarter...
...Good journalism is not served by a "balance" that creates a fake moral equivalence between tho... that ? s da is "not required to do an ecological/biological implications review" is simply wrong. A...
... been influenced by arguments about globalization and been given increasing impetus in the last few ... and beyond as "seek[ing] to preserve ecological and cultural diversity against what they see as th... strategies, so it has sought to balance representative and participatory modes of democrac...
... drawn from a five-phase model of globalization adapted from the work of Maguire et al. in 2002, w... has been a growing awareness of the ecological environment and the global impact of human activit... and have tried to seek a beneficial balance between players and leagues. In MLB, the manageria...
.... On balance, it seems that the CEC has been less effective tha...(46) . Efforts to fill globalization's democracy deficit generally come from either lib...Dryzek, "Political and Ecological Communication," Environmental Politics 4, no. 4 (1...
...KEYWORDS: globalization, transnational dynamics, global governance archite... of socialist, solidarity, and ecologically embedded economies. Dynamism would be ensured thro... that networks can provide the appropriate balance between the efficiency of decentralized markets, t...
... in an effort to adapt the market to globalization and to open it up to Latin American countries, the... dollar area and ACP, as well as to try to balance the interests of all those involved (producers, ex..., but also from a social, cultural and ecological standpoint. It is a leading factor in preventing r...
... Doorman(1999) points out the need to balance different concerns and to achieve an ecological, s...The globalization of development activities is aimed at creating pro...
Introduction. II. Negative And Positive Aspects Of The Right To Health And State Responsibility. A. The WTO and the Conflict Between Trade, Health, and Human Rights. B. The Protection of Ecology and Environmental Crimes. C. On the Question of "Military Necessity". III. The Right To Life And The Right To Health And Family Life. IV. Ecological Dimensions Of The Right To Life And To Health: The Link To Jus Cogens Norms. A. A Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH). V. Do No Harm: Erga Omnes Obligations To Avoid Criminal Environmental Activities. A. Analogy And Harm In Canadian Criminal Law. VI. Conclusion.
... attack in various ways through globalization and climate change. In the final analysis, "enviro... may destroy even that precarious balance. For instance, in the United States, the aftermath...
...(3) . Globalization has made possible new democratic forms of governan... Outlook, 2001, the OECD attempts to balance sustainable development goals by "reconciling econ... effectiveness with social cohesion and ecological equilibrium." There is a strong regional stance, i...
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