Describes global civil society and examines the potential for a Global Citizens Movement (GCM), looking at relevant lessons from past and current social movements. As it distinguishes existing social

WEC decided at its Sydney Congress in 2004 to build new energy Scenarios with three principal changes from previous work. First, the Scenarios should be based on policy and on “bottom-up” regional an

In the twenty-first century humanity faces two enormous challenges: substituting fossil fuels with a new source of energy and the production of food for a population of more than seven billion people.

In this study, an accurate traffic demand estimation tool, T-DET, was designed and implemented in Rwanda, Africa. Based on the terminal mobility model, the tool estimated available traffic demand in

The goal of this working paper is to examine the relevance of demand-side water management to low-income urban settlements, where many households do not have adequate access to safe water supplies. T

This year the Parliament of Finland celebrated, in a great variety of ways, its 100-year history as an institution founded on equal and universal suffrage. The Committee for the Future decided that i

Hardly ten years after independence Africa experienced a continuing and deepening crisis of democracy. This was signaled by a series of military coups in 1969 after visible signs of tension in the mi

In this paper, the implications of demographic processes for future changes in the demand and access to food are evaluated. Given the fact that population growth is a major influence on the consumpti

For its many benefits to consumers and markets, technological change may be most notable for the challenge it presents to incumbent firms. From microcomputers to MP3 players, there are numerous examp

The Commission for Africa identified social transfers as a key tool in tackling extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa… The greater use of social transfers in developing countries worldwide is endorse