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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 March 2012
... gers , Soviet-era apartments, and new high-rises. Yet in the heart of the Mongolian winter, they can see none of this. Instead, a thick, gray layer of pollution obscures the horizon. Ulaanbaatar, capital of the most sparsely populated country on the planet and renowned for its pristine countryside...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 46–53.
Published: 01 December 2012
... spill. Now, we are struggling to make ends meet.” Shell first appeared in the community four days after the spill to begin a clean up, but it quickly outsourced the responsibility to a contractor who dug pits near the polluted spots and buried the dark and sticky oil, leaving the byproducts to leach...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 40–52.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, he has since become a powerful advocate for rule of law in China. One of his latest Inspector Chen novels, Don’t Cry, Tai Lake, explores the levels of industrial pollution in a lake in China.World Policy Journal asked him to use his characters to reflect on the impact...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 60–68.
Published: 01 September 2002
... approaches to emissions reductions. the most effective way of addressing climate
They are investing tens of millions of dol change. But it may well be the most politi
lars preparing themselves for a “carbon-con cally feasible approach to climate change for
strained” future in which pollution rights...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lester R. Brown © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute The worldwide transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 100–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
.... From pollution to terrorism, the spread of infectious diseases to economic development, all of today’s issues are interconnected. The need to reach complex multinational agreements and to develop cross-collaborative networks to meet pressing needs will, of course, limit the authority of the nation...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 June 2016
... into the ground. This barricading effect not only contributes to flooding, it prevents the replenishing of groundwater for public consumption and causes pollutants and effluents to pool and contaminate existing groundwater. Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Centre for Environmental and Water Resources...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 5–10.
Published: 01 June 2016
... receive the same resources as the nearby Beijing suburbs. The central government defines poverty as an annual income of less than 2,300 yuan ($352), and over 60 percent of households in Chicheng live below this line. Under pressure to curb pollution and shift the Chinese economy from industry...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 3–6.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., leisure, traffic, pollution, weather, crime. We seek “well-being.” And so, at a personal level, we all do what we can to nurture our most cherished relationships, balance work with our personal lives to combine professional success and free time, avoid bad traffic conditions, choose to go out when it’s...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 53–61.
Published: 01 June 2015
... air pollution even further. Today, 43 percent of electricity is generated in Germany by burning coal. A look at the German case is useful to assess whether these hopes can be realized because the share of Germany’s renewable sources measured in terms of production capacity of electricity is one...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2015
... services, such as water, electricity, and sanitation, which may only intensify as watersheds are over-pumped or polluted, and the power generation of hydroelectric plants decreases with reduced rainfall. Latin America’s model of urban expansion has overwhelmed planning capacities of municipal...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 June 2018
... was polluted with industrial waste, and “during the summer, the breeze . . . would carry an overwhelming stench into the narrow alleyways of Kasımpaşa,” Çağaptay writes. “With every rainstorm the rough cobbled streets would fill with mud.” The adjacent neighborhood of Nişantaşı, meanwhile, was popular...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 9–15.
Published: 01 September 2015
... factors—demographic imperatives, rural-urban migration, and overcrowded cities. The rise of environmentally-linked health issues are also closely tied to the rise of urban pollution and climate-related migration. Governments’ inability to find peaceful answers to such issues that threaten societies...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2012
...-maligned bureaucracy, while Peter Marber dissects the inner workings of the warped metrics of the world’s financial system. In the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, Fulbright researcher Christa Hasenkopf probes the pollution of air and water—in the context of resource scarcity—in one of the world’s...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 69–75.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and services to its landlocked neighbors, and open parts of the country’s north to investment. But the estimated $16-billion project is already more than a year behind schedule, and it has stirred an outcry from county residents who fear displacement, pollution, and irreversible damage to their way of life...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 91–98.
Published: 01 March 2018
... a montage of images showing crowded cities, high-tech laboratories, and urban workers, the commentator explained: With increasing industrialization, sperm quality worldwide is declining. Life pressure, smoking, drinking, pollution, lack of exercise, dressing the wrong way, and radiation from mobile phones...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 92–99.
Published: 01 December 2015
... by the A.D. 79 Vesuvius eruption. Sayers says they are planning on a total of seven beamlines, and they won’t be limited to archaeological research. Sayers, for instance, investigates bioremediation, specifically the use of plants to restrict the spread of metal pollutants. Sayers says synchrotrons allow...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 8–11.
Published: 01 June 2017
... are designed to promote the rapid utilization of property—that is, of nature. Environmental regulations merely manage our use of the natural world. These laws thus legalize practices such as fracking, mining, and drilling—placing conditions on how and how much exploitation and pollution can occur...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 28–38.
Published: 01 June 2015
... across the San Miguelito wetlands and its associated infrastructure, threatening to alter nearly one million acres of rainforest and sensitive habitat. Each year, 5,100 ships are projected to pass through, producing air, noise, and water pollution. More dirt will be excavated for this project than...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2011
... would not even exist. Indirectly, it has driven everything from economic growth to energy consumption to pollution to politics. In recent decades, however, we saw the ignition of a new kind of population explosion. The number of robots has jumped from 30,000 in 1980 to one million in 2002. Still...
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