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Brazil and the limits of the possible
Written by Luciano Sobral
Meet Marina Silva. A former senator and minister of the environment for the ruling party, PT (the Brazilian Workers Party), in 2009 she left to joing the PV, Brazil’s small green party. Next year she finished third in the presidential race, with almost 20 million votes – an astonishing feat […]
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The Cost of Economic Growth in the Dominican Republic
Written by Jonathan Welle
(Para una versión en español de este artículo, entrar aquí). Nina needed a place to put her trash. The rusty garbage bin near her house, like the bin down the street, was filled to the brim just days after the town’s garbage collectors made their weekly visit to Nina’s street […]
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Turkey’s Construction Economy and its Environmental Impact
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Last summer, I went to pick up a backpacking German friend in Ankara’s busy bus station. After exchanging greetings and talking about how life had been, I asked about his initial impressions of Turkey. “The countryside is impressive,” he said, “but the cities are quite weird”. When I asked him […]
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Fiji and the rising dragon
Written by Arnold Chanel
Australia and New Zealand’s political moves to impose sanctions and cuts in foreign aid to Fiji, have resulted in the suspension of diplomatic relations. But China is stepping in to fill the gap. Ever since the military coup in 2006 in Fiji, relations between Australia, New Zealand and Fiji have taken a […]
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A Step Ahead and Two Behind – The Story of Chilean Women
Written by Blanca Vera
2013 is election year in Chile. This November we will elect our new president – a female president. Yes! the presidential election is going to be fought between two very prominent politicians and both of them are women – Evelyn Rose Matthei Fornet from the right wing alliance and Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria from […]
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Malthus and Climate Change
Written by Stephen Hartka
In 1798, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principles of Population in which he famously argued that the population increases in a geometric ratio, while the means of subsistence increase arithmetically. This means that if unchecked, population growth will inevitably lead to crises. Malthus wrote his theory when the population […]
