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All items tagged scienceOpen Think Tank ArticlesMarch 12, 2009 | Governance and Science: The Emerging Fourth SectorNoah Chutz: Structures of global governance are too clumsy to effectively respond to the challenges of climate change. The international community and the private sector will continue to operate in an uncoordinated and self-interested manner. Only science, a new fourth sector, can rescue the planet from its impending peril. ... MoreGlobal Must Read ArticlesJanuary 20, 2009 | Placing Hopes in TechnologyThe annual Science Congress 2009 has taken place in India, following a tradition which started in 1967 and projected technology as the means through which to achieve greater ‘’social, gender and economic equality.” ++ Indeed, in the northeast region of India, where rich bio-resource exploitation is impaired by poverty and unemployment, development may depend on technological progress. ++ ... MoreOctober 24, 2008 | US Can Benefit From Indian Know-HowIndia launched a space probe to the moon, proving that it is on its path to becoming an influential scientific power. ++ India’s progress is the result of “paring back state suffocation of its economy.” ++ By 2014 about two million high-tech jobs will be available in the US. ++ Requests by US companies to get access to the labor pool have been turned down. ++ Congress has to clear the ... MoreMay 15, 2007 | Jeffrey D. Sachs on the Climate Change RevolutionThe time is ripe for international action on global warming, argues Columbia Economist Jeffrey Sachs. Scientists have clearly identified the causes of the problem, as well as affordable solutions, and recommendations must be implemented in advance of the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol. Since public awareness of the risks at hand has risen sharply and demands for action are peaking in ... MoreApril 12, 2007 | Wenger and Bonin: Biohazard Protection Should be Integrated and InternationalA comprehensive “all-hazard” approach, incorporating all involved international agencies, is necessary to protect the world’s population from biological harm, argue Andreas Wenger and Sergio Bonin of the Center for Security Studies in Zurich. Their ETH security policy analysis examines the rising risk of biohazards resulting from increased global mobility, rapid advancement in scientific ... MoreCommentsMarch 7, 2011 | @Oliver Hauss: The word to describe those...May 3, 2010 | I fully agree with the arguments above that...October 16, 2009 | It is true that our natural instinct in the...October 7, 2009 | Like many global challenges of the 21st... |
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