Re: Emerging environmental issues?

2006-04-05 Thread Kirstenworm
Dear Beth, Last semester a student of mine wrote a very interesting paper on energy and securitization of energy. The issue can be an interest of its own in view on the recent EU initiative to adopt a common energy stratgy. However, the issue can also be viewed as an input to the climate

Re: Emerging environmental issues?

2006-04-04 Thread DG Webster
Hello everyone, I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself, since I'm new to the list, and to chime in on Beth's question at the same time. I'm currently a postdoc at the University of Southern California's Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. My degree (also from

Re: Emerging environmental issues?

2006-04-03 Thread Radoslav Dimitrov
One recurrent theme at various intergovernmental meetings is Coordination. With a plethora of multilateral agreements, many of which are interrelated, there is frequent talk about coordinating their implementation. Synergies is a keyword in global policy discourse and an item on the formal

RE: Emerging environmental issues?

2006-04-03 Thread Wil Burns
:10 PM To: Beth DeSombre Cc: gep-ed@listserve1.allegheny.edu Subject: Re: Emerging environmental issues? One recurrent theme at various intergovernmental meetings is Coordination. With a plethora of multilateral agreements, many of which are interrelated, there is frequent talk about

Re: Emerging environmental issues?

2006-04-03 Thread Armin Rosencranz
My list includes three obvious issues -- accelerating climate change and its effects, biodiversity loss and global fisheries depletion, plus two that seem to have gotten less attention than they deserve, land degradation in Africa and scarcity of fresh water in Africa and Asia. armin Quoting