Archive | January, 2004
Urban Networks Monitoring Systems
Life Cycle Analysis of telemonitoring system used for managing urban networks in the city of Martigny, Switzerland by Mohamed Meghari Malik Nowadays, the protection of the environment has become one of the most important challenges facing modern societies. The management of energy and natural resources in cross Cities is the main key to solving environmental [...]
Continue reading...Time for a Tobin Tax?
5. January 2004
by Julian Dautremont-Smith A Tobin Tax is a small tax on foreign exchange transactions. This paper shows that a Tobin Tax would have the triple benefits of: 1) increased monetary autonomy, 2) greater exchange rate stability, and 3) sizeable revenues to fund international development and environmental protections. The paper examines common arguments against the establishment [...]
Continue reading...On the Shape of Cities
4. January 2004
by Laurent Demarta The topic in question is “sustainable cities” and I will approach it here with the point of view of the town planner. The two primary questions that arise are “Are cities sustainable?” and “Which cities are we talking about?”. The combination of both these questions leads to the definition of the final [...]
Continue reading...Open Source Software: Fair Trade for Software
4. January 2004
Free Open Source Software: Pros and Cons from a Development Perspective by Simon Schneebeli Software has reached a very high importance for our society. However, software is not just software. Actually there exist two quite distinct worlds of software. At the Forum on Information and Communication Technology for Development ICT- 4D that was held in [...]
Continue reading...Economics Wins Again: The Canadian Government’s Approach to Endangered Species in its New Species at Risk Act
3. January 2004
by Aaron Holdway Canada‘s Environment Minister admits that the situation of endangered species in Canada has reached crisis proportions. Yet after nearly a decade of half-hearted legislative work, including two pieces of abandoned legislation, the federal governmentâ€TMs ultimate product has been what environmentalists have widely denounced as the worldâ€TMs weakest endangered species legislation. While environmentalists [...]
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