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Nuclear or “Non”: The French election debate
Currently in the process of choosing its next president, France has some big decisions to make about its energy future. Beyond the debate surrounding European debt or globalization, questions about the nuclear industry and the development of renewable alternatives loom. Following the Fukushima disaster, the question is more relevant than ever, especially for a country so dependent on nuclear power. At the same time, their debate should be everyone’s debate, when it comes to choosing the safest, cleanest, most economically sound energy road ahead.
Influence Communication in South East Asia
This paper seeks to present how digital communication contributes to modifying processes of popular influence, activism and lobbying on companies and governments in East Asia civil societies. It will be guided by identifying methods, trends and similar behavior to westerns countries. It is an anthropological view of communication issues.
Rewinding Copenhagen, Students Invent Climate Solutions
Over the course of five days of simulated, but, nevertheless, intense, negotiations last June, more than 150 master’s students resurrected the 2009 United Nations climate conference. Beyond learning about UN procedure, the reenactment allowed them to feel personally the struggle of negotiating the future of the planet and to innovate new solutions, which may indeed find a place in global climate programs.
Complex Systems and the Number of Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan
A mathematical model to predict the growth of deadly terrorist attacks was published on 1 July 2011 in Science along with an estimate of when attacks may occur in the future. Using a study of public data regarding human losses in Afghanistan and Irak over 7 to 10 year periods, the scientists conclude that terrorist attacks follow the mathematic schemas already known to social sciences and applicable to human activities more generally.
