environmental crisis of the planet have caused a sever anxiety among people, some blame population growth, and other new technologies for the ongoing crisis. but, it is believed that misuse of technology, greed, and obnoxious attitude of man are the main causes of environmental crisis. in this paper, the causes of the crisis are elucidated, and a remedy, is proposed, that is to encourage enviro...

Vulnerability, as a phenomenon of analysis, has long been the subject extensive social and economic policy reflections, aimed at planning welfare interventions to support areas most exposed effects crisis, especially with reference presence potentially weaker segments population [...]

In the book “The praise of pandemic. Covid crisis: between dystopian drifts and opportunity change” I try to explore aspects covid pandemic, in terms total social phenomenon, from a personal critical viewpoint scientific skepticism towards dominant systemic narration.

We investigate the dramatic 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian trade essentially fell because of reduced quantities and unit prices, rather than fewer firms involved in international transactions, fewer trading partners per firm, or fewer products traded. Our difference-in-difference results point to a fall in the demand for tradables – especial...

"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." The economic history of the world is replete with recessions and depressions. From the bursting of the British South Sea Bubble and the French Mississippi Bubble in 1720 (which at least one economic historian claims delayed the industrial revolution by 50 years) to the in...

Introduction In late June 2008, a large, dry lightning storm ignited thousands of fires across California. The largest of these fires became the Basin-Indians Complex Fire in Big Sur, along the State’s central coast. The fire burned over 240,000 acres (USDA Forest Service 2008) and required over a month of intense firefighting operations to contain the perimeter. Media reports and anecdotal acc...

In the decades before the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis, South Korea and Thailand experienced sustained economic growth attributable to investment growth and productivity gains. The investment underlying this economic expansion was financed by relatively high levels of private savings as well as by foreign borrowing. During the crisis, international creditors lost confidence in these countri...

Systemic sclerosis (systemic scleroderma) is a chronic connective tissue disease of unknown etiology that causes widespread microvascular damage and excessive deposition of collagen in the skin and internal organs. Raynaud phenomenon and scleroderma (hardening of the skin) are hallmarks of the disease. The typical patient is a young or middle-age woman with a history of Raynaud phenomenon who p...