Indonesia has been severely hurt by the recent economic crisis, which has been accompanied by social tensions. Still, there are reasons to be optimistic about Indonesia's future. The economic crisis may have bottomed out and the difficult transition to democracy has started. For a sustainable long-term recovery, it is essential that Indonesia is able to attract FDI inflows, and manages to achie...

Refugees have high rates of mental health morbidity as a result of conflict. However, their needs for mental healthcare and psychosocial support are often unmet, despite the efforts of professional and humanitarian organisations. The war refugee crisis is a global challenge that needs a global solution. We call on all governments, regional and international organisations to take responsible hum...

Telecommunication services are essential to modern information systems, especially so for crisis management. Telecoms systems are complex and difficult to analyse. Current risk assessment methods are either not used because of their complexity, or lack rigorous argumentation to justify their results because they are oversimplified. Our challenge has been to develop a risk assessment method that...

Space weather driven by solar activity can induce geomagnetic disturbances at the Earth's surface that can affect power transmission systems. Variations in the geomagnetic field result in geomagnetically induced currents that can enter the system through its grounding connections, saturate transformers and lead to system instability and possibly collapse. This study analyzes the impact of extre...

Air pollution by particulate matter is well linked with anthropogenic activities; the global economic crisis that broke out in the last year may be a proper indicator of this close relationship. Some economic indicators show the regional effects of the crisis on the Cantabria Region. The present work aims to evaluate the impact of the economic crisis on PM10 levels and composition at the major ...

In this paper we study the nature of regional inter-dependence among selected Asian stock markets and contrast it with that among selected European markets before and during the Asian crisis. We ask if the Asian crisis marked any fundamental change in the basic nature of these relationships. Using daily dollar-denominated returns data from eight East Asian and eight European stock markets, we s...

ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY? INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL FLOWS AND DOMESTIC FINANCIAL REFORMS IN EAST ASIA Ramkishen S. Rajan This paper discusses trends and patterns in international capital flows in the crisis affected East Asian economies during the bust period and eventual recovery that followed (1997 to early 2000). The economies have experienced a rapid rebound in regional economic activity, i.e. t...