In this issue... As the fortunes of the Kyoto Protocol ebb and flow, Canada should focus on a fundamental and enduring objective, which is to implement well-designed policies that lead to a cleaner energy system by fostering long-run technological change without wreaking short-run economic havoc.

This supplement to the Chemistry Central Journal (CCJ) is meant to serve at least two functions. One, consistent with the long-term goal of this journal, is to bring to its audience the full span of topics and areas in which chemistry plays a key role, even if it is not the only key contributing subject. Obviously energy is very much such a subject; chemistry plays an integral role in the acqui...

Various VM instances in Cloud Infrastructure provide flexibility for user to meet their computation requirements. However, this condition leads to the complex infrastructure that require numerous resources and consumes massive electricity due to the flexibility of VM instances. This paper concern in evaluate VM selection policy in Dynamic VM Consolidation. The study would evaluate our proposed ...

liberalization of energy price increases costs of agricultural inputs and costs of agricultural production. all these changes may affect the overall competitiveness of domestic products with similar foreign products. as a result of that, total cost of agricultural products are increased and profitability are decreased. in this paper, energy consumption for producing corn were calculated using c...

Resource constraints, improved availability and quality of information, and increasing public awareness are all contributing to severe difficulties in arriving at acceptable decisions in such areas of public policy as choice of energy technologies, environmental management and transport planning. The paper describes a European research project called STEEDS (Strategic Transport Energy Environme...

This article considers the question of which strategies parliamentarians pursue when they use parliamentary requests demanding an evaluation. In order to be re-elected, parliamentarians can either appeal to their constituency or to their party by adopting legislative roles. The study is based on twelve case studies of parliamentary requests from the Swiss parliament between 2010-2014. The analy...

Richard Murnane and Jennifer Steele argue that if the United States is to equip its young people with the skills essential in the new economy, high-quality teachers are more important than ever. In recent years, the demand for effective teachers has increased as enrollments have risen, class sizes have fallen, and a large share of the teacher workforce has begun to retire. Women and minorities ...

Since the Chinese government’s rapid increase in expenditure on science and technology (S&T) during the 2000s, numerous related policies have been implemented by national-, provincial-, city-, and prefecture-level governments in China. Each level of government aims to promote innovation activities; however, few empirical evaluations have been conducted on each policy level and category. This pa...

although public policy analysis is essential for public policy systems, the lack of public policy analysis is one of the most important problems of public policy making system in iran. thus, this research implemented to achieve a model for analyzing public policies, using multiple grounded theory method, to create theories and models compatible with the country`s conditions. for this purpose, p...

In this paper, we analyze the rationale for an energy policy mix when the European Emissions Trading scheme (ETS) is considered from a public choice perspective. That is, we argue that the economic textbook model of the ETS implausibly assumes 1) efficient policy design and 2) climate protection as the single objective of policy intervention. Contrary to these assumptions, we pro...