State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Europe
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Account approved
A US $700 million "nuclear safety account" to reduce the risk of accidents in east Europe - agreed in principle last July - has finally been approved by specialists from the Group of Seven
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Burmese teak profitable for Indian traders
The pressing need for foreign exchange is being cited as the reason for the government giving in to demands from timber traders to be allowed to export.
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Revitalised role forecast for people's movements
It is becoming possible to utilise the capacities that exist outside the state such as non governmental organisations to influence state policies and, in the coming years, India is going to witness dissatisfaction being increasingly expressed throug
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Green politics must be pragmatic to succeed
Erstwhile Green Party spokesperson Sara Parkin on the future of green movements in the industrialised world.
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FRANCE
Coffin nail
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OIL REFINERIES
Facing bankruptcy
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The signs of increasing dissipating consumption
BETWEEN the 1960s and 1990s, if there is one thing that is different, it is the level of material consumption of the richer sections of the world. Says Swedish environmentalist Anders Wijkman, "When
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Should free trade include toxic dumping?
Many European nations have banned the free passage of toxic waste between borders, despite the common market concept.
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Musical chairs
UN SECRETARY general Boutros Boutros-Ghali's suggestion that the North and South should share equally the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the
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Making profits for the West
While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a degraded environment.