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A Great Bubbling: Economics Of Oil Prices

The world will never be quite the same. High oil prices are not only changing the political and economic landscapes but they could also change energy itself, because they are stimulating the most widespread drive for technological innovation this sector has ever seen. The political shifts are striking, wherever you look. Russia was so flat on its back at the end of the 1990s that Western banks a Read More...

Wetland Ecosystem Conservation: A Review

1. Introduction A system is a group of parts that interact through one or more processes (Odum 1983). The term ecosystem was introduced and defined by Tansley (1935), who as “a fundamental organizational unit of the natural world that includes both organisms and their spatial environment.” Ecosystems have since been defined in various ways, and at different spatial and temporal scales (Golley 1993 Read More...