Citizens Against Strip Mining - Boularderie Island, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Malcolm Sparrow on Controlling Risk Interviewed by Doug Gavel on May 1, 2008 Controlling risks, or harms, is a central challenge for government regulators charged with the task of reducing societal ills and preventing bad things from happening. Understanding and unraveling the chain of components that comprise risk is the focus of Malcolm Sparrow’s current research. Sparrow is professor of the practice of public management and author of “The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control.” Q: In your research you advocate the systematic disaggregating of broad generalities of risk into specific well-defined problems so that smaller-scale specific interventions can be attempted. Please elaborate. Sparrow: A lot of my past research has focused on regulatory practice. What is this new emerging practice about? Increasingly, we see police agencies, environmental agencies, occupational safety, even custom officials focusing deliberately on specific, carefully identified problems. I described the adult approach.
Zero Waste Alliance 15 Current Environmental Problems That Our World is Facing Our environment is constantly changing. There is no denying that. However, as our environment changes, so does the need to become increasingly aware of the problems that surround it. With a massive influx of natural disasters, warming and cooling periods, different types of weather patterns and much more, people need to be aware of what types of environmental problems our planet is facing. Global warming has become an undisputed fact about our current livelihoods; our planet is warming up and we are definitely part of the problem. However, this isn’t the only environmental problem that we should be concerned about. Our planet is poised at the brink of a severe environmental crisis. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14: Public Health Issues: The current environmental problems pose a lot of risk to health of humans, and animals. 15. The need for change in our daily lives and the movements of our government is growing. Image credit: retinalfetish , 36747988 Rinkesh
IEEP - Institute for European Environmental Policy - Home Bill Gates sparks multinational plan to spend billions on clean energy tech Government and business leaders are banking on clean energy technology to fight global warming, kicking off this week's high-stakes climate change negotiations by pledging tens of billions of dollars for research and development. Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, U.S. President Barack Obama and French President François Hollande will announce the new initiative on Monday, committing to spend tens of billions of dollars for a technological fix to the planet's climate woes, three current and former officials have told The Associated Press. "It's quite a big deal," said Jennifer Morgan, global climate director for the World Resources Institute. The United Nations climate summit formally opened Sunday afternoon with a minute of silence for the victims of this month's Paris attacks and vows not to let terrorism derail efforts to slow or stop climate change. Gates concerned about 'energy poverty' Protests hit Paris PHOTOS | Climate protesters clash with police in Paris