When population growth and resource availability collide
As land and water become scarce, competition for these vital resources intensifies within societies, particularly between the wealthy and those who are poor and dispossessed. The shrinkage of life-supporting resources per person that comes with population growth is threatening to drop the living standards of millions of people below the survival level, leading to potentially unmanageable social tensions.
Access to land is a prime source of social tension. Expanding world population has cut the grainland per person in half ........More
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Kosovo: one year on
It doesn't stop there. EULEX advises Kosovo on legal reform. The original intention was that this process too would operate within the framework of the Ahtsaari plan. However, the six-point agreement with Serbia which secured EULEX's deployment in the Serb enclaves of Kosovo also restricts its mandate to the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 which brought the 1999 war to an end - and which established Kosovo as a protectorate ........More
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