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...mine once accidentally sent the wrong computer file to his editors in London, who dutifully ran his stale Gaza story without noticing that they'd run the same piece a week before. There is a numbing sameness to stories about Gaza, but Sacco's illustrations, backed by his methodical research, bring the Gaza of 1956 bleakly to life, using the past to explain the present in a way that rarely makes it into today's news stories. He inks his characters and scenes with the same meticulous detail that he invests in his reporting. (See pictures of life under Hamas...
...economic perspective may put environmental concerns on the table in a way that governments and institutions can work with. "In speaking the language of economics, you can play a role in the policy process," says Edward B. Barbier, Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming, who does research on the economics of natural resources. "Twenty-five years ago, people said, 'That's horrendous - you can't discuss nature that way!' Now they say, 'You're right. We've got to put a value on nature." (See the top 10 invasive species...
What kind of value are we talking about? According to research cited in the TEEB report, an annual investment of $45 billion to biodiversity conservation worldwide could safeguard about $5 trillion in ecosystem services - a benefit to cost ratio...
...ecosystem benefits, notably by British economist David Pearce, through his book Blueprint For a Green Economy, which was influential in the 1990s. (Professor Barbier was a coauthor.) What's different now is the urgency - we get news of nature disappearing every day - and new tools for measuring value, since research on ecosystems and valuation metrics have been evolving steadily over the last 20 years. Through programs like the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, drawing on the work of more than 1,360 experts worldwide, the economic value of biodiversity - which, alas, is often determined after its loss - is becoming more apparent...
Sadler’s education research is not constrained solely to astronomy. His new book, titled “AP: A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program” will be released next month...