China: Energy, Environment, and Growth – Options for Canada (Video Interview...
Memo #140 (Scroll below to see 7 video clips) Featuring Wenran Jiang – wenran.jiang [at] ualberta.ca China’s environmental issues need to be understood in a global rather than a narrowly national...
View ArticleRelocating China’s Pollutive Industries: a “Double Pollution” Problem
Pacific Prospective features the research of graduate students. Memo #143 By Matthew Gaudreau - mgaud080 [at] uottawa.ca Newspaper headlines in China have been speckled with the painful legacies of...
View ArticleTourism Businesses in Asia must be Socially Responsible
Memo #176 By Azilah Kasim - azilah [at] uum.edu.my The World Tourism Organization predicts there will be 1.8 billion tourism arrivals around the world in 2030. Arrivals to Asia and the Pacific are...
View ArticleLotteries vs. Auctions: China’s Experiments in Managing Automobile Growth
Memo #215 By Jinhua Zhao and David Block-Schachter – jinhua.zhao [at] ubc.ca , dcbs [at] mit.edu The astronomical growth in the number of private cars in China has led to very visible environmental...
View ArticleUrban Beekeeping: a new buzz in Asian cities
Pacific Prospective features the research of graduate students. Memo #224 By Hannah Smith – hannah.smith [at] alumni.ubc.ca We need bees, but bees are dying. This is a global problem, but some Asian...
View ArticleIndia: Problems and Promise (Video Interview with M.J. Akbar)
Memo #225 Featuring M.J. Akbar – mjakbar1101 [at] gmail.com Prominent Indian journalist and author M.J. Akbar discusses three key issues facing India today: poverty, gender and environment. Modern...
View Article“A Legacy for the People:” The Columbia Basin Trust as Model for the Angat...
Pacific Prospective features the research of graduate students. Read the first part of this memo HERE. Memo #287 By Brett Dimond – brett.dimond [at] gmail.com The issue of centralized control over...
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