scholarly journals What Does the Future Hold for the Canadian Wheat Board? Trade Friction, Dispute Settlement and State Support for Agriculture in North America

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc D. Froese
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
State Support ◽  
Trade Friction ◽  
Canadian Wheat Board ◽  
The Future

Fault Lines and the Future of ISDS

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Gus Van Harten
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Foreign Investor ◽  
State Action ◽  
The Future ◽  
Government Capacity ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Investor Protections

In this chapter, it is argued that removing foreign investor protections is a feasible and important step to re-invigorate the institutions needed to confront pressing concerns of humanity. By limiting government capacity to employ the policy levers recommended by scientists to protect society from climate-related damage, for example, investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) hampers state action to confront a global emergency. Reform efforts in Europe, North America, and developing or transition countries are surveyed, and the deleterious role of the ISDS industry is revisited. Countries are encouraged to terminate their ISDS treaties to bolster their position in relation to ISDS reform. If ISDS continues to expand, however, a foreseeable outcome is that it will ultimately play a role in the collapse of society.

scholarly journals Future Changes in Tropical Cyclone and Easterly Wave Characteristics over Tropical North America

Oceans ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-447
Author(s):  
Christian Dominguez ◽  
James M. Done ◽  
Cindy L. Bruyère
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Track Density ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Tropical Cyclogenesis ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
The North ◽  
The Future

Tropical Cyclones (TCs) and Easterly Waves (EWs) are the most important phenomena in Tropical North America. Thus, examining their future changes is crucial for adaptation and mitigation strategies. The Community Earth System Model drove a three-member regional model multi-physics ensemble under the Representative Concentration Pathways 8.5 emission scenario for creating four future scenarios (2020–2030, 2030–2040, 2050–2060, 2080–2090). These future climate runs were analyzed to determine changes in EW and TC features: rainfall, track density, contribution to seasonal rainfall, and tropical cyclogenesis. Our study reveals that a mean increase of at least 40% in the mean annual TC precipitation is projected over northern Mexico and southwestern USA. Slight positive changes in EW track density are projected southwards 10° N over the North Atlantic Ocean for the 2050–2060 and 2080–2090 periods. Over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, a mean increment in the EW activity is projected westwards across the future decades. Furthermore, a mean reduction by up to 60% of EW rainfall, mainly over the Caribbean region, Gulf of Mexico, and central-southern Mexico, is projected for the future decades. Tropical cyclogenesis over both basins slightly changes in future scenarios (not significant). We concluded that these variations could have significant impacts on regional precipitation.

The future of work in North America

Futures ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Lerner
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Future

The Utopianism of the Zhenotdel

Slavic Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Evans Clements
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
North America ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Clothing Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Soviet Russia

Much attention has been given lately to the utopianism that flourished in Soviet Russia during the civil war and NEP. Scholars have noted that the idea of women's emancipation figured as an important element in this utopianism, affecting diverse aspects of it—fictional portrayals of the communist society of the future, urban architectural plans, the character of public pageants, even clothing design. The names of the women who participated with men in creating these Utopian projects have been recorded. As yet, however, scholars have not asked whether the female Utopians of NEP shared the utopianism of their male comrades or whether women entertained a vision of their own, distinguishable from men's. If there are discernable differences, how do they compare to those which scholars have found between male and female Utopians elsewhere in Europe and in North America? Why did such diversity arise? What were its consequences?

Swimming Against the Tide

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari C. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Trained Group ◽  
State Support ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Prestige

A variety of Romance has been spoken on Jersey for some two thousand years. However Jèrriais, the Norman dialect spoken on the Island today, is now obsolescent. Its decline in fortune has recently prompted a number of corpus and status planning initiatives which, largely devoid of State support, lie in the hands of a small, non-linguistically trained, group of enthusiasts. This paper examines the different agencies of language planning on Jersey and the progress they have made hitherto, comparing the corpus and status planning undertaken in this context with that which occurs in countries where more support is forthcoming from the State, and situating the position of Jèrriais within the contemporary language planning literature. It also suggests some possible avenues for the future and discusses the factors which are likely to determine the success or otherwise of the outcome. The paper highlights the fact that, by themselves, high-prestige domains such as the school do not necessarily hold the key to successful language maintenance.

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