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Bush's Clear Skies 2003 proposal versus the Clean Air Act of 1990

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In international policy, as in the course of daily human life, self-interested actors must carefully weigh competing and often equally valid choices, and make for themselves some compromise between opposed values.

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Regulating international tourism in Antarctica to protect the environment

Since the mid-1980s, Antarctica has been an increasingly popular tourist destination, despite the relative danger of visiting the largest, least explored -- and arguably least understood -- continent on earth.

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Pacific Brands' sustainability strategy as competitive differentiation

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Environmental sustainability planning for Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games

The expectations are high and so are the costs involved with hosting the 2014 British Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Environmental scanning frameworks and strategic organizational decision-making

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Selecting and vetting academic journals for scholarly publication

Publishing opportunities in academic writing are usually going to be in journals. There are a couple of different approaches to this. The first is to get together a list of journals that either cover or might cover your topic.

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