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Cure Pharmaceutical's sustainable medicine distribution strategy in emerging markets

The challenges presented above will be accentuated with the vitality that the emerging markets are gaining.

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Defining globalization: interdependence, power, and scholarly debate

There are differing views, for example, whether the definition should include a merely passive understanding or should include the fact that these processes are to some extent driven by actors specifically seeking to increase the interdependence between nations.

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Five future trends shaping public administration practices

The first trend—the global interconnectedness of public administrations and a focus at the same time on self-sufficiency—may seem like two diametrically opposed trends going in opposite directions, but the reality is that global interconnectedness and self-sufficiency are compatible and public…

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The Transformation of BP: Strategy, Mergers, and HR Reform

Analyzes BP's strategic transformation from the late 1980s through mergers, atomic unit structure, HR outsourcing, and reputation-based global unification.

Business

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Aral Sea Degradation: Causes, Ecology, and Restoration

Examines human and natural causes of Aral Sea degradation, its ecological and health impacts, and proposed restoration strategies based on peer-reviewed research.

Environment

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Coral reef desertification: global threats and management challenges

Coral reefs are under threat worldwide. An estimated 58% of reefs are classified as threatened and 11% of the original amount of coral reefs has already been lost. The makeup of remaining coral reefs is also rapidly changing.

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Sustainability as an integrated framework for business, environment, and society

Across the globe there continues to be a crescendo in the discussion by political and business leaders, academics, the science community, and ordinary citizens regarding the notion of sustainability.

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Debating global warming: natural cycles versus human causes

As a scientific concept, global warming has both proponents and disbelievers. The evidence, which can often be construed one way or another, points to the fact that pollutants have a negative impact on the environment, and that these pollutants have begun to cause a massive global weather shift.

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Overpopulation and resource depletion as environmental crises

The world population is growing at an astounding rate. As the population clock is racing towards the 7 billion mark, we are faced with a huge problem. [U.S. Census Bureau] A problem of balancing the ever-increasing demands for the earth's natural resources and the fast depleting sources.

~8 min read

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Weather systems and the water cycle lesson plan

Grade Level -- Easily adaptable from 3-6 grades, depending on depth, vocabulary, and speed of lesson. Science, part of unit on Earth science and systems.

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