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'Climate change will trigger mass migrations, conflicts'
2015-10-31 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Khaleej Times: Displacement of people from coastal regions will overshadow Syrian migrant crisis, says expert. The UAE and the rest of the world should begin preparing for a future in which vast portions of the globe become uninhabitable due to climate change, triggering mass migration and potential conflicts, a visiting Belgian professor has warned. Francois Gemenne, a specialist on environmental geopolitics and a professor at Sciences Politics in Paris and the Free University of Brussels, was in Dubai to...
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Messed up migrations
2013-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: From the wildebeest to the monarch butterfly, this year many of the world's great animal migrations are out of whack. Migration expert and Princeton Ecology professor David Wilcove joins host Steve Curwood to discuss what's going on. Transcript CURWOOD: Some of the most awe-inspiring spectacles of the natural world are the migrations of creatures great and small - from turtles and terns, to butterflies and beasts. But this year some of the world's most famous migrations seem to be out of sorts....
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Italy and Malta vow to stop boat migrations from Libya
2013-11-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Italy and Malta have urged the European Union (EU) to press Libya to stop gangs smuggling migrants on overcrowded boats from Africa and prevent the type of accidents that occurred in October 2013.
Leadership Focus Podcast: Book Review -- Control System Migrations
2013-11-07 20:39:00| Chemical Processing
If you're about to embark on a control system migration project, the best thing you can do is prepare. Indeed, there are many complexities to consider with any migration project. Wanting to help future generations, Daniel Roessler wrote the book, Control System Migrations: A Practical Project Management Handbook (Momentum Press, 2013)."As experienced engineers, we aren't doing an effective job passing along the value of our experiences to younger engineers," says Roessler. "Hopefully this book will be helpful . . . to be a resource where they can gain experience." This handbook proves useful for seasoned engineers, too.Roessler tells Senior Digital Editor Traci Purdum the reasons behind his methodology and how readers should use this book. He also reveals his a-ha moments during the writing process and what an optimal migration team should look like.Roessler has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His career, spanning over 20 years, began as a process control engineer and project manager for an end-user company in the chemical and polymer industries. He also worked as a system integrator and later in business development and marketing positions for several process automation vendors providing hardware, software and automation service solutions to the process industries.He is currently a freelance writer and also principal consultant for DANR Consulting. For additional information, email him at info@danrconsulting.com. Listen to this podcast now! run time is 12:05 Your browser will provide the player for this podcast. Enjoy.
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UN declares migration's importance for development
2013-10-16 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Official UN recognition of migration's important role in development is a positive step towards the issue being integrated into the next set of global development goals after 2015, says the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. The declaration was adopted at the end of the UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York, United States, earlier this month (3-4 October). Nonetheless, special rapporteur François Crépeau, believes it only confirms what the development...
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