Dimensions of Global Change in African Mountains: The Example of Mount Kenya

This paper discusses the effects of global change in African mountains, with the example of Mount Kenya. The geographical focus is the northwestern, semi-arid foot zone of the mountain (Laikipia District). Over the past 50 years, this area has experienced rapid and profound transformation, the respective processes of which are all linked to global change. The main driving forces behind these processes have been political and economic in nature. To these an environmental change factor has been added in recent years – climate change. After introducing the area of research, the paper presents three dimensions of global change that are manifested in the region and largely shape its development: Socio-political change, economic change, environmental change. For the regions northwest of Mount Kenya, climate models predict important changes in rainfall distribution that will have a profound impact on freshwater availability and management. The results presented here are based on research undertaken northwest of Mount Kenya within the framework of a series of long-term Kenyan-Swiss research programmes that began in the early 1980s.

Evaluating the U.S. Global Health Policy Initiative

In understanding that the efforts made in improving global health affects the health of U.S. citizens, a policy analysis of President Barak Obama's Global Health Initiative was conducted. Using materials gathered from experts in the field of health and their findings and recommendations, paired with the current policies of other G8 countries that pledged to support the efforts of improving global health, the analysis was conducted using four specifically defined criteria. The set criteria determine the appropriateness, responsiveness, effectiveness and equity of Obama's GHI in comparison to other G8 country health policies and overall global health priorities. G8 countries without a specific global health policy, or with a policy that was not in English were excluded from this study and Switzerland, headquarters of the World Health Organization, was added due to its membership in the OECD, and the fact that it has a specific foreign health policy. In evaluating the U.S. Global Health Initiative it is clear that in terms of implementing foreign policy specific to health, the United States is on the forefront alongside the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Other G8 Countries have pledged monies and in order to Millennium Development Health Goals by 2015. The U.S. Global Health Policy does not address issues necessary to meet Millennium Development Goals in Health. Instead the Global Health Initiative is focused narrowly on Fighting and rolling back the HIV/Aids Epidemic based on President Bush's PEPFAR policy. Policy recommendations for a more effective and efficient Global Health Initiative include building upon the PEPFAR policy foundation in order to strengthen health systems worldwide, allowing individuals and communities to combat unnecessary death and disease through research, education, and other preventative methods.^

Biotechnology, research program overview.

Mode of access: Internet.

Summaries of the USAEC basic research program in chemistry : (off site).

Includes indexes.

Summaries of the USAEC basic research program in chemistry : (off site) /

"TID-4500(46th Ed.)."

Summaries of the USAEC basic research program in chemistry : (on site) /

"(TID-4500, 33rd. Ed.).

Summaries of the USAEC research program on controlled thermonuclear reactions /

"Indexes prepared by Division of Technical Information Extension."

Research and development in progress : biomedical and environmental research program /

"Issuance Date: December 1972."

Genetics research program of the Division of Biology and Medicine.

Mode of access: Internet.

National juvenile custody trends, 1978-1989 : juveniles taken into custody research program /

"Cooperative agreement award no. 89-JN-CX-K003"--T.p. verso.

A computer research program for solving the reaction rate equations in the E ionospheric region /

Ionospheric Physics Laboratory Project 8653.

Nutrition monitoring in the United States : National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program.

Mode of access: Internet.

Global change overhead transparency masters.

Mode of access: Internet.

Reservoirs and waterways : identification and assessment of environmental quality problems and research program development /

"July 1978."