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    • The global environment & multinational corporations 

      Choucri, Nazli (© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991-04)
      Global companies must forge a partnership to manage the environment. The fact of human intervention in ecological processes is not in doubt. Despite uncertainties and continued controversy, human influences on the global ...

    • Globalization of eco–efficiency: GSSD on the world wide web (www) 

      Choucri, Nazli (© United Nations, 1995)
      This article presents a pragmatic strategy for accelerating the diffusion of advances in eco-efficiency, and for enhancing two-way communication between industry and its diverse constituencies. Attention is also given to ...

    • Globalization of MIT: GSSD on the world wide web (www) 

      Choucri, Nazli (© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995-10)

    • Interactions of economic and political change: The Egyptian case 

      Choucri, Nazli; Eckaus, Richard S. (© Elsevier B.V., 1979)
      Partial indicators of economic change in Egypt suggest that the real rate of growth and the rate of inflation have been higher than official statistics. Investment and consumption have both grown rapidly. The private sector ...

    • Knowledge Networking for Technology Leapfrogging 

      Choucri, Nazli (© UNDP, 1998)
      Globalization imposes new demands and new opportunities in access to knowledge and its applications. Knowledge networking can accelerate this access and the sharing of information about technology choices. Developing ...

    • Megacities and global accord 

      Choucri, Nazli (© Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002)

    •  A partnership with nature: Construction consortium for the global environment 

      Choucri, Nazli (© Construction Business Review, 1991)
      There is no doubt that human beings are intervening in natural environments in potentially significant ways. There are controversies about the scale and scope of these interventions. That fact is not questioned by anyone, ...

    • The politicization of technology choices 

      Choucri, Nazli (© Bentley College, 1991)
      An analysis of the factors involved in international technological advance and of the various strains and tensions created by the intervention of national political considerations.

    • Politics of Global Environmental Change: A Conceptual Framework 

      Choucri, Nazli (International Political Science Association, 1991-07)
      "The emergence of climate change in the international political agenda is of recent origin. The possibility of environmental changes induced by human action is a relatively new factor in both the conduct and the study of ...