Content tagged "regulation"
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Event: Thursday, October 26, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
Jennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local, national, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms, national boundaries, and traditional geographies of control.
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Posted by Lissa Harris S.M., Science Writing, 2008
Topics: climate change, economics, environment, finance, politics, pollution, regulationAir Trade: Promises — and Pitfalls — in the Coming Carbon Market
The market designs that have been proposed, along with reasons why the carbon market is likely to fail to live up to its greatest promise.
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Posted by Amitabh Avasthi S.M., Science Writing, 2004
Topics: biology, FDA, fish, Food and Drug Administration, genetics, GMO, regulation, transgenic animalsSuperfish: The Coming Blue Revolution
There is growing concern among many scientists that genetically modified fish could lead to undesirable consequences, even ecological disaster.