Top 9 political risk hot spots of 2008

In a series of nine reports, Eurasia Group identifies the key regions around the world where political risk will be especially acute in the coming year. Locations include the usual suspects including the US, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan/Afghanista, Russia, South Africa + Turkey. They also flag up some red herrings in the risk survey!  In addition, [...]

Death in the Wrong Place: altered lifescapes of the 2001 Foot & Mouth Disease disaster

Foot and Mouth Disease Lifescapes’ - Maggie Mort, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University
In May 2003, two years and three months after the outbreak of the world’s worst epidemic of Foot & Mouth Disease, a small group of people gathered on a bleak windy former airfield site to commemorate the slaughter and burial of more [...]

Design -Introductory workshop - 4-5 Oct 2007 - Day 2

Gerd Kortuem (Computing, Lancaster University)
Reporting on a collaborative project (Nemo) that uses pervasive sensing technologies for industrial environments. We all work on computers, but many other people work physically. For instance, vibration exposure is a serious problem. It can lead to ‘vibration white finger.’ How can technology be brought in to improve the current [...]