March/April 2010: In This Issue

As China continues to expand its role on the global stage as an industrial powerhouse, a new and frightening repercussion of development has emerged. “Cancer villages,” or small communities suffering from extremely high rates of cancers, are springing up across rural China.
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In this article, Robert Repetto examines the economic risks involved with a major hurricane striking this densely populated city, noting that current risk analyses rely too much on backward looks at past weather events.
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