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The Republic of Azerbaijan covers an area of 86,600 square km (forests accounting for 11.5%, water basins-1.6%, sown area-50%, including 27% pastures, 36.9%-other lands). The country extends between longitude 44° and 52° east and latitude 38° and 42°, with Baku situated at the latitude of 40°. It borders with Iran …

The term global governance became popular in the political and international academic arena in late 1990s. (Biermann, Pattberg, 2012) In their book Biermann and Pattberg introduce the concept of global governance: the notion of the term, the scope of its usage and three core elements that differentiates the new term …

Kuhlman and Farrington, in their article, tried to find an answer to the question of  ‘What is Sustainability?’ by explaining the concept of sustainability using the definition of it introduced by Brundtland’s report adopted in UN Agenda for Development. However, I doubt that if they even were closer to define …

Political violence is a hard talk of all times that all spheres of science, all authors, and writers, almost the whole world concerns about.  From the beginning of history, firstly, people were blamed to live in state of nature in which they were killing each other on getting basic needs …

The growing concern of scientists, politicians and world leaders on environmental issues and expected adverse impacts of future brought them together in international arenas. For years, these people in international arenas have been seeking solutions to global environmental problems. As a result of long searches, international regimes are established. This …

To provide 7.3 billion population of the planet with sufficient energy is becoming problematic due to depletion of fossil fuel recourses, costly renewable energy recourses and unbalanced energy use of developed nations than developing and poor countries. According to the G. Boyle, B. Everett and G. Alexander, today the fossil fuel trio of coal, …

Involvement of private businesses to the process of solving and dealing with environmental issues is becoming new trend in the international arena. As a result of industrialization, and globalization of economy the number of private businesses regulating different aspects of economy grows rapidly. Undeniably this growth rate led to construct …