UNDERSTANDING SUCCESS OF TARGETED SANCTIONS: THE EU IN ZIMBABWE

Understanding Success of Targeted Sanctions: The EU in Zimbabwe

The European Union (EU) imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2002 and this article aims at evaluating the success of that decision.Applying a broader definition of success, this article assumes that sanctions can coerce, constrain and signal.Contrary to most of the literature holding that sanctions are imposed to change the behaviour of targets, this a

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Analysis of the Behaviour of the Floating Roof in a Cylindrical Storage Tank Subjected to Seismic Excitation for the Mitigation of Fire Risk

Natural Hazard triggering Technological Disasters (NaTech) are accidents resulting from natural hazards, such as earthquakes, interacting with industrial risks.Seismic damage to the equipment of industrial plants can lead to major accidents such as explosions, fires or hazardous releases.In this framework, the cylindrical liquid storage tank with f

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Micro-habitat distribution drives patch quality for sub-tropical rocky plateau amphibians in the northern Western Ghats, India.

The importance of patch quality for amphibians is frequently overlooked in distribution models.Here we demonstrate that it is highly important for the persistence of endemic and endangered amphibians found in the threatened and fragile ecosystems that are the rocky plateaus in Western Maharashtra, India.These plateaus are ferricretes of laterite an

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URBAN SPRAWL OF THE CITY OF YOGYAKARTA,SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE STAGEOF SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION (Case Study at Maguwoharjo Village, Sleman District)

The study was conducted in Maguwoharjo Village, Denim Depok Sub-District, Sleman District, which is part of urban fringe area experiencing regional transformation.This study aims at understanding the regional transformation stages in the location studied.The survey method using in-depth interviews with some informants was implemented.The data analy

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