Environment, Energy, and Agriculture

Bangkok's Second Stage Expressway

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This transport privatization case describes the political complications that can accompany a privately-funded infrastructure project. The case tells the story of a Japanese construction firm and its relationship with the government of Thailand...

Dealing with a Changing Environment (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

At a time, in the early 1980s, when Peru is wracked by leftist terrorism and hampered by weak central government, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (FPCN), founded by a group of Peru's leading biologists, becomes a vehicle...

Dealing with a Changing Environment (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

At a time, in the early 1980s, when Peru is wracked by leftist terrorism and hampered by weak central government, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (FPCN), founded by a group of Peru's leading biologists, becomes a vehicle...

Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

Faced with the need to dispose of an offshore oil storage installation, the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation develops what it believes is a straightforward and sensible plan: to dump the oil platform deep in the ocean, 150 miles off the northwest...

Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

Faced with the need to dispose of an offshore oil storage installation, the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation develops what it believes is a straightforward and sensible plan: to dump the oil platform deep in the ocean, 150 miles off the northwest...

Santiago's Sewage

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Although 81 percent of Santiago, Chile's households are connected to sewers, the sewage is dumped untreated into local rivers that are in turn used to irrigate farmers' fields. These practices have caused serious health problems including...

Taking on Big Tobacco: David Kessler and the FDA

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Food and Drug Commissioner David Kessler's landmark 1996 decision to propose regulation of tobacco as a drug marked him as one of the most prominent appointees in the first Clinton Administration -- one both revered and reviled. Kessler's...

Cultures in Collision: Battling Over the Environmental Review of Quebec's Great Whale Project (Sequel)

Publication Date: April 03, 1995

When the government of Quebec announces plans to build a huge hydroelectric project in the James Bay region in the north of the province, a protracted struggle is set in motion. The government's vision of energy self-reliance and export, along...

Cultures in Collision: Cultures in Collision: Battling Over the Environmental Review of Quebec's Great Whale Project

Publication Date: April 03, 1995

When the government of Quebec announces plans to build a huge hydroelectric project in the James Bay region in the north of the province, a protracted struggle is set in motion. The government's vision of energy self-reliance and export, along...

Providing Two-Way Feedback: Assessing Headquarters and Field Service Performance at CARE

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case deals with different management problems in one of the world's largest and most important non-government organizations, CARE. From its origin as a post-World War II emergency feeding program, CARE has taken up the task of encouraging...

Bridge over the Tempisque River

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Costa Rica proposed to build a bridge over the Tempisque River that will cut travel times to the Nicoya Peninsula. Most residents are pleased with the proposal but environmentalists argue that it...

Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case focuses on an organization established to fight for the housing rights of people living in "informal settlements" in apartheid-era South Africa. In the wake of democratization, the group finds itself under increasing pressure from...