Papers by Michael E Goodsite
Beijing Law Review, 2019
Business opportunities in the European High North (EHN) are accompanied by the danger of cyber-th... more Business opportunities in the European High North (EHN) are accompanied by the danger of cyber-threats, especially to critical infrastructures which in these Arctic regions become "extra critical" because of the harsh environmental climatic conditions and remoteness of distances. Critical infrastructures (CI) in the EHN are crucial for numerous sectors, such as the energy sector which is completely depended on digitalization, internet and computers' commands. Such a new condition of extra criticality should also include human security concerns to avoid human disasters. An effective legal framework under "exceptionally critically infrastructure conditions" (ECIC) for this technology is important not only in terms of national legislation, but also in view of a regional, international and global networks character. This paper links for the first time, law, internet and cybersecurity, environment and society in a global human security dimension in a multi-regulatory contextual analysis.
Beijing Law Review, 2019
This article explores and analyzes the nexus between climate change, environmental threats, and c... more This article explores and analyzes the nexus between climate change, environmental threats, and cyber-threats in a multi-regulatory contextual sustainable global approach with Sweden as an example. Research and collection of material have been conducted with the precise aim to draw a parallel between environmental regulations and the cyberspace and cybersecurity systems. Many aspects of the cyber-security system are not known and are highly fragmented. Selected points of the study of the Swedish cyber strategy are being developed in parallel to the environmental regime in order to better understand how to improve the effectiveness of the cyber complex regime from a contextual perspective. One way to better understand the cybersecurity system is to make an interdisciplinary study of how best to coordinate these systems, thus making both cyber law and policy more effective. This leads to bringing evidence on how to take inspiration from a regime system (environmental law or, more concretely, the environmental liability framework) and using it as source of inspiration to understand and shape the formation of another system in another area, namely cybersecurity. The method of this ongoing research consists of choosing and applying key aspects of environmental law (such as concepts and principles) and comparing them with comparable selected cybersecurity key aspects, which are selected because they present strong similarities with their "equivalent" focal points pertaining How to cite this paper: Cassotta, S., & Pettersson, M. (2019). Climate Change, Environmental Threats and Cyber-Threats to Critical Infrastructures in Multi-Regulatory Sustainable Global Approach with Sweden as
Beijing Law Review, 2015
The impact of climate change in the Arctic Ocean such as ice melting and ice retreat facilitates ... more The impact of climate change in the Arctic Ocean such as ice melting and ice retreat facilitates natural resources extraction. Arctic fossil fuel becomes the drivers of geopolitical changes in the Arctic Ocean. Climate change facilitates natural resource extractions and increases competition between states and can result in tensions, even military ones. This article investigates through a political and legal analysis the role of China as an emerging regulatory sea power in the Arctic Ocean given its assertive "energy hungry country behaviour" in the Arctic Ocean. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Arctic Council (AC) are taken into consideration under climate change effects, to assess how global legal frameworks and institutions can deal with China's strategy in the Arctic Ocean. China's is moving away from its role as "humble power" to one of "informal imperialistic" resulting in substantial impact on the Arctic and Antartic dynamism. Due to ice-melting, an easy access to natural resources, China's Arctic strategy in the Arctic Ocean has reinforced its military martitime strategy and has profoundly changed its maritime military doctrine shifting from regional to global in the context of UNCLOS. In particular, it is wondered, what China understands about the public order dimension of UNCLOS. The article concludes that despite China' assertive behaviour towards the Arctic environmental ocean and its rise
Applied Geography, 2016
VisAdapt aims to support Nordic homeowners´ climate change adaptation processes The research in... more VisAdapt aims to support Nordic homeowners´ climate change adaptation processes The research involved developers and users through a transdisciplinary approach. Downscaled information is a key element expected by users Assessment of interactivity and data varied both across countries and user experience VisAdapt made climate effects tangible and initiated discussions and reflections
European Energy and Environmental Law Review
Mercury (Hg) has been used for millennia in many applications, primarily in artisanal mining and ... more Mercury (Hg) has been used for millennia in many applications, primarily in artisanal mining and as an electrode in the chloralkali industry. It is anthropogenically emitted as a pollutant from coal fired power plants and naturally emitted, primarily from volcanoes. Its unique chemical characteristics enable global atmospheric transport and it is deposited after various processes, ultimately ending up in one of its final sinks, such as incorporated into deep sediment or bioaccumulated, primarily in the marine environment. All forms of Hg have been established as toxic, and there have been no noted biological benefits from the metal. Throughout time, there have been notable incidents of Hg intoxication documented, and the negative health effects have been documented to those chronically or acutely exposed. Today, exposure to Hg is largely diet or occupationally dependent, however, many are exposed to Hg from their amalgam fillings. This paper puts a tentative monetary value on Hg pol...
Choice Reviews Online, 2010
SpringerReference
Michael Evan Goodsite, Ole Hertel, Matthew Stanley Johnson, Nana Rahbek Jørgense
Journal of Climatology & Weather Forecasting, 2016
Advance Research in Meteorological Sciences (ARMS), is a broadbased journal founded on two key te... more Advance Research in Meteorological Sciences (ARMS), is a broadbased journal founded on two key tenets: to publish exciting research with respect to the subjects of Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences and to provide a rapid turnaround time possible for reviewing and publishing and to disseminate the articles freely for research, teaching, and reference purposes. Why are people, such as the author team above, none of whom are classically trained in meteorological sciences, interested in Advance Research in Meteorological Sciences? Meteorological science is a prerequisite discipline for much of the interdisciplinary research focused on addressing perhaps the biggest societal challenge of our day: anthropogenically driven global climate change. The disciplines of environmental and atmospheric science are in themselves multidisciplinary. How we mitigate, how we adapt to, how we communicate, how we perceive, and how we measure, monitor, and model/forecasts past and/or future events all relates to other disciplines such as economics, business, communication, and history; not to mention the other social and health sciences as well as a multitude of natural scientific issues. Humans and our relations to us and our planet is the key. Many of us start and end the day hearing about the weather-in some media told by people who are not trained in meteorology themselves.
Global Environment, 2011
This review paper focuses on an important new question: how can climate change affect maritime an... more This review paper focuses on an important new question: how can climate change affect maritime and other cities of Southeast Asia, and what challenges and possible responses can be identified based on historical and current regional policies and action, especially with regard to air pollution? This review was undertaken as part of the ISDP and ISEAS sponsored initiative: Regional Cooperation in Environmental Protection: Lessons from Two Regions (EU and ASEAN). We examined the cases of the EU and ASEAN policies for the protection of air quality from a scientific practitioner’s point of view. We seek to ascertain if ASEAN can respond to regional human-induced environmental problems given existing problems of national sovereignty and the interest-based character of ASEAN-type associations, since ASEAN’s goal, in contrast to that of the EU, has been regional cooperation rather than regional integration. Both regions are responding differently to climate change and the global economic an...
ARCTIC, 2016
Seabird guano from large nesting colonies is known to increase trace metal levels in adjacent ter... more Seabird guano from large nesting colonies is known to increase trace metal levels in adjacent terrestrial environments today, when global oceans are contaminated with Hg, Cd, and other metals. But the effect of seabird guano in the pre-industrial period has rarely been studied. We used stable C and N isotopic and trace element analyses of a peat core that represents ca. 2000 years of organic matter accumulation to examine the effect on trace elements and nutrients of a seabird colony that existed in northern Baffin Bay during the Holocene Thermal Maximum (ca. 8000–5000 yr BP). Although C and N concentrations were typical of those in other peats, isotopic data identified marine organic matter as the main source of N and a minor source of C in the peat and showed that the unknown seabird was a fish-eating species that was summer-resident for the 2000 yr period. Concentrations of Cd, Br, Sr, and Zn in peat were up to an order of magnitude higher than in ombrotrophic (air-fed) bogs else...
Research on climate change adaptation is developing rapidly, but new input is still needed. Polit... more Research on climate change adaptation is developing rapidly, but new input is still needed. Political scientists and scholars in related disciplines have been inadequately concerned with adaptation to climate change, resulting in the undertheorization of political economy-based mechanisms in the field. This has implications also for adaptation practices. Focusing on the political economy of adaptation-a research area long neglected-Benjamin Sovocool and Bj€ orn-Ola Linn er fill some gaps and stake out a clear course for further studies. The book's main argument should resonate well with students of political processes more generally. Adaptation is not seen as a neutral process: it will bring winners and losers, through four interrelated processes: enclosure, where climate change adaptation is used to channel public assets into private hands; exclusion, where community access to resources becomes limited or communities are excluded from decision making; encroachment, when adaptation measures lead to environmental damage; and entrenchment, where long-term social inequalities are exacerbated. Through these four processes, political, economic, and social tradeoffs often occur within or between adaptation projects in both developed and developing countries, even undermining adaptation goals significantly. So, they need to be understood and managed. The book is built around four highly diverse case studies, preceded by an introductory chapter, and followed by an analysis of implications for adaptation, and conclusions. The introduction discusses central concepts in adaptation research. Such an exercise might seem more useful for those who do not claim to be experts in this field, but it is concise and well-written, and provides a suitable foundation for the book. The Bangladesh chapter-the only developing country case-shows how landgrabbing opportunities have been exploited by persons of position and means, leading to enclosure and exclusion. It also presents examples of encroachment and entrenchment. Chapter 3, on the Dutch dikes, shows how the construction of these allowed certain actors to take control of defining national needs as well as the solutions, while excluding others. The chapter explains how some areas were left to be more risk-prone than others, and notes the environmental consequences of the constructions themselves. A major trap in technical adaptation is reflected in the title of the next chapter, "Degraded Seascapes." The analysis of the problems in New Orleans caused by local and national authorities after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 demonstrates clearly how the four processes are not unique to developmenthistorical contexts but are very real also for other cases. An analysis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the last case chapter, and perhaps the most surprising one, as it is less clearly defined up front and operates on a higher analytical level. As the chapter progresses, however, it provides ample evidence of the four processes also at the level
International Journal of Coal Geology, 2014
This paper presents an integrated geochemical and petrological study of the Hällekis-1 core from ... more This paper presents an integrated geochemical and petrological study of the Hällekis-1 core from the Furongian (upper Cambrian) Alum shales in central Sweden to characterise organic matter composition, depositional environment, and potential hydrocarbon generation capability. The results show that organic-rich Alum Shale (TOC: 8.9-28.0 wt.%) contains mainly immature, predominantly algal-derived kerogen with unusually reduced hydrocarbon generation potential as suggested by relatively low Hydrogen Index (HI) values (HI: 251-471 mg HC/g TOC) and high degree of aromaticity. In the absence of thermal generation of hydrocarbons in these immature shales, the recorded low HI values are explained by an unusual chemistry of the biota during the deposition of the Alum shale accentuated by a high degree of sustained bacterially-mediated degradation (e.g., sulphate reduction), and possibly intense nuclear degradation of labile kerogen by radiation from uranium-rich minerals. The higher degree of aromaticity in Alum shale suggests lower than expected oil-proneness. The results of this study suggest that the Alum Shale is a gas-prone source producing aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures with an unexpectedly low concentration of n-alkanes.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015
This study investigates China's biofuel industry-the third largest in the world-by combining a st... more This study investigates China's biofuel industry-the third largest in the world-by combining a strength, weakness, opportunity and threats (SWOT) analysis with a method known as fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP). More specifically, the study employs SWOT analysis to identify the influential factors affecting the development of the biofuel industry in China. It then prioritizes their importance using the FAHP method. The study finds that high production costs, competition with other renewable energy resources, inconsistent policy and legislation support, and poor technical standards are impeding the growth of the biofuel industry of China. The study concludes by proposing strategic recommendations for how the industry can be made both leaner, more efficient and effective, and greener, more socially and environmentally sustainable. Some of these options focuses on improving technical perform, adhering to a "supply push" mentality. Others focus on improving affordability and consumer awareness, adhering to a "demand pull" mentality.
Thunderbird International Business Review, 2013
Until recently, corporations have taken mostly reactive positions on climate change by applying m... more Until recently, corporations have taken mostly reactive positions on climate change by applying mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to imminent political or actual physical risks to their businesses. Few corporations have taken a proactive, opportunity-seeking strategic approach to improve competitiveness over and above the mitigation and adaptation requirements set by policymakers, industry norms, or shifting consumer preferences. Considering that the climate change discussion no longer focuses on whether human activities have an impact on the changing climate, or how much impact they have, corporations should now focus on how to maximize competitiveness based on the actual and predicted climate change effects.
AIChE Journal, 2015
A multicriteria decision-making methodology for the sustainability prioritization of industrial s... more A multicriteria decision-making methodology for the sustainability prioritization of industrial systems is proposed. The methodology incorporates a fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process method that allows the users to assess the soft criteria using linguistic terms. A fuzzy Analytic Network Process method is used to calculate the weights of each criterion, which can tackle the interdependencies and interactions among the criteria. The Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation approach is used to prioritize the sustainability sequence of the alternative systems. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis method was developed to investigate the most critical and sensitive criteria. The developed methodology was illustrated by a case study to rank the sustainability of five alternative hydrogen production technologies. The advantages of the developed methodology over the previous approaches were demonstrated by comparing the results determined by the proposed framework with those determined using the pervious approaches.
Nature Climate Change, 2015
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015
The Arctic is undergoing transformation, where three important drivers are climate change, post-C... more The Arctic is undergoing transformation, where three important drivers are climate change, post-Cold War geopolitics and globalization/power transition from the rise of China. This transformation defines the nexus between science diplomacy, geopolitics, law and globalization under climate change, which is shaping the future of the Arctic and will bring considerable opportunity at national, regional and global levels. Research infrastructures (research stations both military and non-military, observation and monitoring networks) are opening access and data to new Arctic and non-Arctic players. Additional logistics hubs than those already existing are and should be established. Countries are sustaining and building new research as well as search and rescue bases/stations. Stations can be used as indicator of this transformation as well as their implications to improve cooperation, engage in multilateral rather than unilateral actions to protect the Arctic infrastructures and to improve military capabilities. These actions have started to attract also non-Arctic actors, such as China and the European Union (EU), which are developing new policies. Stations may not be developed and maintained only not only for the purpose of the scientific understanding of climatic and environmental impacts but also for function as entities that legitimize national or sovereign claims. At the nexus are the scientists that utilize the research bases and their international colleagues. Arctic/Northern bases are primarily military for historical reasons and for reasons of logistics and expertise, as historically indicated through the American presence in Alaska. This is not the same as saying that the bases are militarized—or part of some national militarization strategy in the Arctic. New steps to identify the role of stations at national, regional and global levels are needed. In this essay, we explore the implications and opportunities for these stations to act as pivots between scientific and geopolitical issues. We argue that where there is scientific collaboration, there is less risk of military conflict and that the Arctic is not “militarized” based on the international politics and science diplomacy of the Arctic.
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