"With renewable energy making technological advances but not yet ready in volume and cost effectiveness, domestic shale gas can provide a medium term solution that can cut carbon emissions.
Although access to virtually unlimited bandwidth via WDM and Photonic Networks may potentially offer a solution to the QoS issue, access to such services on a universal basis is not a services class paradigm and using a label switching technique is seen as an appropriate medium term solution.
As a possible modest and short-medium term solution, the GCC could provide temporary housing such as the kind provided to the Bedoon or stateless communities, which comprise a notable part of the populations of countries, such as Kuwait.
"Just a lack of what is viewed as progress to medium-term solutions".
He said short- and medium-term solutions had been identified, but implementation was weak.
We need short- and medium-term solutions that tackle the problem of plastic trash before it overwhelms critical ocean ecosystems and significantly impacts human health and safety.
Now, with immediate needs for drinkable water being met, UNICEF is working to provide medium-term solutions while reconstruction and repair to damaged networks get underway, thus helping Lebanon to move from the emergency phase into its early recovery.
In this regard, mortality surveillance systems and demographic surveillance sites (DSS) using validated verbal autopsy procedures suggested being a cost-effective alternative method for ascertaining cause of death and sustainable medium-term solutions [ 5, 6].
Still, it is a practical medium-term solution to the lack of conventional schools in Afghanistan.
The medium-term solution The world should help Pakistan focus on development in the north-west frontier province (NWFP) where problems with extremism are most acute.
Local authorities could invest through the City Deal in a research and development centre for new hi-tech steels or the kind of process and business model innovation that Liberty Steel's Gupta has promoted as a possible medium-term solution.
