Tag: Environment & Sustainability
100 Articles
- Business & Economics
Climate Change and the Insurance Industry: Managing Risk in a Risky Time
Under the banner of “sustainable insurance,” a growing number of companies have committed themselves to reducing their own carbon footprints, improving their underwriting…
June 9, 2020
- Forum
From Planting Soft Image of Pakistan to Climate Change
Musharraf liberalized and corporatized the media, courted international capital, and even initially took on the corporate title of “chief executive” instead of the “chief…
June 8, 2020
- Science & Technology
Controlling Corruption to Improve Water Security: Lessons from the South African Water Sector
In the mid-90s, South Africa was seen as a global leader in the water sector. In 2002, South Africa spearheaded a campaign to set a global goal for sanitation provision, now…
June 3, 2020
- Science & Technology
Denmark-California: A Partnership for Sustainability
The answer is closely aligned with core Danish foreign policy priorities, among them being a strong focus on economic diplomacy. Denmark is a small, open economy, generating more…
June 2, 2020
- Society & Culture
Melting and Mining in Greenland: Understanding Arctic Climate Change Through Dialogue with Locals
Introduction Approximately 13.1 million people live in the Circumpolar North. Communities and cultures established throughout the Arctic thousands of years ago have adapted to…
May 29, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
How Natural Resource (Mis-)management in the Nile River Basin May Threaten Stability
If managed properly, the GERD offers benefits to Ethiopia and the wider region. Ethiopia sees domestic electrification and international energy sales from the GERD as its pathway…
May 20, 2020
- Society & Culture
Climate Change in Central America: The Drug War Connection
Ecological destruction by narcotics traffickers is hardly unusual; similar dynamics are reported across Latin America. It is particularly widespread in Central America, however.…
May 13, 2020
- Forum
Facing Extinction? Climate Protests after Coronavirus
The current health crisis will eventually pass, and climate change will return to everyday debate. But the surge in public concern about global warming has been interrupted, and…
May 6, 2020
- Forum
The Arctic is Transforming… Can We?
This metamorphosis has dramatic implications for ecosystems in the region. Early indications show that ecosystems are rearranging at every level. Near the base of the food chain,…
May 1, 2020
- Global Governance
Politics at the End of the Anthropocene
The above introduction was supposed to be the opening of a text focusing on the overlap of the climate crisis, right-wing authoritarianism, and the origins of both in our fossil…
April 20, 2020