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Report on Recent Reports #4, Winter 2022-2023
Original Content, Reviews
Polycrisis: Probable; Remedies: Possible                A wide variety of organizations and individuals have recently warned of multiple global crises.  Some have used the term “polycrisis,” defined by the Cascade Institute...
Development, Disasters, Energy, Environment, Risks, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals
Arctic Warming: A QuickLook at Concerned Organizations
QuickLooks
Arctic climate change. The Arctic is more affected by global warming than any other place on earth, resulting in unprecedented physical, social, economic, and political transformations.  Concern for Arctic change...
Climate Change, Risks
Book Review: Come On! A Report to the Club of Rome: New Frontiers
Reviews
The full Review has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 4 and is available here: Book Review of Come On! (May 2018) Introduction Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population...
Risks, Sustainability
Evolving Meanings of the War for Ukraine  – Winning, Losing, Fearing, Needing #2  
Essays
Download as PDF Introduction The war for Ukraine continues making the transition to the next global ‘normal’ more complicated, more chronologically unpredictable, and more costly. Indeed, in only the five...
Futures, Security, War/ Conflict
Global Risks and Challenges – A Quick Look at Security Organizations
QuickLooks
Global Security is an elusive term with several definitions. According to Ken Booth, Global Security Threats can be divided into global existential threats and global emancipatory threats. Global existential threats,...
Risks, Security
Human Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Original Content, QuickLooks
The concept of Human Security While the traditional notion aims to defend a nation-state in its territorial integrity through increased military means, human security focuses on the individual. This concept...
Development, Human Security
Regional Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Original Content, QuickLooks
Today we live in a world with numerous areas of power and no institutions adapted to address its contemporary security challenges. For instance, China and other countries in the Southeast...
Security
Report on Recent Reports – #2, Summer 2022
Reviews
Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals Advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals requires evidence-based information and advocacy that is widely disseminated and cited.  Transdisciplinary approaches are especially required, exemplified...
Foresight, Futures, Sustainable Development Goals
Report on Recent Reports #5, Spring 2023
Reviews
World of Woes—and Proposed Global Remedies         The Alliance of World Scientists warns of “code red” on the planet and an unequivocal climate emergency (5:1).  The better-known IPCC Synthesis Report...
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Futures, Global Governance, Human Security
SSG Newslitter – February 2023
Essays
Welcome to SSG February NewsLitter, written by a news-wonk who is ever less certain about what he knows…let alone all he can not. December intentions for this second offering were...
Democracy/Rule of Law, Education/Training, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Population, Security