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Air Pollution: A QuickLook at Organizations Working Towards Clean Air
There is an increasing desire to understand how to stop air pollution. Each year, it is responsible for some 7 million deaths worldwide. This includes indoor air pollution (which kills...
Alternative Energy – A Quick Look at the Leading Organizations in the Field
Introduction While fossil fuels continue to dominate energy production and consumption, the press of climate change has made it abundantly clear that the ecological costs of greenhouse gas emitting power...
Arctic Warming: A QuickLook at Concerned Organizations
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...
Book Review – Global Systems Change: Six Linked Perspectives
The full Review has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 3 (p. 164-174) and is available here: Global Systems Change: Six Linked Perspectives! (October 2017) Introduction Change is...
Book Review: An Introduction to Ecological Economics
As we rush headlong into the Anthropocene age, when humans dominate and disrupt the earth and its natural systems, governance of evolution becomes increasingly imperative. “Sustainable development” of some sort...
Book Review: Come On! A Report to the Club of Rome: New Frontiers
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...
Book Review: The Art of Leading Collectively
Conflicts, misunderstandings, failures, and hidden agendas are part of the journey, she warns, and sustainability is not one single issue, but a complex of issues. But “collective leadership for sustainability...
Climate Coalitions – A QuickLook at Global Alliances
Climate change is the major long-term global issue for the next decades. The August 2021 IPCC report from Working Group 1, on “The Physical Science Basis”, warns that human influence...
Climate Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Note: This is a preliminary version that will be updated soon. Climate Security centers its attention on the "maintenance of the local and the planetary biosphere as the essential support...
COVID-19 – What Experts Expect & Propose
Published 1 Aug, 2020. 1st update 11 Sept, 2020. 2nd Update 10 Oct,2020. Download as PDF here The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed our world and is still underway with...
CyberSecurity : A QuickLook at Organizations Addressing the Growing Threat
When reviewing the Future of Cybersecurity, in their July 19, 2021 Cover Feature on “Broadbandits,” the Economist warned of “an epoch of intensifying cyber-insecurity that will impinge on everyone,” stating...
Education for Sustainability and the SDGs: A QuickLook at Advocating Organizations
Introduction Education is not merely a Sustainable Development Goal (#4), but also an important tool to address the broad range of security and sustainability issues. Obviously, we cannot have security...
Education for Sustainability and the SDGs: A Short Guide to Advocating Organizations
Our world is amid multiple crises, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. This includes a crisis in education and learning, notably at K-12 levels, where many...
Environmental Peacebuilding – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Note: This is a preliminary version that will be updated soon. Historically, peacebuilding efforts have focused on social and economic issues. Environmental peacebuilding incorporates natural resource management into peacebuilding activities....
Essay: COVID-19: A Pandemic of Assassinated Assumptions: A Perfect Storm for Leaders
First published Dec. 14th 2020. Provocation The global pandemic was declared by the WHO on 11 March, signalling that COVID-19 had or was about to reach all shores. Since then,...
Evolving Meanings of the War for Ukraine – Winning, Losing, Fearing, Needing #2
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...
Evolving Meanings of the War for Ukraine: Winning, Losing, Fearing, Needing
Introduction The war for Ukraine has made the transition to the next global ‘normal’ overwhelmingly intense, chronologically unpredictable, and massively costly. Never before has a significant country had more...
Foresight’s FOUR Frames
The full Essay has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 3 (p. 113-121) and is available here: Foresight’s FOUR Frames (October 2017) Abstract Strategic Foresight is usually understood...
Global Risks and Challenges – A Quick Look at Security Organizations
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,...
Global Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
Note: This is a preliminary version that will be updated soon. The 21st century has proved itself as very complicated. As a result, international institutions and national actors struggle to...