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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...
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,...
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
Risks, challenges and governance 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...
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...
Greening Capitalism, Quietly: Seven Types of Organizations Driving the “Necessary Revolution”
The full report is available here: Greening Capitalism Final, May 2017, 46 p.Greening Capitalism, Quietly: Seven Types of Organizations Driving the “Necessary Revolution” First published in CADMUS, 3:3, May 2017,...
Human Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
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...
Human Security, International Security, Security | Strategic Studies, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
Migrants & Refugees: A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
According to the UN, the “growth in the number of international migrants has been robust over the last two decades, reaching 281 million people living outside their country of origin...
Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Reports
Reviewed Reports: Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary General (UN, Sept 2021, 84p)Our Future Agenda: A Vision and Plan for Next and Future Generations (UN, Sept 2021, 54p)Shaping Our Future...
Books | Reports, Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Agencies | Programs | Projects
Plastic Pollution – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
The Problem “In 2019, the production and incineration of plastic added more than 850 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Current plans for plastic production and use...
Regional Security – A QuickLook at Leading Organizations
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...