"Editorial" for Global Environment 4
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
This fourth issue continues the journal’s exploration of the scientific paradigms of global environmental history.
This analysis raises questions about the extent to which ecological economics has been able to influence real-world decisions and policy.
State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World examines the policy changes needed to combat climate change and explores the economic benefits that could flow from the transition.
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.
The 2014 edition, marking the Institute’s fortieth anniversary, examines both barriers to responsible political and economic governance as well as gridlock-shattering new ideas.
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
China and the United States are in a fierce competition, but what about Europe? Spotlighting “twenty-first century ecological politics,” environmental studies and public policy scholar Sophia Kalantzakos wonders: “Can Brussels and Beijing get it right?”