Using case studies from Austria and Kansas, this paper compares the socioecological structures of the agricultural communities immigrants left to those that they found and created on the other side of the Atlantic.

Sir Crispin Tickell scans what industrial countries can and have to do in order to give a lead in global arrangements to alleviate economic and ecological problems.

An evolutionary analysis of history suggests that technology and morality can and will respond to a clearly perceived future threat to civilization. But will our response be fast enough?

The authors regard migration as a form of adaptation and argue that Irish migration in 1740–1741 should be considered as a case of climate-induced migration.