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Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, and Mobility in the Arctic
Elizabeth Ferris is the co-director of the Brooking-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Photo via the Brookings Institution. How...
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Development or Environmental Protection?: The 21st Century Climate Dilemma
William Antholis is the Executive Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and the former Managing Director of the Brookings Institution. Photo via the Miller...
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More than a Mascot: Indigenous People and Climate Politics
Inuit children waiting after hunting. CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. For decades, climate change politics was a subject without a face. According to Marybeth Long Martello, a scholar of global...
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Indigenous Rights: The Hidden Cost of Arctic Development
The delicate environmental and political balance that composes the Arctic has made it one of the most hotly contested regions in the world. This fragility poses a direct threat to the traditional...
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Frontier mentality has no place in the Arctic
Often we hear about the Arctic as a place buffeted by international and regional pressures — pollutants from agriculture, planetary climate impacts, and rising industrial pressures caused by globalized...
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Crime Gone Wild: The Dangers of the International Illegal Wildlife Trade
A room full of confiscated illicit animal products at John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York. Photo by Steve Hillenbrand, public domain. What widely illegal powdered substance possesses a...
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The Curious Case of Costa Rica: Can an Outlier Sustain its Success?
“Costa Rica Playa Tamarindo and Rivermouth 2007 Aerial Photograph” By Tamarindowiki, CC BYSA 2.0, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. In many respects, Costa Rica has been Latin America’s success story in...
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Adopt a Disaster: Shock, Empathy, and International Responses to Natural...
On March 13, 2015, Cyclone Pam, a Category 5 storm, battered the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, considered by the United Nations to be one of the world’s least developed countries. Winds of up...
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Review of The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World Thomas Robert Malthus shares an unenviable place in public thought with men like Hobbes and Lamarck—he is the poor sap who gets glibly...
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Investing in All Children: Towards Equitable, Inclusive, and Sustainable...
Children smile in the Villa Nueva elementary school in Picota, Peru. Their school is among 30 participating in a UNICEF-assisted community education project. 2002. Photo courtesy of UNICEF....
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Towards a Sustainable Future: Reviewing the Millennium Development Goals
Our fall 2015 feature issue, Towards a Sustainable Future: Reviewing the Millennium Development Goals, will be hitting newsstands very soon! Check out some exclusive online articles for a preview of...
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Dealing with Assertive China: Time for Engagement 2.0
By all accounts, China’s rise as a great power has reached a new phase. In 2010, by nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP), China overtook Japan as the world’s second largest economy, following stunning...
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Great Progress in Global Health: Unfinished Business Remains
A child in the Philippines receives a vaccination in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Photo by Jess Seldon, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0. In the year 2000, the largest-ever gathering of world...
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From MDGs to SDGs: The Political Value of Common Global Goals
A Vietnamese vendor shows off her wares, which were funded by microfinance loans. Photo by Lorrie Graham/AusAID via flickr. CC BY 4.0. The adoption of the Millennium Declaration by world leaders 15...
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A Look at Global Economic Growth: An Interview with Dambisa Moyo
Dambisa Moyo is an international economist and NY Times bestselling author who hails from Zambia. Photo by davidgrundy, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Given your experience, what do you think is...
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The Rice Crisis of 2008: A Lesson in Mismanagement
A rice farmer in Indonesia, one of the countries hit hard by the 2008 Rice Crisis. “Farmer harvesting rice, Kampung Rawa,” by user Crisco 1492, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. 2008 was a year of...
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Famine or Feast: Climate Change and the Future of Food Production
A dry riverbed in California. California’s drought has already taken a serious toll on its agricultural production. “California Drought” by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. PD US NOAA,...
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The Essential Element: How Phosphorus Scarcity Endangers the World
CC0, accessed via Pexels. Phosphorus: a powdery maroon substance used in producing everything from baking powder to steels to fertilizer. Surprisingly, stocks of phosphorus are declining. The...
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The World Wildlife Fund: Innovative Private Sector Partnerships and the Road...
Carter Roberts, President and CEO of WWF. Photo by Kent Dayton. Carter Roberts is President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the United States, a position he has held for the past twelve...
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The Growing International Movement Against Killer Robots
An MQ-1B Predator, left, and an MQ-9 Reaper taxi to the runway in preparation for takeoff June 13, 2014, on Creech Air Force Base, Nev. The aircraft are assigned to the 432nd Wing, which trains pilots,...
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