Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Top Five: Climate Change
Congratulations to The Journal of Environment & Development! This year, JED received its first Impact Factor (1.079) in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports® […]
Risk Management Approach Could Motivate Climate Change Action
Is it possible that modern society’s bitter political divisions over belief in anthropogenic climate change is distracting decision-makers from the far more practical matter of confronting the risk that it presents, directly or indirectly, to businesses and the economy?
Obama Vows to Act on Climate Change
As reported in The New York Times, President Barack Obama devoted special attention to climate-change goals in his second Inaugural Address on […]
Responding to Climate Change
A federal report released Friday warns that climate change will impact the everyday lives of Americans in coming decades, with extreme weather […]
How To Act on Climate Change
Climate change is a hot-button issue, often turned into a political football. For this and other reasons, it can be easy to […]
Climate Change: Is It Too Late?
Editor’s note: Dr. Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg and Visiting Chief Economist at the Environmental Defense […]
Adding People to the Climate Change Equation
People’s behavior has been noticeably absent in science on sustainability, but a conference before June’s U.N. summit offers some hint human processes may join natural ones in developing solutions.
How Banks Respond to Climate Change
Bettina Furrer, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Jens Hamprecht and Volker H. Hoffmann, both of ETH Zurich, published “Much Ado About Nothing? How […]
