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Future Cities and urban transformation
Today, 54% of our global population lives in cities and by 2050 it is estimated to reach 66%, which is an increase of 2.5...
The Compulsion of Water Cooperation
Danilo Turk and Sundeep Waslekar Since last September when the United Nations declared water as a sustainable development goal, a number of countries have...
The Power of Siberia Pipeline: Multiple Layers of Complex Geopolitics
The Power of Siberia pipeline is particularly well-suited to exploring the convergence of energy resource scarcity and climate change and that convergence’s impact on...
The New Beginning
A declaration was made at Paris’s climate talks at the plenary session: the introduction of a new initiative to save the world in a...
Ecological Globalistan – Political Terroristan
Speaking in Paris on December 7, 2015 – only a morning after the landslide victory of the far right French political party, the UN...
Transboundary Water Crisis in the Middle East
Approximately 40 per cent of the world’s population lives in river and lake basins that comprise two or more countries, and perhaps even more...
Radioactive: Illicit Materials-trafficking across the Greater Caspian
The global impact of transnational crime has risen to unprecedented levels. Criminal groups have appropriated new technologies, adapted horizontal network structures that are difficult...
The “Global Spiral” of Caspian Environmental Politics
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that the Caspian Basin holds more than 48 billion barrels of oil and more than 292 trillion cubic...
Ecoregions as Geopolitical Subregions
According to WWF (World Wildlife Foundation), an ecoregion is a “large unit of land or water containing a geographically distinct assemblage of species, natural...
Why Europe must back a technology-neutral energy policy
Some observers believe the Europe 2020 package, coupled with the economic showdown, is bringing the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions under control. Bryony Worthington disagrees...