As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and complex, experts have been contemplating possible doomsday scenarios ...

Accounting for the actual value of natural resources, including resource depletion and population growth, shows that net savings per person are negative in the world’s most impoverished countries, ...

America believed it could put off the question of slavery. It did for 73 years from the drafting of the U.S. Constitution to the beginning of the Civil War. America believed it could put off women’s ...

Rising geopolitical tensions and high oil prices are continuing to help renewable energy find favour amongst investors and politicians. Yet how much faith should we place in renewables to make up the ...

A report released Thursday states that the vicious cycle linking natural resource depletion and violence may have gone past the point of no return in some parts of planet, and will likely be ...

Sustainability science is an emerging field of academic research. Sustainability scientists focus on understanding and addressing the complex interactions between humans and the natural world from an ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. For central place foragers, forming colonies can lead to extensive competition for prey around breeding areas and a zone of local prey ...

The 2014 general election in Indonesia brings an opportunity for the Indonesian public to demand better natural resource management and environmental protection. Resource depletion may shake the very ...

Ethnoecological studies have demonstrated the impacts that even relatively small-scale human foraging has on targeted species of shellfish and the structure of biological communities in intertidal ...

In January 2018, Cape Town, a city of 3.7 million people was just 90 days away from experiencing one of the largest urban water crises in modern history (Burls et al., 2019; Wolski, 2018). Ultimately, ...

Robert B. Richardson is affiliated with the International Society for Ecological Economics, and is currently President of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. Experts widely agree that human ...