Globalization and other economic trends appear to be helping the degraded forests of El Salvador recover, reports new research that evaluated the impact of global trade, land policy changes, and ...

The global scale, interconnectedness, and economic intensity of contemporary human activity are historically unprecedented, 1 as are many of the consequent environmental and social changes. These ...

COST: $20 for two-day conference; $10 for Craig Child’s presentation only; free for CMU students; $5 for area students Renowned Colorado author Craig Childs will be the keynote speaker at the fifth ...

Artist cooperative, Justseeds' installation at the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial (all photos courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery) The Pittsburgh Biennial is a city-wide event, taking ...

Researchers have compiled a world-first conclusive synthesis of the environmental and social impacts of globalization -- using sophisticated computation to provide a bird's eye view of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Most folks instinctively believe growth and environmental protection are mutually exclusive.

Third World Quarterly (TWQ) is the leading journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies. For two and a half decades, it has set the agenda on development discourses of the ...

The global scale, interconnectedness, and economic intensity of contemporary human activity are historically unprecedented, 1 as are many of the consequent environmental and social changes. These ...