Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science. Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. Conventional governance toolkits offer few if any tools designed for problems involving non-linear relationships and huge time-lags between cause and effect.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 11, 2024
I didn’t have the political language,” Resita said. See “Freedom Hill” on Saturday, April 20, at the Academy of Natural Sciences as part of the inaugural film festival, Confluence: Earthly Films for Philadelphia. It will be shown during the 5 p.m. slate of films programmed by BlackStar Projects.
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HumanNature
MARCH 15, 2024
Therefore, the study and possible solutions of global energy transition should consider biological and natural processes as well as the socio economic and political trade-offs. The political economy of the ‘just transition’. Energy transition is a complex and non-linear process with multiple questions and interdependent factors.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JUNE 27, 2022
Robert Peck, senior fellow and artifacts curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences, has his fingerprints all over the world of natural history. When asked whether he was scared for his life, he politely laughs. “No, No, not until much later,” he says. ” Peck in the mountainous rainforests of Ecuador.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 14, 2022
From the complex, grueling efforts of science to understand and prevent COVID to the political aftershocks that continue to shake the world, we have learned how a single pathogen can disrupt normal life and sow chaos. There is nothing new, however, about a disease causing social and political change.
Academy of Natural Sciences
AUGUST 2, 2024
With my colleagues from Living on Earth Through the Academy of Natural Sciences, I found my first co-op with the nationally syndicated public radio show Living on Earth. All the research and innovation in Pakistan functions in silos with minimal effect on policy, politics and regulations.
Legal Planet
JULY 13, 2021
As a scholar of governance, I see that these new ESIs tend to share some social, political, and ethical challenges: The goal of environmental governance : Are they to restore pre-industrial conditions as much as possible, to help humanity sustainably thrive, to compensate for past wrongs, or something else?
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