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The challenges facing humanity are complex and are not restricted to national borders.  The causal factors of these challenges can be subtly interrelated and many often play a role in several different global issues.  This interconnected nature means that actions and decisions designed to solve a

In the last decade, resilience has rapidly risen in prominence to become an important concept in urban planning practice and academic discourse. Large, high-profile funding opportunities such as the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition and the

Energy and water resources are closely related, especially in urban environments. The urban water cycle requires energy for disinfection and distribution of drinking water, end-use water heating, and treatment of wastewater. Similarly, providing energy for urban environments requires water for

Colombian coffee is a global industry, and holds important cultural value exemplified through the declaration of the Colombian Coffee Cultural Landscape as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Within Colombia, as well as within most tropical countries, tropical forests are continuously under threat from

Adaptive governance literature has long since emphasized the need for science-based policy and management. In brief, the argument is that governance of using natural resources, controlling pollution, or conserving nature will not be effective in reaching environmental policy goals, if there is no

Agricultural runoff is a major source of non-point source pollution to the Great Lakes with harmful impact on the water quality. Nutrient runoff, especially phosphorus, from Maumee River watershed entering the western Lake Erie basin, has led to frequent and severe water quality crises, including

Billions of dollars have been spent restoring large-scale ecosystems in the United States. These initiatives typically involve several federal, state, local, and sometimes tribal stakeholders, and have complex governing bodies that aim to guide restoration activities. Studies analyzing the

Cities are turning to ecological restoration of urban forests to improve air quality, ameliorate urban heat island effects, improve storm water infiltration, and provide other social and ecological benefits. In New York City, ecological restoration of urban forest patches began in the 1980s, with a

Uneven racial development in the United States has led to the persistence of significant inequalities across Black and White populations for decades. White households earned 61% more income than Black households in 2014, for example, but more importantly White people’s median net worth was 13 times

In Sentences on Conceptual Art, Sol LeWitt states: “Rational judgments repeat rational judgments. Irrational judgments lead to new experience.” By asking irrational questions, artists can push scholarly enquiry in unanticipated directions. Visual artist Eliz Demaray programs listening stations for

To date, property politics related to common property regimes, or “the commons,” has been dominated by European notions of property relations. In contrast to this tradition, this paper builds upon several specific threads of thinking to take questions of the racialization of the commons more

Despite recent gains in global agricultural productivity; sustained, equitable, and stable access to food continues to be a concern in the Sub-Saharan region. This issue is even more pressing when combined with climate change, reoccurring hunger, and volatile humanitarian relief that can undermine

When the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program was being planned in the late 1970s, a common argument was that most ecological research projects were short-term and that examples of long-term projects were few and far between. Yet these early discussions easily identified dozens of potential