Ethnobiology and research on Global Environmental Change: what distinctive contribution can we make?

Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left

T hree of the four authors of this book are older than 60, and the fourth, Chandra Sripada, is no longer a spring chicken. We believe, in spite of our age, that our advocacy of prospection is quite a creative turn for psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. It is natural that the four of us should be invested in the issue of aging and creativity and that our concluding chapter should tackle t...

Adopting New International Health Instruments – What Can We Learn From the FCTC?; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”

This Commentary forms a response to Nikogosian’s and Kickbusch’s forward-looking perspective about the legal strength of international health instruments. Building on their arguments, in this commentary we consider what we can learn from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for the adoption of new legal international health instruments.

What Contribution Can China Make to Inclusive Growth in Ssa?

Despite rapid economic growth the numbers living in absolute poverty in Africa have grown. The absence of inclusive growth can be traced to the structure of globalisation, the advance of financialisation and the trajectory of technological progress. A number of disruptive forces in which China has played a major role offer the possibility of moving from this exclusive growth strategy – terms of...

Commentary : What can we Learn from New Research on Evidentials ?

Global environmental change research: empowering developing countries.

This paper discusses ways to reconcile the United Nations Millennium Development Goals with environmental sustainability at the national and international levels. The authors argue that development and better use of sustainability relevant knowledge is key, and that this requires capacity building globally, and especially in the less developed regions of the world. Also essential is stronger in...