Worldwide the greatest effects on the health of individuals and populations results from environmental degradation and social injustice, operating in consort. This paper describes the national and global causes and health consequences of these phenomena. Causes include overpopulation, pollution, deforestation, global warming, unsustainable agricultural and fishing practices, overconsumption, ma...

Crime increase in Latin America has occurred parallel with a change police policy territories. Along the processes of militarization and repression, strategies co-production have been inspired by community policing, but articulation both urban margins understudied. Our hypothesis affirms coexistence ambivalence social assistance abusive practices against city's poor. Qualitative methods conduct...

This study examines the dynamic relationship between democracy and military in more than 40 developing countries from 1990 to 2017. We investigate interaction institutions using a panel vector autoregressive model impulse response functions as well variance decomposition analyses. show that plays significant role substitution of nonmilitary expenditures for defense expenditures. also positive s...

The dispersed character of terrorism as a practice became more coherent to the Western realm through the operationalisation of counter terrorist discourses. The media played a major role in that in the sense that they provided public ‘visibility’ upon the potentiality of terrorist threat. What this essay would like to discuss is the way such representations of threat negotiate a number of issue...

So, climate change and conflict is back in the media, seemingly with the strength of science behind it. I’ve been a rather direct, harsh critic of some work on this connection before, at least in part because I am deeply concerned that work on this subject (which remains preliminary) might disproportionately influence policy decisions in unproductive or even problematic directions (i.e. by cont...