…whether real world events like droughts or changes in species ecology can be attributed to climate change. Taking climate change as a problem related to small but persistent changes, they…

…attitudes towards climate change would change after Katrina, which remains the costliest event in U.S. history ($62 billion in insured damages, $1.25 trillion in overall losses, and 1,322 lives lost)….

…declare an official emergency until August, and even then had difficulty galvanizing an intensive international response. The WHO “should be the global leader” in directing and coordinating international health efforts,…

…economist who was a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics at the time. The Institute, now the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was founded in 1981.[2] Circa 1979-80,…

…phase as the shape of its needs continue to change. Figure 7. Transmission towers awaiting powerlines along the trail through the Langtang Valley in July 2017 (Austin Lord). When I…

…the international tobacco control field. To conclude, I want to reflect on how this story relates to wider historical accounts about the proliferation of micro-technologies within international development and humanitarian…

…special case of the response to climate change, however, it is also possible to see climate change as simply another episode in a half-century history of attempting to predict, using…

…an Army General. Nor could international organizations augment American resources: “At all times the infectious disease unit at WHO is running on a shoestring,” said an international health official. As…

…slow-paced international response to the outbreaks in West Africa. Initial cases in late March garnered a speedy response, with a whole host of international experts descending on the scene in…

…green of a lighter hue. This shade, Kenyans will tell you, is “Safaricom green” (Figure 2). Figure 2: The Merger of Corporate and National Colors. If the iconography of the…

…vengeance (International Business Times 2015). Anonymous members declared war on politically violent Islamic extremists. Some Anons said it was their democratic duty to engage in the international political battle against…

…2 years of qualitative research, encompassing in-person and Skype interviews with three DFID managers, five IDEO managers, and 15 participants, predominantly finalists of the first four challenges. We also conducted…

…business, they had found in the development of standard formats for their interchange the potential to radically simplify the pathways of exchange. No where else had this been more obvious…

…Yamin Aung 2014). Shares sold quickly, and after an additional round of offerings and eventually listing on the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX)—the bourse, Myanmar’s first, opened in May 2016—MTSH would…

…fish head to the Chesapeake Bay to grow older in the brackish waters of the nation’s largest estuary. Historically, the Chesapeake Bay supported a huge population of menhaden: legend has…

…emergence required a novel rationality of health: preparedness for unexpected epidemics rather than the prevention, management, or eradication of already prevalent infections. At the heart of their program were recently…

…change,” whether those voicing the call are critical social scientists, activists, NGO practitioners, or even government ministers? For how is such change imagined? Does this imply the dream of a…

…years as much as 43% of the government’s operating budget comes from oil sale revenues. In light of recent production declines, and in an attempt to partially staunch greenhouse gas…

…as they were carrying whole blood to a waiting U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The blood was being sent to Liberia…

…Eneida, the metal rod illuminated infrastructural relationships linking her body, farm plot, and community to the canal and its dispersed publics, including the state institution that manages the waterway (once…

…toward disease prevention through the management of risk, has remained predominant among experts in public health. However, beginning in the last decades of the twentieth century it has increasingly coexisted…