…risks is also apparent in the domain of catastrophe insurance. Traditional models of insurantial risk assessment focus on loss-causing events (sickness, workplace injury, or death, for example) that are normally…

…an appropriate metonym of Masdar City, and that the whole idea of the eco-city was lavish. They stressed that such increasing obsession with technological innovation was not unique to Masdar,…

…first cases appeared, and there was no organized response. “We were tested by Ebola and we failed,” he concluded (Elliot 2014). The diagnosis of failure, of course, assumes a locus…

…In Nairobi, a combination of approaches has produced a portfolio of privatized, imperfect, but functioning alternatives to nonexistent or inadequate government infrastructure and delivery (Bohnert et al. 2016). Yet, because…

…to services such as health care and finance. Sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia are notably prominent in the geography of these devices and provide the setting…

…it, a “toothless watchdog” that was “perceived as a club of African heads of states, many of whom were not democratically elected representatives of their own citizens, but self-appointed dictators…