…the goal is to mobilize efforts to save local species and promote biodiversity as part of broader efforts at preserving territorial and historical integrity. This public injunction has led naturalist…

…as so many states now do stems from the central role that trade plays in reproducing a corporate managed and transnationally networked ‘way of life’. Yet, a slippage occurs where…

…recommendations of fat use rest. (Aronowitz 1998:111‒44; Garrety 1997; Greene 2007). This testifies to the ongoing difficulty of crossing the dietary fat/serum cholesterol threshold, and the central role of the…

…The production of mice with certain gene knockouts or transgenic additions was and still is central to many areas of genetic research. The intense refinement of experimental rodents as an…

…have been zealous in their promotion of the virtues of transparency. Even multinational companies seek to demonstrate their transparency, although arguably less now than they did previously. And lest anyone…

…helped to establish preparedness as a central problem and norm for global health. A suspected Ebola patient being moved from a plane in Pretoria, South Africa during the Zaire outbreak…

…central assumption, that nature is made up of systems—would be an important condition of possibility for Holling’s notion of resilience. As ecologists reached for the language and tools of cybernetics…

…its own online encrypted anonymizing submission system, whose approach is now used, via the hacker-coded GlobaLeaks and SecureDrop open source software, also by several major news organizations such as Associated…

…complex future that is seemingly right at hand. The centrality of such horizoning work cannot be underestimated in ecological research, as the uncertainty of previous models and unprecedented threats have…

…to create a “multi-stage regional design competition to promote resilience for the Sandy-affected region” called Rebuild by Design (RBD) (Task Force 2013:1). The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…

…treatments aimed at neutralizing viruses associated with CCD. A summary of current research on CCD could easily become a story about the different interests that promote, or dismiss, a range…

…four decades earlier that extracted the liquid from the Sardinal aquifer to supply local populations. Taking advantage of the access they had to central governmental authorities, investors agreed with the…

…work, nor the infrastructure, but the project that had gained funding from the CAF (Central Andean Fund). Odebrecht ran the project, which was backed by the Peruvian government, structured around…

…clear the stakes of long-term weather changes in non-obvious ways. I have developed the term to understand experiences of flooding in central Thailand during Oct-Nov 2011, which demonstrated Bangkok’s unique…

…the management of the critical infrastructures and industrial systems that comprise modern economies had been taken up as a central concern of military planning. In Europe and the United States,…

…project aims to justify its ambitious claims to totality. A total archive of editorial activity is therefore central to the project’s mission to amass the “sum total of human knowledge.”…

…order, number, and arrangement of options, can most effectively promote public welfare, as appropriate, giving particular consideration to the selection and setting of default options.” At the time, I was…

This LIMN examines the concept of systemic risk. Systemic risk has become a central topic of expert discussion and political debate amidst the financial crisis that began in 2008, but…

…opened in Grand Central Terminal Station in 2003, it now boasts a mobile van, an ever-widening mandate, a set of prestigious awards, a podcast, and a mobile app for collecting….

…of class conflicts more subtle than the proletarian/bourgeoisie split, all while still maintaining the central character of the latter. The adversaries of this viewpoint traditionally point out that technical tools…

…the mid-twentieth century, including economic growth and poverty reduction. In fact, although policy failures are central to this story, the part they play is a surprisingly creative one. These failures…

…series of narratives that make these claims travel globally. But what kind of toilet should be promoted? The Sanitation Problem In December 2009, a group of private sector individuals, nongovernmental…

…Naypyidaw, built ex nihilo in the plains of central Myanmar. Ian Brown (2013:184), an economic historian, writes: “(N)ew highways, bridges, dams and reservoirs, indeed a new capital city for Myanmar,…

…of the interviewee” (Kreuger and Casey 2009: 3), focus groups share the central goal of the social sciences – to see the world as if from another person’s point of…

…sociality. Central to the organisation of such DIWO communities within MLP is the practice of ‘hospitality’. We use the term in its classic anthropological sense, as a technique for the…