A major lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to decolonize transnational governance so that the world is better able to handle both future and current global crises.
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Trade regulation by rich countries against pests and disease is gradually making its way into the less developed nations. On top of safer foods, new research shows this could also bring sustainable growth.
Climate change is changing wave patterns and strength. Bigger waves combined with sea level rise will hit coasts hard – but only in some countries.
Richer nations are increasingly looking to offshore their immigration processing and further their own economic and political interests at the same time.
Not all nations have joined in a united front against Russia’s invasion. The conflict and talk of a new Cold War could reignite the nonaligned movement.
By linking different issues together, organisations show the importance of approaching information disorder as a complex problem requiring various responses.
Crisis is a given for resource-poor households globally, but — in the absence of supportive policies — so are these careful strategies of self-provisioning and mutual aid.
The decolonisation of science is an essential step for the academic community in Indonesia to find their voice.
Wealthy states sort people into hierarchies, keeping ‘unwanted people’ in their regions of origin while facilitating mobility for supposedly ideal migrants.
The welcome mat for refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine stands in stark contrast to recent anti-immigrant policies targeting those from the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
The goal of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, or GFANZ, is to bring together the financial sector to accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy. Here’s why it might actually work.
Contributing to global knowledge, from the lens of local experience, can lead to solutions to universal problems such as inequality and climate change.
From Germany to Georgetown, the Global North has a lot to learn about reckoning successfully with past human rights wrongs.
Climate change science dominated by knowledge produced in the global North cannot address the particular challenges faced by those living in the global South.
As the global South transitions to a predominantly urban future, food offers a way to understand the role of cities in future development.
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Ecology needs to be more inclusive of research from the global South and by women, to create a balanced view of the world.
Early in the pandemic, countries had to address several questions as the virus spread and lockdowns became inevitable.
Global economic policy excludes low-income countries from the spending options that developed nations use to buffer their economies in times of crisis, and the pandemic has inflamed that inequality.
Side agreements signed by some wealthy nations threaten to undercut global efforts to ensure a fairly equitable worldwide vaccination effort.
Until there are global standards for authentic corporate social responsibility efforts, we will continue to see local impoverishment, hazardous waste and tragic labour accidents in the Global South.
Top contributors
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Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Development & Transformation, University of Manchester
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Professor of International Relations and Political Science, St. Thomas University (Canada)
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Associate Professor of Innovation Finance, Faculty of Business, Athabasca University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Toronto
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CIGI chair in Gloal Migration and Development, Professor of Geography and Enviromental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Post doctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Media and Communication, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
