Resource use and waste management tend to differ markedly in the developed and the developing world. The wealthier the person or society, the more resources consumed and the more wastes (solid and ...

Knowledge building on Rohingya women is further challenged when service providers lending support to Rohingya refugees and migrants in Thailand and Malaysia are predominantly men. At present, there is ...

This ongoing crisis has left almost 3 million Syrian children out of school and puts their future at risk. A new Save the Children study, Education under Attack, shows this situation has become very ...

As production (real GDP) grows, its marginal utility declines, because we satisfy our most important needs first. Likewise, the marginal disutilitiy inflicted by growth increases, because as the ...

The Bulang are thought to be one of the earliest cultivators of tea in Yunnan Province. Established during the East Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), Mangjing is home to 586 households and a population of ...

Refugee and migrant women are known to be at heightened risk of being subjected to sexual and gender-based violence. Their vulnerability as women is compounded by the violence they risk suffering both ...

The Shibuya location was chosen to make sure a high number of people would walk over the installation, thus generating a good amount of power. Hayamizu says that during the entire 20 day period of the ...

How Small Islands Can Leverage Digital Analytics For Better Public Services The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed governments towards digital interventions to enhance the efficiency, resilience, and ...

The relationship between climate change and migration has been of interest to researchers and policymakers for more than 25 years — but misleading claims about climate-induced mass migration from the ...

Japan is quite a unique case when it comes to urban agriculture. Despite being a highly industrialized country, the presence of agricultural land use is a common feature on the urban landscape of ...

Do migrants willingly choose to flee their homes, or is migration the only option available? There is no clear, one-size-fits-all explanation for a decision to migrate — a choice that will be made ...

The ongoing civil war in Yemen which started in 2015 is estimated to have killed well over 13,000 people including an estimated 5,000 civilians, although there are reports that the real numbers are ...