Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Energy/Eastern Mediterranean – Energy: Factor of Stability or Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean? (ELIAMEP)

Marika Karagianni writes: Security of critical economic and energy infrastructure has become a key element in the agenda of both the EU and NATO. ...

Food Systems Crisis – Our Food Systems Need an Overhaul. Here’s How the UN Food Summit Can Help (World Resources Institute)

Craig Hanson, Edward Davey, Liz Goodwin, Rebecca Carter, Sophie Wood and Janet Ranganathan write: The world faces a growing food systems crisis. The number of people who go to sleep...

USA/New Climate Economy – The Economic Benefits of the New Climate Economy in Rural America (World Resources Institute)

Devashree Saha, Alex Rudee, Haley Leslie-Bole and Tom Cyrs write for World Resources Institute: Rural US communities can reap significant benefits from investments in the new climate...

Climate Finance – Is Climate Finance Supporting Frontline Communities? Most Governments Don’t Know (World Resources Institute)

Tamara Coger, Ayesha Dinshaw, Nisha Krishnan and Brandon Pytel  write: Climate impacts are here, now, and they are felt most acutely by local communities already disproportionately vulnerable to economic, health...

Climate Change – Tracking and Reporting Finance for Locally Led Adaptation to Climate Change (World Resources Institute)

Tamara Coger, Ayesha Dinshaw, Nisha Krishnan, Mitchell Cook, Anna Brown, Eric Chu and Emma Illick-Frank write for World Resources Institute: This working paper discusses how governments can use practical, flexible approaches...

Bulgaria/Europe/Climate Change – Bulgaria’s abstention from the fight against climate change (ECFR)

Maria Simeonova and Mariya Trifonova write: In late June, the Council of the European Union gave the green light to the first European Climate...

Japan/South Korea – Japan–South Korea Olympic diplomacy over before it began (East Asia Forum)

Editorial Board, ANU, writes: Despite the long list of problems associated with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics — corruption, scandals, budget overruns, a year’s long delay due to COVID-19 and...

Japan/South Korea – Why the Suga–Moon Tokyo Olympics summit was cancelled (East Asia Forum)

Kazuhiko Togo writes for East Asia Forum: The relationship between Japan and South Korea since the end of the Second World War has certainly...

China/Australia – China threatens Australia with missile attack (The Strategist)

Paul Dibb writes for The Strategist: In the face of an increasing torrent of abuse from Beijing, Canberra should seek a much clearer commitment...

Indonesia/Climate Security – ASPI explains: Climate security in Indonesia (The Strategist)

The Strategist writes: In this ASPI explainer, Robert Glasser, head of ASPI’s Climate and Security Policy Centre, and Anastasia Kapetas, The Strategist’s national security editor, outline...

Australia/Defense – ASPI’s decades: Urgently eating the defence elephant (The Strategist)

Graeme Dobell for The Strategist: Australian industry is showing the appetite for ‘eating the elephant’, the big task of producing new defence equipment. A lot more...

Afghanistan – Another proxy war in Afghanistan? (The Interpreter)

AARTI BETIGERI writes for The Interpreter: With the US in the process of withdrawing the last of its troops from Afghanistan, it has taken little...

Australia/Syria – Bringing home Australian children trapped in Syrian camps (The Interpreter)

RODGER SHANAHAN writes for The Interpreter: The Covid-19 pandemic has dominated global and local news to such an extent for the last 18 months...

China – Chinese Oppo ranks 2nd slot in global smartphone market, beating Apple (Global Times)

Global Times writes: Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is ranking second in global smartphone market share in May, 2021, with a 16 percent share of...

Tibet/China – Lhasa-Nyingchi railway records 106,000 visits in first-month operation (Global Times)

Global Times writes: Lhasa-Nyingchi railway recorded 106,000 visits, with an average daily patronage of 3,500 trips over its first month of operation, according to...

China – China’s private education shares drop due to country’s tightened regulation (Global Times)

Global Times writes: Several HKEX listed stocks in education sector including New Oriental, China New Higher Education Group and Scholar Education Group all saw...