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Michael Kugelman Interview with Ed Saltzburg of the Security & Sustainability Forum

By Admin / On September 4th, 2012

Michael Kugelman, in his upcoming book, The Global Farms Race, delves into the dynamics of foreign control of farmland in developing nations. A Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Asian expert, Kugelman’s edited volume provides insights into the sometimes positive but more often negative impacts on local economies and social structure. Listen to the podcast here.

The Global Land Rush: Catalyst for Resource Driven Conflict?

By Michael Kugelman / On July 31st, 2012

On May 11, the UN approved new international rules to govern how land is acquired abroad.

Hunting and the Land Ethic

By Cristina Eisenberg / On January 31st, 2011

I spent a dozen purple dusks and gilded dawns last December hunkered down in the hoarfrost in coulees, hiding in the rabbitbrush and sage during a late-season Colorado elk hunt. In an area with too many elk and not enough wolves, hunting cow elk provides a powerful conservation tool, because of its effectiveness in thinning herds.

The Distributed City

By Peter Newman / On February 2nd, 2009

The seven key innovations of resilient cities are set as city models (being detailed over the next several weeks here at “Eco-Compass”). While no one city has shown innovation in all seven areas, some are quite advanced in one or two. The challenge for urban planners will be to apply all of these city characteristics together, to generate a sense of hope through a combination of new technology, city design and community-based innovation, which together will create the Resilient City.

land use

Michael Kugelman Interview with Ed Saltzburg of the Security & Sustainability Forum

The Global Land Rush: Catalyst for Resource Driven Conflict?

Hunting and the Land Ethic

The Distributed City

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