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The GS Taipei Workshop 2019 with “Promoting Human-centred Development in the Digital Age” as its overarching theme is going to take place at the Ambassador Hotel on January 30, 2019 in Taipei. It will be co-organized by Chung-Hua Institute for...

During the past six decades, agriculture as a main sector in Iran’s economy has been affected by economic development, land-use policies, and population growth and its pressures. From the 1940s until 2010, the percentage of the total urban population...

The ocean regulates the global climate, provides humans with natural resources such as food, materials, important substances, and energy, and is essenti

The ocean regulates the global climate, provides humans with natural resources such as food, materials, important substances, and energy, and is essenti

Halpern et al (2012 An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean Nature 488 11397) propose a detailed measure of the state of the huma

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes a set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) with 169 specific targets. As such, it could be a step forward in achieving efficient governance and policies for global sustainable development....

Potential trade-offs between providing sufficient food for a growing human population in the future and sustaining ecosystems and their services are driven by various biophysical and socio-economic parameters at different scales. In this study, we...

Biomass energy still dominates the energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular as the main cooking energy source in rural and urban areas. The strong linkages to food security and the environment place biomass energy at the heart of...

Interview with Bas van Abel, Founder and CEO of Fairphone B.V., at the Kiel Institute.

In 2016 the German government appointed the Kiel Institute and the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) as co-chairs of Think 20 (“T20”)—the international think-tank network of the G20—during the German G20...