Explores a broader set of possibilities for the future of food, following four distinct shapes of change: growth, collapse, constraint and transformation

Contains 11 presentations delivered at the conference titled: “Fuelling the World – Failing the Region? New Challenges of Global Energy Security, Resource Governance and Development in the Gulf of Gu

The region has already made big strides below the radar. It now stands to become the developing world’s next great success story.

The dilemma of African languages in the wake of globalisation and the continuous empowerment of other languages qua languages of industrialisation, technology and international currency, is one that

Finding sustainable ways to feed the world in the future is mankind’s greatest challenge. This is reflected in the overarching UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1), which is ‘to halve extreme pover

In recent years, there has been considerable focus within the criminal justice system on computer-related crime. This so-called “cyber-crime” has garnered increased attention because computers have b

Mars at the present time is the second most studied planet of the Solar System after our own Earth. Its atmosphere, surface, and sub-surface have been the subjects of several successful spacecraft an

In 2000, the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) released a new set of scenarios describing projected emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols into the global atmosphere during the 21

In the midst of the controversies around surveillance, danger defence, and protection of the private sphere, public security – understood as the protection of life and limb, and people’s belongings i

Scenario planning is a promising tool for dealing with uncertainty, but it has been underutilized in ecology and conservation. The use of scenarios to explore ecological dynamics of alternative futur