Hot Topic: Food systems, sustainability and health

Big Food, Food Systems, and Global Health

1 Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Unite...

Health care financing and the sustainability of health systems

The economic crisis brought an unprecedented attention to the issue of health system sustainability in the developed world. The discussion, however, has been mainly limited to "traditional" issues of cost-effectiveness, quality of care, and, lately, patient involvement. Not enough attention has yet been paid to the issue of who pays and, more importantly, to the sustainability of financing. Thi...

Hot Topic Data Analysis and Identification System

Affect and Decision Making: A ‘‘Hot’’ Topic

The seven papers in this special issue represent the breadth and complexity of approaches to the study of affect in judgment and decision processes. Four papers examine the role of arousal or specific emotions in decision making. The three other papers investigate the impacts of uncertainty, time course, and thinking about mood. We briefly describe four functions of affect in decision making (a...

Using Topic Maps for Sustainability Reporting

In this paper we propose a solution of how to publish and visualize Internet-based sustainability reports. After the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) published the final version of the third generation of GRI-guidelines more and more organizations start to publish sustainability reports on their Internet sites. But these reports are split by environmental topics. Readers are confronted by an i...