Kyoto agreement creates new agenda for climate research

Push for new climate change agreement

There was worldwide gloom following the Copenhagen conference in December which failed to reach agreement on a new global climate treaty. The eventual Accord fell well short of many expectations. As recently as February, many experts believed that it would be almost impossible to come up with a solution — and new treaty — this year. And the recent controversy about some of the climate change da...

Opinion: In the wake of Paris Agreement, scientists must embrace new directions for climate change research.

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Settling Ulysses: An Adapted Research Agenda for Refugee Mental Health

Refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe during the 2015/2016 wave of migration have been exposed to war conditions in their country of origin, survived a dangerous journey, and often struggled with negative reception in transit and host countries. The mental health consequence of such forced migration experiences is named the Ulysses syndrome. Policies regarding the right to residency ca...

The Sensible Organization: A New Agenda for IS Research

IS research and practice does not adequately address modern organizational forms of flatter hierarchies; decentralized decision-making, greater capacity for tolerance of ambiguity, permeable internal and external boundaries, capacity for renewal, self-organizing units, self-integrating coordination mechanisms and continual change. The important challenge for IS is to determine what sort of orga...

Towards a New Agenda for International Migration Research