Rethinking scarcity and poverty: Building bridges for shared insight and impact

Natural Capital, Ecological Scarcity and Rural Poverty

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Rethinking Poverty

Rethinking poverty reduction interventions

Building Bridges for Collective Wisdom

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Corresponding author: Peter P. Yu, MD, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 795 El Camino Real, SV 301, Palo Alto, CA 94301; e-mail: [email protected] Welcome to the inaugural issue of Journal of Global Oncology (JGO), ASCO’s new online-only, open-access journal dedicated to publishing the highest quality information concerning oncology research and care de...

A global water scarcity assessment under Shared Socio-economic Pathways – Part 2: Water availability and scarcity

A global water scarcity assessment for the 21st century was conducted under the latest socio-economic scenario for global change studies, namely Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). SSPs depict five global situations with substantially different socio-economic conditions. In the accompanying paper, a water use scenario compatible with the SSPs was developed. This scenario considers not only qu...