Devotions upon emergent occasions

Knowing for whom the bell tolls: acting locally and thinking globally. Brazil, Latin America and the Global Burden of Diseases, 2015.

“No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee” ...

Prescription and devotion: the Reverend Doctor Donne and the learned Doctor Mayerne--two seventeenth-century records of epidemic typhus fever.

IN THE LATE autumn of 1623, the poet John Donne, then Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, contracted typhus which was sweeping London in epidemic.' For almost three weeks Donne suffered a near-mortal fever, visited by his physicians and nursed by a few faithful servants. More fortunate than many, Donne did not die of the disease, and by early January, confined to a chair by his bedside, he had begun ...

Modelling systemic change in coupled socio-environmental systems

One of the things that make coupled socio-environmental systems so challenging, and interesting, to study is how interconnected everything is. Interconnectedness cuts across scales, systems, and geographies, and is challenging to modellers of socio-environmental systems in part because of the very idea of a ‘system’ itself. As soon as a system is defined, boundaries are created, both between th...

Accounting for the environment: Towards a theoretical perspective for environmental accounting and reporting

This article develops a multilayered theoretical model to underpin environmental accounting and reporting (severe environmental dangers; corporate responsibility; new relationship between industry and environment; measure industry’s impact, and disclose and report impact). This theoretical model has eight premises. It begins with the fundamental premise that environmental change puts the planet...

Novel Devotions : Conversional Reading , Computational Modeling , and the Modern Novel