Agriculture dominates the planet. Yet it has many environmental costs that are unsustainable, especially as global food demand rises. Here, we evaluate ways in which different parts of the world are succeeding in their attempts to resolve conflict between agriculture and wild nature. We envision that coordinated global action in conserving land most sensitive to agricultural activities and poli...

This study uses communication, critical race theory (CRT), and storytelling to examine environmental racism and environmental justice efforts. In New Mexico’s Petroglyph National Monument, a conflict emerged when officials moved protected rock carvings to build a road through the park. When creating the monument, stakeholders evoked cultural and environmental protectionism. Yet, proroad campaig...

Abstract This paper studies socioeconomic and environmental changes in the neighboring areas Bangladesh-Myanmar border from 2012 to 2019, thus covering period before after 2017 Rakhine conflict Myanmar outflux of refugees across Bangladesh. Given scarcity costliness traditional data collection methods such areas, uses a novel methodological model based on very-high-resolution satellite imagery,...

This article offers a new perspective on sociological theory, based on psychological insights from Perceptual Control Theory. After describing this cybernetic model of goal-directed behavior and reviewing its empirical support, I present results from computer simulations applying the model to the social interactions of elementary control agents. My key finding is that agents controlling their o...

This paper examines the claim that differences of opinion play an important part in creativity, and discusses how Artificial Intelligence research can help us to understand the dynamlcs of creative conflict. Research is described in which many different points of view are represented In knowledge bases, and the resulting conflict used to generate debate. The domain of this research is environme...