Climate change and the responses to it reveal starkly different assumptions about borders, security ethical communities for whom politicians activists speak. Starting with contrasting perspectives of international activist Greta Thunberg United States President Donald Trump on climate this essay highlights diverse political implicit in debates contemporary globalization. Rapidly rising g...

Abstract Over the past two decades, more than 80 metropolitan cities across world have faced severe water shortages due to droughts and unsustainable use. Future projections are even alarming, since urban crises expected escalate most heavily affect those who socially, economically politically disadvantaged. Here we show how social inequalities different groups or individuals play a major role ...

Infectious diseases are rooted in unsustainable and unjust human–animal relationships. Zoonoses facilitated by human proximity to animals, epidemiological risk embedded within factory farms, exploitation of animals humans these intensive livestock production systems. The five major categories that farms propel include: intensification for which homogenous populations congregated, creation multi...

This article examines the sustainability characteristics of listed firms that raise fresh capital by issuing stocks or bonds. Issuance—that is, primary market—should be paramount importance to sustainable investors because this is where demand for and supply meet, contrary secondary market ownership existing bonds merely exchanged between investors. The authors find no evidence flowing more tow...

The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic is commonly used for a distribution-free comparison of two groups. One requirement for its use is that the sample sizes of the two groups are fixed. This is violated in some of the applications such as medical imaging studies and diagnostic marker studies; in the former, the violation occurs since the number of correctly localized abnormal images is random, w...