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Nature & Environment
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Soil is not just dirt but a living system with many important functions. Degraded soils impact on food production, erosion, and more, affecting the lives of people around the world. Restoration efforts in China, Zambia and other countries seek to reverse this trend.
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Society, Politics & Law
Review: Europe Reset
In Europe Reset: New Directions for the EU, Richard Youngs looks at the issue of democracy in Europe, identifying a crisis rooted in alienation from the prevailing model of integration and proposing new initiatives for democratic participation by citizens. While the book largely focuses on democracy on the supra-national level, which may ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
In Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Richard Sennett approaches the question of how we should live in the city. Drawing upon two aspects of the city, the ville and the cité, the book promotes the virtues of an ‘open city’ that accepts and works with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. While John Tomaney finds this a learned and ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
A former school site in East Sussex has become the focus for a fascinating cooperation between local politics and international activism.
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Society, Politics & Law
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
In the days since an alleged chemical attack outside Damascus, the pressure in Syria has risen dramatically.
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Society, Politics & Law
Will Scottish politicians have a say over the Brexit Deal?
Experts analyse the influence the Scottish Parliament could have in deciding a post-Brexit future.
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Society, Politics & Law
How might Brexit shape the Scottish economy?
Leading experts analyse how Brexit may change the Scotish economy and how the fall in the value of the pound is good news for exporters, but bad news for many consumers.
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Society, Politics & Law
How might a hard or soft Brexit affect the UK?
As the negotiations of the United Kingdom's departure from The European Union continue, experts from Scotland analyse some of the possible outcomes of Brexit.
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Languages
How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?
The framing of the national debate around Brexit owed a debt to coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, says Rahel Cramer.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How do natural disasters affect mental health?
Understanding why suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria could help us prepare for future natural disasters. Jane Palmer explains.
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Society, Politics & Law
Non-existent countries
What makes a country count as a country? Andy Morris interviews geographer and broadcaster Nick Middleton about his recent book 'An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist'.
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History & The Arts
How radical was Martin Luther King?
His message on civil rights was unequivocal - but Paul Harvey argues that in Martin Luther King's economic and social message was his greatest claim to radicalism.