Water supply continuity and quality are significant policy challenges in developing countries, exposing shortcomings in resourcing, infrastructure, and governance capacity. At the same time, water policy often remains embedded in a command-and-control paradigm that relies…
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Data Centers and Water Policy: A Circular Economy Perspective The proliferation of AI uses and applications is physically manifested in acceleration of data center construction. This seminar examines the intersection of data center operation and…
Effective government responses to disasters require communication of crucial information to the public. The effectiveness of communications is determined by factors like public trust in information sources, socio-demographic characteristics and compliance with health requirements. This…
The circular economy has become an influential concept in sustainability discourses. Historically, scholarship has analyzed circularity primarily in the context of waste management and production efficiency. More recent perspectives take the expansionary view that circularity…
The concept of degrowth rejects perpetual economic growth in favor of planetary health and social wellbeing. As the degrowth scholarship matures and responds to newly arising circumstances, perceptions about the concept are becoming more varied…
The circular water economy is promoted as one solution to water scarcity, but its implementation is often limited to narrow strategies like water reuse and technical upgrading. In ideal practice, water circularity would constitute a…
Kris Hartley. Guest lecture: Handong Global University, School of Spatial Environment System Engineering, South Korea. Guest lecture in class “International Development Planning.” Title: Sustainability in the Global South. (May 2026)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging at a time of complex societal crises. Governments around the world face the mounting specter of social and environmental change while navigating polarized politics and declining institutional trust. AI has…
