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In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed nation just as obsessed with corruption and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In…

This report investigates the links between material use and related land requirements. A growing world population, high – and growing – consumption levels in industrialised countries, rapidly increasing middle classes, related increased consumption levels and expanding urban areas are some of the key drivers behind the increasing demand for materials and land. Land is arguably one of the…

This discussion paper on “land footprint scenarios” prepared by SERI for Friends of the Earth Europe aims to contribute knowledge on how consumption changes undertaken by individuals (such as changes towards diets with lower amounts of meat consumption) or triggered by policies (such as EU’s renewable energy targets) impact on Europe’s global land footprint. After a short introduction to…

Companies are now generating, collecting and analysing unprecedented amounts of information. The strategic importance of thisinformation across the business, from toplevel strategy and decision-making to product development right through to sales and marketing, means it needs to be available to the right people at the right time in the right form. The perceived value of this information has never…

Few development challenges in Africa are as pressing and controversial as land ownership and its persistent gap between rich and poor communities. With a profound demographic shift in Africa from rural areas to the cities where half of all Africans will live by 2050, these gaps will become steadily more pronounced as governments and communities rise to the challenge of growing enough aff ordable…

This meta-synthesis of national climate change adaptation plans, policies and processes spans twelve countries at various stages of adaptation planning and implementation, in three priority CCAFS regions: West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Sénegal), East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) and South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal). The national adaptation plan (NAP)…