No. 17 (2017): Issue Seventeen: 2017
Issue Seventeen: 2017

Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is an online journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. This journal aims to bring students, researchers, professors, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions in direct conversation with each other through an online, academically rigorous medium. Consilience publishes scholarly articles, opinion pieces, field notes, editorial columns and photo essays. By providing a public platform for discussion, we hope to encourage a global community to think more broadly, thoroughly, and analytically about sustainable development.  The journal is run by a team of undergraduate and graduate students, under the guidance of faculty from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Editor's Note

David Medoff
Note from the Editor-in-Chief
February 1, 2017
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Scholarly Articles

Laura Booth
Identifying Conservation Strategies for Group-Spawning Coral Reef Fish in the Indo-Pacific, Using a Case Study of a Protogynous Giant Wrasse
February 1, 2017
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Mohamed El-Kamel Bakari
Mapping the ‘Anthropocentric-Ecocentric’ Dualism in the History of American Presidency: the Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent
February 1, 2017
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Jia Chen Judy Goh
Carbon Accounting in Local-Scale Land Use and Land Cover Change
February 1, 2017
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Shweta Jayawardhan
Vulnerability and Climate Change Induced Human Displacement
February 1, 2017
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Takudzwa Leonard Mathende, Tatenda Goodman Nhapi
Business and Society: Determinants and Experiences of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Zimbabwean Extractive Industries from 2000-2015
February 1, 2017
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Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, PhD, Ralph Palliam, PhD
Sustaining Investment in Innovation in Oil Rich Gulf Countries Amidst Falling Oil Prices
February 1, 2017
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Dorcas Shumba
Risk, Resilience, and Sustainability: How Governance in Zimbabwe Countervails this Nexus
February 1, 2017
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David Howard Lempert, Hue Nhu Nguyen
Accounting for Threats to Sustainable Development: An Indicator for Holding NGOs and International Organizations Accountable to Creating the Context for Sustainable Development
February 1, 2017
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Atte Harjanne, Johanna Rajakangas-Tolsa, Markus Häyhtiö
Sustainable New Service Development – How to Use Wastage Data to Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness of Sustainable New Service Operations
February 1, 2017
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Adrienne Cachelin, Ph.D, Willem Schott
Promotion vs. Education in Choosing “Real Food”
February 1, 2017
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Opinion Pieces

John R Porter, Mark Howden, Michaela Schiller Stokholm, Pete Smith
Recasting Economics As If the Climate and Global Ecology Really Mattered
February 1, 2017
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