No. 13 (2015): Issue Thirteen: 2015

No. 13 (2015)

Published February 1, 2015
Issue Thirteen: 2015

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

Ryan Elivo
Note from the Editor-in-Chief
February 1, 2015

Scholarly Articles

Samantha Schipani
Green Talk: Comparing the Discourse on Climate Change and Sustainable Development between Environmental NGOs and the State in Vietnam and Bolivia
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 402-1050-1-PB.pdf
Ashley Overbeek
Examining the Efficacy of Fair Trade Eco-Labeling on Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights in Developing Countries
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 378-998-2-PB.pdf
Alyssa Menz
A Means to Alleviate the Bushmeat Crisis? The Feasibility of Establishing Sustainable Grasscutter Farms in Kenya
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 407-994-5-PB.pdf
Msafiri Daudi Mbaga
The Prospects of Sustainable Desert Agriculture to Improve Food Security in Oman
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 391-996-2-PB-2.pdf
Monica Carty
The Role of Training Programs in the Sustainability of Potable Water Projects
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 413-1045-1-PB.pdf
Tal Cantor, Maida Hadziosmanovic, Harriet Kim, Elizabeth Marsh, Chiara Secules, Kirk Wright, Carol Zastavniouk
A Technical and Behavioural Energy Efficiency Assessment of McGill Cafeteria Operations at Bishop Mountain Hall and Royal Victoria College
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 396-977-3-PB.pdf
Douglas Kelbaugh
The Environmental Paradox of the City, Landscape, Urbanism, and New Urbanism
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 406-987-2-PB-2.pdf

Opinion Pieces

Olivia Jane Winters
The Botswana Bushmen’s Fight for Water & Land Rights in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 392-1019-2-PB.pdf
Will Evans
Doing Better Than Divestment
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 386-1010-4-PB.pdf
Zachary Evan Davis
The Need for a New, Clear Option: An In-Depth Analysis of Nuclear Energy
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 382-1004-3-PB.pdf
Mohamed El-Kamel Bakari
Sustainability and Contemporary Man-Nature Divide: Aspects of Conflict and Alienation
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 380-1001-4-PB.pdf

Field Notes

Anthony Ojonimi Onoja, T. U. Ogali
Economic Survey of Oil Palm Products’ Processing and Marketing in Kogi State, Nigeria
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription Onoja_Ogali.pdf
Laura Booth, Catherine Breen, Cricket Gullickson
Variations in Elephant (Loxodanta africana) Diet Along a Rainfall Gradient: The Effect of Latitude, Grass Reserves, and Proximity to Water
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription Booth_Breen_Gullickson.pdf
Miranda Bernard, Laura Booth, Abraham Kielar
The Effects of Mega-Herbivore Extinctions on Seed Dispersal and Community Structure in An East African Savanna
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 411-1034-3-PB.pdf
Zahra Ahmed, Laura Booth, Loise Njagi, Elleni Stephanou
The Warrior’s Dilemma: Can Maasai Culture Persist in a Changing World?
February 1, 2015
Requires Subscription 410-1031-4-PB