Climate change has increasingly threatened sustainable urban development in sub-Saharan Africa, aggravating socioeconomic inequities in chronically under-resourced and overstrained cities. Global institutions and networks, ...

Anthropogenic processes have a profound impact on environmental health, and by extension, on human health. This thesis uses the sporadic emergence of dengue fever (DF) to explore how ecological transformation influences ...

Defining norms — appropriate standards of behavior — for the rapidly evolving landscape of information communications technologies (ICTs) is a seemingly impossible challenge for the international community. But norms for ...

Despite the growing priority to leverage information and communications technology as a tool of development (ICT4D), governments and multilateral institutions have yet to arrive at a global consensus on adequate digital ...

Over the past few decades, Iran has been facing an increasingly severe water crisis. The Helmand River Basin, which stretches from southwestern Afghanistan to eastern Iran, has been the site of an on-and-off dispute between ...

Over the past 30 years, the United States has recorded unprecedented increases in drug overdose mortality, particularly from a class of drugs called opioids. Since 1999, over 770,000 people have died of a drug overdose in ...

This thesis examines the ways in which borders are enforced and imagined. The author uses public EU documents, expert interviews and anti-border scholarship to explore the oppressive nature of borders. Specifically, she ...

Mobile health, more colloquially known as mHealth, has been evolving in the healthcare space for the past few years - evidenced by the 47,911 mHealth app products currently in the Apple App Store. With a surge in technological ...