An Overview of Academic Integrity and AI Ethics: Indian and Global Contexts
The issue of academic integrity has gained considerable prominence in the last couple of decades. In this article I will attempt to summarize what I see as some key issues, cite a few authoritative articles, and communicate some impressions formed from personal experience as an academic.1 I left India for the first time to join […]
The Convergence of Health and Complexity: How an Interdisciplinary Approach to Complex Networks and Nonlinear Phenomena is Helping to Address Interconnected Maladies of Minds and Bodies
Over the past two decades, complexity science has matured from its origins as a small, largely esoteric subfield of theoretical statistical physics and mathematics into an expansive area of inquiry that bridges disciplines and addresses some of the world’s most acute interconnected challenges. Nowhere has this interdisciplinary, applied process become more apparent than with the […]
Mangrove Commons: Biocultural Heritage in the Afro-Colombian Pacific
For Afro-Pacific communities, biodiversity and cultural heritage are not separate concerns—protecting one means protecting the other. Their interrelation makes a compelling case for biocultural heritage as a framework for research, governance, and conservation.
Written in Rocks: A Geologist’s Journey into Deep Time
Earth’s Memory, Part One Abstract Every rock carries a fragment of Earth’s memory. Collectively, these fragments preserve an extraordinary geological record spanning more than 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution. This article traces that record through the deep-time history of our planet—from the formation of Earth’s earliest crust and the Great Oxidation Event, when microbial […]
Self-Organization and the Promise of a Circular Amazonian Socio-Bioeconomy
Is self-organization the answer to the foundational question of why life exhibits such complexity? And can it also serve as a guiding framework for how best to save complex webs of biodiversity amid the onslaughts of the modern world? Self-organization exists throughout nature and socioeconomic structures. It refers to the spontaneous emergence of collective, complex […]
The Role of Assertive Communication in the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS)
In the context of risk management and in the face of environmental and economic challenges such as climate change, coastal erosion, water insecurity, and the accelerated loss of biodiversity, among others, the concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has emerged. Over the past decade, this appealing concept has been consolidated as an integrative approach that seeks […]