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Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”

In December 2013, UC Press’s mission-driven, trans-disciplinary, open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene published its first article, ushering in its motto, “Open Science for Public Good.” In this blog post we pause to reflect and take note of some of the publication highlights fro

The winning case study from the 2023 competition, “Building Resilience in Jamaica’s Farming Communities: Insights From a Climate-Smart Intervention,” from The University of the West Indies’ Donovan Campbell and Shaneica Lester, demonstrates that while climate change poses immense threats to the envi

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Their analysis forces students to challenge the idea that the energy transition currently taking place will be painless, and instead asks them to master the tools necessary to face our environmental problems.

Shannon Orr’s "Stakeholders and Invasive Asian Carp in the Great Lakes" is a worthy recipient of this year’s prize for CSE’s best case study. It provides a compelling example of the nuances and frequent dynamism of stakeholder interests, and the difficulty of reconciling said interests.

"I believe in the importance of this journal in filling a theoretical and pedagogical gap in academia"

"We hope that MOSAiC data lays the foundation for research on Arctic processes for many years to come and will improve not only our general understanding, but also our predictive capabilities in this region of the world."

"This is an ambitious new journal on an important, wide-ranging topic. With an impressively diverse editorial board, and a healthy number of section editors, each with their own advisory board, this journal’s structure seems to offer a balance of breadth and depth worthy of the name."

"we ultimately found Kathleen Rugel’s piece particularly compelling, as it clearly conveyed the role of key stakeholders in addressing the incredibly fraught politics of transboundary water management, as well as suggesting lessons that could be applied to similar situations in the future"