…of place deserves far more consideration than a single post can provide. Indeed, I think a comprehensive account could take years. So this very short overview of the history of…

…Zeisel, “A Sense of Place,” New Scientist 4 March 2006, 50-51). My initial reaction was that this was scientific reduction, taking something remarkably subtle and complex and explaining it in…

…of progress will not continue { e.g. Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist  http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/best-decade-in-history/; Johan Norberg Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future; Stephen Pinker Enlightenment Now). My approach…

…2020 The Handbook of Displacement, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2020; Attali, Jacques, 1990 Millenium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order, Times Books, Random House, New York. Stonebridge, Lyndsey, 2018…

…stabilize at about 10.9 billion in 2100 as birth and death rates come more or less into balance and the global demographic transition is completed. Two other population projections offer…