Environmental migration occurs across spatial and temporal scales and is influenced by the dynamics of individual and collective human behavior, as well as environmental stresses. Agent-based modeling ...

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species ...

Income inequality is one of the most important measures to indicate socioeconomic welfare and quality of life, and has implications for the environment. Yet, especially at the subnational level, ...

Earlier this month, scholars working at the London School of Economics argued, “It’s time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality.” The authors note that of the various ways we could ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

The Election Commission of India’s (ECI) special intensive revision (SIR) in West Bengal has not produced one uniform pattern of deletion, but two. One runs through the Muslim-dominated border belt, ...

In Canadian society, the narrative of multiculturalism can lean toward a "color-blind" ideology—a comforting idea that race doesn't matter and everyone is treated the same—even though such narratives ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

South Africa exhibits one of the highest levels of income inequality globally, reflecting persistent spatial exclusion. This paper examines the extent and causes of spatial inequality using household ...

Alexandra township is situated next to the wealthy suburb of Sandton, laying bare post-apartheid South Africa’s vast gulf between wealth and poverty. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images South ...

I am in a category of Americans that gerontologists refer to as old-old. And now, after all these many years as a grateful American, I find myself sorely disappointed in a segment of my fellow ...