A team of UC Berkeley researchers warn that by 2100, climate change will cause rampant starvation and disease in the Sahel, a region in Africa, unless measures are taken to promote agricultural adaptation, family planning, and women’s empowerment.

Invisible Users, a book by UC Berkeley's Jenna Burrell, explores the youth culture of Internet cafés in Ghana, which upends expectations about the power and purpose of technology.

Migrant farmworkers are subject to social and economic inequalities that put them at greater risk of hardship and injury, according to a book by UC Berkeley’s Seth Holmes.

Governments have to do more to reduce income inequality, says UC Berkeley's Robert Reich.

Was the Hurricane Katrina disaster a failure of engineering or human organizations? UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management seeks new approaches for mitigating the risks of large-scale disasters.
 

Why did the city-state model give way to the nation-state—and what does Boston have to do it?

Through overcrowding, lockdowns, and medical neglect, the conditions in U.S. prisons have become unconstitutional, according to UC Berkeley legal scholar Jonathan Simon.

New research on why state-building interventions succeed in some nations and not others.

Do urban planners ask enough hard questions? A UC Berkeley working group tackles "critical urbanisms" to challenge the conventional wisdom.

Two Berkeley professors argue that ADHD must be understood as both a social and biological condition.