Environmental crimes, noncompliance and risks create significant harm to the health of humans and the natural world. Yet, the field of criminology has historically shown relatively little interest in the topic. The emergence of environmental or green criminology over the past decade marks a...

1. A relational theory of risk : lessons for risk communication / Asa Boholm and Herve Corvellec -- 2. Video interventions for risk communication and decision-making / Julie S. Downs -- 3. Communicating inconclusive scientific evidence / Peter M. Wiedemann, Franziska U. Boerner and Holger Schutz...

Urban science seeks to understand the fundamental processes that drive, shape and sustain cities and urbanization. It is a multi/transdisciplinary approach involving concepts, methods and research from the social, natural, engineering and computational sciences, along with the humanities. This...

As cities grow in size and density, why do some “ignite” into global engines of innovation while others evolve instead into slums? To address this question we develop a view of urban development as an analogy to stellar evolution. Typical stellar gas clouds grow in mass, eventually reaching...

A key driver of urbanization is the pursuit of economic opportunities in cities. One such opportunity is the promise of higher wages in larger cities, a phenomenon known as the urban wage premium. While an urban wage premium has been well-documented among U.S. metropolitan areas, little is known...

As cities increase in size, total wages grow superlinearly, meaning that average wages are higher in larger cities. This phenomenon, known as the urban wage premium, supports the notion that urbanization and the growth of cities contribute positively to human well-being. However, it remains...