The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, it is a massive and complex dataset, requiring significant expertise to interpret in its raw form. State governments have...

In his 2002 book, High Noon, economist and former World Bank vice president Jean Francois Rischard stressed that in order to address urgent, global issues, the world nedded "imagination and a different type of thinking"-and needed it within two decades, not five or ten.

The past three decades have witnessed rapid economic growth and a fascinating transformation of China's economy and industry, from an economy dominated by agriculture to one that is referred to as a 'world manufacturing plant', from a small exporter of resource- and unskilled labour-intensive...