The Patel Center supports publication of applied interdisciplinary research on global problems that impact the ability of communities to become healthy and sustainable through their relations with the natural, social and economic environments.

Globalizations

The University of Newcastle and The Patel Center co-edit the interdisciplinary journal Globalizations, which publishes work which explores new meanings of globalization, brings fresh ideas to the concept, broadens its scope and contributes to shaping debates of the future. Globalizations is dedicated to opening the widest possible space for discussion of alternatives to a narrow economic understanding of globalization. The move from the singular to the plural is deliberate and implies scepticism of the idea that there can ever be a single theory or interpretation of the term. Rather, the journal encourages the exploration and discussion of multiple interpretations and multiple processes that may constitute many possible globalizations, many possible alternatives.

Organization & Environment

The Center also houses Organization & Environment, edited by USF Management Professor John Jermier. O&E is a peer-reviewed research journal that sets new standards for interdisciplinary thinking about our complex, hazardous and increasingly unpredictable biosphere and its social dimensions. O&E is recognized as a leading international journal for ecosocial research and is unique in its emphasis on organizations, institutions, and nature. Ecosocial research refers to any interdisciplinary study of social organizing as it relates to the natural world. Accordingly, O&E publishes work that focuses on connections between the natural environment (including animals, plants, air, water, land, and other ecological entities and systems) and formal and informal patterns of organizing (including human production and consumption, human service, and environmental protection and advocacy). O&E contributors are concerned with environmental damage, restoration, sustainability, and liberation in relation to their complex social causes and consequences.