Ismail Serageldin

TL;DR: To take on global challenges such as climate change, growing urbanization and loss of biodiversity, the authors need to build a new science community that will explore common themes in natural, artificial and social systems, and this community is caught between two systems for funding research.

TL;DR: A Supercourse of Science would provide a new, more efficient means of teaching that would reduce the time it takes for scientific information to reach the classroom from 7 years to 7 minutes and improve science training for millions.

TL;DR: The need for more water for food production to meet the needs of a population that will increase by some 2 billion before it stabilizes is addressed in this paper, where a combination of increased efficiency in irrigation, better crop deployment, agricultural research in all areas and changes in dietary profiles will all be needed.

TL;DR: A vision that recognizes the development must have a cultural content, that recognizes that governance and institution building and enhancing human capacities are all central parts of the development process and may in fact be the frame that undergird economic well-being as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Water is a critical shared resource and its flow is not restricted to any political boundaries This necessitates peaceful sharing of water resources both within and among countries Sharing water is a complex task in most cases in the present era of water conflicts as discussed by the authors.