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We argue that the Covid-19 pandemic can become an opportunity to foster a culture of care and make academic practice more respectful and sustainable.
Extractive industries, industrial agriculture, toxic waste dumping, urban growth, and infrastructure and energy development are polluting even some of the most remote and isolated areas of the world. Indigenous Peoples (IPs) can be active allies to fight the impacts of pollution.
A new special issue in Development and Change, guest edited by Laseg member Esteve Corbera, collects evidence on the implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services programmes and shows how local people adopt such exogenous, and 'neoliberal' conservation approach to transform their lives and institutions in unexpected and sometimes advantageous ways.
Transdisciplinary projects that bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, industry and citizens, provide one avenue for holistically addressing complex real-world problems. This post presents my experience running three workshops aimed at fostering such interdisciplinarity.
Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Esteve Corbera from ICTA-UAB have been awarded with a research grant from La Caixa Foundation to study processes of socio-vulnerability vulnerability in rural Spain.
Victoria Reyes-García ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) is one of the 76 top researchers that will ...
We argue that the Covid-19 pandemic can become an opportunity to foster a culture of care and make academic practice more respectful and sustainable.
Transdisciplinary projects that bring together researchers, policy makers, practitioners, industry and citizens, provide one avenue for holistically addressing complex real-world problems. This post presents my experience running three workshops aimed at fostering such interdisciplinarity.
Extractive industries, industrial agriculture, toxic waste dumping, urban growth, and infrastructure and energy development are polluting even some of the most remote and isolated areas of the world. Indigenous Peoples (IPs) can be active allies to fight the impacts of pollution.
Sergio Villamayor-Tomás and Esteve Corbera from ICTA-UAB have been awarded with a research grant from La Caixa Foundation to study processes of socio-vulnerability vulnerability in rural Spain.
A new special issue in Development and Change, guest edited by Laseg member Esteve Corbera, collects evidence on the implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services programmes and shows how local people adopt such exogenous, and 'neoliberal' conservation approach to transform their lives and institutions in unexpected and sometimes advantageous ways.
Victoria Reyes-García ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) is one of the 76 top researchers that will ...