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Author Archives: Hannah Hughes
Analysing attitudes – an account of the first environmental politics meeting
The environmental politics group met on Wednesday the 12th of October to discuss Myanna Lahsen’s (2009) analysis of three prominent physicists who have been active in promoting a sceptical attitude towards climate change within the US government and across the … Continue reading
Biodiversity in Wales – talk by Diana Reynolds
Last night the Stapledon society – IBERs guest lecture series on rural issues in Wales – hosted Diana Reynolds from the Welsh Assembly, who coordinates Welsh efforts to reverse biodiversity loss across Wales. The talk was particularly interesting because the … Continue reading
The population question
The BBC World Service is currently running an interesting documentary on India’s attempts to control population and the ideas that informed these, many of which we discussed in the reading group…Definitely worth a listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fvhsf
First Meeting
The Environmental Politics Research Group has its first meeting on Wednesday the 12th of October (North Room of Interpol building). This semester we are exploring the role of knowledge in international environmental politics starting with an interesting article by Myanna … Continue reading
Teaching climate change in schools
I thought this may be of interest to some… New teaching material has been developed for schools in Wales to teach students between the ages of 14-16 about the science, impacts and adaptation to climate change. The material and the … Continue reading
Population Bomb(ers)
On Monday the Environmental Politics group met for a lively discussion sparked by the following articles on the perils of overpopulation: Smith, T. (1990) “The population bomb has exploded already: Twice as many people are alive in 1990 as were in … Continue reading
Dr James Van Alstine’s visit
The Environmental Politics group welcomed its first non-Aberystwyth guest speaker on Monday the 2nd of May. Dr Van Alstine presented his research on communities living in resource-rich regions. His research aims to offer practical solutions to communities in order for them to … Continue reading
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Explaining joint implementation
This link may be of interest to some, it is a series of podcasts that attempt to explain the joint implementation program in ‘plain language’: http://ji.unfccc.int/about/multimedia/podcasts/index.html
UN Security Council debate on the link between security and development
I notice that the UN Security Council has just had a debate on the relationship between development and international security: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/sc10172.doc.htm A similar debate on climate change was raised by the British chairmanship of the UNSC in 2007: http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/18/environment-globalwarming-un-britain-dc-idUSN1736824820070418 This … Continue reading
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
This is a link to a documentary on Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change. I found out about the documentary from an email on the GEP-ED mailing list, which is an ISA Environmental Studies Section group that focuses on methods and … Continue reading
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