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The cost of ecological disaster
Not so long ago, prevailing work on the macroeconomics of climate change contended that – while set to fiscally devastate low-income countries near the equator – many cooler, wealthier nations will escape the financial fallout and even profit from warmer climes. By 2017, influential studies had fed into an International Monetary Fund global report showing […]
Navigating the politics of sex work
Sharmila Parmanand’s research on sex work was already having an impact beyond academia while she was at Cambridge, but she is now writing a book which she hopes will bring the issues to a wider audience. While at Cambridge, Sharmila [2016] took part in an all-female panel discussion on the future of UK foreign policy […]
Why a one-size-fits-all approach to biodiversity won’t work
Carmen Lacambra Segura is keen to tackle the challenges affecting biodiversity from an interdisciplinary perspective which takes into account all the different factors that affect it. That means taking more contextualised approaches and using data to make positive progress. She has worked for over 30 years on resilience and climate adaptation, integrating science and evidence-based […]
Exploring the emotions behind Archaeology
Archaeology is a discipline that excavates the past, piecing together scant and often disparate details to answer questions about how people lived, grew, interacted and died. For Madalyn Grant [2024], this means that Archaeology is a discipline steeped in human emotions. Yet, for a subject so infused with emotion, its practitioners tend not to confront […]
Making waste work
Luca Di Mario’s PhD in Engineering focused on sustainable business models for turning solid waste and waste water in developing countries into a useful resource, such as energy. That work has stood him in good stead for his work at the Asian Development Bank where he is currently Senior Advisor to the Vice President for […]
