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The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...climate change, novel entities, and biogeochemical flows.] Figure 1 - Breaching our planetary boundaries. Source: Steffen et al, 2015 This is not merely a story about carbon emissions (the driver of the greenhouse effect, and therefore global heating), but about all the ways in which our economy interacts with the earth, it extracts and transforms energy and matter to...
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Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?

...climate change or inequality. And yet even as contemporary politics is becoming increasingly dominated by youth-driven social media and viral campaigning, the young people involved are embracing candidates old enough to be their grandfathers – and in Sanders’s case, one with a distinctly 20th-century message of social democracy (or in his preferred phrase,...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...climate change, increasing social inequalities and racial injustice as highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet recent calls to decolonise design highlight how design continues to be shaped by patriarchal, Eurocentric and neoliberal thinking, especially through design education. In October 2020 I was invited by The Open University to give a presentation on my...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...climate change, in the sense that it is a “problem of many hands”, with many actors, each making a contribution towards the outcome, and where it is difficult to identify who has responsibility for solving the problem. “Many patient safety issues arise at the level of the system as a whole, but policies treat patient safety as an issue for each individual...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...climate change and to mitigate its effects. More than this, urban trees are vital parts of our natural and cultural heritage: think of the Plane trees that line the Mall in London or the Sycamore tree at Hadrian’s Wall, one of the most photographed trees in the UK. Trees also play an important role in supporting our mental as well as physical well-being. With all these...
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For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...Climate change is increasing the number and scale of natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and wildfires. There were three times more natural disasters globally between 2000 and 2009 than from 1980 through 1989. And with the U.S. population over age 65 expected to double by 2060, helping older people stay safe through disasters will become increasingly important....
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The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...climate change. Transitional pathways need to be set, not just at national levels, but across sectors to achieve net-zero GHGE targets agreed under the COP 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming increases to within 1.5 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial temperature levels. This endeavour involves all of us. Over recent decades, the higher education (HE) sector has...
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Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
History & The Arts

Robert Burns: a man of his times for today

...climate-change-induced catastrophe, Burns offers a welcome antidote. His is an eighteenth-century voice that speaks as strongly to us now as it did when he was alive. References and further reading Christopher A Whatley, Immortal Memory: Burns and the Scottish People, John Donald/Birlinn, 2016. Gerard Carruthers (ed.) The Oxford Handbook on Robert Burns, Oxford UP, 2024....
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