Climate Change The effects of tourism on animal welfare in Asia November 4, 2019 0 Image Credit: Bear and elephant show, Malingering /Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NV-ND 2.0 Written by David Fennell. Scholars estimate that there are 120 billion animals that…
Burma/Myanmar The deforestation dilemma in Myanmar September 30, 2019 0 Image credit: inle_lake_049 by WorldSketchingTour/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Win Myo Thu. Deforestation is a widely discussed topic in Myanmar, although it is not…
Climate Change Understanding the challenge of improving road-based public transport services in the Philippines June 28, 2019 0 Written by Marie Danielle V. Guillen. Image Credit: Mall Traffic by Jimmy Hilario/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. There has been a trend towards increasing vehicle fleet growth…
Climate Change The climate-food-conflict connection in Indonesia May 22, 2019 0 Written by Roberto Ricciuti Image Credit: cak-cak/Flickr, License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The effect of climate change on the emergence of violent conflict has become one of…
China A view from somewhere: An alternative to globalised forms of climate knowledge December 14, 2018 0 By Xi Wang. A few years ago I was the grader in an undergraduate environmental policy course. The question that most students wanted the answer…
Asia The long read: From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: Understanding Asia’s rural out-migration and global climate change December 14, 2018 0 By Tun Myint In addition to natural cycles of change, global climate change is driven by individual behaviours of consumption and life-style dynamics, which are…
Belt and Road Initiative China and Japan – an unlikely climate partnership? December 13, 2018 0 By Chris G. Pope. On 7 October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report which focused on the devastating impacts of a…
Climate Change Infrastructure and the struggle to adapt to climate change in the Himalayas December 12, 2018 0 By Karine Gagné. In recent years, scholars have produced a number of critical studies on how communities adapt to climate change. Based on interventions developed…
Climate Change India and the 1.5°C warning: The power of political targets December 12, 2018 0 By Elizabeth Chatterjee. From the Paris Agreement’s 2°C collective mitigation goal to the EU’s 20-20-20 plan, numerical targets have become a hallmark of environmental governance.…
Climate Change Is Malaysia doing enough to avoid 1.5°C of global warming? December 11, 2018 0 By Matthew Ashfold; Svenja Hanson; Jasmin Irisha Jim Ilham; Peter Moug; Vivek Thuppil. The Paris Agreement (PA) requires that the increase in global average temperature…
