BRI The Long Read: China in the Polar ‘Zone of Peace’ November 22, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Christopher Michel/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Sanna Kopra. China’s potentially growing economic influence in the Arctic region has raised concerns amongst…
Conservation Deforestation, climate change and indigenous people October 2, 2019 0 Image credit:fuel wood-charcoal by rosamariavidal/Flickr, Licence:CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 . Written by Patricia Blazey Addressing climate change is a complex problem that does not just depend…
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…
China Trash politics: Grassroots objection and the incineration boom in China December 13, 2018 0 By Yao Li. In recent years China has become one of the world’s largest producers of trash. With garbage piling up, the government has turned…
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…
