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Surviving Climate Chaos: Strengthening systems against chaos

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, while the IPCC warns us that we are in the last decade before Arctic, oceanic and...

Julian Caldecott | 25 Nov 2021

Perennial Challenges and New Opportunities for the International Criminal Court

On November 10, 2021, Judge Piotr Hofmánski, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave the ICC’s annual address to the United Nations General Assembly. In his speech to the General...

Courtney Hillebrecht | 24 Nov 2021

The Most Diverse of All Diversities

Diversity is on everybody’s lips these days, along with equity and inclusion. These are indeed praiseworthy efforts to start righting the wrongs of the past. May they flourish! Diversity itself is diverse...

Danko Šipka | 24 Nov 2021

The New Climate Activism: What role for health NGOs?

Climate change touches many aspects of our lives. For those on the margins of society, the impacts of climate change are particularly acute. Women, the poor, and racialized communities suffer disproportionately...

Jen Allan | 22 Nov 2021

Languages: Connecting Lake Chad with the Middle East

The Lake Chad region in Central Africa is home to a plethora of languages of different genetic affiliations, among them the about 200 so-called Chadic languages, named after the Lake. The best known of...

16 Nov 2021

Negative advertising: a secret weapon?

Much of the advertising we see and hear attempts to portray a product or brand in a positive light. Figurative devices such as metaphor and metonymy are often used in advertising to portray a product...

15 Nov 2021

Surviving Climate Chaos: Why climate change is wicked hard

Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, while the IPCC warns us that we are in the last decade before Arctic, oceanic and...

Julian Caldecott | 15 Nov 2021

Are Economists becoming artificially (more) intelligent?

At first glance, the economy of a city, a country, and the entire world, seems to be something too complicated to understand, and even more so to predict. The purchase of a pair of sneakers in a sports...

Ruben Mercado | 12 Nov 2021

How reliable is wind energy?

Using wind energy to generate electricity has been a big topic in the climate change discussion for many years. But can we rely on renewables like wind to take up the slack as we begin to phase out...

Colin G. Anderson | 11 Nov 2021

Turbo-Charging the Tech Industry: Dual-Class Stock Coming to a Stock Exchange Near You Soon!

With Facebook introducing us to the ‘Meta-verse’, Zoom becoming as relevant to our lives as the humble telephone, and ‘Google’ being as much a verb as a corporate colossus, Big Tech is shaping...

Bobby V. Reddy | 11 Nov 2021

Climate Change, Sustainable Engineering & Technology

Edited by Ellie Pawsey, Marketing Executive, Cambridge University Press How can technology help us create a greener future? The UK is hosting the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the...

Bhavik R. Bakshi | 10 Nov 2021

Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy: A Guide for Decision-Makers

The book pulls together the key elements and issues about the transition to low carbon, climate-adapted economy in one volume. ‘Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy:...

Peter J. Dawson | 9 Nov 2021