Global Sustainable Development News
GSD Assistant Professor publishes new article in leading international journal
Dr Elizabeth Chant, an Assistant Professor in the Global Sustainable Development department, has published a new article, co-authored with her colleague Dr Natalia G谩ndara Chacana (Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Valpara铆so), that examines the depiction of natural environments in historic British travel accounts.
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Dr Hita Unnikrishnan Publishes Poetic Reflections from the Frontlines of Community Energy in East Africa
Dr Hita Unnikrishnan, an assistant professor for the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, has published a collection of poems inspired by her community energy work across Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique. Her poetic chapter appears in the open-access volume Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa, which is freely available online.
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New study by GSD Teaching Fellow examines abandoned fishing gear and its impact on coastal livelihoods in Cameroon
Maurice Beseng has published a new open-access article in the leading peer-reviewed journal Marine Policy, which is published by Elsevier.
The article, titled 鈥�, explores the growing global challenge posed by abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear, and its contribution to multiple sustainability challenges including plastic pollution, damage to marine ecosystems, and threats to coastal livelihoods and food security.
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Professor Elena Korosteleva publishes a landmark book on resilience and community in Central Eurasia
We are delighted to announce that , Professor of International Politics and Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), has published a major new monograph: Complexity and Community in International Relations: Nurturing Resilience in Central Eurasia, with Oxford University Press.
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GSD Alumnus Isabel Coelho Govier Publishes Research in 糖心TV鈥檚 Reinvention Journal
The Global Sustainable Development community are proud to celebrate alumna Isabel Coelho Govier, after their dissertation was published in Reinvention: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research.
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GSD academic publishes special edition with acclaimed human trafficking journal
A special edition guest edited by one of our teaching faculty has been published in the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
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GSD academic publishes new book exploring finance sector impact on capitalism
A member of our teaching faculty has recently published a new book questioning whether the finance sector remains the true culprit for capitalism鈥檚 toxic effects.
Image credit: Dr Nick Bernards
A new book by Dr Nick Bernards, Associate Professor in GSD, A Critical History of Poverty Finance, has recently been published by Pluto Press. The book looks at the history of financial 'solutions' to global poverty, tracing out links between colonial-era practices and contemporary fintech fads. It shows how past and present efforts to extend access to formal financial services have reinforced and exacerbated embedded patterns of uneven development.
Special issue of TRAJECTORIA on graphic anthropology featuring Dr Charlie Rumsby
At the end of March a special issue of TRAJECTORIA, , was published. In a piece titled by Dr Charlie Rumsby (a Visiting Research Fellow in the GSD Department) and Ben Thomas (an independent digital illustrator) we see an academic thesis in the process of being turned into an ethno-graphic novel.
UN Food Price Index understates soaring real cost of food, argues Dr Alastair Smith
Dr Alastair Smith, Senior Teaching Fellow in GSD, calls on the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to focus on real, not nominal food prices, in a correspondence piece published in .