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03 September, 2020

Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India's Choice Between Policy and Pretence

Harper Collins India’s air pollution is a deadly threat. Will its politics meet the challenge? Exposure to the world’s worst air pollution kills over a million Indians each year. It also affects childr

Type of publication: Books | Spears, Dean
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04 September, 2020

The Impact of Human Health Co-benefits on Evalutaions of Global Climate Policy

Nature Communications  Abstract The health co-benefits of CO2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spears, Dean , , Scovronick, Noah, Budolfson, Mark, Dennig, Francis, Errickson, Frank, Fleurbaey, Marc, Peng, Wei, Socolow, Robert H. & Fabian Wagner
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24 September, 2018
Dean Spears

Dean Spears

I am Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director at Research Institute for Compassionate Economics. I am also visiting economist at Indian Statistical

Assistant Professor, Economics
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26 April, 2019
Emma Engström

Emma Engström

I defended my PhD thesis on predictive modeling of groundwater contamination at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), KTH, Royal Institute of Technol

PhD, Environmental Modeling
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10 December, 2024

Environmentalism around the globe. An introduction to the 2020 ISSP environment module and selected country-level findings

International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & M. Hadler et.al.
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21 April, 2023

Congratulations Partha Dasgupta!

Partha Dasgupta, professor of economics and member of the Climate Ethics and Future Generations-team at IFFS, and Gustaf Arrhenius at a conference in honour of Dasgupta who is turning 80 in 2023. Dasg

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05 March, 2024
Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi

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