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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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19 March, 2021

Implementing the Water Framework Directive and Tackling Diffuse Pollution from Agriculture: Lessons from England and Scotland

in: Water 12: 244 AbstractTackling diffuse pollution from agriculture is a key challenge for governments seeking to implement the European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD). In the research liter  

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , , De Vito, Laura & Duncan Russel
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18 October, 2022
Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Can we ethically achieve a sustainable population size? Answers to this question typically focus on the human rights abuses perpetrated by efforts to control the world’s populations in the twentieth a

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18 September, 2024

Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy

Regulation & Governance Abstract As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generisand have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make indu

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Tim Bartley
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20 September, 2022

Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Place: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Emily Klancher Merchant, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis. Emily is anhistorian

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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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15 November, 2004

Articles in Framtider no. 3/2004 English edition

China's future, as well as our own, also has to do with everything from pollution in the wake of growth to the inferior status of women in society. This issue is about the changes in China. Contents A hTorbjörn Lodén

Type of publication: Framtider magazine | Theme: China's new future
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10 May, 2019

Policy and the public in a polarized country

In order to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement on how to combat climate change, some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place. Apart from creating policies, policy makers also need to gai

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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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