Book Review: When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will save mankind – or destroy it

Initially published in REDSTAR Magazine, Qingdao, China. The first time a journalist friend of mine recommended to me this book, … More

Gender inequality: taking stock and looking into 2022

Originally published at: http://www.climads.wordpress.com. By Jieling Liu, Tainan Messina, Fronika de Wit, Patrícia Silvério, Sofia Castelo We recently came across … More

How China Undergoes Energy Reforms with Oversea Investments on Renewables (Part 2)

6. Motivations for Outward Investment 6.1. From the GovernmentThe principal motivation for Chinese enterprises to invest in the international market … More

How China Undergoes Energy Reforms with Oversea Investments on Renewables (Part 1)

Introduction Under the severe threat of air pollution and the concern of global warming, China launched an ambitious energy reform … More

Health as a global public good – An essential reframing for poverty measurement and a more balanced view on sustainability

1. The flawed and antiquated international poverty line We have learnt from COVID-19 that the key is to ‘flatten the … More

COVID-19 shows us the need to plan urban green spaces more systemically for urban health and wellbeing

Urban green spaces should be treated as an invaluable common-pool resource for common health and wellbeing for that one’s use … More

Elinor Ostrom: Nobel wisdom on local climate solutions

“Professor Ostrom?” “Yes.” “This is Adam Smith, calling from Stockholm.” “Oh, you have quite a name!” … The phone call … More

The Future of Life by Edward Wilson — a book review

The book The Future of Life is a piece of inarguably high standard, concentration of knowledge and wisdom. It is a rich and comprehensive display of scientific arguments finely knitted with strong facts and truth, forming persuasive logical coherence on the subject — biodiversity, human-nature relationship and future advancement of life on Earth. Edward Wilson’s deep love and life-long passion towards nature are seen throughout the book, presented by fascinating details of nature, species, and human discoveries. It is categorised as a book of life/environmental sciences, but Wilson brought it out as if it was some most private and emotional stories. The book reached both great vastness and depth in its field of study. Wilson did not try to tell us what exactly the future of life will be. He outlined the possibilities and the logical assumption for readers to echo about the future in their own head. But at the same time, he did tell us what the future of life will possibly be like, by bringing the readers to as close as what he can possibly foresee with his scientific certainty and inspire those who read with an open mind. For this reason, the book has achieved its purpose.

Navigating climate change communication between advocacy and denialism

(Article originally published on BLOGUE ATS – the official blog of the research group: Environment, Territory and Society at Institute … More

Tackling Climate Change: Distinguishing the Capacity and Responsibility of Stakeholders in Limited and Interlinked Systems

(This ASTER image shows the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest in the middle of the Yangtze River in China, … More