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Unsustainable: Big Tobacco’s use of the UN SDGs
by Tom Gatehouse and Britta Matthes. This piece was first published in Tobacco Tactics. The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals in key areas for humanity and planet Earth. They are part of...
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Tanzania’s gas boom that never was – when local hopes are dashed by global realities
In this blog, first published in The Conversation, Aidan Barlow traces a resource boom and bust cycle in a peripheral Tanzanian region Rising international commodity prices can shape or reshape the fortunes of places. When large mining and oil and...
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What is the future of the Sustainable Development Goals to and beyond 2030?
Yixian Sun, Nicki Schantz, Edoardo Eichberg, Taimiya Khalid and Michael Bloomfield report proceedings from an Earth Systems Governance (ESG) workshop on meeting SDG goal. A modified version of this post was originally published on the ESG website. On...
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Pakistan needs a new vision — an intra-elite war isn’t the answer
In this blog, originally published in Al Jazeera, post doctoral researcher Asha Amirali argues that the current political crisis in Pakistan pales in comparison to the crisis of imagining development as modernity and growth. Crisis is now passé in...
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Negotiating the Self: Researching Your Own While Being the Other
By Vibhor Mathur What is ‘home’ and what is the ‘field’, Farhana Sultana (2007) asks, when researching one’s home country as a scholar based in another country. I am an Indian, doing my doctoral research in the UK, studying...
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8 billion people: why trying to control the population is often futile – and harmful
In this blog, originally published in the Conversation, CDS member Dr Melanie Channon and Dr Jasmine Fledderojann of Lancaster University discuss population growth. The world’s population is expected to hit 8 billion people on November 15, according to the UN. Already...
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Countering Ignorance: Why Africa must be included in the National Curriculum
By Abi Glyn Until the age of 14, I thought Africa was a country. Kudos to me, by the time I went to university I had learned it was a continent. However, that’s about as far as my knowledge...
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SDGs failing to have meaningful impact, research warns
By Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit and Yixian Sun Sustainability has never been higher on the international agenda. But an international assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the 17 global goals used by governments, companies, and NGOs worldwide...
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A View from Dublin: Some random reflections
By Tony German A few hundred yards from the flat, where we’ve been living in Dublin for the last 6 months, is the famine memorial. It helps explain why experience of famine, migration, colonisation and conflict are important parts...
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War in Ukraine – What consequences for global development?
By James Copestake I have never tried to write anything about war before, and all words seem inadequate; but it feels wrong not to acknowledge somewhere on the CDS website what is currently unfolding in Ukraine. But why just Ukraine?...
