{"id":5862,"date":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:49:45","slug":"challenges-of-the-21st-century-what-is-happening-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/03\/04\/challenges-of-the-21st-century-what-is-happening-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges of the 21st century: what is happening to the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the title of the talk by Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/john-beddington\">Sir John Beddington<\/a>, the government's chief scientific adviser, at Bath's <em>Institute for Public Policy Research<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/ipr\/index.html\">IPPR<\/a>]\u00a0last month. \u00a0His abstract was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Change in the 21st century is both fast and dramatic. \u00a0Yet in many ways some problems for the next few decades are both predictable and inexorable. \u00a0Significant challenges exist driven by population growth, complex demography, urbanisation and increasing prosperity, all with a background of significant poverty. \u00a0Climate change is happening, will continue and is a major risk multiplier<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lecture examined ways in which these challenges could be addressed. \u00a0You can watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/ipr\/events\/ipr-online-lectures\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the title of the talk by Professor Sir John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, at Bath's Institute for Public Policy Research [IPPR]\u00a0last month. \u00a0His abstract was: Change in the 21st century is both fast and dramatic. \u00a0Yet...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}