Uneven Developments

Too little, too late

June 3, 2014

The chief executive of Shell is scheduled to visit Nigeria, according to a recent article, to win support for clean-up […]

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Sanitation and Sexual Violence

June 2, 2014

Two days ago, two teenage girls were gang raped and then murdered outside a village in Uttar Pradesh in India. […]

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Green groups issue warning over EU biomass plans

May 22, 2014

The climate contradictions of biofuels are increasingly evident.

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Waterworld

May 20, 2014

Hard on the heels of news that the Western Antarctic ice sheet has already begun to collapse, and that this […]

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Austerity doesn’t work

April 24, 2014

Austerity doesn’t work, according to an article in today’s New York Times. The article focuses on the fact that the […]

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Life and debt, and suicide

April 22, 2014

In the grad seminar I’m currently teaching on postcolonial ecologies, we did one unit on the struggles rural people in […]

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One step forward, two steps back

January 27, 2014

Two recent articles in the New York Times suggest not just how far we are from where we should be […]

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A Tale of Two Sandys

January 8, 2014

My friends at the Superstorm Research Lab have just released an amazing white paper on the impact of Hurricane Sandy. […]

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