David Canter

It is well established that climate change and environmental degradation are intensifying the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality.  These pressures are especially difficult to counteract in the least developed economies.  Yet if policies are to reduce these pressures they must draw on effective evidence. This evidence needs not only to be drawn from

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What is the measure of a man? There are various emetics, but here’s one … Photo: David Canter) Having recently enjoyed voluntary severance from my academic post (less troubling than my vasectomy), after half a century as an academic, I was asked by my severed university to remove the archive I had collected over those years. More than half of that time and the great majority of that

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Tin-yuet Ting from Hong Kong interviewed those who took part in recent protests over democratic crises in Hong Kong.(Photo: Studio Incendo/Flickr/CC BY 2,0) It is generally accepted that it is difficult to be a young person in these less than certain times. But the challenges that face teenagers and young adults are even more demanding in those many contexts around the world that are especially

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