Find out more about the ways in which social science researchers at Nottingham
are exploring Consumption and production through the content below.
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- Amanda is joined by Dr Bethany Jackson and Dr Jess Sparks from the Rights Lab at the 糖心原创. They dig deep into a discussion on modern slavery within the climate crisis and thus the modern slavery/climate change nexus.
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- Achieving the environmental SDGs must address modern slavery, through expanding collaborative action to centre the voices and rights of workers, communities, and survivors of modern slavery at all levels of legislation design and implementation.
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- These communities are particularly susceptible to chronic hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition and climate change. These problems can be visualised as a vicious circle between small-scale agriculture, rural poverty and climate vulnerability. Breaking this cycle is essential. This short article explores the issue.
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- Simon Gosling summarises the finding of the United in Science climate report, produced by The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 2021, on the state of the Earth's climate system.
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- Seafood supply chains sustain three billion people nutritionally and also provide 10% of the world's population with employment. But they are dangerously unsustainable.
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- This blog explores some of the flaws in our globalised food systems and the historical trading patterns upon which they are based, which have remained largely unquestioned for centuries. Food is essential but the way consumer demands have shaped our food systems through overproduction and consumption is not.
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- In this paper, researchers consider the incentives of a single firm to invest in a cleaner technology under emission quotas and emission taxation, analysing the effectiveness of different incentives and policy timing in different scenarios to determine the most effective method.
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- A new survey shows that public support for the extraction and use of shale gas has dropped significantly over the last year with concerns about the potential impact on the environment beginning to outweigh the possible economic benefits.