At FIN, we have long marked World Water Day with webinars designed for learning. This year, I am sharing something I hope goes further: a recorded interview with Anil Bhatia, one of India’s most compelling sanitation entrepreneurs and the mind…
SITE World Water Day Discussion – A conversation across oceans on “The Geopolitics of Resource Acquisition — How Is It Different Today from What It Used to Be?” 🌊 🌊 💧 From the small coastal village of Vizhunthamavadi in India,…
Here’s mine on how we can make slow fashion happen…… In April 2013, the Rana Plaza factory collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 garment workers. Did you know that many major fashion houses outsourcing from Bangladesh were unaware they…
The literature on sustainability transitions (STS) offers a wealth of frameworks and methods, but they are dispersed among diverse streams. So, it’s difficult to get a grasp of the different works to teach a class or select a framework to…
UNU-MERIT Blog John Nash stands in the same line as Adam Smith, Ricardo, Walrus and Keynes in having shaped economic thinking. But he was even more. Unlike the works of other giants of economic philosophy, his work has profoundly influenced…
UNU-MERIT blog republished in Our World of the United Nations University 2017•12•01 Shyama V. Ramani and Eduardo Urias United Nations University Today on World AIDS Day, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé reminds us that one of the targets of the…
UNU-MERIT BLOG – Reprinted in Inter Press Service China, Once the Final Resting Place for Half the World’s Trash, Bans Waste Products By Shyama V. Ramani Shyama V. Ramani is a Professorial Fellow at the Maastricht Economic and Social Research…
ESD or Education for Sustainable Development is a framework developed by UNESCO to develop knowledge, skills, values and behaviours in youth and people for sustainable development under the present challenging conditions, including that of climate change. It recognises that to…
India can be proud of its great scientific achievements, many of them realised by scientists in the public sector – like being the first country to send a lunar-lander and lunar-rover Chandrayaan-3 to the South pole of the moon, at…
Wearing two caps, one as an academic interested in the process of development; and one running an NGO in an isolated village making it happen (albeit very modestly) can be fun, because there is constant knowledge sharing and ideas borrowing…