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…
🌍 Join the Movement: Become a Quiz Master to promote Sanitation & Hygiene! 🚽 3.7 BILLION people lack access to safe sanitation – Open defecation is still widely prevalent. But it’s now time to turn the tide on World Toilet…
Running a Rural Living Lab in an isolated village (via Friend in Need (India)) with great income inequality makes an excellent setting to explore solution designs for poverty. Generally speaking, inclusive innovations are those innovations which reduce inequalities of any…
A few times in my life, I have collaborated with remarkably talented Bachelor’s students to refine and expand upon their work to transform it into a paper or a report. This policy brief on solution designs to urban flooding with…
On September 1, 2022 – I had a good session with the new cohort of the Master Programme in Public Policy and Human Development – at UNU-MERIT. It was very interesting to explore their views of the world and explain…
Book Description This book explores Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, providing insights into viable pathways and policy designs for a transition towards sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities. The volume discusses existing scientific literature on SDG 11 and provides conceptual frameworks…
Samira was one of my dearest doctoral students. She and her wonderful husband Damien and their children give me joy. So it is a source of particular pride and joy – to have a co-authored article with them! See –…
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