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Charcoal Consumption in East Africa: A Climate Change Dilemma
The fight against climate change demands that nations decarbonise their energy grids, but this transition puts contradictory pressures on many Global South countries. For instance, charcoal is the primary energy source for households in Tanzania and Uganda, dictating the social...
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Mozambican Researchers and Civil Society Challenge Systemically Flawed Climate Change Adaptation Solutions in their Country
Despite being one of the countries with the lowest carbon footprint per capita (0.21 vs 6.6 in DK), Mozambique is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Cyclones and floods have intensified in the past decades, devastating infrastructures,...
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The IFRO – KNUST partnership: Strengthening higher education and research capacity
The Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) at University of Copenhagen maintains several long-term research partnerships with African universities. Recently, DDRN had the opportunity to interview two visiting faculty members from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...
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Smart Greenhouse: Efficiency and Ancestral Knowledge to Combat Climate Change
Technological innovation and indigenous tradition can go hand in hand and provide a better quality of life to children and adults in Mapuche communities —who live in rural areas— and at the same time strengthen their traditions. This is the...
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Global South Countries are more Vulnerable to Climate Change than we are in the North
Global climate change has exactly the same consequences in north and south. They are truly global. But the Global South can to a lesser degree afford to defend itself against them, compared with the North. This is an important difference...
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Forskningens Døgn 2024: Fattige, udsatte, udstødte i Nord og Syd
Torsdag den 25.april 2024, kl. 19.00-21.15, GRATIS ADGANG Sted: Maskinhallen, Sundholmsvej 28A, 2300 Kbh. S. Klik for kort!Tilmelding: Send e-mail med navn til info@ddrn.dk Arrangør: Danish Development Research Network...
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Why Emerging Economies also need Knowledge Transfer of Environmental Engineering
How did you get involved in sustainability? Originally, I am an environmental chemist graduated from University of Copenhagen. My path into my current work is sustainability. By sustainable transition in developing economies, you can achieve results with far less resources...
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Funding Policies in the North Hurt Capacity Building in the South
Denmark has valuable experience in running an efficient research administration. It’s important to continue sharing this experience with the global South countries like Ghana in order to address risks of bureaucracy, according to an experienced Danish development researcher In many...
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Sorting Out India’s Mounting Waste Crisis
India’s economic growth story is remarkable: from a less than $500 billion economy at the turn of the millennium to the world's third-largest economy with over $3.5 trillion in 2022. The GDP per capita increased from $451 to $2,379. As...
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The Importance of Studying Latin America When it Comes to Sustainability
A British researcher in Aalborg is working with anti-fracking movements and environmental issues in Latin America. According to her, Latin America adds something extra to the debate about our societies’ perspectives on nature. She regrets that Latin American studies are...
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Fieldwork and Big Data – Researching the Maasai Mara Savannah in Kenya
Researchers from Aarhus University are involved in finding sustainable ways for wildlife and indigenous lifestyles to survive in the Maasai Mara savannah in Kenya. Traditional fieldwork among the population is one way to do it, working with big data from...
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EU: Towards a More Sustainable Corporate Development?
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) published in December 2022 is the most recent step towards a more sustainable development at a European Union level. In detail, it aims to ensure that companies provide adequate information regarding the way they...
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The Power of Literature in the Times of Climate Crisis
The power of literature in human history has been seen many times and, in many places, demonstrating that a novel or a poem can inspire powerful actions and has the power to move the world. Literature can change people's minds...
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Global Warming: Heat Waves Test Human Endurance in South Asia
The summer of 2022 will be remembered as a brutal season in the history of climate change. Heatwaves killed at least 90 people in India and Pakistan, as the temperature soared as high as 46-48 degrees centigrade. Europe saw heatwaves...
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Chile Faces the Mega Drought Looking for Technical and Social Solutions
According to data provided by the UN, by 2025 half of the world's population will live in areas of water scarcity, making it essential to develop mechanisms and technology to deal with it. In Chile, researchers and experts not only...
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The Rough Road to Energy Transition in The Global South
In February 2022, the Chinese government approved the opening of three new coal mines—two in the northwestern province of Shaanxi and another in Inner Mongolia. This is a part of its efforts towards augmenting coal-based power generation. The plan includes...
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The MUCED experience: New teaching methods in Malaysia
One of the elements in MUCED was introducing Malaysian lecturers and students to new teaching methods. This introduction to group work and Problem Based Learning (PBL) had both direct and indirect benefits in the Malaysian higher education system, participants says.MUCED...
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From coca to cacao agroforestry – a sustainable livelihood strategy in the Peruvian Amazon
‘’Plato or Plumo’’. There is no other way I could start this article than by mentioning the famous intimidating words of Pablo Escobar, the drug lord who reigned not just Colombia but entire Latin America in the 1970s. It literally...
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Climate change: Permafrost carbon remobilization
In recent years, fires in the Amazon Forest and in Australia caused worldwide dismay, showing how interconnected the globe is when we talk about climate change. Similarly, this global phenomenon means that environmental changes in polar regions also concern the...
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Circular economy: Breaking the plastic waves
This article pertains to my ongoing MSc thesis in Sustainable Biotechnology, in which I am examining the role of bio-based plastics in the transition to a circular economy in Denmark. I am due to complete my Master’s in June 2021....
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