Translational and Clinical |
The genetics of metabolic diseases |
A missing step in a metabolic pathway leads to the build-up of toxic compounds, and the lack of materials essential for normal function. |
Wyatt Yue |
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Translational Medicine |
Chemistry, epigenetics and drugs |
Alteration of gene expression is fundamental to many diseases. A better understanding of how epigenetic proteins affect diseases provides a starting point for therapy development and the discovery of new drug. |
Paul Brennan |
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Global Health |
The economics of tropical diseases |
Economics and health are interlinked in many ways, as seen in the vicious cycle between poverty and ill health. |
Yoel Lubell |
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Translational Medicine |
The genetics of metabolic diseases |
A missing step in a metabolic pathway leads to the build-up of toxic compounds, and the lack of materials essential for normal function. |
Wyatt Yue |
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Translational and Clinical |
A deep breath in |
Asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) are common conditions that affect the lives of many people. |
Mona Bafadhel |
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Malaria |
Getting the dose right |
Too high a dose can result in toxicity and side-effects, too low a dose can cause the illness to come back and at worse develop resistance. |
Joel Tarning |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Migration in the Media |
Rob McNeil, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Immigration and democracy in the UK COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Rob McNeil |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
The cage of freedom: Mobility and labour in contemporary Bangkok |
Claudio Sopranzetti, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Claudio Sopranzetti |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
The Urban Outlaw as Rights Broker |
Nicholas Simcik Arese, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Nicholas Simcik Arese |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Immigration and the NHS |
Carlos Vargas Silva, COMPAS, University of Oxford, gives a talk for Immigration and democracy in the UK COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Carlos Vargas Silva |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
The scale and scope of citizenship in early modern Europe: Preliminary estimates |
Chris Minns, London School of Economics, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Chris Minns |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
How informalities and diversification make an arrival neighborhood: International migrants in Kumkapi, Istanbul |
Kristen Biehl, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Kristen Biehl |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Damaged trust and a changing electorate?: Migration as a contemporary political issue in the UK |
Scott Blinder, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, gives a talk for the Immigration and democracy in the UK COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Scott Blinder |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Arrival cities under occupation? Political economies of urban consolidation and rural migration in the contemporary West Bank |
Kareem Rabie, CUNY Graduate Center, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Kareem Rabie |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
The border is everywhere: Refugee journeys in Europe |
Daniel Trilling, New Humanist Magazine, gives a talk for Shifting Powers, Shifting Mobilites COMPAS Seminar Series |
Daniel Trilling |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
The xenophobic city: Security, neoliberalisation and violence from the bottom of Aegean Sea to the centre of Athens |
Dimitris Dalakoglou, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the Arrival Cities COMPAS Seminar Series. |
Dimitris Dalakoglou |
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Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment |
Deliberation welcomes prediction |
Alan Hájek (Australian National University) gives a talk for the New Insights seminar series on 21st May 2015. |
Alan Hájek |
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Alumni Voices |
Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten (Balliol, 1962) |
The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH describes his long-standing links with Oxford and his high-profile political career in this wide-ranging podcast interview. |
Chris Patten |
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Openness at Oxford |
Antoine Jerusalem on Open Research Data |
Antoine Jerusalem, Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Science, talks about the importance of Open Data for his work on the computational modeling of materials and his involvement in the Human Connectome Project. |
Antoine Jerusalem |
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Openness at Oxford |
Ben Holmes on Open Code |
Ben Holmes, a web developer for the Oxford IT Services, talks about the relevance of Open Code for the University’s WebLearn platform, the Mobile Oxford App, and his own involvement in GitHub. |
Ben Holmes |
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Victoria McGuinness on TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) |
Victoria McGuinness, the Business Manager for The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), talks about the Centre’s role as a home for major research programmes at Oxford and its efforts to stimulate and support interdisciplinary research. |
Victoria McGuinness |
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Openness at Oxford |
Open Data in the Humanities |
Jacob Dahl, Associate Professor of Assyriology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, talks about his research with cuneiform tablets and his hopes for the future of Open Data in the Humanities. |
Jacob Dahl |
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Openness at Oxford |
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics on Public Engagement |
Julian Savulsecu and Dominic Wilkinson discuss the efforts of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics to encourage and support debate on practical ethics through its open events and online materials. |
Julian Savulescu, Dominic Wilkinson |
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Openness at Oxford |
Luciano Floridi on The Ethics of Open Data |
Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute, discusses the ethical questions raised by the emergence of Open Data and Big Data. |
Luciano Floridi |
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Openness at Oxford |
Open Research |
Researchers and Academics at Oxford share their experiences with sharing their data openly and the projects, collaborations and opportunities Open Data makes possible. |
Maja Zaloznik, Antoine Jerusalem |
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Openness at Oxford |
Ian Goldin on the Oxford Martin School |
Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development and Director of the Oxford Martin School, discusses the efforts of researchers at the Oxford Martin School to address the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. |
Ian Goldin |
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Openness at Oxford |
Ben Goldacre on Open Data |
Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma, shares his views on Open Data and discusses his involvement in projects created in the spirit of openness. |
Ben Goldacre |
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Openness at Oxford |
Open Data: The Golden Age of Discovery |
This documentary follows the experiences of a number of academics and researchers at Oxford as they discuss the implications of Open Data for their research, for academia and for humanity. |
Chris Lintott, Ben Goldacre |
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Openness at Oxford |
Free Speech Debate on Global Free Expression |
Dr Dorian Singh and Sebastian Huempfer discuss Free Speech Debate, a project founded on the belief that making content freely available for non-commercial purposes is an integral part of promoting a global debate on free expression. |
Dorian Singh, Sebastian Huemfer |
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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars |
Special Seminar: Individual and Collective in the Response to Mass Atrocity |
Mark J. Osiel,University of Iowa, gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series. The discussant is Prof Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. |
Mark J Osiel, Pavlos Eleftheriadis |
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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars |
Transitional (In)justice in Israel/Palestine |
Nimer Sultany, University of London, gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series on Monday, 1 June 2015. |
Nimer Sultany |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Happiness, Unhappiness, and Suffering |
Hawkins is Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Trent Scholar in Bioethics at Duke University. |
Jennifer Hawkins, Jeff McMahan |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Toward a Naturalistic Theory of Moral Progress |
Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. |
Allen Buchanan |
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Uehiro Oxford Institute |
Moral Conformity |
Sinnott-Armstrong is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Ethics at Duke University. |
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
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Practical Ethics Bites |
Can you choose to be gay? |
Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation. |
Brian Earp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds |
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Openness at Oxford |
Simon Benjamin on Open Science |
Simon Benjamin, Associate Professor at the Materials Department, gives an in-depth talk on the importance of Open Science for researchers, students and the general public. |
Simon Benjamin |
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Openness at Oxford |
Aruna Bhaugeerutty on Open Museum Collections |
Aruna Bhaugeerutty, Manager of Digital Collections at the Ashmolean Museum, talks about the Museum’s efforts to open up its collections to a wider audience via interactive online platforms. |
Aruna Bhaugeerutty |
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Openness at Oxford |
Emma Goodwin on 'Crowdscribing' |
Emma Goodwin is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Collaborative Skills Project, ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities’ (dhAHRC). |
Emma Goodwin |
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The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli |
Working with Hughenden Manor: Solving the Statesman’s Rooms |
Oliver Cox (D.Phil, Oxford) and Rob Bandy (manager, Hughenden Manor) discuss the exciting partnership between Oxford University researchers and National Trust properties throughout the country. |
Oliver Cox, Rob Bandy |
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The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli |
'A Jew in his heart': The Reception of Disraeli's Judaism |
A dynamic exploration of shifts in historical writing about Disraeli's Judaism between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
Megan Kearney |
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The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli |
Rediscovering Disraeli – One Letter at a Time |
Michel Pharand, director of The Disraeli Project in Ontario, talks about piecing together Disraeli's story, one letter at a time. |
Michel Pharand |
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The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli |
Pegasus and Carthorse: The Many Shades of Disraeli’s Celebrity |
Sandra Mayer assesses the intersections of literary and political fame in Disraeli’s public image. |
Sandra Mayer |
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The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli |
Disraeli's 'Venetia': Death of a Poet? |
Michael Flavin demonstrates the way in which a critically unexplored novel, 'Venetia', sheds light on Disraeli's political formation. |
Michael Flavin |
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The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli |
Scenes from Disraeli’s Extraordinary Life: Curating the Bodleian 2004 Exhibition and Widening Its Reach |
An inside look at the 2002 Bodleian Library exhibition about Disraeli's extraordinary life. |
Helen Langley |
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Openness at Oxford |
Open Educational Resources (OER) |
Find out about the Open Education Resources and Initiatives at the University of Oxford! |
Sean Faughnan, Marion Manton |
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Podcasting |
Watch leading academic talk about their experiences with the University’s Podcasting Initiative and Open Spires! |
Ian Goldin, Julian Savulescu |
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Openness at Oxford |
What is Openness? |
‘Openness’ is a far-reaching concept--find out what it is about and why it is becoming increasingly important to academics, researchers, students and the general public! |
Marianne Talbot, Simon Benjamin |
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Alumni Voices |
Champion of renewable energy Juliet Davenport OBE (Merton, 1986) |
Juliet Davenport emphasises the role of renewable energy in the fight against climate change and shows how unprecedented progress is being made. |
Juliet Davenport |
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International Migration Institute |
Learning how to feel: Spiritual knowledge and emotionally-based narratives of social transformation amongst Nigerian and Congolese pastors in diaspora |
IMI Trinity term Visiting Fellow Rafael Cazarin gives an exceptional seminar on narratives of social transformation amongst Nigerian and Congolese pastors in diaspora |
Rafael Cazarin |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
Global policy for IDPs: a parallel process? |
Dr Phil Orchard gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series. |
Phil Orchard |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
Refugees – what’s wrong with history? |
Peter Gatrell gives a talk for the Refugee Studies Centre podcast series. |
Peter Gatrell |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
Timon of Athens |
Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of Athens. |
Emma Smith |
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University College |
Beveridge, the Webbs and the coming of the Welfare State. |
William of Durham Lecture. |
Michael Ward |
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Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Preparing for planned relocation |
Preparing for planned relocation |
FMR |
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Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - The state of the evidence |
Researchers have much to do, not only to understand climate- and disaster-induced migration but also to transmit their understanding for the use of policymakers and practitioners. |
Justin Ginnetti |
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Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - Development and displacement risks |
The impact of climate change induces systemic patterns of socio-economic erosion that also affect the dynamics of disaster displacement and that require parallel responses. |
Glaucia Boyer, Matthew McKinnon |
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FMR 49 - Foreward |
In order to make progress on disasters, climate change and human mobility, it is essential to bring together different strands of the discussion to develop a comprehensive response that also anticipates future challenges associated with climate change. |
Børge Brende, Didier Burkhalter |
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FMR 49 - Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past |
Placing contemporary deliberations about relocation within a longer historical and intellectual framework reveals unexpected connections and salutary lessons. |
Jane McAdam |
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FMR 49 - The necessity for an ethnographic approach in Peru |
A movement of people is rarely explained by environmental or climatic factors alone. Therefore an analysis which does not take into consideration the cultural consequences of climate change for affected societies is incomplete. |
Geremia Cometti |
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FMR 49 - Developing temporary protection in Africa |
Formalised temporary protection arrangements in Africa could significantly improve access to territory and human rights for people displaced across borders by disasters. Such arrangements must adhere to states’ existing protection obligations. |
Tamara Wood |
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Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - The Nansen Initiative: building consensus on displacement in disaster contexts |
The Nansen Initiative consultative process has identified a toolbox of potential policy options to prevent, prepare for and respond to the challenges of cross-border displacement in disaster contexts, including the effects of climate change. |
Walter Kälin |
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Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49) |
FMR 49 - An integrated focus |
The key to successfully addressing the challenges of environmental, climatic and natural disasters is integrating migration concerns – including displacement – into all climate change, disaster risk reduction and development policies and frameworks. |
William Lacy Swing |
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FMR 49 - Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies |
Oman and Mongolia reflect the modern climatic and social challenges to mobile pastoral livelihoods. |
Dawn Chatty, Troy Sternberg |
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FMR 49 - National Adaptation Plans and human mobility |
In order to avoid displacement when possible, displacement and human mobility issues need to be better integrated within national and regional adaptation planning processes. |
Koko Warner, Walter Kälin, Susan Martin, Youssef Nassef |
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FMR 49 - West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions |
West Africa has a very mobile population and high vulnerability to natural hazards. It also, however, has a number of regional cooperation agreements and may therefore be a useful testing ground for addressing cross-border disaster displacement. |
Julia Blocher, Dalila Gharbaoui, Sara Vigil |
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FMR 49 - From the Editors |
An introductory note on FMR 49, 'Disasters and displacement in a changing climate', from the Editors. |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
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FMR 49 - Refugees, climate change and international law |
How can the category of ‘climate refugee’ be considered within international law in the 21st century? |
María José Fernández |
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FMR 49 - Building respectful solutions |
Tribes in coastal Alaska and Louisiana in the United States are among the communities at immediate risk of displacement due to climate change impacts. |
Colleen Swan, Chief Albert P Naquin, Stanley Tom |
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FMR 49 - Facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific |
Voluntary adaptive migration across int'l borders will be a critical component of an overall adaptation strategy for at-risk individuals and households in the Pacific in order to increase their resilience to natural hazards and prevent future displicement |
Bruce Burson, Richard Bedford |
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FMR 49 - Floods and migration in the Czech Republic |
Residents’ strategies are generally aimed at either protection from or adaptation to flooding. Large-scale migration from the floodplains of rivers has not been seriously considered, even in high-risk zones. |
Robert Stojanov, Ilan Kelman, Barbora Duží |
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FMR 49 - Brazil’s draft law for environmental migrants |
Brazil is developing a long-term solution for filling a legislative gap affecting environmental migrants. |
Isabela Piacentini de Andrade |
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FMR 49 General - Refugee-state distrust on the Thai-Burma border |
Distrust between refugees and their state of origin must be given due consideration in institutional approaches to repatriation of refugees, on the Thai-Burma border and in other refugee contexts worldwide. |
Karen Hargrave |
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FMR 49 - Mixed motivations and complex causality in the Mekong |
Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the challenges to their livelihoods and security. Strengthening of existing protections for all migrants is clearly advantageous. |
Jessica Marsh |
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FMR 49 - Land, disasters and mobility in the South Pacific |
The adaptive characteristics of customary land systems deserve greater recognition in disaster or climate change policy frameworks. |
Daniel Fitzpatrick |
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FMR 49 - Displacement as a consequence of climate change mitigation policies |
Climate change mitigation policies and ‘green solutions’, such as biofuels, are also creating displacement. |
Sara Vigil |
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FMR 49 General - The Cartagena process: 30 years of innovation and solidarity |
The 30th anniversary of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration offers the opportunity to consider the achievements of the Cartagena process and the specific characteristics that make it so remarkable. |
Carlos Maldonado Castillo |
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FMR 49 - Integrating resilience in South Asia |
Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures. |
Mi Zhou, Dorien Braam |
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FMR 49 - 'One Safe Future’ in the Philippines |
The Philippine government’s ‘One Safe Future’ programme relocated disaster-affected poor families in areas where structures enabling opportunities are lacking. |
Lloyd Ranque, Melissa Quetulio-Navarra |
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FMR 49 - Disasters, displacement and a new framework in the Americas |
There is a startling range of positive examples of national law, policy and practice all across the Americas that states have used to respond to the migratory consequences of disasters. |
David James Cantor |
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FMR 49 General - Animals and forced migration |
Harm to animals resulting from forced migration of people is intricately interwoven with and contingent upon the simultaneous suffering of humans. |
Piers Beirne, Caitlin Kelty-Huber |
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FMR 49 - One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’ |
The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal basis. I want to argue that there are good reasons to use the term. |
Francois Gemenne |
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FMR 49 - Not drowning but fighting: Pacific Islands activists |
Focusing on climate-induced migration, rather than mitigation, can be at odds with grassroots demands and can make the future uninhabitability of some Pacific Islands appear as a foregone conclusion. |
Hannah Fair |
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FMR 49 - Statelessness and environmental displacement |
Stateless people and migrants are at greater risk of displacement and are less likely to receive assistance; in turn, environmental displacement (especially multiple migrations) heightens the risk of becoming stateless. |
Jessie Connell |
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FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia |
Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people to the effects of climate change. |
Gemma Sou |
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FMR 49 General - Trafficking for human organs |
Trafficking of people for their organs is an emerging transnational crime that has failed to receive sufficient international attention. |
Vladimir Makei |
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FMR 49 - “Everyone likes it here” |
Sea-level rise threatens communities of the Lakshadweep islands. But what happens when belongingness, religious beliefs and the identity of being an islander make them stay? |
Himani Upadhyay, Ilan Kelman, Divya Mohan |
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FMR 49 - Post-disaster resettlement in the Philippines: a risky strategy |
Experience in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan suggests that resettlement as a strategy for mitigating disaster-induced displacement can create significant protection risks. |
Alice R Thomas |
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FMR 49 - Temporary protection arrangements to fill a gap in the protection regime |
Predictable measures are needed to provide protection for people displaced across borders by disasters, where there is currently a gap. |
Volker Türk |
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FMR 49 - Governance questions for the international community |
The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively think about displacement and mobility issues relating to natural disasters and climate change, and how to improve the governance thereof. |
Alexander Betts |
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FMR 49 - Samoa: local knowledge, climate change and population movements |
The voices of scientists, academics, politicians and development practitioners dominate the climate change debate, yet local knowledge, values and beliefs are essential elements of navigating the way forward for affected communities. |
Ximena Flores-Palacios |
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FMR 49 - A role for strategic litigation |
Strategic litigation to protect individuals at risk can usefully support higher-level protection initiatives. |
Matthew Scott |
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FMR 49 - Focusing on climate-related internal displacement |
Global attention should place a primary focus on the application of best practice and the development of innovative initiatives to solve climate-related internal displacement, rather than on grappling with the far rarer movements of people across borders. |
Scott Leckie, Ezekiel Simperingham |
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FMR 49 General - Sweet tea and cigarettes: a taste of refugee life in Jordan |
Among refugees in Jordan, utter boredom – the result of restrictions on mobility, prohibitions on employment, and feelings of marginalisation – is an unmistakable source of anguish. |
Rana B Khoury |
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FMR 49 - Building adaptive capacity in Assam |
A starting point for adapting to longer-term climate change could be adaptation to short-term climate variability and extreme events. Making more informed choices about the use of remittances can enhance the adaptive capacity of receiving households. |
Soumyadeep Banerjee, Suman Bisht, Bidhubhusan Mahapatra |
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FMR 49 - Cross-border migration with dignity in Kiribati |
The ‘migration with dignity’ policy is part of Kiribati’s long-term nation-wide relocation strategy. |
Karen E McNamara |
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Transport Studies Unit Podcasts |
Politics of Infrastructure: Spineless Development? part two |
Tim Schwanen, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Tim Schwanen |
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EU's Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans: Whose Politics? Part One |
Mark Major, The Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, European Commission, gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series |
Mark Major |
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Delivering Low Carbon Transport across the UK's Devolved Administrations part two |
Stuart Hay, Vice Chair of Transform Scotland and Scottish Director of Living Streets gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Stuart Hay |
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Delivering Low Carbon Transport across the UK's Devolved Administrations part one |
Jack Snape, Committee on Climate Change gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Jack Snape |
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Politics of Roadspace part one |
Justin Spinney, University of Cardiff gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series. |
Justin Spinney |
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