Academic Education
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Seven Substrates for a Symbiotic, Secure and Sustainable Global Future
Departing from the roots of modern political and security thinking, author Nayef Al-Rodhan weaves together emerging understandings in human behavior and neurobiology, international relations to present a series analytic frames based on them which he applies to international relations in his Ocean...
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A Promising Strategy to Co-Create with Non-Human Entities in Public Administration: A Care Approach
Author Coralie Gervaise provides a useful examination of approaches toward inclusion of non-humans in public administration in her dissertation. After an an exploration of thinking around the topic she examines a care approach and a related framework to help think about and apply such an approach...
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Perennial Rice: Proving the Potential of Perennial Grain Agriculture
"Over 70% of the food calories that feed humanity come from annual grain crops, which occupy 60–80% of global croplands. However, annual grain dominance may be changing.
With support from The Land Institute, researchers in China’s Yunnan Province developed a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial...
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The Dawn of Everything
A long, but so worthwhile book, from the opening chapters a refutation of the need and inevitability of major centralized political control systems in advanced societies. An archaeologist and an anthropologies tease apart currents and emerging data in human development in a way that is fascinating...
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Diet for a Green Planet - International Course
Diet for a Green Planet, 15 ECTS, is an International Study Unit and aims to provide a grounded understanding of the food system from farm to fork and how the food system is connected to climate change mitigation and eutrophication, support biodiversity, rural development, human health, and rural...
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John Thackara: Tsinghua U, China, From Microbe to Bioregion, Designing for Life
Multifaceted examination, packed with detail and perspectives on urban development, including aspects of food, land reclamation and more within a bigger regenerative development frame. Produced in the context of the ICADE Tsinghua, China event 2022, the video focuses particularly on Asia, but with...