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Tag: Climate Change

Year of Soils 2015: Climate change and ecosystem services

Julia Berazneva and Leah Bevis are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School. In our previous posts we discussed how the quality and … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture

Sustainability science: “Informing agitation” for sustainable development

On May 5th, the Dyson School hosted Bill Clark, the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Social, Summaries and Reviews

Designing a robust profitability tool for targeting agricultural interventions

Julianne Quinn is a PhD student in Cornell’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Far too often, agricultural interventions are … More

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Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food and Agriculture, Risk, Technology

Year of Soils 2015: Why we should care

Leah Bevis and Julia Berazneva are PhD candidates at Cornell’s Dyson School.  On December 5th of 2014 the UN Secretary General Ban Ki … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Health, Nutrition, Poverty, Resilience, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology

Improving agricultural productivity while sequestering carbon

Julia Berazneva is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. For the majority of the … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Job Market Paper, Kenya, Poverty

Resilience: So what is it anyway?

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Quite a bit of confusion, or at least disagreement, … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience

The hidden local costs of deforestation in the tropics*

Teevrat Garg is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. The debate over deforestation … More

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Climate Change, Environment, Health, Indonesia, Job Market Paper

Resilience: Why all the hype?

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Although the engineering and ecological origins of the … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience

Intro to Resilience Series

Jenn Denno Cissé is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. Follow her on Twitter @jenncisse. Given the recent excitement (and even occasional controversy) … More

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Climate Change, Poverty, Resilience

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Nobel Lecture, 1979
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