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Comprehending the crisis

The first step to confronting climate change and building a sustainable future is understanding the problem.

Social science research helps us to see problems differently and gain a deeper understanding of why things happen. This research allows us to rethink our understanding of a problem and find new solutions. The articles below explore a range of different methods and approaches to understanding the crisis, from studies of disaster relief efforts through to historical overviews of changing weather patterns and their effects upon society. 

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James Heydon, an expert in environmental regulation in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, explains why effective policy intervention is essential to combat rising emissions from wood burning stoves. 

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Find more articles explaining why we need sustainable solutions:

  1. Podcast: Ethnic Minorities and Disproportionate Environmental Impacts
    Description
    Race and Climate Change are inextricably linked, as our guest Dr Charles Ogunbode discusses with Chris Sims. In this episode, we look at why the conversation about the environment is missing out on a vital demographic, when that same demographic tends to shoulder most of the impacts.
  2. SUMMARY: Developing the world's first biodiversity credit standards
    Description
    This short article summarises a new £1 million project, led by University of Nottingham researchers, on the development of the world's first biodiversity credit standards. This framework will enable businesses and governments to quantify their impacts on the natural world.
  3. SHORT ARTICLE: Paying for the transition to sustainable energy
    Description
    Energy security, climate change, sustainable energy and the transition to renewable energy are linked topics. Increasingly, the preferred policy direction across the globe is to promote renewable energy options, in order to tackle climate change and create a sustainable economy while maintaining energy security.
  4. SUMMARY: Understanding how to conserve plant diversity
    Description
    This short article summarises research discovering new patterns of plant diversity. The study produced, for the first time, global maps of local plant biodiversity, based on field surveys around the world, transforming our understanding of how to conserve this vital resource.
  5. SHORT ARTICLE: Exploring the Rights of Children and Future Generations
    Description
    This short article examines the importance of the relationship between children's rights and future generations' rights for International Human Rights Law.
  6. POLICY BRIEF: Sustainable Gemstone Mining in Kenya
    Description
    This Policy Brief aims to build public awareness on the policies and measures that are planned to be put in place to develop a sustainable artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Taita Taveta.
  7. SHORT ARTICLE: Addressing Modern Slavery
    Description
    Modern slavery has increasingly been linked to the environment; in particular environmental degradation and climate change. Modern slavery can be a driver of environmental change as well an outcome – changes in the environment can push people into situations where they may become vulnerable to modern slavery and vice versa. To address climate change, the impacts of modern slavery must be accounted for.
  8. SHORT ARTICLE: COVID and companies sustainability commitments
    Description
    Covid-19 has had profound implications for the "role of business in society". One of them is the pandemic's effect on companies' sustainability strategies. We explored this issue by studying how 25 companies responded to the pandemic in four African countries: Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, and South Africa.
  9. VIDEO: Sustainable gemstone mining in Kenya
    Description
    The Sustainable Artisanal and Small-scale Mining project supports the development of a more responsible and inclusive gemstone mining in Kenya. The project team draw on the local knowledge, skills and technologies of miners and mining stakeholders (i.e. the national and local governments, mining associations, community based organisations, non-governmental organizations, local communities and religious organisations) to co-create context driven bottom-up solutions that mitigate the impact of ASM activities on the natural environment, occupational health and safety, and the social inclusion and well-being of miners and local communities.
  10. POLICY: Faith for a Safe Climate Future
    Description
    This brief explains why morality-centred solutions which harness the influence of faith institutions are crucial for transformative change and acceleration in individual, community, and international-level responses to the climate crisis.
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