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Implementing change

Technology is important, but it become meaningless unless it's used.

Social scientists work to understand systems and behaviours – why and how things work in societies. They therefore play a vital role in solving the many complex barriers that prevent potential solutions from being implemented. The research below includes studies ranging from why people choose certain behaviours over others, to how we can finance the transition in a just and equitable way. 

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Professor Simon Mosey, Director of the Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Nottingham, demonstrates the importance of supporting entrepreneurship within disadvantaged communities to address environmental challenges. 

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  1. SHORT ARTICLE: Enhancing the resilience of smallholder communities in Tanzania
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    These communities are particularly susceptible to chronic hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition and climate change. These problems can be visualised as a vicious circle between small-scale agriculture, rural poverty and climate vulnerability. Breaking this cycle is essential. This short article explores the issue.
  2. POLICY BRIEF: Incentivising reduced industrial emissions
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    Professor Robert McCorquodale explains how legal frameworks around human rights offer a means to incentivise corporate behaviour to protect the climate.
  3. BLOG: Unsustainable seafood supply chains
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    Seafood supply chains sustain three billion people nutritionally and also provide 10% of the world's population with employment. But they are dangerously unsustainable.
  4. BLOG: Global trading - the good, the bad and the essential
    Description
    This blog explores some of the flaws in our globalised food systems and the historical trading patterns upon which they are based, which have remained largely unquestioned for centuries. Food is essential but the way consumer demands have shaped our food systems through overproduction and consumption is not.
  5. PAPER: Adoption incentives and environmental policy timing
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    In this paper, researchers consider the incentives of a single firm to invest in a cleaner technology under emission quotas and emission taxation, analysing the effectiveness of different incentives and policy timing in different scenarios to determine the most effective method.
  6. BLOG: Support for fracking continues to drop
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    A new survey shows that public support for the extraction and use of shale gas has dropped significantly over the last year with concerns about the potential impact on the environment beginning to outweigh the possible economic benefits.
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