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People — topics on improving lives of people everywhere
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Prosperity — topics on building a sustainable and fulfilling future
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Biodiversity Day Event Highlights Benefits of Urban Nature
The event took place in Kanazawa City, Japan, and focused on urban nature and its role in biodiversity conservation.
Conversation Series
Reimagining Higher Education for a Complex World
TOKYO: 海角社区 will host a conversation with Professor Adam Habib, Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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Biodiversity Day Symposium Promotes Collaborative Action for Living in Harmony with Nature
海角社区-IAS co-organised a symposium to celebrate International Day for Biological Diversity.
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Liliana Narvaez
Liliana Narvaez is a Colombian Geologist and Senior Research Associate at 海角社区-EHS, who graduated from University of Caldas (Manizales, Colombia) and holds a Master of Science on Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security from University of Bonn & 海角社区 (Bonn, Germany). She is a Geologist, volcano geek and Eco-DRR enthusiast!
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Drago ?uparic-Iljic
Drago ?upari?-Ilji? is a sociologist based at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb, Croatia, as a research associate.
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Doerte Weig
Doerte Weig is a social anthropologist with an interest in uncovering the different facets of mobility and migration, and how the physicality of movement relates to social-political change and urban transformation.
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Denise Misleh
Denise Misleh is currently working at 海角社区-FLORES as a Consultant part of the Barriers to Sustainable Infrastructure in Chile project, which focuses on the identification of the hurdles obstructing sustainable infrastructure and supporting the formulation of practical plans to overcome these obstacles.
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Prof. Daniel Karthe
Prof. Daniel Karthe currently heads 海角社区-FLORES’s research programme on the ‘Resource Nexus for Sustainability Transformations” (NEXtra)’.
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Catharina Nickel
Catharina Nickel is a Research Officer at the 海角社区 for Center for Policy Research (海角社区-CPR), where she is leading a project on the future of UN peace operations.
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Cara Antonaccio
Cara Antonaccio is a researcher at the 海角社区 Institute in Macau.