Ismail Serageldin: Reflections on constructing a human-centred development paradigm
A statement for discussion, by Ismail Serageldin, Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and ISC Patron.
15.04.2020
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A statement for discussion, by Ismail Serageldin, Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and ISC Patron.
15.04.2020
Daya Reddy is President of the International Science Council. Here, he provides a powerful message to ISC members on the importance of collaboration across organizations, disciplines, and geographical and cultural boundaries.
14.04.2020
Prof. Dr. Manfred Fischedick, Scientific Managing Director, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, discusses the need to mobilise investments that shape a sustainable, climate-friendly, resource-efficient and, not least, resilient economy.
14.04.2020
“The only thing missing right now is an invasion by extra-terrestrials,” is what a friend who works as a journalist said to me at the weekend. Her words seemed to sum up the strange situation in which our society currently finds itself. Over the months to come, decisions will be taken that determine our lives in the 2020s.
14.04.2020
Kareem Buyana, from the the Urban Action Lab at Makerere University, Uganda, shares his thoughts on urban health systems in developing and developed cities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
14.04.2020
Bapon Fakhruddin discusses why the COVID-19 pandemic requires thinking and decision making supported by a data ecosystem which looks much further into the future than previous short-term approaches.
10.04.2020
Nelson Odume is a part of the ISC's LIRA2030 (Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa) network of early career scientists in Africa conducting solutions-oriented research on global sustainability issues.
09.04.2020
“It is high time to reduce the vulnerabilities of migrant workers”, says Amina Maharjan, Senior Specialist in Livelihoods and Migration at ICIMOD, Kathmandu. Amina Maharjan is second up in the Global Research Programme on Inequality’s (GRIP) miniseries of interviews on the current COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on the multiple dimensions of inequality.
06.04.2020