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Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change

The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), a major network of international human rights scholars, has issued around the world in a Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change ("The Declaration") ahead of the Paris Climate Summit beginning on 30 November.

A Tribute to a connector: Peter Park (1930-2014)

In the history of social movements and social change not enough is said about a category of persons we might refer to as connectors.  Who are these people? Why are they important? Persons who are located outside the reins of power often lead social change.  For those ideas to enter into the corridors of power where chance has to happen, people are involved.

Call for papers - Special Issue of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development: Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers

*** Deadline for submission of papers: 15 December 2015 ***

This special issue will focus on strategic knowledge-based development frontiers in employment, migration, health, food security and climate change, and cultural engagement. These global issues pose problems at every level, down to micro-districts. They are strategic because what happens will determine the kind of cities and regions in which we will live. They are on the frontier because they generate conflict or could lead to greater co-operation. And they are critical to knowledge-based development because we do not know how to solve them; indeed, we do not even know how to cope with them very well, unsolved.

The Future of Cities: Big Data and the Urban Economy - Vonu Thakuriah, University of Glasgow

This opening keynote at the 12th PASCAL Observatory Conference "Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers"
7-9 Oct 2015, Catania, Sicily, focuses on new modes of governance and operations in cities being enabled by Big Data. Increasingly, data necessary to understand and address many complex challenges facing cities cannot be found in traditional survey programs or data systems.

Launch of the CR&DALL Working Paper Series

The first edition of the CR&DALL Working Paper Series (WP101/2015) has been launched with a paper by Paul Benneworth (CHEPS, University of Twente) and Mike Osborne (CR&DALL, University of Glasgow) entitled Understanding universities and entrepreneurship education: towards a comprehensive future research agenda.

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