Gender Equity during Covid-19
After publishing " In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity", St. Mary's College of Maryland created a website addressing gender equity in academia. Women in…
EfD researchers explore the effects of Covid-19 on relevant environmental dimensions across Latin America
A new multiauthor-perspective article discusses the potential effects of Covid-19 across Latin American countries. It also proposes an agenda for future research as a manner of contributing to a…
EfD-Mak Centre Uganda in collaboration with EfD-Tanzania hold a webinar on Harnessing the COVID -19 Recovery Programmes to Combat Climate Change in Uganda
The EfD Mak Centre Uganda in collaboration with EfD-Tanzania on 24th June, 2020 held a Webinar with a purpose of distilling lessons learned from the COVID-19 response and how these can be transposed…
How to make virtual research-engagement workshops work better: Insights from a recent international gender and energy meeting
Written by: Thomas Klug & Marc Jeuland
About the Workshop
Participation of EfD Colombia researcher Juan Camilo Cárdenas in public and virtual discussions about the pandemic in Colombia
On June 24th, 2020, EfD Colombia senior researcher Juan Camilo Cárdenas was one of the guests at the program “Semana en vivo” led by well-known Colombian Journalist Maria Jimena Duzán. The subject of…
Chile EfD researchers analyse the effects of Covid-19 on the salmon industry
On June 11th, in the context of the webinar program La hora acuícola (Aquaculture time), EfD researchers, Carlos Chávez and César Salazar, and coauthor Jeanne Simon, presented a study on the effects…
Solid waste management during Covid-19 pandemic: policy gaps and prospects for inclusive waste governance in Nigeria
EfD Authors:
Solid waste management (SWM) is a public health service whose importance is often understated. When the solid waste management challenge is exacerbated by a public health emergency such as the Covid-19 pandemic, its real significance as an essential service becomes more apparent. The outbreak and spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) has led to dramatic transformations of every sector of the Nigerian society including SWM systems, where formal and informal actors co-exist often in an uneasy relationship.
Assessing Ways of Saving Lives During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A conversation with Kip Viscusi Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Webinar
The policy debate over how best to respond to COVID-19 centers around whether the costs of social distancing and other measures are justified in terms of the lives saved. The key metric used to…
New series of documents of discussion launched by REES-EfD Colombia
REES-EfD Colombia has launched a series of documents of discussion with the title “Discussions on Environment for Development”(in Spanish is "Discusiones sobre Ambiente para el Desarrollo"). In these…
Prof. E Somanathan discusses how to escape the economic dangers of COVID-19.
Any further lockdown risks incurring a loss of over 10% of GDP without stemming the spread of Covid-19. The ideal strategy is to find and isolate the small fraction of infected people through…