Monthly Archives: June 2017

Notes From the Field in Ethiopia: From Addis to Adama

Posted on June 29, 2017 by prometheus

Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship Program by Katie Chambers Ethiopia, June 2017 Katie is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering with a focus on Engineering for Developing Communities. In Ethiopia, Katie will be developing flood inundation maps for communities … Continue reading →

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What Will Happen When a Self-Driving Car Kills a Bystander?

Posted on June 26, 2017 by prometheus

by CSTPR Visiting Scholar, Jack Stilgoe The Guardian June 24, 2017 As a social scientist researching emerging technologies, I am fascinated by the bumps, scrapes and abrupt turns of self-driving cars as they accelerate towards the market. Here is a … Continue reading →

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Rural–Urban Differences in Cooking Practices and Exposures in Northern Ghana

Posted on June 21, 2017 by prometheus

by Wiedinmyer, C., K. Dickinson, R. Piedrahita, E. Kanyomse, E. Coffey, M. Hannigan, R. Alirigia, and A. Oduro Environmental Research Letters Volume 12, Number 6 (2017) Abstract: Key differences between urban and rural populations can influence the adoption and impacts … Continue reading →

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Notes from the Field in Ethiopia: From Top-Down Mapping to Bottom-Up Solutions

Posted on June 20, 2017 by prometheus

Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship Program by Katie Chambers Ethiopia, June 2017 Katie is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering with a focus on Engineering for Developing Communities. In Ethiopia, Katie will be developing flood inundation maps for communities … Continue reading →

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MeCCO Monthly Summary: Trump and Paris Climate Agreement Consumes Cultural Coverage of Climate Change

Posted on June 16, 2017 by prometheus

Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO) May 2017 Summary May 2017 coverage of climate change and global warming increased compared to the previous month, as overall coverage across all sources in twenty-eight countries showed an approximate 10 percent increase compared … Continue reading →

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Perceptions of the Effects of Floods and Droughts on Livelihoods: Lessons from Arid Kenya

Posted on June 15, 2017 by prometheus

Product of CSTPR’s Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRCCC) internship program by Amy Quandt and Yunus Antony Kimathi International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management Vol. 9 Issue: 03, pp.337-351 (2017) The purpose of this paper is to … Continue reading →

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Barn Swallow Research in China

Posted on June 14, 2017 by prometheus

Rebecca Safran (co-founder of CSTPR’s Inside the Greenhouse project), along with Liz Scordato (a post-doc in the Safran Lab), travelled to China in May 2017 to meet up with Dr. Liu Yu. They are traveling with Dr. Emilio Pagani-Núñez, a … Continue reading →

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Notes from the Field in Ethiopia: Engineering Meets Humanitarian Action

Posted on June 9, 2017 by prometheus

Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship Program by Katie Chambers Ethiopia, June 2017 Katie is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering with a focus on Engineering for Developing Communities. In Ethiopia, Katie will be developing flood inundation maps for communities … Continue reading →

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Navigating Climate Change – A Communications Challenge by Max Boykoff

Posted on June 8, 2017 by prometheus

[video] 40:14 The realization that climate change is bound to deeply disrupt our future hasn’t set in yet in the US, in large part due to a longstanding propaganda campaign by the fossil fuel lobby to sew doubt. CU Boulder … Continue reading →

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More than Scientists: Quitting is a Privilege

Posted on June 5, 2017 by prometheus

Quitting is a privilege Phaedra Pezzullo, University of Colorado Boulder We have a lot of admiration for Phaedra’s approach: “I think quitting is a privilege. If you listen to the people most impacted by environmental disasters and climate disasters, they … Continue reading →

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