All Posts from Harriet Jackson
Effective way to communicate the resource challenge?
Harry Lehmann, Director of Environment Planning and Sustainability Strategy at the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), just dropped off this video ‘Flow’ aiming to explain the resource challenges we face to non-scientists. The video was made by UBA and the Sustainable Design Center eV. While the graphics are attractive and the video gets more dynamic » read on
Take 2: Challenges for the WRF
With less than a month to go to the second World Resources Forum (WRF), I’m taking a trip down memory lane to the inaugural WRF in 2009, where I was blogging as a Student Reporter. While the environment itself was impressive to a student still immersed in classroom theories and game theory matrices, the feeling » read on
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Harriet is the President of oikos International, the international student organisation for sustainable economics and management that co-organises the Student Reporter project. Prior to oikos, she studied Government and Economics at the London School of Economics. Through oikos London, Harriet became interested in how to use behavioural economics for social and environmental purposes, specifically concerning transport infrastructure and lifestyle choices, and the economics of water management. She blogged at the World Resources Forum 2009, and will return in 2011 as an Editor. Originally from Newcastle, UK, Harriet now lives in the sunnier climes of St Gallen, Switzerland and explores the country by road bike.
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