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Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Nayak is a former Indian Council of Social Science Doctoral Fellow and political scientist researching around four closely interrelated and mutually guiding programmes i.e. i) public policy, gender and governance in Odisha, ii) right to information and freedom of information iii) local governance and iv) local development administration. The regional focus of his research is on the class, gender and urban bias in the Right to Information Act, Government of India and Odisha. He did his Ph.D in Public Adminstration from Department of Public Administration, Utkal University, India. His doctoral thesis on Right to Information and grievance redressal of Employee's: A Study of Odisha Secretariat" is an outstanding academic work in the field of Public Administration.
MA in Public Adminstration, Utkal University, India.
MPhil in Public Adminstration, Sambalpur University, India.
PhD in Public Adminstration, Utkal University, India .
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I am an environmental specialist with a focus on ecosystem service valuation (the process of assessing ecosystems' contributions to sustainable human wellbeing) and protected area management. I received a PhD in 2022 and Master of Environmental Management in 2017 from the Australian National University, and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Economics in 2015 from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. I also studied in the University of Tokyo, Japan, as a short-term exchange student in early 2017.
I am now a postdoctoral researcher participating at an ecosystem service assessment project sponsored by the US Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. Previously, I did internships with the UNEP Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat in 2021 and the Convention on Migratory Species Secretariat in 2018 to contribute to global environmental governance, including development of a toolkit to assess effectiveness of biodiversity policies.
I have presented my research at several international academic conferences or forums, such as the 10th World Conference of Ecosystem Services Partnership, Hannover, Germany (21 Oct. 2019 – 25 Oct. 2019), and the Ecological Economics and Eco-civilization International Forum, Beijing, China (15 Nov. 2019 – 16 Nov. 2019)
My publications include：
Chen, H* 2020, ‘Complementing conventional environmental impact assessments of tourism with ecosystem service valuation: A case study of the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, China’, Ecosystem Services, vol. 43, 101100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101100.
Chen, H* 2020, ‘Land use trade-offs associated with protected areas in China: Current state, existing evaluation methods, and future application of ecosystem service valuation’, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 711, 134688, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134688
Chen, H* 2021, ‘The ecosystem service value of maintaining and expanding terrestrial protected areas in China’, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 781, 146768, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146768.
Chen, H* 2022, Using "accounting values" for ecosystem services to assess land use trade-offs associated with protected areas in China, PhD Thesis, Australian National University, https://doi.org/10.25911/80H9-M111
Chen, H*, Costanza, R, and Kubiszewski, I 2022, ‘Land use trade-offs in China’s protected areas from the perspective of accounting values of ecosystem services’, Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 315, 115178, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115178
Chen, H* 2022, Zhang, T & Wu, L, ‘Deliberative and Conventional Stated-Preference Valuation on Protected Areas’ Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Case Study in China’, SSRN Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4003381
Hernández-Blanco, M, Costanza, R*, Chen, H, de Groot, D, Jarvis, D, Kubiszewski, I, Montoya, J, Sangha, K, Stoeckl, N, Turner, K, and van 't Hoff, V 2022, ‘Ecosystem health, ecosystem services, and the well-being of humans and the rest of nature’, Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16281
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I am a social ecologist working on issues related to climate change hazards, conflict/cooperation dynamics, and collaborative adaptation models.
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Over the past 16 years, Laurent has gradually been working as an academic researcher, R&D Director (Oxford Consilium), project manager, senior policy analyst/government advisor, full-time faculty and Advisory Board member of a technology transfer centre of the United Nations.
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Catherine L. Ward is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina, USA. Her research interests are in violence prevention from the perspective of children’s development, and particularly in public health approaches to this – in developing evidence-based approaches to violence prevention that have a wide reach and are effective in improving children’s development and reducing their likelihood of becoming aggressive. Much of her current work is focused on preventing child maltreatment, and on understanding the epidemiology of risk factors faced by children, especially in low- and middle-income countries. In line with this, she is one of the developers of the Parenting for Lifelong Health suite of programmes that aim to support parents to raise non-violent children in non-violent homes (see https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/child/plh/en/ for details).
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Dr Bahar Baser is Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. She is also an associate research fellow at the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA), Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Before joining CTPSR, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick at the Department of Politics and International Studies between 2012 and 2014. Bahar completed a PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
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Dr Umut Korkut is Professor in International Politics at Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. Prof Korkut has expertise in how political discourse makes audiences and recently studies visual imagery and audience making. Prof Korkut is the lead for AMIF-funded project VOLPOWER assessing youth volunteering in sports, arts, and culture in view of social integration and Primary Investigator for Horizon 2020 funded RESPOND and DEMOS projects on migration governance and populism.
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Dr Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political economist working as Professor of Business Management in the Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests consist of four closely interrelated and mutually guiding programmes i.e., i) political economy of public policy, AI and sustainable development, gender and environment in South Asia, ii) market, microfinance, religion and social business, iii) faith, freedom, globalisation and governance and iv) Hindu religion and capitalism.
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Dr. Amber Darr completed a PhD from UCL Laws in 2018 in which she compared the diffusion of competition laws in India and Pakistan. She is presently a Lecturer in Law at Coventry University and a Teaching Fellow at UCL. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society.
Dr. Darr is also a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Prior to proceeding for her PhD, she practised corporate, commercial and constitutional law in Pakistan and also served as the Head of the Legal Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.
Dr. Darr has also published on competition law issues in leading international publications and has contributed op-ed pieces in leading newspapers on a range of legal issues. She is presently working on her manuscript on the diffusion of competition laws across South Asia. She is particularly interested in inclusive economies, access to justice and education.
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Claudio Labanca is lecturer in the Department of Economics. He joined the department in 2017 after completing his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, San Diego. His research falls at the intersection of labor economics and public economics and it covers a variety of topics, including wage and productivity differentials across firms, the effects of taxation on the supply of labor and the impact of migration on local labor markets. In his work he pays particular attention to the role played by the interaction between worker and firm behavior in shaping demand and supply of labor, wages and productivity. To estimate these interactions, he applies the latest econometric techniques to detailed matched employer-employee data.