Part 2 of this series provides a taste of the complex discussions facilitated at a conference on environmentally and socially responsible international investment held at Duke Kunshan University, where participants reached across disciplinary boundaries as well as geographic ones.
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Dreams of a Green Silk Road, Part 1: Responsible Development Across Borders
In the first of a 3-part series on the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI), I introduce the context of the Belt and Road, and ask some of the burning questions raised at this fall’s conference on environmentally and socially responsible international investment held at Duke Kunshan University.
Illuminating Risk: New Horizons in Toxics Assessment
Houston’s landscape of chemical infrastructure seemed pretty normal to me, growing up. The vast arrays of storage tanks and refineries sprawling east of Downtown were exotic — a point of fascination on the rare occasionContinue reading
Building Resilient Structures – Physical and Social – in a Changing World
The NCSE conference showed me that promoting a sustainable built environment will mean finding creative responses to trends in the policy world, as well.