Cooking Knowledge Together: Rethinking Collaboration in Academia

By Luca Sára Bródy

In an era of overlapping crises – from climate breakdown to deepening social inequalities – calls for more “impactful” research are everywhere. Universities promise solutions, funding bodies demand relevance, and scholars are expected to produce knowledge that can address urgent societal challenges. But what if the problem is not only what research produces, but how it is done – and why current ways of doing research so often fail to respond to these crises?

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Why Development Economics Should Claim Adaptation Finance

By Pınar Yardımcı

Adaptation to climate change has firmly entered the vocabulary of global development policy. From the Paris Agreement to the Sustainable Development Goals, international frameworks increasingly recognise that the most vulnerable countries need dedicated financial support to cope with a crisis they did not create. The rhetoric is unambiguous: adaptation is urgent, non-negotiable, and overdue.

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Why Knowledge Diplomacy Deserves More Attention

By Sibout Nooteboom / Shaping Sustainable Futures conference series

In a world where raw power dominates, countries often find it difficult to govern their internationally embedded value chains from a position of equality. Knowledge diplomacy may help to overcome this difficulty, as experiences from the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) suggest.

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