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Behaviour, Social issues

170 – Social capital

20 September, 201026 December, 2011 by David Pannell4 Min Reading

One of the most interesting books I’ve read recently is “Making Democracy Work” by Robert Putnam. It explores dramatic differences in the effectiveness of regional

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Agriculture, Policy

169 – If I were a government minister …

6 September, 201026 December, 2011 by David Pannell3 Min Reading

I was recently invited to write an article for the Farm Policy Journal on the topic, ‘If I were minister for agriculture …”. Here is

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Climate change, Communication

168 – Telling farmers how to adapt to climate change

30 August, 20107 February, 2015 by David Pannell8 Min Reading

Given the prominence of climate change and the political and technical difficulty of stopping it, governments feel that they need policy programs for climate change

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Environment, Natural resource management, Policy

167 – Broad versus targeted environmental investment

29 March, 201026 December, 2011 by David Pannell8 Min Reading

Should environmental managers spread their resources across as many projects as possible to encourage broad participation, should they target a small number of major projects,

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Music

166 – Best albums of the past decade

14 December, 200927 December, 2011 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

Something less serious to suit the time of year. It’s the end of the noughties, already. Time for a run down of my favourite albums

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Climate change, Politics

165 – ClimateGate part 3: Reactions and implications

14 December, 200926 December, 2011 by David Pannell11 Min Reading

Part 1, Background ยท Part 2, What is revealed? In Part 2 I provided extracts from some of the emails that have been hacked or

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