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UNU-FLORES Joint Excellence Cluster Proposal Proceeds to the Next Round
UNU-FLORES celebrates a significant achievement have successfully advanced to the next round.
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Zaira Malik
Zaira Malik is a Programme Associate for the Postgraduate Degree and Training Programme.
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UNU-FLORES’ research-based support of the SDGs
The manifold ways in which international cooperation has strong knock-on effects on all SDGs.
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How four UNU-MERIT PhD Alumni Redefined ‘Research Stay’ in Ghana
Four UNU-MERIT alumni created a three-week summer school on Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation at Ghana’s UENR.
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The Dual Faces of Algorithmic Bias — Avoidable and Unavoidable Discrimination
By ensuring the data fed into algorithms is as diverse as possible, we can harness the potential of algorithms to reflect humanity's best qualities.
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Session Highlights Impacts of Satoyama Development Mechanism
A session of the 15th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific discussed successful projects funded by the mechanism.
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Prof. Farshid Vahedifard
Professor Farshid Vahedifard's work has centered around studying the resilience and adaptation of critical infrastructure, including levees and dams, in the face of extreme events (e.g., droughts, floods, wildfires, and cascading hazards) in a changing climate.
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Dr. Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas is a globally recognized expert in natural resources management with broad research interests in integrated soil, water and nutrient management in crop-livestock systems in Latin America, Africa, West and Central Asia.
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Dr. Hossein Tabari
Dr. Hossein Tabari is a hydrologist with expertise in developing hybrid models to advance the understanding of regional-to-global climatic and socioeconomic drivers, space-time variability, and the impacts of extreme events under uncertainty.
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Dr. Manoochehr Shirzaei
Dr. Manoochehr Shirzaei's research is focused on space-borne synthetic aperture radar technology, groundwater resources management, green energies, and equitable adaptation to natural and anthropogenic land subsidence, sea level rise, and coastal hazards in the face of changing climate.