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Are you going places? Mapping unequal access to services and opportunities worldwide

City dwellers often dream of living in a pastoral rural area to get away from it all. However, once there, they realize rurality requires travel time to access even basic services they previously took for granted. The challenge of accessing services, such as healthcare and... click to read more

Andrea Cattaneo | Senior Economist at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

development

economy

City-region systems

Economic geography

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Apr 8, 2021

Could COVID-19 decide our climate future?

In early 2020, the world suddenly fell quiet as measures were put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. No more traffic jams — the clear roads and skies and cleaner air were a brief silver lining. But has the pandemic really been making an... click to read more

Piers M. Forster | Professor; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Deborah Z. Rosen | Science and Policy Manager for the EU Horizon 2020 CONSTRAIN project at Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

pollution

climate change

coronavirus

COVID-19

economy

Reading time 4 min

published on Mar 10, 2021