Dr Celina Aznárez graduated with a thesis entitled “The role of urban biodiversity in green infrastructure multifunctionality and environmental justice” today at Univ Autónoma Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).
Dr Sean Goodwin graduated with a thesis entitled “Bridging boundaries: integrating climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and social justice through urban nature-based solutions ” today at University of Almeria.
Authoritarian populist movements are emerging in the global context (e.g. in the US, Russia, India, Brazil, Argentina), and Europe (e.g. in Holland, Finland, France, Hungary). This phenomenon shares several characteristics at an international level, partly derived from the current phase of exhaustion of a globalized economic model, which in turn entails a concatenation of cyclical and structural crises (“poly-crises”) that generate high levels of insecurity and uncertainty in society. At the same time, the rise of populist movements is revealing the weaknesses of the political model of representative democracy.