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About Zehra Aydin
Retired UN staff; expert in sustainable development, SDGs, UN system and international environmental negotiations; writing on climate change, inequality, technology and the UN; teaching sustainable development and corporate social responsibility

Book Review: “Governing through Goals: SDGs as Governance Innovation”

October 24, 2021 Zehra Aydin 0

  Book Review: Governing through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation, edited by Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann, MIT Press, 2017 (A 2019 article by one of the editors, Norichika Kanie, and some of this book’s authors, summarize the book’s premise – [read more]

Book Review: “The God Equation” and “The Future of Humanity”

July 16, 2021 Zehra Aydin 0

Book Review The God Equation, by Michio Kaku, Doubleday, 2021  The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar travel, Immorta lity, and our destiny beyond Earth, by Michio Kaku, Random House, 2018 I get my books from the public library and receiving [read more]

Jargon is reducing support for climate change action

June 28, 2021 Zehra Aydin 0

While attending a recent virtual seminar on economics of climate change, I was struck by the poor communication skills of these impressive economists with  PhDs from impressive universities, not to mention multiple books and countless articles under their belt. Yet [read more]

Whiplashed by paywalls, drowning in subscriptions

February 1, 2021 Zehra Aydin 0

In the early days of the Internet, a lot of digital content was free. Getting our attention was more important than getting our money. Fast forward to today and we have thickening subscription paywalls everywhere. In this article I take [read more]

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