tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25959596214238597922011-07-08T04:20:15.089+01:00Ideas4development, created by Frances Hill at the Development Studies Association (DSA), is a space for her views, observations, favourite links & publications and streams of consciousness which do not necessarily reflect the views of the DSA.Frances Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755404370442816385noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2595959621423859792.post-15403126185451909132010-03-15T22:09:00.000Z2010-03-15T22:21:42.150Z

I have just returned from Beijing, where we were discussing, primarily, issues of Climate Change. The irony is obvious of course and I struggled with the decision to go. But go I did - and for three separate reasons:Firstly, this could be the start of an intercontinental initiative - UK/European, USA and Chinese - around the issue of Climate Change. The West needs to make more efforts to link

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Decisions taken that affect anyone's lives - let alone those taken that affect those who have very little input into those decisions - should be well informed. How to get this to happen? All too often it is left to serendipity.In Beijing recently a group of us met - social scientists, physical scientists, Europeans, Americans and Chinese - and I discovered a new word which seemed to sum up what

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