Humans in Their Habitats: A Research Agenda for Resilience
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- Senior Fellow - Centre for Environment and Development and Director, Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation - Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University Summary: Humans’ choices affect the environment, and the environment shapes human opportunities. So why do we persist in modeling the dynamics of natural and social systems separately? This research gap has enormous practical consequences: The costs of climate change, for example, depend heavily on the costs of adapting to its differential impacts around the world – how can we better understand...
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COVID-19 and the Landscape of Immunity
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Professor C. Jessica Metcalf - Associate Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public Affairs and Professor Anup Malani - Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine in conversation with Dr. Jessica Seddon
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Cyclones & Climate Change in the Indian Ocean
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Professor Gabe Vecchi - Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System
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Music, Movements, and Identity
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TM Krishna - Carnatic vocalist, activist, and author
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Sensing and Sensemaking: Natural Language Processing, AI, and Global India
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Dr. Jessica Seddon discusses with Professor Karthik Narasimhan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Princeton University, and Dr. Manish Gupta, Director of Google Research India, how natural Language Processing (NLP), combined with advances in artificial intelligence (AI), has opened up new possibilities for human-computer interaction through speech.
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COVID & India’s Evolving Political Economy
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Dr. Jessica Seddon in conversation with Prof. Atul Kohli, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University, and Shankar Aiyar, Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute discusses how COVID-19 has deeply affected India’s economy and society. While the per capita infection and mortality rates are low by global standards, the sheer numbers of those affected are significant and have caused huge disruptions to the Indian economy.
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India and China: The Longer View
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Dr. Jessica Seddon in conversation with:
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Professor Esteban Rossi-Hansberg - Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Summary:
Humans’ choices affect the environment, and the environment shapes human opportunities. So why do we persist in modeling the dynamics of natural and social systems separately? This research gap has enormous practical consequences: The costs of climate change, for example, depend heavily on the costs of adapting to its differential impacts around the world – how can we better understand these costs and shape them? The evolution of watersheds and biodiversity depends on the accumulation of human actions and their interaction with hydrology and ecology. How can we develop solutions without understanding this intersection? This podcast features two leaders in the field of combining social and environmental science at local to global scales, reflecting on their research, its applications, and how to grow the intersection of natural and social science research to guide our public, private, and philanthropic responses to our changing habitats.