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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Citizen Science and Informal Learning

Posted October 2, 2014 - 13:13

Richard Edwards and Ian Simpson at the University of Stirling have recently gained funding from the British Academy in the UK to explore the educational backgrounds of people contributing to citizen science projects and to examine what volunteers learn informally from participating in citizen science projects.

Future of Cities has published two new working papers

Posted October 1, 2014 - 10:26

The UK government Office for Science project, Future of Cities has published two new working papers: Nick Dunn’s ‘A Visual History of the Future’and Ron Martin’s ‘The evolving economic performance of UK cities.

Climate Summit Bulletin

Posted October 1, 2014 - 10:09

Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in collaboration with the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General the Climate Summit 2014 convened at UN Headquarters in New York, US, on 23 September 2014.

Recent writings by Dr. Rajesh Tandon

Posted September 30, 2014 - 09:20

Here’s a quick update on Dr. Rajesh Tandon’s recent writings:

Rajesh Tandon's transformative vision for development rejects TINA. He wants to create www.all. What does he mean? Read about it here http://pria.org/blogs.php?action=view&blog_id=2895   

Asia-Pacific University - Community Engagement Network Summit, 21-23 September 2014 in Malaysia

Posted September 26, 2014 - 11:08

USM - the University of Science Malaysia - is one of Malaysia's top-rated special 'research-led' universities under Malaysia's HE in development policy. USM fittingly hosted this week the second Summit this week of APUCEN, the Asia-Pacific University-Community Engagement Network: fittingly because of USM's long-standing commitment to local civil society as well as to industrial engagement.

 

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