By Elvira Uyarra, The University of Manchester, UK The need for a holistic, place-based approach to solving societal challenges has been brought into sharp relief by the Covid pandemic and the climate emergency. The pandemic has promoted fresh discussions about the need to build a more equitable, fair, and sustainable society. It has forced […]
By Adriana Mihaela Soaita, Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. The Covid-19 public health emergency has amplified corruption globally not least across the pharmaceutical industry, within governments’ ‘VIP lanes’ for Covid-19 suppliers, and further down to individuals’ access to vaccination, tests and healthcare (Mucchielli 2020; Teremetskyi et al. 2021). To corruption, Romania is […]
By Sarah Diefenbach, Master Student of the Master in Sustainability, Society and the Environment at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany Introduction Up until the outbreak of the Covid-19 global pandemic, the tourism sector and mass tourism have seen constant growth, enabled by rising prosperity in developed economies, advances in transportation technology, availability of oil, and consumer […]
By Shekh Moinuddin, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Introduction Digital is a new parameter that is added in the last two decades wherein digital gadgets were familiarized across households in India. Digital gadgets are devices that are functional and operational at best when these gadgets accessed the high-speed Internet. However, the digital divide is wider […]
By Felix Nana Kofi Ofori, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London Introduction Ghana has a coastal line of around 560 kilometres along which Ada and Keta are partly located. Ada is a community in the south-eastern of Ghana, where the Volta River meets the Atlantic Ocean. Keta is also situated in the south-eastern of Ghana and […]
By Serafin Pazos-Vidal, Head of Brussels Office of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, Belgium Introduction Demographic decline or depopulation are issues that have had in recent years wide currency both at national level (“Empty Spain”, “Brain Drain” in Eastern Europe, “Shrinking Cities” in Eastern Germany, the “France oubliée” of the “Gillet Jaunes”) as well […]
