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Mark Paul is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Rutgers University . He is a political economist working in the areas of inequality and environmental policy. His current research is focused at the intersection of climate change and economic inequality. Recently, he has been working to design policy pathways to simultaneously mitigate emissions and inequality. His work has been covered in a range of outlets, including the Economist, the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and more.
He is currently working on a book project called The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, under contract with Chicago University Press, to be published in May 2023.
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Dr Harriet Thomson is an award-winning interdisciplinary academic with world leading expertise in energy poverty. Her research interests broadly concern the role of public policy and policymaking processes, structural inequalities in the distribution of housing and access to affordable and clean forms of energy, health and wellbeing outcomes, and indicators for measuring the complex realities of energy poverty.
Conducting transformative policy-relevant research and doing so in a participatory and holistic manner are core elements of Harriet's research ethos. To achieve this, she has consistently worked across disciplines and sectors to forge collaborations and international networks, comprising policymakers, regulators, local communities, and other key stakeholders. These efforts have resulted in several active international consortium projects in Europe and across Latin America, and to date Harriet has been awarded in excess of £2.9 million in research funding from the European Commission, British Council, GCRF, and other sources.
Harriet's research outputs have been used to influence the framing of policy approaches to address energy poverty worldwide, including the European Commission’s Clean Energy for all Europeans package, and more recently, the launch of a monitoring observatory in Mexico.
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I am Lecturer in Environmental & Development Economics, SOAS University of London UK. I am currently examining local community participation in eco-tourism and how it has impacted local lives and livelihoods, including under current pandemic conditions, in areas surrounding the Tràng An (Vietnam) and Sinharaja (Sri Lanka) World Heritage Sites