STEPS Seminar: Aid on the Edge of Chaos

Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Ben Ramalingam Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute and STEPS Centre Visiting Fellow at IDS It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what...

STEPS Seminar: In the Eye of a Cyclone: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change in the Sundarban Delta

Convening Space Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Dr Debojyoti Das, ERC Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London Tropical Cyclones are a yearly event in the Bay of Bengal coastal seaboard. The deadliest cyclones in the world have formed here, including the 1970 Bhola super cyclone, which killed 500,000 people. The misery and destruction caused by...

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