Eleanor Warren-Thomas
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Eleanor Warren-Thomas
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NERC-IIASA Research Fellow/Lecturer at Bangor University, Wales and IIASA, Austria. Thinking about biodiversity 🦎🦋🐦🌳 climate + economics. Especially tropical forests + rubber.
A very cool job opportunity at UEA! I did my PhD here - a wonderful crowd. Though of course, if North Wales is more your thing, we also have a vacancy here at Bangor 😉 jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
New job opportunities at UEA: TWO lectureships in Ecology and Conservation; permanent posts in a wonderful university and city.
Please repost. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/52...
December 7, 2023 at 11:25 AM
A fantastic new piece by Fred Pearce for Yale360 highlights yet another potential driver for increased natural rubber use, and therefore deforestation: electric vehicles wear through tyres quicker... e360.yale.edu/features/rub...
How Mounting Demand for Rubber Is Driving Tropical Forest Loss
The growing market for rubber is a major, but largely overlooked, cause of tropical deforestation, new analysis shows. Most of the rubber goes to produce tires, more than 2 billion a year, and experts...
e360.yale.edu
December 7, 2023 at 11:14 AM
📢 cool job alert!! 📢 Closing date 2 Jan 2024!! 📢 Come and work with us here as a Lecturer in Conservation Science at Bangor University! Check out bangor.ac.uk/sns/conserva... to find out about us, and the job advert is here jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
November 27, 2023 at 5:03 PM
A new piece on our recent rubber and land use change papers: theconversation.com/tropical-for...
Tropical forest loss from growing rubber trade is more substantial than previously thought – new r...
Rubber plantations are replacing forests, particularly in tropical regions.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2023 at 9:48 AM