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EJRU News: Student Conference, Trips to New York and Jane Bennett Visit Scheduled

Posted on 12 April 2019 by Hannah Hughes

With the Easter holiday approaching it seems like a good time to reflect on and celebrate some of the EJRU research activities and events, particularly the students’ contribution to these over the last few weeks and months. Student Environmental Law Conference 2019 A number of LLB Environmental Law and Justice students participated in the student-led
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Student initiatives, Uncategorized

NO MOM, I DON’T NEED A DRIVING LICENSE

Posted on 11 March 2019 by mullerm@cardiff.ac.uk

Why the car system is environmentally destructive and how we can foster sustainable mobility Climate change is the greatest challenge of our century, and mobility is an essential feature of our globalized world. In the face of environmental urgency, it seems that today’s transport options and sustainable mobility are incompatible. In fact cars, today’s first means
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The Hardest Pill to Swallow: The Impact of Drugs on the Environment

Posted on 7 March 2019 by Ellie Griffin

Drugs, both illicit and legal, are an unspoken and largely unreported contributor to environmental degradation. They affect the environment in a magnitude of ways, many of which have only recently been understood. Regardless of your views on illicit drugs, we have all at one time or another participated in environmental degradation using drugs. Either by
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Buzzkill: The Case of Colony Collapse Disorder

Posted on 29 January 2019 by Charlotte Gehrke

Telling the Bees In the nineteenth century, it was believed that if a household caring for a bee colony failed to tap their key on the hive and tell the bees about major events in their lives, the bees would leave, die, or stop producing honey. [3] This cautionary tale of neglect, highlights the interdependence of
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