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Confirmation combobulation

Confirmation combobulation

My confirmation of candidature was last week. Was it a big deal? Honestly, it’s hard to say. I had been reading, writing and thinking for a year. I had my presentation prepared a month in advance, and had practiced it at least ten times. I got some pretty searching questions, both in the seminar itself and as part of my committee interview. It seemed like a certified, bone fide, “big deal”. And yet, everyone in the lead-up had insisted that this was not a “big deal”. Don’t wo

How do we think about human wellbeing when it comes to marine and coastal development?

How do we think about human wellbeing when it comes to marine and coastal development?

This is one of the questions we are currently considering in the Blue Governance group. Governments and companies who wish to exploit marine and coastal resources often claim they 'support employment' and 'generate wealth' to link the use of these resources to increased societal wellbeing. We call this a neoclassical economic understanding of human wellbeing. But, we could argue human wellbeing is much broader, for example "a state of being with others and the environment, wh