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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

I’m curious, what issue do you have with Our World in Data? I disliked Max Roser’s arguments when arguing with Jason Hickel over degrowth, so am not surprised, but I haven’t read about it before. Is it about their positivist/economic stance on complex and subjective issues?

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Reposted by Douwe van Schie

Introducing the concept of "capitalogenic disease". We present 8 ways that capitalism makes people sick, perpetuates disease, or produces health inequalities. Published in the BMJ Global Health with @drguddisingh.bsky.social. gh.bmj.com/content/8/12...

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Capitalogenic disease: social determinants in focus

Scholarship on the social determinants of health and disease has become firmly established over the past several decades. This school of thought has created space for academics and health professional...

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We describe our (slightly) different methodologies in detail. In Fiji, illustrated value cards were used by researchers to better convey each value and support discussion.

most intolerable. A values-based approach can unify the often artificially dichotomised 'economic' and 'non-economic' losses and damages. Resulting in more comprehensive assessments that recognise the complexity of life.

We describe three benefits. Centring locally-identified values ensures that people's experiences and perspectives are recognised, valued, and results in a more context-sensitive assessment. Such an approach can better help with defining what losses and damages are...

Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

The first article of our loss and damage research in Bangladesh is published. Together with Karen McNamara and co-researchers, who did research in Fiji, we advocate for assessing loss and damage based on 'local values' instead of using top-down frameworks

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The wins are small and insufficient, but they exist! It cannot be a coincidence that after years of intensive campaigning and blockades by Extinction Rebellion NL, the Netherlands "has been at the forefront of combating fossil fuel subsidies". Blocking roads works.

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US Opts Out of Dutch Plan to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies at COP28

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

No one has ever told me how stressful it is to have journals make you proofread your submission, to have to reread every sentence you wrote many months ago and not be able to change it is dreadful.

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

I am really proud of this brief in which we, a large group of researchers and practitioners, critique the gap between Non-Economic Loss and Damage research and UNFCCC-level policy, and propose ways forward on how bridge this.

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

I appreciate the author's idea of leaving quotes in their original language, so that meaning is not lost in translation, and putting English versions in endnotes. But in some places that will just result in unreadable pages where I'm going back and forth all the time.

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

I keep coming back to the manifesto "Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values" on the Western hegemony in disaster studies and ways forward in how to address it. A recommendation to anyone doing any kind of research in contexts outside of their own!

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Manifesto/Accord — RADIX: Radical Interpretations of Disasters

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

From 'At Risk: natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters'. Published nearly two decades ago and, day by day, becoming increasingly relevant.

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

You can call me a 'climate catalyst' as well because I'm also not flying private (from the TIME100 most influential climate leaders list).

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

A reminder that already in 1991, more than 30 years ago, Vanuatu voiced an urgent need for climate reparations.

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Same here in Dutch! It’s impossible not to sound informal as i haven’t done that in ages.

Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Adding another to the list...

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

A petition led by ICCCAD, Dr Huq’s research institute, on naming the Loss and Damage Fund the “Huq Fund”

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Petition to name the Loss & Damage Fund as Loss & Damage Huq Fund – International Center for Clim...

Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

A small personal win to share. The new Adaptation Gap report, which has a chapter on Loss and Damage, references a technical paper I lead. I assume that people get insensitive for these things for a while, but as this is the first bigger mention, I am delighted :)

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Douwe van Schie @douwe.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Yes exactly, and it is hard to imagine how many things in life can keep progressing in the same ways without his physical presence. Take care!