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Reflections on the 16th UN Biodiversity Conference
By Stephanie Martinez, UCI Blum Center PhD student Last month, I had the exciting opportunity to represent the Blum Center at the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity...
New Publication: “Complex adaptive systems-based framework for modeling the health impacts of climate change”
Together with our collaborators at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, we've just published a new research article in the Journal of Climate Change and...
“Climate Change is Cause for Alarm- Not Surrender”
Blum Center director, Richard Matthew, shared reflections on global collaboration for climate mitigation and the unique challenges and opportunities we currently face in...
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Richard A. Matthew (B.A., McGill; Ph.D., Princeton) is Professor of International and Environmental Politics in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social Science at the University of California at Irvine, and founding Director of the UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation.