Laurie Parsons, Author at African Arguments

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Laurie Parsons

Laurie Parsons is the author of Carbon colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown (Manchester University Press, May 2023). He is is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Principal Investigator of the projects "The Disaster Trade: The Hidden Footprint of UK Imports" and "Investment Overseas and Hot Trends: How the Global Garment Industry Shapes Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia". His other books include Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality and Climate Change in the Global Workplace.

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By Laurie Parsons
May 23, 2023
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Remember amid the headlines: there’s no such thing as a “natural” disaster

Poor countries aren’t disproportionately vulnerable to climate change because of geography or bad luck. In early-May, huge floods swept through South Kivu in the eastern Democratic ...

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