We would like to draw your attention to a very interesting English-language forestry blog: the Forest Monitor, established by Dr. Rafał Chudy (currently a Senior Analyst at New Forests, Sydney). The “first blog for forest geeks” covers a wide range of forestry-related topics, from political economy, forests’ role in climate policy all the way to the […]
Energy Security in Europe: new edited book published by Palgrave!
The book, edited by Dr. Kacper Szulecki, is the final output of the project financed by the German-Polish Science Foundation (grant No. 2014-15) lead by Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, with ESPRi’s participation. This edited collection highlights the different meanings that have been attached to the notion of energy security and […]
Julia Szulecka’s guest column on carbon forestry in Poland’s popular watchdog daily
Poland is seen as a climate policy laggard and has recently been under a lot of international pressure due to the continued logging of the precious Bialowieza Forest. Meanwhile, the Minister of Environment boasts about the country’s uniquely sustainable forestry practices and introduces Forest Carbon Farms as an innovative tool for climate change mitigation. In […]
A two-year research project on energy security comes to an end
ESPRi Policy Paper No 2 entitled “Towards a common EU energy policy? Debates on energy security in Poland and Germany” marks the end of a two-year-long research project financed by the German-Polish Science Foundation (grant No. 2014-15) . Lead by Prof. Heiko Pleines Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, the […]
New monograph of Poland’s anti-nuclear protests
The late 1980s were the heyday of Poland’s environmental protest movement. A new monograph co-authored by the late Tomasz Borewicz, Janusz Waluszko (both leaders of the 1980s protests) and ESPRi’s Kacper Szulecki, gathers archival material and rich oral history of the movement which shook Communist Poland. This empirically rich monograph shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe […]