Introduction / Partha S. Dasgupta and Peter H. Raven -- Prologue. Extinction : what it means to us / Martin Rees -- 1. Extinction in deep time : lessons from the past? / Neil Shubin -- 2. Biodiversity ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this sixteenth edition to Partha Dasgupta (University of Cambridge) for laying the foundations of ...

Researchers grounded in empirical searches for truth ask those with authority on matters of morality to join a call to protect the planet In an essay to be released Sept. 19 in the journal Science, ...

Economists Partha Dasgupta of the University of Cambridge and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University were awarded the 2015 international Blue Planet Prize by the Asahi Glass Foundation on Thursday. The ...

The author of a landmark study on the economics of biodiversity is pushing policy makers to transform their words into action by creating a global institution to manage the planet’s natural assets.

Witness Books, an imprint of Ebury, has signed On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us, an "urgent call to rethink our current global economics models", from "legendary" Cambridge ...

Dasgupta, who is emeritus professor of economics at Cambridge university, has focused his criticisms on how traditional economic models ignore “nature” as an asset, and neglected the depreciating ...

Partha Dasgupta, an Indian-origin economics professor at Cambridge and famed talk show queen Oprah Winfrey were among nine people conferred with honorary degrees at the annual convocation of Harvard ...

Is nature external to the human economy as most of our models assume? Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, leader of the independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity commissioned by the UK Treasury, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...