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Welcome to Wikipedia and the online edit-a-thon on climate change topics in November 2020
Hi,
I am EMsmile, and I am a part of a group of people wishing to improve climate change-related articles on Wikipedia. We are organising the "Wiki4Climate" online edit-a-thon from 24 November to 1 December 2020. Please take part by registering here. This event is organised by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Future Climate for Africa (FCFA). If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to ask on the event's talk page here. Please also join us in the event's Slack channel for easier communication and to make this into a collaborative effort. To join the Slack channel, please click here.
Here are some links about Wikipedia editing that you might find helpful when you are starting out with your Wikipedia editing journey:
- Guide: How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia (Baker, E., McNamara, L., Mackay, B., and Vincent, K. (2020). How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia: A guide for researchers, practitioners and communicators. Cape Town: Climate and Development Knowledge Network and Future Climate for Africa)
- Quick introduction to Wikipedia
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia
Please sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) when you post on talk pages. This will automatically produce your username and the date. Look for the "tilde" character on your keyboard; for example on English keyboards it is to the left of the "enter" key (accessible with the "alt gr" key).[1][1]
Welcome to Wikipedia!
[edit]Hi Olliemaen, thank you for your contributions.
Here are some pages about Wikipedia editing that you might find helpful:
- Quick introduction to Wikipedia
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
- Identifying reliable sources for medicine-related articles
- How to edit medical articles
Please sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) when you post on talk pages. This will automatically produce your username and the date.
WikiProjects bring groups of editors together on particular topics. Below are three WikiProjects that I find very interesting, maybe you'd like to join me there?
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!
For people who are not new to Wikipedia:
Welcome to Sanitation Wikipedia!
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Hi rajivkraman, I noticed that you added your name to the member list of the WikiProject Sanitation. Thank you! Please also register on the Outreach Dashboard of the Sanitation Wikipedia project here.
Hi rajivkraman, I noticed that you added your name to the Outreach Dashboard of the Sanitation Wikipedia project here. Thank you!
I am EMsmile, and I am a part of a group of people wishing to improve sanitation-related articles on Wikipedia (which also includes topics around water supply and public health). If you have any questions about this work, please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page.
We ran a SuSanA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for World Water Day in March 2017, following by a joint editing drive for World Toilet Day in November 2017. We've put together an outline of how such an editing drive can work here in our Meetup page. We are currently focussing on a select few number of articles (we have chosen 70). Also we are focussing mainly on improving their readability scores and their leads.
Can you help? Then please start editing and improving any number of those 70 articles which are listed here. And please get in touch with us on the talk page of that meetup page because it is always more fun to feel part of a team effort!
Also if you are interested in improving sanitation-related articles in general, you may want to join WikiProject Sanitation as well, which is a longer term effort, not limited to World Toilet Day.
By country
[edit]Water scarcity (or water crisis) in particular countries:
IT related things
[edit]Visual editing of a table
[edit]So you can force it by appending &veaction=edit instead of action &action=edit to a url, so you can actually add buttons like we did at https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change/Small_to_medium_tasks&action=edit with buttons like So you could instead add one of those before each table "add myself to the table" or something like that.
Example page: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/SDGs/Communication_of_environment_SDGs
[https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Meetup/SDGs/Communication_of_environment_SDGs&veaction=edit§ion=6#SDG_6 <br/><span class="mw-ui-button mw-ui-progressive" style="margin:.1em">Edit this table</span>]
Article about Frank Biermann
[edit]Frank Biermann | |
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 Biermann in XX | |
| Born | Frank Biermann 8 August 1962 xxx |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Political scientist, professor |
| Known for | Pioneer of Earth system governance paradigm (since 2005) |
| Website | https://www.frankbiermann.org/ |
Frank Biermann (born xxx) is a German political scientist, working at Utrecht University in the Netherlands since 2016. He is a leading scholar in the field of "global institutions and organisations in the sustainability domain".[2]
He was the founder in 2009 and first chair (for ten years) of the Earth System Governance Project.[3] From 2018 until 2024 he directed a 2.5-million EUR research programme on the steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals.[4][5] This was funded through a European Research Council Advanced Grant.
In 2021 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Studies by the International Studies Association.[3]
In 2022, he together with colleagues, launched an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering with an open letter which has since been signed by hundreds of scientists and thousands of civil society organisations.[6]
Education
[edit]Biermann received a master’s degrees in Political Science in 1993 from Freie Universität Berlin, followed by a PhD in Political Science from the same university in 1997. He achieved the post-doctoral degree of habilitation in Political Science in 2001.[7]
He also holds a master's degree in International Law by the University of Aberdeen in 1994.[7]
During his university education he had a scholarship from the Talented Students Programme of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, followed by a fellowship from Harvard University and the 1998 Joachim Tiburtius Prize awarded for the best dissertations of the Berlin universities.[7]
Career
[edit]Since 2016, Frank Biermann is a research professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.[2] Previously, from 2003 to 2015, Biermann was head of the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the VU University Amsterdam.[2]
Biermann's research themes include: Sustainable Development Goals, anthropocene encounters, earth system governance, global governance architectures, planetary justice, climate and geoengineering (solar radiation modification), green colonialism, planetary boundaries.[7]
Since 1995 he has accumulated decades of teaching experience in Germany, India, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States.[8]
Biermann pioneered the earth system governance paradigm in global change research in 2005 and was the founder and first chair (2008-2018) of the Earth System Governance Project, a leading global transdisciplinary research network of sustainability scholars. From 2018 until 2024 he directed a 2.5-million EUR research programme on the steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals.[4][5]
He has spoken in the United Nations General Assembly in 2014 during an Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature[9] which fed into the Harmony with Nature report of the Secretary-General of the UN.[10]
Advocacy and outreach
[edit]Frank Biermann has repeatedly engaged in public debates about reforming global sustainability governance, for example by calling for the establishment of a World Environment Organization and the negotiation of an International Agreement on Protecting Climate Refugees.
Also, regarding climate change and climate engineering, Biermann states that "I increasingly fear that the slow pace of global climate policies will lead to dangerous calls for reckless climate engineering or geoengineering".[11] For this reason, he together with colleagues, has developed an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering which was launched in January 2022 with an open letter.[6] This letter in support of such a non-use agreement has been signed by hundreds of scientists from dozens of countries and endorsed by about 2000 civil society organisations (as of 2023).[11]
Biermann actively interacts with the media and gives about 40-50 interviews per year.[12][13] For example, his engagement for a non-use agreement on solar geoengineering has been picked up in mainstream media such as BBC News[14] and Time magazine[15].
Board memberships and fellowships
[edit]Biermann is a member of the science advisory board of the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Mistra Geopolitics programme, and an affiliate of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Initiative on Environment and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore. He also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Earth System Governance Foundation.[16]
Biermann is an elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, a group of 700 individuals ‘chosen for eminence in art, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities’.[7]
Awards
[edit]- 2021 Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Studies by the International Studies Association[3] - an award for "outstanding scholars whose long history of excellent research and teaching has had substantial impact on fields associated with international relations and environmental issues"[3]
- a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2018 worth EUR 2.5 million to conduct research into the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2015[4]
- Ecological Society of America’s 2019 Innovations in Sustainability Science Award[17]
- the 2013 Societal Impact Award of VU University Amsterdam for ‘path-breaking research on global environmental policy’[18]
- the 2011 Social Science Research Prize of VU University Amsterdam, for ‘outstanding qualities as a top researcher’ and ‘significant contributions’ in the field of global environmental politics
Publications
[edit]Biermann has authored or edited 19 books and published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and academic books.[7]
Biermann is co-editor of the book series on Earth System Governance with MIT Press, together with Oran R. Young since 2009.[19]
He is the founding editor of the Elsevier journal Earth System Governance, an open access journal launched in 2009.[20]
He is also editor of the book series on Earth System Governance by Cambridge University Press, established in 2018.[21] In addition, he is co-editor of the Cambridge Elements in Earth System Governance series, launched in 2019.[22]
Biermann’s Hirsch-index in Google Scholar (an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications) is 80[23], which is regarded as exceptional.[24]
Selected books
[edit]Editor
[edit]- Biermann, Frank, Thomas Hickmann and Carole-Anne Sénit, editors. 2022. The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals. Transforming Governance through Global Goals? Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press[25]
- Biermann, Frank, and Rakhyun E. Kim, editors. 2020. Architectures of Earth System Governance. Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press[26]
- Biermann, Frank, and Eva Lövbrand, editors. 2019. Anthropocene Encounters. New Directions in Green Political Thinking. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[27]
- Kanie, Norichika, and Frank Biermann, editors. 2017. Governing through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 333 pages. Translated into Chinese by Beijing Normal University Press, 2018.[28]
Personal life
[edit]Biermann is a German national, an Overseas Citizen of India and a Dutch resident.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Green, Graeme (2024-05-15). "Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
- ^ a b c "Utrecht University staff". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Frank Biermann receives lifetime achievement Distinguished Scholar Award - News - Utrecht University". www.uu.nl. 2021-04-09. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ a b c "Frank Biermann awarded ERC Advanced Grant for SDG research - News - Utrecht University". www.uu.nl. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ a b "GLOBALGOALS – Research for Sustainability". Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ a b "Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement". Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g "About". Personal website of Frank Biermann. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Utrecht University staff, teaching". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ Earth System Governance TV (2014-10-23). Frank Biermann gives plenary presentation in UN General Assembly April 22, 2014. Retrieved 2024-07-26 – via YouTube.
- ^ UNGA – United Nations General Assembly (2014) Harmony with Nature. Report of the Secretary-General. United Nations Doc. A/69/322 of 18 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Utrecht University staff, research". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Utrecht University staff, extras". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "In the Media". Personal website of Frank Biermann. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ Bourke, India (11 October 2023). "To avert climate disaster, what if one rogue nation dimmed the Sun?". BBC news. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ Garza, Alejandro de la (2023-03-17). "A Controversial Technology Is Creating an Unprecedented Rift Among Climate Scientists". TIME. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Utrecht University staff, ancillary activities". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ "Ecological Society of America announces 2019 award recipients". www.esa.org. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ www.miwebb.com, miWebb: Creative Digital Agency-. "Societal Impact Award 2013 naar Frank Biermann". Advalvas (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Earth System Governance". MIT Press. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Earth System Governance Journal, Editorial board". ScienceDirect. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Earth and Environmental Sciences". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Cambridge Elements Earth System Governance, Series editors". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ "Google Scholar results for Frank Biermann". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
- ^ Hirsch, J. E. (2005-11-15). "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (46): 16569–16572. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1283832. PMID 16275915.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) - ^ Biermann, Frank; Hickmann, Thomas; Sénit, Carole-Anne, eds. (2022). The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Governance Through Global Goals? (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009082945. ISBN 978-1-009-08294-5.
- ^ Biermann, Frank; Kim, Rakhyun E., eds. (2020). Architectures of Earth System Governance: Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108784641. ISBN 978-1-108-78464-1.
- ^ Biermann, Frank; Lövbrand, Eva, eds. (2019). Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108646673. ISBN 978-1-108-64667-3.
- ^ Kanie, Norichika; Biermann, Frank, eds. (2017). Governing through goals: sustainable development goals as governance innovation. Earth system governance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03562-0.