# Jennifer Burney

Principales episodios de podcast
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Radically Rethinking Food Security with Jennifer Burney - UC San Diego Founders Symposium 2015

The world food system comprises hundreds of millions of farmers making decisions in response to economic signals and environmental expectations. However, many of these farmers are food insecure by any number of metrics, and their production is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. Against thi…

Radically Rethinking Food Security with Jennifer Burney - UC San Diego Founders Symposium 2015

The world food system comprises hundreds of millions of farmers making decisions in response to economic signals and environmental expectations. However, many of these farmers are food insecure by any number of metrics, and their production is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. Against thi…

Radically Rethinking Food Security with Jennifer Burney - UC San Diego Founders Symposium 2015

The world food system comprises hundreds of millions of farmers making decisions in response to economic signals and environmental expectations. However, many of these farmers are food insecure by any number of metrics, and their production is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. Against thi…

Water and agriculture in a changing Africa: What might be done?

Water expert John Briscoe discusses effective water management as a key element of agricultural innovation and growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Stanford research fellow Jennifer Burney provides commentary. (5/23/13)

Why Air Pollution Is Even Worse Than We Thought (w/ Professor Jennifer Burney)

In more than three years doing this show, there have been few things as tragic and shocking as learning more about the impacts air pollution crisis we are living in. It seems that the more we learn about air pollution the more we understand just how much worse it is than we thought and how much it'…

Choking on Wildfire Smoke: Quantifying Its Effects on Air Pollution, with Marissa Childs

In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Marissa Childs, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, about a recently published study that explores the prevalence and dangers of wildfire smoke in the United States. Childs discusses changes in the locatio…

S3 Ep29: Air pollution and infant mortality

Poor air quality is a danger to children’s health, but most of what we know about the effects are from wealthy countries or large cities. A multidisciplinary study has estimated the impact of air quality on child health for many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with surprising policy conclusions. J…

S7 Ep10: Reducing air pollution: Can markets succeed where regulation fails?

Particulate matter is, Michael Greenstone argues, the greatest public health threat on the planet. Worse than HIV, cigarettes, and alcohol. The average person  loses about two years of life expectancy to it. In India, the figure is three and a half years. The solution to this problem has been tes…