Tarique Niazi

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Tarique Niazi, is an Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. He specializes in resource-based conflicts. He has published his work in the International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Environment and Development. Journal of Peasant Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Societies without Borders, Harvard International Review, China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, the Journal of Asia-Pacific Affairs-Japan Focus, and Foreign Policy in Focus

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Will Climate Summit in New York Yield a Climate Pact in Paris?

The divide between developed and developing nations threatens a binding treaty on climate change to replace Kyoto protocol

Marx, technophilia and typhoons

Technological productivity cannot be blindly accepted without scrutinizing its impact on people and the planet

Climate Change

Nature bites back in the Philippines

Super-storm Haiyan, which left trail of death and destruction in the Philippines has no parallel in the country's history. In fact, it has no …

Climate, capital and conflict

The alternative to fossil-fuel based economy is being sought in free market instruments such as pollution permits, cap and trade, carbon tax and …

Ecology of violence

Violence in Sinai can be explained in its remoteness from Egypt’s power centers. Its desert ecology, mountain covers, and a long coastline …

A grand dam that felled Morsi

Tarique Niazi, associate professor of environmental sociology at University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, on the ecological roots of the current …

Land for ideology swap

Geopolitics, a mineral-rich disputed territory, Egypt-Sudan ties and the fall of Morsi