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The York Environmental Sustainability Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Bob Doherty as our new Director.
Academic papers are brilliant, but they can sometimes leave the very human stories of global trade trapped behind walls of text.
Following a successful YESI international Fellows project visit by Dr Muhammad Nasar-u-Minallah, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed specifically between the Institute of Geography at the University of the Punjab and the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI), University of York.
Millions of functional smartphones, laptops and tablets are currently sitting forgotten in drawers across the UK. To tackle this growing mountain of electronic waste, consumers are being urged to rethink how they manage their old devices - a message reinforced by the latest research from our YESI International Fellows.