Laurie Parsons
Laurie Parsons is a senior lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and principal investigator of the projects The Disaster Trade: The Hidden Footprint of UK Imports and Hot Trends: How the Global Garment Industry Shapes Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia. He is the author of Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown (Manchester University Press, 2023) and co-author of Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality and Climate Change in the Global Workplace (Oxford University Press, 2020). Find him on X: @lauriefdparsons.
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