The kick-off event for the Riding the Belt and Road network was organized on September 7, 2018. The goal of the event was to update each other on the latest research related to BRI, to avoid reinventing the wheel, and to be more connected with...

Jackson Ewing , a senior fellow at Duke University's Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions and an adjunct associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy led a round-table discussion on Belt and Road following...

The Duke Green Belt and Road Initiative hosted a webinar presentation by Jonathan Hillman, director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Jonathan’s lecture described CSIS’s work related to...

WEATHER ALERT: All Thursday programming associated with this event has been cancelled. An abridged version of Friday's programming will take place 10 a.m.-noon as long as Duke University is open.

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William Laurance, a distinguished research professor at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, presented "China’s Global Plans For Infrastructure Expansion: Why Is Everybody So Worried?" at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 30, in Duke University's...

A webinar with Rose Niu, Chief Conservation Officer at the Paulson Institute.

Subject: Observation and inference from participation in building an ecological civilization in China.

Junjie Zhang, director of the iMEP Program and Environmental Research Center at Duke Kunshan University, presented “Economics of Environmental Data Manipulation,” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12.

Environmental regulation is...