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Mike Shanahan

Former IIED Press Officer

Full biography

Mike Shanahan was IIED's press officer for around eight years until May 2014

Expertise

Communications, climate change, biodiversity, sustainable development and training journalists

Before IIED

News editor, SciDev.Net
Project coordinator, Environmental Justice Foundation
Education: PhD in tropical rainforest ecology, University of Leeds

Current work

Acting as bridge between IIED researchers and journalists around the world; working to disseminate IIED research findings and policy recommendations via the media; supporting the work of journalists (especially those in Africa, Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin America) who report on the environment and development.

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Mike Shanahan's blog posts

People in a Nicaraguan village play a game to learn how climate change adaptation, ecosystem management and disaster risk reduction fit together (Photo: Maya Schaerer/NLRC)

Playing climate change — can games unblock the negotiations?

Blog, Nov 2013
Polluted river

Time to join the dots on environmental murders

Blog, Feb 2013
Men from Blitar, a city in East Java, Indonesia, sit in a circle on mats.

Climate change communication: 'A' is for audience

Blog, Dec 2012
Pastoralists with their goats in Niger.

Why following the herd can be good for Kenyan media

Blog, Oct 2012
A man leads a herd of camels with the sun setting behind them.

What’s in a narrative? In policy, everything or nothing

Blog, Sep 2012
A forested area in Mondulkiri province, eastern Cambodia that is being cut down and burned. Few trees remain standing in the picture.

Journalists are dying – literally — to tell stories of environmental plunder

Blog, Sep 2012
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