Environmental Economics

In the fresh lap of the crimson rose

"Spring, summer, fertile autumn and angry winter have all changed places, and now the confused world doesn’t know which is which. And this is all because of our argument. We are responsible for this."

This is not the reaction of a climate conscious politician after an eventful autumn made of hurricanes, droughts, and 100-year floods. Just like the Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream characters we seem to be too busy fighting other battles whether it be immigration, trade policies or who should bear the cost of going greener to face this issue.

This autumn, mother nature has been responsible for a fair share of the headlines. Hurricanes of the century happened twice in one month and even went towards Europe while wild fires where raging in California. So we decided to give it the lead role in our spotlight section that is not about the problem of climate change itself

but rather focusing on the solutions. Various subjects ranging from the challenges of renewable energies to ways of inducing people to go green without constraining them.

After a very productive summer issue, the TSEconomist team is back for the autumn issue with a renewed team and renewed ambitions. Fresh people also mean fresh ideas and the magazine is coming to you with new concepts and a new website for you to find articles and news.

Following the success of the previous op-ed pieces, we wanted to bring more of this kind of content to you each month on a hot topic. This is starting now with two sides sharing opinions about the current events in Catalonia. This new format of op-ed articles will now be a monthly occurrence on our website featuring a face off between two opposing sides about the hot topic of the moment. We encourage each and everyone of you to come with suggestions and contribute to this student tribune in order to foster debate about key current issues.

The magazine is also expanding its on campus activities. The ever popular coffee talks are tailored for the students to have a platform to share ideas an opinions about current topics but also exchange with members of the faculty that come to exchange about their work. New this year in coffee talks, coffee is actually made available so you don't have an excuse not to come.

We encourage each and everyone of you to bring their skills to the team and learn some more to help us bring some better content and events to the campus

Arthur Hill

Editor -In-Chief