Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
Welcome to the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability and Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton!
This podcast explores the greatest and most wicked problem that is sustainability, whilst looking at how we are collectively addressing this critical global challenge.
Sustainability needs to be addressed by understanding how the economy, society, culture, politics and environment intersect, and this is the focus that informs each episode of the Meliora podcast.
In each episode, host Professor Simon Kemp and guest hosts are joined by a variety of guests, including academics, students, staff, researchers, alumni, community groups and business leaders.
The aim of the podcast is to shine a light on the vast range of topics surrounding sustainability and to allow listeners to learn about the critical challenges we face, as well as how they can be part of the solution. We also ensure our fantastic students have the opportunity to share their brilliant work with the world.
Podcast host: Professor Simon Kemp, Deputy Director of the Sustainability & Resilience Institute, University of Southampton
Podcast editors: Lily Killner, Sophie Green, Libby Kale, Jack Dinham, Ellie Howell, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton
Podcast communications: Hannah Parish, Alexander Ayerst, Maya Stevens, University of Southampton
Please do get in touch to discuss this podcast and any of the issues we raise by emailing sri@soton.ac.uk
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Meliora: a podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute
The sustainability costs of Cryptocurrency
In this episode of the Meliora Podcast we are exploring the sustainability impacts of cryptocurrency. Our host Professor Simon Kemp is joined by Dr Larisa Yarovaya, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Southampton.
This eye-opening episode covers how cryptocurrency is generated, the environmental costs of cryptocurrency from energy demand to electronic waste, and the social consequences associated with this.
Links to Dr Yarovaya's academic profile and key papers associated with this episode:
- Dr Larisa Yarovaya profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/business-school/about/departments/banking-and-finance/staff/ly1c18.page
- Corbet, S., Lucey, B., Yarovaya, L. 2021. Bitcoin-energy markets interrelationships - New evidence. Resources Policy, Volume 70, 2021, 101916, ISSN 0301-4207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101916. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420720309478)
- Wang, Y., Lucey, B., Vigne, S. A., Yarovaya. L,. 2021. An index of cryptocurrency environmental attention (ICEA). China Finance Review International. Vol. 12 No. 3, 2022. pp. 378-414
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Host: Professor Simon Kemp
Guest: Dr Larisa Yarovaya
Editor: Lily Killner
