Dr. Manu V. Mathai is a Research Fellow in the Science and Technology for Sustainable Societies Programme at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies. Dr. Mathai’s research and teaching interests centre around interlinkages between the themes of energy, environment and development, with a focus on science and technology policy and conceptions of human and economic development amenable to greater fairness on a shared and finite planet. He is the author of Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment (2013).