And there is another reason for approaching our task in this way: the world keeps changing ever faster.

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Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flat flood plain.

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Based out of Hong Kong, Lu Stout keeps a particular focus on how developments in China are dramatically changing the world for all of us.

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