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Interdisciplinarity + Data Science

Researcher and data storyteller. I work at the intersection of social sustainability, climate and supply chains, and human rights — turning complex data into visuals that start the conversation. Based at the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab.

Sustainability Data Science Interdisciplinary studies Climate Change Industrial Ecology Complexity

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Latest Publication 01

Current and recommended diets in the USA have embedded forced labour risk

Nature Food · 2025

Active Research 02

Climate Change, Decent Work and Workers Health: Vulnerabilities and Response in Brazilian Agriculture

Report · 2026

Data Visualisation 03

Climate–Decent Work Risk Assessment

Climate Risk Assessment · 2026 [Tableau]

02 — About

Bridging disciplines, seeing the system

Using quantitative methods, I draw on tools from engineering, ecology, and social science to follow goods and measure the hidden human cost.

Supply chain mapping Life Cycle Assessment Climate modelling Data visualization Network analysis

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6 Active projects

0 Publications

3 Datasets

1 Codes

11 DataVizs

0 Miscellaneous (gists,artefacts & outtakes)

03 — Projects

Social sustainability, climate change and complex systems

Climate change · Decent Work · Risk Assessment · Occupational Health · Agriculture · Brazil
CLIDEWO: Climate Change, Decent Work and Workers’ Health in Brazilian Agriculture
A worker-informed, multi-layer risk assessment integrating climate models, socio-economic data, and qualitative worker voice to assess how climate hazards intersect with labour exploitation in Brazil.
Active · 2026

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Forced Labour · South Asia · Societal Metabolism · Field Research
Brick Kilns - Agriculture connecttion
Applying societal metabolism and social sustainability frameworks to map bonded and forced labour conditions across South Asian brick kiln sectors.
Active · 2026

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S-LCA · Food Systems · Forced Labour · Dietary Patterns
Forced Labour Risk in the US Food Supply
Quantifying forced labour embedded in American diets — from commodity supply chains to dietary pattern recommendations — using Social LCA and the medium risk hours equivalent metric.
Published · 2025

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Making invisible systems visible through data

Dataset · Climate Hazard · Decent Work · Brazil · CLIDEWO
Climate and decent work risk — Brazilian municipalities
Integrated risk scores across Brazil’s 5,570 municipalities combining 23 climate hazard indicators and 35 decent work indicators at 0.05-degree spatial resolution. Follows the IPCC Risk = Hazard x Exposure x Vulnerability framework.
2026

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Interactive · Climate Change · Decent Work · CLIDEWO · Tableau
Climate–Decent Work Risk Assessment
Interactive Tableau dashboard combining IPCC-framework climate hazards with ten decent work indicators across Brazilian agricultural municipalities.
2026

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Interactive · Decent Work · Labour Inspection · Tableau
Constellation of Inspections
Each star is a labour inspection in Brazil — sized by workers rescued. A data visualisation of enforcement capacity and the scale of the task ahead.
2025

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Dataset · Climate Hazard · Occupational Health · Brazil · CLIDEWO
Climate-health hot spots in Brazilian agriculture
Occupational health surveillance data (2003–2024) for agricultural workers in Brazil, covering work-related accidents, climate-linked hospital admissions, dengue, agrochemical poisoning, and violence. Supports the identification of climate-health risk hot spots at the municipality level.
2026

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Infographic · Climate Change · Workers Health · CLIDEWO
Workers’ Health under Climate Change: Agrochemicals
Infographic on agrochemical exposure risk across Brazilian agriculture — scored by pesticide application intensity and toxicity, disaggregated by municipality, population, and crop.
2026

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Code · R · Climate Hazard · Brazil
Cleaning ThinkHazard! data for Brazil
R script that downloads and tidies the World Bank ThinkHazard! dataset, filtering eight natural hazard types down to Brazil-specific records for analysis.
2025

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© 2026 Edgar Rodríguez-Huerta, PhD

 
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