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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T183000
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SUMMARY:The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India
DESCRIPTION:31 March 2022\nat 17.00 (UK time)\n**Please note the new time of this event**\n \n\nThis Sussex Development Lecture will introduce the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India. \nMore information and registration details are on the IDS website. \nFind out more
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-climate-change-and-uncertainty-in-india/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T093000
DTSTAMP:20210617T093954Z
CREATED:20210527T034648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T093954Z
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SUMMARY:T-Lab: Transformation As Praxis - Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nIn this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being assembled and co-produced on the ground by hybrid and transformative alliances. \n\nThis session is linked to the TAPESTRY project. \nVIEW THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformation-conference-2021-transformation-as-praxis-responding-to-climate-change-uncertainties-in-marginal-environments-in-south-asia/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Research methods,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T200000
DTSTAMP:20220411T104701Z
CREATED:20210525T031434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T104701Z
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SUMMARY:Transformations Conference: Theories and Perspectives of Transformations
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nA live Q&A session with the authors of the presentations in this Interactive Session will take place at the scheduled time. Registered participants can watch the pre-recorded presentations from 7/06/2021 until 31/08/2021. \nSpeakers: \n\nBruce Goldstein\nCristina Costa Salavedra\nNeha Mungekar\nPaulina Aldunce\nAndy Stirling\nRose Cairns\n\nThis session is linked to the STEPS Centre’s theme for 2021: Methods \nView Conference Programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-conference-theories-and-perspectives-of-transformations/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Research methods,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T130000
DTSTAMP:20210527T040342Z
CREATED:20210518T090238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T040342Z
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SUMMARY:Transformations conference: Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nIn this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being assembled and co-produced on the ground by hybrid and transformative alliances. \nPresentations: \n\nHans Adam: Arresting Environmental Collapse\, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai\nShilpi Srivastava: Dryland transformations: Reviving pastoralist livelihoods in Kutch\, India\nRanit Chatterjee: Integration of New and future Risks into Transformative Adaptation for Sustainability: Case of Milk Businesses in Kutch\nSynne Movik: Transformation as Praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia\n\nThis session is linked to the TAPESTRY project. \nView the Conference programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-conference-transformative-responses-to-climate-uncertainties-in-south-asia/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Pastoralism,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181129T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181129T140000
DTSTAMP:20181120T161953Z
CREATED:20181119T105245Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding Uncertainty and Climate Change: Views from India
DESCRIPTION:**THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED** \nSeminar with Lyla Mehta\, Shilpi Srivastava and Lars Otto Naess\nResearch Fellows\, IDS \nThe scale and impacts of climate change remain deeply uncertain. This is particularly true at the local level\, where climate related uncertainties combined with accelerated growth trajectories often exacerbate social and political inequities and the vulnerabilities of marginalised communities. Policy makers and scientists tend to draw on quantitative assessments\, models and scenario building to understand and capture uncertainty\, often disconnected from how local people – particularly those living at the margins – make sense of and cope with uncertainty. \nThis seminar will discuss findings from an ongoing project in three sites in India (Kutch\, Sundarbans and Mumbai)\, funded by the Research Council of Norway\, focusing on how uncertainty is understood and experienced from ‘below’ by the lived experiences of local people\, how it is conceptualised and represented from ‘above’ by climate scientists and experts and how the ‘middle’ – civil society\, NGOs\, academics – can potentially function as brokers between the ‘below’ and ‘above’. \n\nThis seminar relates to the ongoing project on Climate change\, uncertainty and transformation hosted by NMBU (Norway)\, which builds on the earlier STEPS Centre project Uncertainty From Below. \nThe event is part of the Climate and Development seminar series convened by the Institute of Development Studies.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/understanding-uncertainty-and-climate-change-views-from-india/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180726T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180726T190000
DTSTAMP:20180724T071648Z
CREATED:20180723T163234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180724T071648Z
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SUMMARY:Public event: Meeting Energy - EASST 2018 conference panel
DESCRIPTION:Lancaster Town Hall\, Dalton Square\nLancaster LA1 1PJ \nSTEPS member Prof Andy Stirling (SPRU) is among the panel for this public event on energy\, as part of the annual EASST conference. The other panellists are Gillian Kelly and João Camargo\, and the meeting is chaired by Maggie Mort of Lancaster University. \nFrom the website: \n“With a Science and Technology Studies sensibility we will see energy as an actor by exploring technologies and materials of energy and how they engage\, imagine\, undermine or support\, think and plan with and through\, energy systems. We aim in this meeting to pin down the category ‘energy’; to ground it\, by making visible some of the practices\, strategies and encounters between humans and things\, that are often hidden in political rhetorics. We do this by starting with some hidden encounters between civil and military nuclearities\, then we consider some embodied resistances to the violence of fracking and then widen to the experiences of activists and campaigners in the climate justice movement.” \nThe event is free\, but space is limited. \nThe conference is organised by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). \nFull details (EASST2018 website) / Facebook event page
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/panel-meeting-energy-easst-2018-conference/
LOCATION:Lancaster Town Hall\, Dalton Square\, Lancaster\, LA1 1PJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180321T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180321T140000
DTSTAMP:20180308T132613Z
CREATED:20180308T121548Z
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SUMMARY:When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Green extractivism and confronting the industrial machine
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Politics of Nature reading group\, Dr Alexander Dunlap\, co-hosted by the CGPE and STEPS centre\, presents a seminar on the merits of an anarchist political ecology in assessing extractive projects and charting new directions in (re)imagining ecological\, unruly and dignified futures. \n  \n \n \nDrawing on case studies of Europe’s largest opencast coal mine\, the Hambach mine in Germany\, and wind parks in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region (Istmo) of Oaxaca\, Mexico\, the seminar examines corporate/state strategies of greening resource extraction and repression. This seminar calls for scholars to challenge their statist and industrial subjectivities\, while developing strategies to deal with corporate/state counter-mobilizations to undermine the current trajectory of ‘progress’. This means working to maximize ecological and social harmony\, while aiming for total liberation against the imposition of market-based environmentalism\, ‘green extraction’ and corporate-state projects of social control\, ecocide and social death.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/wolf-guards-sheep-green-extractivism-confronting-industrial-machine/
LOCATION:Room G22\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy,Resource politics,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171215T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171215T143000
DTSTAMP:20171123T160611Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar - Channing Arndt: ‘Faster Than You Think: The Global Energy Revolution and Developing Countries’
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Centre seminar with Channing Arndt\, Senior Research Fellow\, International Food Policy Research Institute \nInstitute of Development Studies\, Room 221\, 15 December 2017 \nAn energy revolution is underway. Driven by an enormous and unexpected downward shift in the full cost of renewable generation technologies\, global investment in renewable electricity generation has exceeded investment in conventional technologies by a factor of two for the past two years. The large majority of new installed generation capacity is renewable\, notably solar and wind. This ongoing energy revolution has potentially profound implications. An incomplete list includes rural electrification\, solar pumping\, stranded fossil fuel assets\, the future of biofuels\, the composition of electricity build plans\, the value of regional power pools\, and the pace and magnitude of global temperature rise. This talk will review salient features of the energy revolution\, consider some broad implications for developing countries\, and present preliminary modeling results for energy use and electricity generation build plans for South Africa. \nChanning Arndt has more than 25 years of experience in development economics with seven years combined resident experience in Morocco and Mozambique. He has published more than 70 articles in leading academic journals. His recent books include Growth and Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa; Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries; and The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions. He has taken leadership roles in major policy documents such as the design of a carbon tax for the National Treasury of South Africa\, the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change for the World Bank\, and the Second\, Third and Fourth National Poverty Assessments for the Government of Mozambique. \nEveryone welcome!
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-channing-arndt-faster-think-global-energy-revolution-developing-countries/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170515T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170515T190000
DTSTAMP:20170525T125536Z
CREATED:20170301T095856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170525T125536Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Annual Lecture: Achim Steiner
DESCRIPTION:DOOMED TO FAIL OR BOUND TO SUCCEED? Sustainable Development and the Green Economy Agenda – Revisited \nAchim Steiner delivered the 2017 STEPS Annual lecture at the University of Sussex on 15 May. \nSteiner is former Executive Director of UNEP and now director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. In April 2017 it was announced that he would serve as the next Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). \nVideo\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQwBH27hJY[/embedyt]\nLecture slides\n  \n STEPS Annual Lecture 2017: Achim Steiner – Doomed to fail or bound to succeed? Sustainable Development and the Green Economy Agenda – Revisited  from STEPS Centre\n\n\n\nabout the lecture\nThe Annual Lectures are the only part of the STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability that is open to the public. You can also view materials from past Annual Lectures. \nSummary\nThe lecture will explore whether the ‘sustainable development’ and ‘green economy’ agendas remain relevant in terms of what happens next. Assessing the seemingly contradictory signals of the past 3 years – from recent multilateral breakthroughs\, such as the SDGs/Agenda 2030 or the Paris Agreement on the one hand\, to an increasingly negative narrative on their actual impact and implementation and the relevance of  multilateralism in global problem-solving on the other – may give rise to a new policy discourse on sustainable development and globalisation. \nInequality and sustainability are at the heart of current critiques of economic policy and globalisation. Can the transition towards an inclusive\, green economy succeed in driving the necessary changes required to meet the SDG target or the timelines of the Paris Agreement?
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-annual-lecture-achim-steiner/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170512T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170512T143000
DTSTAMP:20170503T110626Z
CREATED:20170503T110626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T110626Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Charles Tonui on the co-management of mangrove forest in Gazi Bay\, Kenya
DESCRIPTION:‘The Role of Community Based Organisations and Associations in Co-management of Forests in Kenya: The case of Mikoko Pamoja Community Based Organisation (MPCBO) and Gogoni-Gazi Community Forest Association (GOGACFA) in the Co-management of Mangrove Forest in Gazi Bay\, Kenya’ \nSTEPS Seminar with Charles Tonui\, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, Kenya. All are welcome to attend and no registration is necessary. \nThe Constitution of Kenya provides for people to contribute to the national tree cover target of 10%\, and the forest policy and legislation (Act 2005; Draft Act 2016) acknowledges that forests provide essential raw materials for domestic and industries and a variety of non-wood forest products. It acknowledges further that community based organisations and associations play important roles in sustainable management\, conservation and utilization of forests in Kenya. \nThe mangrove forest in Gazi Bay on the southern coast in Kenya is suffering from degradation and deforestation. Mikoko Pamoja Community Based Organisation (MPCBO) and Gogoni-Gazi Community Forest Association (GOGACFA) and partners including the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KEMFRI) have responded by not only co-managing and co-conserving the mangrove forest through the Mikoko Pamoja project in Gazi Bay\, but also by generating income through a carbon offsetting programme. They have achieved some success but also faced several challenges which have hindered effective and efficient co-management of the mangrove forest. Leveraging of institutional\, policy\, finance\, and capacity building support to communities will improve their participation in the co-management of the mangrove forests in the Southern coast in Kenya. \n\nCharles Tonui currently works as a research assistant at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS). Charles’s academic background is in environmental planning and management. He participates actively in action research\, policy analysis\, planning and implementation of community-based adaptation and low-carbon development initiatives in the East Africa region. Charles is also a member of the research team on the STEPS Centre project Market-based mangrove afforestation and reforestation in Kenya and India.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-charles-tonui-co-management-mangrove-forest-gazi-bay-kenya/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170502T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170502T143000
DTSTAMP:20220411T105344Z
CREATED:20170502T075440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T105344Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Todd Crane - Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development
DESCRIPTION:‘Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development: What are the implications of methods and measures?’ \nSTEPS Seminar – all welcome \nSocio-ecological research continues to grapple with how to represent social and biophysical phenomena in integrated and balanced ways. Methodological choices\, especially regarding representation of the social\, have important implications for the robustness of the science\, subjectivities that emerge from different modes of representation and for the politically situated nature of the scientific endeavour. \nTodd Crane has recently published several papers addressing these issues\, but he will not give any definitive answers because he doesn’t have them. Instead\, seminar participants are invited to think through these issues with him\, especially in terms of how to integrate these considerations in research practice\, both reflexively and analytically. \nTodd Crane is a Senior Scientist at the Sustainable Livestock Systems group at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi\, Kenya. Trained as an anthropologist\, he specializes in climate change adaptation and mitigation issues in sub-Saharan Africa\, including cross-scale governance\, adaptation as socio-technical process\, and low-emissions dairy development. His work in research for development often involves collaboration with biophysical scientists. It also involves working with institutional actors looking for simple solutions and easily measured indicators for complex problems.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-todd-crane-interdisciplinary-science-subjectivities-research-development/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Food & agriculture,Research methods
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160920T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160920T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T163120Z
CREATED:20160718T144049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T163120Z
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SUMMARY:Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand\, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Seminar – all welcome \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE \nAbstract: Terms such as “energy democracy” and “climate justice” have gained increasingly widespread usage and acceptance over the last 5 years. In order to give weight to these slogans\, it is necessary to understand the class relations behind the global energy sector\, and the sector’s worldwide division of labour. As a key means of production and consumption in the world-division of labour\, the energy sector as a whole\, both in the short term and in the long term\, are determined (and determinant of) class relations. \nThe energy sector is already an important site of struggle throughout much of the world. These struggles are likely to intensify in the years ahead. The question of “energy transition” is a central axis of class struggle in the world-economy in the years ahead. Like all class struggle\, its outcome is highly uncertain and unpredictable. \nAbout Kolya Abramsky\nKolya Abramsky is a freelance researcher\, educator and consultant on the global energy sector. Over 15 years\, he has focused on the social relations in the sector\, including land\, work\, ownership and choice of technology. Formerly\, he was the International Energy Officer for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa; coordinator of the World Wind Energy Institute (Denmark); Visiting International Scholar/winner of Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change Research at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science\, Technology and Society\, at the Interuniversity Research Centre for Technology\, Work and Culture in Austria. He has edited two books: Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World\, and Restructuring and Resistance: Diverse Voices of Struggle in Western Europe. He has advised policy makers and addressed universities in five continents. He initiated and built\, jointly with Focus on the Global South\, the website Understanding China’s Energy Landscape. He has a Sociology MA from State University of New York\, Binghamton.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/kolya-abramsky-towards-a-class-based-approach-to-global-energy-transition-shifting-energy-demand-expanding-the-renewable-energy-sector-and-phasing-out-fossil-fuel/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160627T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160627T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T163237Z
CREATED:20160621T115021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T163237Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS: to a systemic ecology of mind - seminar with Ray Ison
DESCRIPTION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, UK \nThis seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing capability in the context of the Anthropocene. Prof Ison’s starting point will be to lay down a challenge as to whether those present have a systemic ecology of mind. \nHe will then unpack what he considers to be significant limitations in much contemporary scholarship because of failures to understand: the ‘feral concept’ of system; praxis\, or more specifically systems praxis; complexity\, or complex adaptive system; transformation and governance\, or governing. He will ground the seminar in examples from recent research projects that employ\, or are concerned with\, social learning and systemic inquiry. \nRegardless of framing choice\,  governing in the circumstances of ‘the Anthropocene’ requires major innovations in governance and institutional designs such as social learning and systemic co-inquiry.  Water/river governance research undertaken within the ASTiP (Appied Systems Thinking in Practice) Group at the Open University will be used to exemplify governance innovation. Recent research in Victoria\, Australia will be used to exemplify how  systemic co-inquiry can be harnessed for more effective NRM. \nIn the discussion we can explore implications for the STEPS programme. \n \nAbout Ray Ison\nRay Ison has an international reputation in\, and has been a major contributor to\, ‘cybersystemics’. What is this field you may well ask? Ray’s rationale for using this term was explained in the presentation last year at ISSS2016 in Berlin of his Presidential Address for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)\, and also in a special ‘systemic inquiry’ at Herrenhausen Palace\, Hanover. \nAmongst other matters raised at these events was the significant institutional complexity in the cybersystemic field and the lack of intellectual and political influence for investment in and the furtherance of cybersystemic scholarship – particularly in key policy and research funding fora associated with the UN\, Brussels\, Washington and the like. This is despite the growing awareness that the issues of our time\, the Anthropocene\, if you will\, are systemic in nature and thus require systemic responses\, i.e.\, transformations. \nRay has been Professor of Systems at The Open University (OU)\, UK since 1994.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-to-a-systemic-ecology-of-mind-seminar-with-ray-ison/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\,  Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160516T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160516T193000
DTSTAMP:20170209T211313Z
CREATED:20160405T091733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211313Z
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SUMMARY:Can we govern the climate?
DESCRIPTION:Public lecture by Harriet Bulkeley\, Professor of Geography\, Durham University \nFulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton \n \nThe recent conclusions of COP21 in Paris appear to offer another hopeful juncture on the long road to reaching a global agreement on how society should respond to climate change. Commitment has been renewed\, new goals articulated and\, perhaps most surprisingly\, a host of other actors have been brought into the multilateral domain to add momentum (and legitimacy) to the ongoing international effort. While the impacts and implications of the Paris agreement continue to be pored over\, what is clear is that the ideal of a multilateral agreement universally adopted and cascaded into implementation through the public arena has given way to a much more complex political imagination in which actors public and private\, local and global jostle for attention and the fate of one seems to be irrevocably bound up with the others. \n \nWithin the research community the emergence of this domain\, what is termed global environmental governance\, has been subject to debate for over a decade. A substantial body of work attests to the role of a range of actors\, from cities to corporations\, and the multitude of governing arrangements of which they are part in responding to climate change. While we have learnt a great deal about who is now engaging in climate governance\, their motivations\, interventions and the challenges this poses\, I want to suggest that this work remains limited in helping us understand where\, how and with what consequences climate governance takes place. Focusing on the actors and institutions involved\, we are left with only a partial understanding of the situations\, processes\, practices and socio-material configurations through which the governing of climate change is (and is not) taking place – in short\, we have a limited engagement with how climate governance is being accomplished. \nThis matters critically for our ability to answer a simple but central question: can we govern the climate? Drawing on research conducted in the UK over the past decade that has sought to examine the ways in which governing climate change is being accomplished in a range of arenas that cut across traditional divides between the state\, private sector and community\, I will make the argument that addressing this question means opening up our analyses of global environmental governance to new conceptual entry points. Understanding whether we can govern the climate means that we ask (again) how governing is configured in relation to climate change. Using examples from the banking\, retail\, and energy sectors as well as community initiatives and urban responses to climate change\, the paper explores the ways in which the governing of climate change is authorised\, ordered\, articulated and made to matter through distinct socio-material assemblages and diverse publics. Such an approach not only opens up what it might mean to govern climate change\, but also the range of sites and practices through which it can and is being accomplished. From this perspective\, governing the climate is not a single project\, but an unfolding and ongoing programme embedded in different economies and societies in multiple ways. Accomplishing climate governance requires not that we seek to harmonise and integrate all such responses\, but rather that we enable multiple socially and environmentally progressive transitions to be realised. \nAbout Harriet Bulkeley\nHarriet Bulkeley is a Professor of Geography\, Durham University. Her research focuses on the processes and politics of environmental governance. Her recent books include Governing the Climate: new approaches to rationality\, power and politics (Ed. CUP 2014) Transnational Climate Governance (CUP\, 2014)\, An Urban Politics of Climate Change (Routledge 2015)\, and Accomplishing Climate Governance (CUP\, 2016). She is currently involved in researching the politics and practice of smart grids in the UK\, Australia and Sweden and continuing work on urban responses to climate change through the JPI Urban and ESRC project Governing Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST 2014 – 2017). Harriet has undertaken commissioned research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation\, Friends of the Earth\, UN-Habitat and the World Bank. In 2014\, she was awarded the King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Professorship in Environmental Science and a Visiting Professorship at Lund University\, Sweden. \n\nThis lecture is the only public part of the programme of the STEPS Centre’s 2016 Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/can-we-govern-the-climate/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160415T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160415T150000
DTSTAMP:20170209T211556Z
CREATED:20160412T072133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211556Z
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SUMMARY:Innovation governance for sustainable agri-food systems in China
DESCRIPTION:Adrian Ely and Sam Geall\, SPRU\nLecture Theatre 144\, Jubilee Building\nSPRU\, University of Sussex \nThe seminar will be chaired by Rob Byrne (SPRU). It is followed by a Roundtable on ‘Innovation governance and sustainability in China’.  Panellists: Jenny Lieu; Erik Millstone; Justin Pickard. \nAll welcome \n \nAbstract:  China is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter\, with per capita emissions now on a par with those in Europe. At the same time\, the growing capabilities within China’s dynamic innovation system have drawn significant interest from innovation scholars\, with many pointing to China’s increasing role in pioneering low carbon (or sustainability-oriented) innovation. Whilst these studies are informative\, they tend to downplay questions about the politics of socio-technical change in China and the importance of user perceptions and practices. Drawing from a recent ESRC-funded research study that involved six institutions from the UK and China\, this seminar begins to address these gaps. Focussing on two phenomena in the agrifood system (public resistance to GMOs and civil-society initiatives around sustainable food)\, it asks how these are influencing dominant pathways of change\, and whether these are indicative of wider shifts in the country’s approach to innovation governance. \nFor more information on the project\, see the Low Carbon Innovation in China page. \nAbout the speakers\n\nDr Adrian Ely is a senior lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex and Deputy Director/ Head of Impact and Engagement at the ESRC STEPS Centre. He is leading the efforts to establish a STEPS Centre hub in China. He is interested in innovation for sustainability\, but his research focuses in particular on international\, trans-disciplinary studies of the regulation and governance of emerging biotechnologies\, for example co-authoring the book ‘Regulating Technology: International harmonisation and local realities’ in 2010. Adrian is involved in ongoing research projects focussing on grassroots innovation for sustainability (Argentina\, India)\, low-carbon innovation (China) and collaborative research in the life sciences (Europe-Asia). \nDr Sam Geall is Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at University of Sussex\, Executive Editor of chinadialogue.net and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. His research focuses on environmental governance\, media and civil society in China. His writing on Chinese affairs has appeared in many publications\, including The Guardian\, The New Statesman\, Foreign Policy and Index on Censorship. He is on the board of the EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange and has worked as an International Coordinator for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). He also edited the book China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books\, 2013). \nOther events\nOther seminars in this series are on the SPRU Friday Seminars website.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/innovation-governance-for-sustainable-agri-food-systems-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160411T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160411T133000
DTSTAMP:20170209T211615Z
CREATED:20160309T105801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211615Z
UID:8370-1460376000-1460381400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions
DESCRIPTION:Towards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions \nSTEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30\, Monday 11 April 2016\nRoom C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room)\, Arts C\, University of Sussex \nHelene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania  and societal transformation. She will explain why and how electrification processes simultaneously reinforce social inequality and enhance social mobility. \nAhlborg studies the co-development of technology and society and how the provision of electricity services\, based on small-scale renewable energy resources\, impacts on people’s lives and transforms rural communities. She also looks at how the local context and relations of power influence the electrification process and impact on the long–term viability of the energy system. \nHelene belongs to the interdisciplinary research group STEEP-RES (Socio-Technical-Ecological Evaluations of Potential Renewable Energy Systems) at Chalmers University of Technology\, Göteborg\, Sweden. Find out more about Helene Ahlborg. \nEveryone welcome!
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-helene-ahlborg-on-power-and-politics-politics-in-energy-transitions/
LOCATION:Global Studies Resource Centre\, Arts C175\, University of Sussex\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Understanding sustainability
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160226T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160226T143000
DTSTAMP:20170209T211932Z
CREATED:20160203T110916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211932Z
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SUMMARY:How can the ecological impact of the richest 1% be reduced at a time of extreme inequality?
DESCRIPTION:Seminar with Dario Kenner\n1.00-2.30 Friday 26 February 2016\, IDS room 221 \nRecent research by Oxfam and French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel indicates that the richest 1% of people in many countries\, including the United Kingdom\, have huge per capita carbon footprints compared to the rest of the population. The fact that richer people have a larger ecological impact is not that surprising. The question is what to do about it. Dario Kenner\, who has recently published a working paper on the inequality of overconsumption\, will talk about the difficulty in getting the richest 1% to reduce their negative impact on the environment. \nAbout Dario Kenner\nDario Kenner is an independent researcher who launched whygreeneconomy.org in 2013 as a space to share ideas on the policies that should be adopted to address climate change and biodiversity loss. He has extensive experience of working on the environment and in international development\, including lobbying at UN climate change conferences and Rio+20. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/how-can-the-ecological-impact-of-the-richest-1-be-reduced-at-a-time-of-extreme-inequality/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160208T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160208T173000
DTSTAMP:20170209T212309Z
CREATED:20160203T102126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212309Z
UID:8256-1454947200-1454952600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Leverhulme Lecture: 'The Degrowth hypothesis'
DESCRIPTION:Leverhulme Lecture: ‘The Degrowth hypothesis’\nGiorgos Kallis\, ICREA professor at ICTA\, Autonomous University of Barcelona; visiting professor at SOAS \nMonday 8 February at 4-5.30pm\nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nBrighton\, UK \nIf we are to radically reduce carbon emissions and material use\, we have to abolish the pursuit of economic growth and develop institutions and structures that secure social sustainability under conditions of economic contraction. \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/leverhulme-lecture-the-degrowth-hypothesis/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160127T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160128T170000
DTSTAMP:20220411T105548Z
CREATED:20160113T105944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T105548Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Above and Below
DESCRIPTION:27-28 January\nNew Delhi\, India \nFor more details\, see the workshop page.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/workshop-climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Research methods
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151204T210000
DTSTAMP:20170209T212858Z
CREATED:20151203T200948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212858Z
UID:8108-1449255600-1449262800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Asia's Giants: media briefing + drinks reception
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, December 4th from 7pm-9pm; short briefing and Q&A at 7.30pm \nWhere: Holiday Inn Paris Gare de l’Est\, 5\, rue du 8 Mai 1945 75010 Paris \nHow is China shifting to a low-carbon economy? Will low-carbon innovation in China affect decarbonisation pathways elsewhere? Why do Indian policymakers insist on low-carbon rather than no-carbon? What are the prospects of India’s ambitious solar programme? \nJoin us for a briefing at 7.30pm from: Adrian Ely\, Co-Investigator\, Low Carbon Innovation in China project; Isabel Hilton\, CEO and Editor\, chinadialogue; Joydeep Gupta\, Editor\, India Climate Dialogue; Sam Geall\, Research Fellow\, University of Sussex; and Yu Jie\, Climate Analyst at chinadialogue. \nThere will also be drinks\, opportunities to talk to experts\, and copies of the reports China’s Low Carbon Future Offers Global Opportunities and Hot Air: Climate negotiations and India available. \nPlease confirm attendance by email: info@chinadialogue.net \n\nAbout the reports\nChina’s Low Carbon Future Offers Global Opportunities\, by chinadialogue\, the Low Carbon Innovation in China project and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit\, illustrates the dynamism of China’s low-carbon development and asks if China’s more ambitious approach to climate change could create incentives for other countries to move in a similar direction. \nHot Air: Climate negotiations and India\, by India Climate Dialogue\, traces the evolution of India’s climate policy and its stance at climate negotiations over the last few decades; how India has championed the cause of the developing world.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/asias-giants-media-briefing-drinks-reception/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151204T150000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151204T163000
DTSTAMP:20170209T212940Z
CREATED:20151111T150140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212940Z
UID:7998-1449241200-1449246600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:COP21 side event: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs)
DESCRIPTION:Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs): how to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism\n \nClimate Generations area\, Salle 1\nLe Bourget Conference Centre\, Paris\n4 December at 15.00-16.30 \nListen to the audio recording\n \n\nCOP21 side event: How to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism by Stepscentre on  Mixcloud \n\n\nAbout this session\nThe session focuses on how the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism can be strengthened to promote the building of national systems of innovation (NSIs) in developing countries. NSIs are essential to fostering the development and transfer of technology for both climate change adaptation and mitigation. Speakers will examine what policies\, institutional arrangements\, capabilities and interventions the Technology Mechanism can promote to support NSI-building. The panellists will draw from research undertaken in a range of developing countries\, focussing especially on Africa but with reference to developing Asia and Latin America\, to provide practical recommendations on ways forward. \nSpeakers: Dr Rob Byrne (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex)\, Dr Cosmas Ochieng (ACTS)\, Dr Heleen de Coninck (Radboud University)\, Jonah Osore (Kenya Office of the Deputy President)\, Adrian Ely (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex). \nPolicy Briefing: CRIBs (Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders) A powerful new focus for international climate technology policy \n\nThis is a side event at the UN COP21 conference on climate change.  \nRead more on our activities at COP21 \nView a list of all the side events at COP21 (UNFCCC website) \n  \nUpdates\nSign up to our special COP21 mailing list for updates on our events\, new articles and comment direct from the conference.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop21-side-event-climate-relevant-innovation-system-builders-cribs/
LOCATION:Salle 1\, Climate Generations Area\, Le Bourget conference centre\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T150000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T163000
DTSTAMP:20170209T213053Z
CREATED:20151111T145833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213053Z
UID:7995-1448982000-1448987400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:COP21 side event: Mitigation contributions from developing countries
DESCRIPTION:Mitigation contributions from developing countries: innovation\, technology and scenario analysis\nSide events area\, Room OR 03\nLe Bourget conference centre\, Paris\n1 December at 15.00- 16.30 \nThe Paris Agreement requires country-level implementation\, where institutional capabilities and integrated assessment modelling capacities are needed. With colleagues from Colombia and Kenya we show how collaboration on scenario analysis and work through the Technology Mechanism can contribute. \nSpeakers (some tbc): Rob Byrne (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex)\, Cosmas Ochieng (African Centre for Technology Studies)\, Heleen de Coninck (University of Nijmegen)\, Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology)\, James Falzon (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands). Chair: Gabriel Blanco (UNICEN / UN Technology Executive Committee) \nThis is a side event at the UN COP21 conference on climate change.  \nRead more on our activities at COP21 \nView a list of all the side events at COP21 (UNFCCC website) \nUpdates\nSign up to our special COP21 mailing list for updates on our events\, new articles and comment direct from the conference.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop21-side-event-mitigation-contributions-from-developing-countries/
LOCATION:Room OR03\, Side events area\, Le Bourget conference centre\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
ORGANIZER;CN="Unnamed Organizer":MAILTO:R.P.Byrne@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150910
DTSTAMP:20170209T214405Z
CREATED:20150119T120133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214405Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics
DESCRIPTION:Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability \nWhy now? Contexts and debates \nIn the build up to the confirmation of the post-2015 sustainable development goals\, the politics of resource access\, allocation and distribution are high on global policy agendas. The limits to economic activity in the face of ‘planetary boundaries’ are being fiercely debated\, and even humanity’s survival in the age of the Anthropocene is questioned. Some suggest a ‘perfect storm’ of factors is combining to present ever growing threats\, often assumed to be at the ‘nexus’ of food\, water\, energy and climate change issues. Among the responses are advocates of ‘green economy’ strategies\, seeking transformations to more sustainable economies. \n  \nBut the ‘sustainability’ framing of these issues needs interrogating. How do these debates draw on earlier neo-Malthusian visions of ‘Limits to Growth’\, blind to social difference\, distributional implications\, and failing to disaggregate local users and politics concerning resource use\, consumption and production? What politics and power relations are hidden by the apocalyptic framings of environmental disaster? What interests are supported by particular framings of ‘scarcity’ or ‘limits’\, justifying appropriation of resources by some to the exclusion of others? \n  \nFood\, water\, fuel and minerals have become the focus of global and local political contests. Land\, water and green ‘grabs’ have re-allocated existing resources to so called ‘efficient’ and economically productive users\, causing local resource scarcities and dispossessions\, damaging livelihoods and infringing basic rights. Resources have become valued\, marketised and commodified\, with a range of unforeseen consequences. At the same time\, activism has flourished\, contesting dominant perspectives. As we seek pathways to sustainability that assure both environmental integrity and social justice\, now is a critical time to ask tough questions about the politics of resources. \nWhy a conference? \nThe STEPS Centre and its partners hope this conference can help unpack assumptions\, question simplistic prescriptions and debate alternatives about the politics of resources and pathways to sustainability. The conference will present research evidence from varied locations revealing multiple pathways of change\, linking conceptual challenges of understanding ‘resource politics’ with institutional and practical dimensions\, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is hoped this debate – with academics\, practitioners\, policymakers and activists taking part – can provide the basis for open and balanced debate about future options. \n  \nResearch challenges \nIn conceptual terms\, the focus on political ecology\, long concerned with understanding the politics of access to\, and control over\, resources from local to global\, is increasingly combined with a concern with the politics of knowledge\, emerging from fields such as science and technology studies. Resource politics should be seen in relation to complex combinations of artefacts\, people and knowledges. Resource control and ‘grabbing’ debates have reinvigorated a concern for earlier Marxist concerns with accumulation and dispossession\, while new perspectives are required to understand the commodification and financialisation of nature. Pathways to sustainability are thus constructed through this complex interplay\, with analysis of power dynamics at the core. This means engaging critically with questions of environmental and social justice and what these mean to different people in diverse contexts in both the global South and North. Increasingly a conceptual perspective on ‘pathways’ combining an understanding of material and structural forces\, the politics that underpin them and the discursive knowledge politics that frame such dynamics\, is essential. \nThe STEPS Centre’s work on resource politics \nThe STEPS Centre’s ‘pathways approach’ has been developed as a way of understanding contending and conflicting pathways of change\, in complex\, highly contested settings. Building on earlier work on ‘scarcity’ and the politics of allocation\, we have highlighted the multiple framings of and responses to climate uncertainty. Similarly\, an earlier focus on ‘institutions’ for resource control and access\, has been extended to looking at resource access in diverse settings from peri-urban India to rural China. Historical work on the politics of landscapes\, including forests or rangeland areas\, has been built on to investigate the commodification of carbon in African forests. Work on water resources has linked issues of access to notions of security\, highlighting political contestation\, for example\, dam construction in southeast Asia. And we have highlighted the variegated consequences of land\, water and green grabbing in different sites across the world. \n  \nConference themes\nSix themes will run throughout the conference\, with panels clustered within each theme. This will allow delegates to take part in fulsome discussions around particular themes. \n\nScarcity\, politics and securitization\nResource grabbing\nGovernance\, elites\, citizenship and democracy\nFinancialisation and markets\nGrowth\, waste and consumption\nGender\, race\, class and sustainability\n\nFind out more on the conference website
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-politics2015/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T173000
DTSTAMP:20170209T214544Z
CREATED:20150706T130415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214544Z
UID:7564-1436976000-1436981400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai - Chinese Renewable Energy Policy
DESCRIPTION:‘Chinese Renewable Energy Policy – Policy Implementation\, and Participation’ \nYixin Dai\, School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University \nIn order to reach its ambitious emissions targets\, China has been promoting renewable energy through a series of top-down policies since 2006. Recent successes have seen wind turbine installation capacity exceed 100GW in 2014\, and nuclear installation capacity reach 23GW in June 2015. The questions are: can we attribute this to strong central government? What is the role of local implementation in promoting renewable energy policies? Will any bottom-up effort influence future development of Chinese renewable energy policy?  This seminar addresses these questions by drawing on two of the speaker’s papers on the implementation gap and perception gap in Chinese renewable energy (RE) policy development. \nYixin Dai is an assistant professor in School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University. Her research interests focus on theory of innovation and technology transfer\, technological innovation in the environment and energy area\, and technology governance. Her current research studies different low carbon innovation paths between China and other parts of the world\, technology governance at local levels\, as well as the national innovation system in China.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/yixin-dai-chinese-renewable-energy-policy/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150708T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150710T170000
DTSTAMP:20170209T214706Z
CREATED:20150703T201206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214706Z
UID:7547-1436342400-1436547600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Centre events at 'Our Common Future' conference
DESCRIPTION:From 8 – 10 July\, STEPS Centre members will be participating in the international conference Our Common Future Under Climate Change in Paris. The conference comes ahead of the UN’s COP21 conference in December. It looks at the state of knowledge about\, and the range of responses to\, climate change. \nFind out about our research and engagement work around COP21 and Our Common Future \n\n  \nBreakdown of events featuring STEPS members \nWednesday 8 July at 17.30 \nAdrian Ely and Rob Byrne: ‘Building pro-poor\, low carbon innovation systems through international and indigenous efforts’\, by Adrian Ely\, Rob Byrne and David Ockwell \n\n4413(a) – Technology\, transformations and capabilities in developing countries\nUPMC Jussieu – ROOM 309 – Block 24/34\n\nThursday 9 July at 15.00 \nPeter Newell: ‘The political economy of contending pathways to de-carbonisation’ \n\n4409(a) – Climate Governance: Driving Societal Transformations\nUPMC Jussieu Ampi Herpin\n\nThursday 9 July at 16.30 \nSam Geall and Adrian Ely: Low carbon innovation in China \n\n3333 – China’s climate policies and low-carbon innovation\nUNESCO Fontenoy – ROOM XI.\n\nFriday 10 July at 14.00 \nAdrian Ely: STEPS work in China and Africa \n\n4417 – Transforming Society and Science for Sustainability – Addressing Challenges in Transdisciplinary Research\nUNESCO Bonvin – ROOM XIV.\n\n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-at-our-common-future/
LOCATION:Various\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150610T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150612T170000
DTSTAMP:20180322T170739Z
CREATED:20170125T150404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180322T170739Z
UID:10600-1433923200-1434128400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Low Carbon Development in Africa
DESCRIPTION:This event aimed to shape the research\, policy and practice agendas for low-carbon development in Africa. It was also the launch event for the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub. \nLow Carbon Development in Africa workshop. Photo: STEPS Centre\nIn Sub-Saharan Africa\, two-thirds of people still lack access to electricity. Working for economic development and reducing poverty\, while addressing climate change\, is a complex and pressing challenge. \nTo debate ways forward\, this event in Nairobi brought together over 100 international delegates drawn from government\, industry\, universities and civil society. It was jointly hosted by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, the STEPS Centre\, the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)\, the Stockholm Enviroment Institute Africa (SEI Africa)\, and Practical Action. \nThe workshop also marked the official launch of the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub\, one of five hubs in the Pathways to Sustainability Consortium. \n\nWorkshop report\nDownload the workshop report (pdf 532 KB) \n\nProgramme\nProf Judi Wakhungu\, Cabinet Secretary for Environment\, Water and Natural Resources\, Kenya\, gave the keynote address on behalf of the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury on Kenya\, Hon. Henry Rotich. \nSessions covered at the workshop included: \n\nLow-carbon pathways out of energy poverty\nCase studies of research in Africa\nEnergy access\nKnowledge gaps and inclusion\nAfrican priorities for research\, policy and practice\n\nDownload the programme (pdf\, 360KB) \n\nMedia coverage and blog posts\nEvent Storify – a selection of tweets\, links and images from the workshop \nPress coverage\n\nSciDev.Net Low-carbon hubs could help solve Africa’s energy gap 3 July 2015\nOther coverage: Coastweek / ScienceAfrica / SpyGhana\n\nBlogs\n\nAfrica Sustainability Hub will promote low-carbon opportunities by David Ockwell\, 19 June 2015\nPro-poor\, low carbon energy conversations across the STEPS global consortium by Adrian Ely\, 16 June 2015\nSTEPS Africa Sustainability Hub launched in Nairobi by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\nKenyan Finance Minister: STEPS Africa “a huge contribution” by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\nKnowledge is power: towards low carbon energy in Africa by Nathan Oxley\, 10 June 2015\nWhy access to energy is crucial for economic growth and poverty reduction by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\n\n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/low-carbon-development-in-africa/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150513T173000
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DTSTAMP:20170209T215316Z
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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Mike Hulme - '(Still) Disagreeing about Climate Change: What Way Forward?'
DESCRIPTION:Mike Hulme\, King’s College London\nSTEPS Public Lecture\, followed by drinks reception – all welcome\nFulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex \n\n \n\nDownload a poster (pdf) \nClimate change is an environmental\, cultural and political phenomenon which is reshaping the way people think about themselves\, their societies and their Earthly futures. Climate change is therefore a major instance where scientific knowledge and symbolic imagination interact in multiple and complex ways. \nIn an earlier book\, Why We Disagree about Climate Change\, I considered the different ways people think about climate change in the contexts of science\, economics\, religion\, psychology\, risk communication\, development sociology\, and politics. In the six years since that book was published\, new developments have occurred in nature\, science\, politics and culture\, yet climate change continues to be an idea which both unites and divides us. In this talk I will consider why this is and what it tells us about the emerging narrative of the Anthropocene. My normative claim is that we need a variety of insights about climate and its cultural and political manifestations to offer a sufficient number of entry points for human actors to work creatively with the idea of climate change. \nAbout Mike Hulme \nMike Hulme is professor of climate and culture in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. His work explores the idea of climate change using historical\, cultural and scientific analyses\, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse. \nHis latest book is Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering (Polity) and is currently writing Cultured Weather: The Idea of Climate and What We Do With It (SAGE). He is also the author of Exploring Climate Change Through Science and In Society (Routledge) and Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cambridge). \nDrinks reception \nThis public lecture will be followed at about 7.30pm by a drinks reception in the same venue. All participants at the lecture are welcome to stay for drinks afterwards. \nThis event is part of the annual STEPS Centre Summer School. It is the only public event on this year’s programme. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/mike-hulme-still-disagreeing-about-climate-change/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150420T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150421T170000
DTSTAMP:20170125T165031Z
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China
DESCRIPTION:The Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China conference marked the launch of the STEPS China Sustainability Hub\, and provided a valuable opportunity for STEPS Centre members\, colleagues from across China and international partners from our Global Consortium to share insights\, experiences and plans for future research and engagement. \n \nThe conference was hosted by Beijing Normal University School of Social Development and Public Policy in partnership with the STEPS Centre and under the auspices of the Ministry of Education’s 2011 Cooperative Platform on Innovation\, Governance and Development. \nFunding for this conference was provided by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through the Newton Fund. \n\n“变迁中的中国的可持续发展路径” 国际会议\n2015年4月20日—21日 \nSTEPS中心目前正致力于建立一个全球性的“可持续发展路径”研究联盟。作为这一行动中的一部分，我们与长期合作伙伴——北京师范大学——协作建立了北京可持续发展研究中心。 \n本次会议在教育部2011创新、治理与发展合作平台的支持下，由北京师范大学社会发展与公共政策学院和STEPS 研究中心合作主办。会议旨在从中国的视角探讨可持续发展路径，促进国际讨论。 \n本次国际会议将标志着北京可持续发展研究中心的正式启动，这也将为STEPS中心及其中国、国际合作伙伴提供宝贵的交流机会。 \n\nProgramme\n\nSTEPS-BNU Conference programme (PDF 168KB)\n\n We were delighted to have keynote speeches from Zhang Xiulan (Director\, BNU-SSDPP) and Melissa Leach (Director\, IDS; Former Director\, STEPS Centre). Sessions throughout the conference covered: \n\nInstitutional innovation and health reform in China\nSocial innovation in agriculture and natural resources\nAntimicrobial resistance\nLow Carbon Energy Transitions that Serve the Needs of the Poor\nFuture directions for seeds and agricultural development\nPoverty Reduction and Social Finance\nSustainable and equitable urban transformations\nEnvironment\, health and food safety\n\n\n  \n Melissa Leach keynote at Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing China conference.   from STEPS Centre\nConference video\nWatch the keynote speeches by Melissa Leach and Zhang Xiulan embedded below. Scroll down for links to parallel presentations. \n \nLinks to specific presentations: \nKeynote talks\nMelissa Leach and Zhang Xiulan – Pathways to Sustainability in a changing China \nPanel talks\nInstitutional innovation and Health Reform in China\nLewis Husain: Institutional innovation and health reform in China \nLijie Fang: New direction in social policy of China: the interaction between social services and social organizations \nYue Xiao: MCH and Family planning service delivery in China \nSocial innovation in agriculture and natural resources\nAdrian Ely: Social innovation in agriculture and natural resources \nGongbuzeren: Tibetan pastoral institutional responses to a changing socio-ecological system in China \nJoel Houdet: A cost-benefit analysis of mining in Karamoja \nLow carbon energy transitions that serve the needs of the poor\nRob Byrne: Low carbon energy transitions that serve the needs of the poor \nYixin Dai: Wind and Solar as energy transition in China \nGiuseppina Siciliano: Large dams in Southeast Asia and Africa: risks and opportunities \nSandra Pointel: Pro-poor low carbon energy access in Ghana – what role for China? \nJoel Houdet: Experiences from Africa \nAnti-microbial resistance\nGerry Bloom: Addressing resistance to antibiotics in plural health systems \nZhang Xiulan: Understanding the implementation of antibiotic regulations and other strategies in China \n Fang Jing: Reducing antimicrobial resistance: what can we do and how? \nDing Shijun: Knowledge of producers\, doctors and vets on pig antibiotic use \nFuture directions for seeds and agricultural development\nAnabel Marin: The future of seeds \nAndy Stirling: Alternative innovation pathways for seed development \nDing Shijun: Chinese seed firms ‘going abroad’ \nJames Keeley: AgriTT: Working in partnership for agricultural technology \n Yichun Song: Seed sovereignty\, sustainable agriculture and continuity  \nPoverty reduction and social finance\nLi He: Needs and the questions of social finance based on the thinking of an environment project \nXu Hui: Social finance for for poverty alleviation: innovations since 2009 \nZhang Qian: Poverty trap and elite capture in pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia under climate change \nZhao Jia: Poverty reduction and social finance: reflections on the ‘Nong Shang Dai’ programme of creditease \nSustainable and equitable urban transformations\nYing Chen: Urbanization and sustainable development of cities in China \nZhao Zheng: China’s urban green development efficiency\, based on urban data analysis of Silk Road Economical Belt \nEnvironment\, health and food safety\nChao Cai: Food safety in China: two problems in focus \nFang Jing: Field building leadership initiative: advancing eco health in Asia \nLu Jixia: Historicizing sustainable livelihoods: a pathways approach to lead mining in rural central China \nDavid Tyfield: Towards sustainable and equitable urban transformations \n\nMasterclass\nThe conference was preceded by a one day Masterclass at BNU SSDPP\, involving early career researchers and students from BNU and other Chinese universities with STEPS Centre members and alumni. \nThe event explored the STEPS pathways approach and pathways methods and methodologies. Presentations were made to winners of the Sustainability Hub research proposal competition (see photo below). A South-South Cooperation Forum with international students at BNU contributions from STEPS Global Consortium partners from Africa and Argentina was also convened. \n \n\nBlog series\nReflections and learning from the conference \n\nAndy Stirling on New Pathways: Learning from China’s greenization\nMelissa Leach Made in China? Mutual learning in a global development era\nSandra Pointel Between ‘greenization’ and ‘citizenization’: Welcome to China’s New Normal\nSandra Pointel South-South Cooperation: Voices from Africa and Latin America resonate in China\n\n\nMedia coverage\nResearch hub helps China’s sustainable development\, China Daily\, 29 April 2015 \n\nMore information\nSTEPS China Sustainability Hub \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pathways-to-sustainability-in-a-changing-china/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Food & agriculture,Governance & policy,Health & disease,Technology & innovation,Urbanisation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150414T130000
DTSTAMP:20170209T215601Z
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SUMMARY:Innovation for Sustainability  in a  Changing China: Exploring  Narratives and Pathways
DESCRIPTION:Adrian Ely and Sam Geall\, STEPS Centre / SPRU\n14 April 2015 at 11am – 1pm\nVenue tbc \nChina is the global leader in renewable energy investment and has adopted ambitious targets for low carbon development. Given the environmental impacts of the country’s current development trajectories and China’s increasing role as a source of innovation \, progress towards these targets are of vital importance to the whole world. \nThis seminar will explore some of the key political narratives that have underpinned China’s policies in these areas\, and in wider debates around sustainable development. At the same time\, we outline emerging Chinese narratives around the concept of innovation\, and the ways these link to environmental objectives. Drawing on theoretical insights from work in the STEPS Centre (Leach et al 2010) that investigate the role of power in shaping narratives\, knowledge and action around specific ‘pathways to sustainability’\, we explore the ways in which dominant policy narratives in China are driving particular forms of innovation for sustainability\, and potentially occluding or constrainin g others. \nThis event is part of the Sussex China Seminar Series. Participants are asked to register in order to attend.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/innovation-for-sustainability-in-a-changing-china-exploring-narratives-and-pathways/
LOCATION:tbc
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T170000
DTSTAMP:20170209T220353Z
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SUMMARY:Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa
DESCRIPTION:The ‘Rising Powers\, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa’ team\, are running a one day international workshop titled ‘Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa’  in London on February 3rd 2015. \nThe workshop will mark the culmination of our ESRC project on The Rising Powers\, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa\, a project affiliated to the STEPS Centre. \nThe workshop will be a platform to present findings from the research and engage with various stakeholders working on similar themes in Africa. It will draw together the key findings from the international research community working on the opportunities and challenges of addressing development\, climate change\, and low carbon energy in Africa together with the experiences of policy-makers and practitioners in this field. \nFor inquiries about the event please email Ankit Kumar; ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/realising-transition/
LOCATION:Royal Society\, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, SW1Y 5AG
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="Ankit Kumar":MAILTO:ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk
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