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March 2022
The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India
31 March 2022 at 17.00 (UK time) **Please note the new time of this event** This Sussex Development Lecture will introduce the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India. More information and registration details are on the IDS website. Find out more
Find out more »June 2021
T-Lab: Transformation As Praxis – Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In 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. This session is linked to the TAPESTRY project. VIEW THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Find out more »Transformations Conference: Theories and Perspectives of Transformations
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. A 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. Speakers: Bruce Goldstein Cristina Costa Salavedra Neha Mungekar Paulina Aldunce Andy Stirling Rose Cairns This session is linked to the STEPS Centre's theme for 2021: Methods View Conference Programme
Find out more »Transformations conference: Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In 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. Presentations: Hans Adam: Arresting Environmental Collapse, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and…
Find out more »November 2018
Understanding Uncertainty and Climate Change: Views from India
**THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED** Seminar with Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava and Lars Otto Naess Research Fellows, IDS The 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…
Find out more »July 2018
Public event: Meeting Energy – EASST 2018 conference panel
Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square Lancaster LA1 1PJ STEPS 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. From the website: "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,…
Find out more »March 2018
When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Green extractivism and confronting the industrial machine
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. Drawing 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…
Find out more »December 2017
STEPS Seminar – Channing Arndt: ‘Faster Than You Think: The Global Energy Revolution and Developing Countries’
STEPS Centre seminar with Channing Arndt, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute Institute of Development Studies, Room 221, 15 December 2017 An 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.…
Find out more »May 2017
STEPS Annual Lecture: Achim Steiner
DOOMED TO FAIL OR BOUND TO SUCCEED? Sustainable Development and the Green Economy Agenda - Revisited Achim Steiner delivered the 2017 STEPS Annual lecture at the University of Sussex on 15 May. Steiner 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). Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQwBH27hJY Lecture slides STEPS Annual Lecture…
Find out more »STEPS Seminar: Charles Tonui on the co-management of mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya
‘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’ STEPS Seminar with Charles Tonui, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya. All are welcome to attend and no registration is necessary. The Constitution of Kenya provides for people to contribute to the national tree cover target of 10%, and the…
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