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SUMMARY:Putting the Power in 'Socio-Technical Regimes'- E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
DESCRIPTION:Dr David Tyfield\, Co-Director\, Centre for Mobilities Research\, Lancaster University\nOne of the greatest challenges regarding contemporary research into socio-technical transition concerns the possibility of ‘sustainable transport’.  Transportation\, which accounts for at least one quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions\, is key to efforts to mitigate ‘climate change’.  But with the particularly ‘locked-in’ and entrenched socio-technical system of ‘automobility’ at the core of contemporary mobility\, it is also arguably a uniquely challenging case for low-carbon transition.  In this respect\, perhaps the most significant single development is the recent transformation of mobility within contemporary China.  In little more than 3 decades\, China has gone from a society dominated by bicycles and beasts of burden to the largest car market in the world\, and with prospects for massive further growth.  Conversely\, China is also engaged in an experiment regarding electric vehicles that is receiving globally unique levels of governmental and corporate support. \nThe talk will introduce a new 30-month ESRC project – involving colleagues at Lancaster\, SPRU\, the STEPS Centre and in China – that will explore the broader prospects for low-carbon transition in China.  Focusing on the work package on low-carbon e-mobility by way of illustration\, the talk will ask in particular how thinking about low-carbon transition in the entirely different socio-economic\, political and cultural context of China forces a confrontation with some key challenges for contemporary theories of low-carbon innovation and system transition.  In particular\, while acknowledging the significant insights and benefits of two theoretical perspectives emerging as dominant in this field – the ‘multi-level perspective’ and practice theory – both need also to place issues of power at the heart of their analyses.  In this way\, the specific and different challenges of constructing an ‘entrepreneurial state’ in China (vs. for example in the UK) may also be illuminated. \nEveryone welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/e-mobility-china/
LOCATION:Room G22\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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SUMMARY:STEPS/IDS Seminar: Jon Morris - Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet \nProfessor Jon Morris\n24 July 2013 at 13.00 – 14.30\nRoom 221\, Institute of Development Studies \nAbout the seminar: \nThe need to ‘re-imagine’ development studies in today’s world arises because of sweeping changes which invalidate the earlier globalization emphasis which has guided social science involvement in applied policy.  Business analysts tell us we work now in World 3.0\, with a rise of emerging markets and a digital world\, where also unexpected events occur frequently.  Drawing on this business literature by Ghemawat and Ramo (and others)\, this seminar explores implications of these changed circumstances\, which suggest we craft Development 3.0 to address planetary needs.  Such an emphasis would privilege sustainability over efficiency\, would look at all nations\, would anticipate urban problems and populations\, and would try to cope more effectively with ‘mashups’: unexpected\, major changes (such as we faced in 2008 and now again in the Arab Spring).  The aim here will be to explore better narratives and changed metrics\, to break out of the earlier assumptions (taken as facts) which guided Development 2.0\, looking to globalization to yield a better world.  \n\nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Jon Morris is based in southeast Utah\, where he teaches courses in his retirement on Southwest Indian Nations for Utah State University.  His career began in East Africa in the mid-1960s\, on topics related to land settlement\, rural development\, extension\, and education\, finishing as Professor in what is now Sokoine University of Agriculture\, Tanzania.  In the 1980s he worked on pastoralism for ODI\, London\, and on Tanzanian development for Uma Lele in the Bank. In the 1990s\, his focus became African Irrigation and livestock policies\, under USAID funded projects.  For this occasion he looks back on a half century’s development efforts\, tracking how emphases and assumptions change but persistent problems remain. \nAll welcome
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/stepsids-seminar-jon-morris-reimagining-development-3-0-for-a-changing-planet/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="STEPS Centre / IDS":MAILTO:h.corbett@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130520T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130520T203000
DTSTAMP:20170209T230036Z
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SUMMARY:Public debate: Fuel poverty\, climate change and social justice
DESCRIPTION:Public debate at the Jubilee Library\, Brighton\, UK. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2013.\nFind out more about the 2013 STEPS Summer School \n  \nWatch the video of this debate (on YouTube) \nPanel: \n\nKirsty Alexander\, Head of Communications\, Nuclear Industry Association\nThurstan Crockett\, Head of Sustainability\, Brighton and Hove City Council\nDoug Parr\, Chief Scientist\, Greenpeace\nJim Watson\, Research Director\, UK Energy Research Centre\n\nChair: Alice Bell\, Research Fellow\, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research\, University of Sussex \nAt a time of rising unemployment\, energy and food costs\, many families are struggling to heat their homes. But can fuel poverty be tackled without tackling climate change? And will tackling climate change – and other planetary boundaries such as water and land use – and keep the planet safe but make the poor poorer? \nThis debate will use the local issues such as fuel poverty and fracking to look at the global issues of environmental sustainability\, poverty and social justice. \n \nAbout the event\nThis debate is co-organised with SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex. \nIt is part of a series of public events during the 2013 STEPS Centre Summer School on pathways to sustainability. \nOther events in this series: \n13 May: Michael Jacobs (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)\nPublic lecture: ‘Capitalism\, carbon and climate change’\nFulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex \n16 May: CANCELLED: Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/public-debate-fuel-poverty-climate-change-and-social-justice/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130516T173000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Public lecture: Prof Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre
DESCRIPTION:Planetary boundaries and Sustainable Development Goals \nUnfortunately Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre\, will no longer be able to give this lecture.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/johan-rockstrom-lecture-may2013/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Prof Michael Jacobs\, Grantham Research Institute
DESCRIPTION:‘Capitalism\, carbon and climate change’ \nFulton A Lecture Theatre\nUniversity of Sussex\, Falmer\nBrighton \nPublic lecture\, followed by drinks reception\nAll welcome \nMichael Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics\, and in the School of Public Policy at University College London. He is a former Special Adviser at the UK Treasury and 10 Downing St. \nAbout the lecture\nClimate change is now upon us: the science is incontrovertible.  But the economic downturn has turned public and political attention to more immediate concerns\, and climate policy in Britain and the EU is going into reverse. \nIn this keynote lecture\, Michael Jacobs will draw parallels between the financial crisis and the crisis of climate change\, both rooted in a failure of orthodox economic theory and political debate to understand the systemic risks built up by an under-regulated capitalism.  Tackling both crises will require a new way of thinking about economic value and economic policy\, and a reassertion of the role of politics in securing the public good. \nOther events\nThis lecture is part of a series of public events linked to the 2013 STEPS Centre Summer School on pathways to sustainability. \nSee the Spring Series events page for more details. \n \nOther events in this series: \n20 May: Fuel poverty\, climate change and social justice\nPublic debate with Jim Watson (UK Energy Research Centre)\, Kirsty Alexander (Head of Communications\, Nuclear Industry Association)\, Doug Parr (Chief Scientist\, Greenpeace) and Thurstan Crockett (Head of Sustainability\, Brighton & Hove City Council). Chaired by Alice Bell (SPRU – University of Sussex)\nJubilee Library\, Brighton \nThe previously advertised lecture by Johan Rockström on 16 May has been cancelled.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/public-lecture-prof-michael-jacobs-lse/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:steps-events@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130227T130000
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Alex Arnall\, University of Reading
DESCRIPTION:‘A climate of control: flooding\, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley\, Mozambique’ \nAlexander Huw Arnall\nSchool of Agriculture\, Policy and Development\, University of Reading \nIn recent years\, the potential role of planned\, internal resettlement as a  climate change adaptation measure has been highlighted by national governments and the international policy community. However\, in many developing countries\, resettlement is a deeply political process that often results in unequal distribution of costs and benefits amongst relocated persons. \nThis seminar will examine these tensions in central Mozambique. It will use a political ecology approach to show how a dominant narrative of climate change-induced hazards for small-scale farmers in the Lower Zambezi River valley is contributing to their involuntary resettlement to higher-altitude\, less fertile areas of land. The findings add weight to the argument that a depoliticised interpretation of climate change can deflect attention away from underlying drivers of vulnerability and poverty\, as well as obscure the interests of governments that are intent on reordering poor and vulnerable populations.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-alex-arnall-university-of-reading/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="STEPS Centre":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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