BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//STEPS Centre - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://steps-centre.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for STEPS Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20120325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20121028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20130331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20131027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20140330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20141026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20140101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210118T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210118T144500 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20210114T110628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T113738Z UID:14998-1610974800-1610981100@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Sundarbans without boundaries DESCRIPTION:The second of two virtual sessions convened by the TAPESTRY project at the Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation Action. \n\n \n\nSpeakers: \n\nShababa Haque (ICCCAD)\nUpasona Ghosh (Indian Institute of Public Health\, Bhubaneshwar)\nMahmuda Mity (ICCCAD)\nShibaji Bose (Researcher/communications professional)\nAnnu Jalais (National University of Singapore)\nAmites Mukhopadyay (Jadavpur University\, Kolkata)\nMd Nadiruzzaman (Hamburg University)\nLars Otto Naess (IDS)\nLyla Mehta (IDS)\n\nChair: Terry Cannon (IDS) \n\nSession description\nThis is the second session from the project ‘Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments’ (TAPESTRY). (See details of the first session.) \nClimate-related uncertainties have tended to be defined by experts and bureaucrats (the ‘above’)\, mostly ignoring local perspectives and knowledge. Living in landscapes characterised by climate-related uncertainties creates anxieties and fears. \nInsight into how people from ‘below’ understand and deal with uncertainty is helped by knowing how it affects their sense of place\, identity and wellbeing. This can be a first step for fostering transformative change. Starting with people’s lived experiences\, we conceive of transformation as emphasizing agency and practice (praxis). \nTransformative action requires the reframing of nature-society relations\, knowledge\, and value systems\, and a reconfiguration of institutions and frameworks. It involves fostering alliances between communities\, NGOs\, scientists and state agencies to co-produce new knowledge and ideas for more robust livelihoods. This can give rising to ‘patches of transformation’ that can be scaled up and out. These issues are teased out through presentations on three sites in south Asia. The first two (Kutch and Mumbai) are dealt with in an earlier session. \nThis session is focused on the Sundarbans area in West Bengal and Bangladesh\, where islanders are battling sea level rise\, salinity intrusion and cyclones. \nThe session discusses the work being done by the TAPESTRY project in both West Bengal and Bangladesh among people and organizations on the edges of the Sundarbans forest\, where livelihoods are challenged by existing problems and magnified by climate change. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/sundarbans-without-boundaries/ CATEGORIES:Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201215T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201215T150000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20201203T214705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201215T170938Z UID:14857-1608037200-1608044400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:The Truth About Nature: Environmental politics in a post-truth\, digital world DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Bram Büscher\, author of The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism\, followed by roundtable discussion with Elizabeth Havice and Max Ritts. Moderator: Amber Huff \n\nWatch the video\nVideo (120 minutes) of the whole discussion is available. \n \n\nAbout this event\nHow should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt\, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide—but what if their strategy is not only flawed\, but dangerous? \nBram Büscher’s new book The Truth about Nature follows environmental actors as they turn to the internet to save nature. It documents how conservation efforts are transformed through the political economy of platforms and the algorithmic feeds that have been instrumental to the rise of post-truth politics. \nThe book will be out on 15 December 2020 and can be ordered online from University of California Press. \n\nEvent info\nThis event is the last in a series on the theme of Natures organised by the ESRC STEPS Centre in 2020. \n \nNature is all around us\, but there are many ways of seeing different kinds of ‘natures’\, and many efforts to involve it in forms of control or domination. How is talk of crisis shaping nature and people’s views of it? How can colonial forms of knowledge\, technology and power be challenged\, and what might it mean to decolonize the study of environmental change? What do alternatives look like\, and how can we explore\, nurture\, imagine and live the relationships we might want for the future? \nNatures: browse resources \n\nAbout the speakers\nBram Büscher is Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University and holds visiting positions at the University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University. Bram has published widely on the relations between nature\, development and politics and is the author of ‘Transforming the Frontier. Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa’ (Duke University Press\, 2013) and co-author\, together with Robert Fletcher\, of ‘The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene’ (Verso\, 2020). Bram is one of the senior editors of Conservation & Society. \nElizabeth Havice is associate professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She uses the lens of governance to explore distributional outcomes in marine resources sectors and spaces\, food systems\, global value chains and is presently examining the intersection of big data and oceans governance. Current projects include co-editing (with Matt Himley and Gabriela Valdivia) the forthcoming Handbook of Critical Resource Geography and the co-founding (with Lisa Campbell) of the Digital Oceans Governance Lab. \nMax Ritts is an environmental geographer and postdoctoral fellow at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU). His work operates at the intersection of political ecology\, sound studies and critical indigenous studies — themes brought together in his book project\, A Resonant Ecology (Under Contract at Duke University Press). Current research projects include the relation of bioacoustics to corporate audio-surveillance practices\, the elaboration of “smart” marine governance schemes\, and Adorno’s relevance for studies of the irrational in the contemporary politics of nature. \nModerator: Amber Huff. Amber is convenor of the STEPS Centre’s 2020 theme of Natures. She is a social anthropologist and political ecologist. Her primary areas of focus include politics of conservation\, resource struggles and conflict\, environmental policy\, rural livelihoods and human adaptability and the politics of indigeneity and autochthony within resource struggles in southern Africa. Amber is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies\, where she is co-convenor of the Resource Politics Cluster\, and a member of the ESRC STEPS Centre. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-truth-about-nature-environmental-politics-in-a-post-truth-digital-world/ CATEGORIES:Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200512T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200512T190000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20191017T151644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200318T091719Z UID:14159-1589304600-1589310000@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:*Postponed* STEPS Annual Lecture: Andrea J Nightingale DESCRIPTION:* UPDATE\, 18 MARCH 2020 *\nWe are sorry that this event has been indefinitely postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. \n\nBounding unruly landscapes: future imaginaries and socioenvironmental change \n2020 STEPS Annual Lecture \nAndrea J Nightingale\nProfessor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography\, University of Oslo \nFulton A Lecture Theatre\nUniversity of Sussex\nFalmer\, Brighton \nThis event will be open to the public and includes a drinks reception after the lecture. It is the only public event of the STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability. \n\nAbout the lecture\nAmidst anxieties about rapid rate environmental change and the best pathways to transformation\, the unruliness of life reasserts itself. Not only can environments collapse unexpectedly\, others persist despite intense pressures. Meanwhile\, new governance mechanisms exceed expectations\, while others become avenues for older relationships and practices of exploitation to re-emerge. Such dynamics point to the need for better conceptualisations of change if we are to confront the 21st century challenges of climate and environmental change. \nThrough examples from the Himalayas\, I focus on boundary un/making as a creative approach to the continuous (re)configurations of humans and non-humans that transpire in any attempts at governing. The complex\, often unpredictable political\, social\, cultural and ecological terrains that emerge in environmental governance offer insights into the dynamics of change. Drawing from scholars of science and political ecologists who have long pointed out that knowing is not somehow separate from the worlds we create\, and feminist work on power and recognition\, this lecture will look at how boundary-making reflects the operation of power across scales\, suggesting new approaches to tackling environmental issues. \nSpeaking through case studies from Nepal and elsewhere\, the lecture will work through the entanglements of forests\, user-groups\, geopolitics and efforts at responding to predictions of calamitous change to show how they are complicit in producing the dilemmas we face. It will show how environmental change programmes are caught up in the riotous\, inadvertent contradictions of environmental governance. Action\, imagination\, naming\, and everyday practices create lasting connections; they bring the world into being in a continuous and dynamic manner; in turn demanding that we take account of the more-than-human within our governing logics if global environmental challenges are to be confronted. \n\nAbout Andrea J Nightingale\nAndrea J. Nightingale is Professor of Human Geography\, University of Oslo and Senior Researcher at the University of Agricultural Sciences. Her interests cross between climate change adaptation and transformation debates; collective action and state formation; the nature-society nexus; political violence in natural resource governance; and feminist work on emotion and subjectivity in relation to development\, transformation\, collective action and cooperation. She has over 30 years of experience on natural resource governance in Nepal and a current research collaboration focused on state formation and climate change. She has also done research on in-shore fisheries management in Scotland. Her recent book is Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World\, Routledge\, 2019. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-annual-lecture-andrea-j-nightingale/ LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Research methods,Resource politics,Understanding sustainability ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200511T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20191023T141342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200416T152202Z UID:14178-1589184000-1590166800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:[Postponed] STEPS Summer School 2020 DESCRIPTION:The ninth and final STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability was due to take place on 11-22 May 2020\, but has been postponed until the following year due to the coronavirus pandemic. \nParticipants will explore the theme of pathways to sustainability through a mixture of workshops\, lectures\, outdoor events and focused interaction with STEPS Centre members. The Summer School takes place on the University of Sussex campus\, near Brighton\, UK\, where STEPS is co-hosted by the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). \nFor more information\, please visit the STEPS Summer School web page. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-summer-school-2020/ LOCATION:Institute of Development Studies\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Research methods,Resource politics,Understanding sustainability ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/summer14.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191015T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191015T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20191002T132019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T191150Z UID:14121-1571128200-1571162400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Transformation Laboratories as spaces for co-designing social-ecological transformation: learning from different contexts and approaches DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the TransAction Pre-Conference Workshops at Transformations 2019 in Santiago\, Chile. \nExperimental spaces for supporting collective processes of deliberation and learning about sustainability challenges\, and testing possible solutions\, are of increasing interest. An example of these are T-Labs (‘transformation laboratories’)\, which are highly facilitated\, multi-stakeholder spaces of interaction and dialogue aimed at co-creating new visions and\npractices for social-ecological sustainability in specific settings. \nThree projects from the Transformations to Sustainability programme\, T-Learning\, Pathways and ACKnowl-EJ\, have experimented with and reframed T-Labs\, enriching our understanding of transformation itself\, and of specific\, complex social-ecological systems and their challenges in a wide range of contexts. This TransAction Workshop will bring together a wide range of participants to engage in dialogue\, exchange of experience and exploration of the T-Lab framework\, and to critically assess its potential to support processes of socialecological transformation. The framework and its methods will be applied to two cases related to extractive sectors in Latin America. The first case is mining\, drawing on the knowledge of the new T2S project Gold Matters. The second case is agriculture\, building upon Pathways experience. The use of T-Lab processes has great potential for exploring the role of extractive sectors in enabling and advancing transformations to sustainability in Latin America. \nThe workshop will propose tools not only to academics but also to policy makers\, practitioners\, activists and everyone who is interested in designing multi-stakeholder spaces of transformation in the context of sustainability challenges in general and in extractive sectors such as mining and agriculture in particular. The workshop will be carried out in Spanish. In the case that some participants do not speak Spanish\, it is expected that translation will be collaborative\, with the aid of participants both from the T2S projects and external attendants. \n\nCost: 50 USD\nRegistration is mandatory. To find our how to register\, click here.\nFor more information on the workshop\, click here. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformation-laboratories-as-spaces-for-co-designing-social-ecological-transformation-learning-from-different-contexts-and-approaches/ CATEGORIES:Research methods,Resource politics ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/4-crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190514T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190514T190000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20190123T134443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190624T083833Z UID:13615-1557855000-1557860400@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Annual Lecture: Derek Wall - What would Elinor do (about climate change)? DESCRIPTION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\nUniversity of Sussex\nFalmer\, Brighton\, UK \nWatch video\n \n  \n* * * \n\nAbout the lecture\n \nWhat would Elinor do (about climate change)?\nElinor Ostrom was the first and so far only woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics. Her innovative work on ecological economics challenged the notion of ‘the tragedy of the commons’. \nHer political economy analysis\, focusing on trust\, cooperation\, diversity\, deep democracy and innovative methodology\, provides a basis for considering climate change. In this lecture\, Derek Wall will outline\, develop and critique her approach\, and discuss how it might inform diverse efforts to deal with the challenge of a warming world. \n\nAbout The speaker\n\nDerek Wall\nDerek Wall teaches political economy at Goldsmiths College\, London. \nA former International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales\, his latest book is Hugo Blanco: A Revolutionary for Life (Merlin Press). Previous books have included Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals (Pluto Press) and Green History (Routledge). \nHe is currently writing a new title\, Another Green World: The practical politics of climate change resistance. \n* * * \n\nAbout the STEPS Annual Lectures\nThe STEPS Annual Lecture is the only public event of the STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability. It is attended by participants in the Summer School\, and open to the general public\, with free entry. \nPast speakers include Achim Steiner\, Mariana Mazzucato\, Tim Jackson\, Kate Raworth\, Mike Hulme\, Harriet Bulkeley and Michael Jacobs. \nBrowse recordings and slides from past Annual Lectures. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-annual-lecture-derek-wall/ LOCATION:Fulton Lecture Theatre A\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9QT\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180321T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180321T140000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20180308T121548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180308T132613Z UID:12652-1521633600-1521640800@steps-centre.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171013T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171016T170000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20170615T141341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T141341Z UID:12066-1507881600-1508173200@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:4th BICAS Conference: New Extractivism\, Peasantries and Social Dynamics\, Moscow 2017 DESCRIPTION:New Extractivism\, Peasantries and Social Dynamics:\nCritical Perspectives and Debates \nBRICS Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies fourth conference\nMoscow\, 13-16 October 2017 \nA call for abstracts has been published\, with a deadline of 15 June 2017. \n\nAbout the conference\nOver the past two decades\, agrarian economies and food systems have been undergoing a profound restructuring in the wake of large-scale land investments and the increasing financialisation of capital and land. These have reinforced old and created new forms and sites of capital accumulation by local and foreign elites\, and supported both old and new forms of extractivism and agroextractivism. This restructuring has contributed to the unsettling of global geopolitics in this period\, the context within which the BRICS grouping of countries was established as a vehicle to pursue their collective and individual agendas. \nRecently\, uncertainties in global power relations have been exacerbated by the rise of variegated nationalist-populist political projects\, movements or governments. Many of these are authoritarian and reactionary – as part of the reaction to\, and reflection of\, the failure of neoliberal globalization and its version of ‘development’. Such projects sometimes involve chauvinistic appeals to land and nation\, and xenophobic violence against outsiders\, however defined. Typically\, the divisions of class relations are downplayed or hidden by these ideologies and practices\, despite their undoubted centrality to the underlying dynamics. On the other hand\, new forms of resistance and struggles by oppressed groups\, including peasants and traditional communities\, are also emerging. Often these involve emancipatory forms of politics\, but in some cases they are rife with tensions over class\, gender and other social differences. Politics in all its guises thus continues to be a fundamental factor within processes of socio-economic transformation\, including agrarian change. \nThis conference will explore these emerging realities from the perspective of critical and engaged scholarship\, in alliance with active social forces. We will seek answers to difficult questions within three main clusters of subthemes – all informed by perspectives derived from agrarian political economy\, sociology\, and agro-ecology: \n(a)  The rise of – and current troubles within – the BRICS countries and middle-income countries (MICs)\, and the implications for agrarian/rural transformations as key aspects of broader social changes\, inside these countries and regionally/internationally. \nRelevant questions include: \nWhat are the dominant directions of transformation and social change\, and are there any countervailing directions? What endogenous and exogenous forces are driving change in agrarian structures\, including financialisation as a key driver of change? What are the roles of the state in the agrarian and agro-food transformations? How are state policies implicated and how do they affect the prospects for accumulation by different forms of capital? In turn\, how do the interests and accumulation strategies of different forms of capital\, including financial capital\, shape state policies? What are the roles of other actors\, including NGO and grassroots initiatives in expressing the interests of different social groups within these processes of transformation\, with what impacts on the accumulation of capital? \n(b)  The renewed interest in what some call ‘new extractivism’ and/or ‘agro-extractivism’ – in and in relation to the BRICS countries and middle income countries and beyond – and the role of the state as part of broader agrarian and environmental transformations\, and the implications for food sovereignty. \nRelevant questions include: \nWhat are the current processes and actors involved driving change and the emergence of new forms of agro-extractivism? How are local and national processes of agrarian transformation shaped by global and trans-national processes of investment\, trade and inter-state relations? What new forms of agri-business capital are emerging and with what effects? What are the implications for rights to land\, food sovereignty and social movements that promote food sovereignty? \n(c)  The rise of diverse forms of nationalist and populist movements and governments\, within and outside the BRICS countries and middle- income countries\, and the involvement in and reactions to such nationalist-populist projects by peasants and other rural classes. \nRelevant questions include: \nCan today’s forms of nationalist-populism be defined as a form of reactionary and even authoritarian politics that appeals to ordinary people while creating new exclusions\, and be explained in part as a reaction to processes of social and economic change in the rural world driven by global capital? Is nationalist-populism likely to influence and shape popular and policy responses to recent forms of new extractivism\, financialisation and accumulation? What effects will nationalist-populism have on efforts to promote agrarian social movements in the countryside? What are the prospects for resistance by peasants (family farmers/small scale farmers and traditional communities) and rural movements in particular? \nExplorations into these sub-themes and answers to some of the proposed questions will be rooted in engaged and rigorous research and practice\, and in friendly but critical debates amongst colleagues and comrades. \nThe challenges to advocacy work by civil society and social movement groups in relation to the issues dicussed above are enormous. A conversation on this will be an important part of the conference\, anchored by the Transnational Institute (TNI\, www.tni.org). \nSpeakers\nThe list of keynote and plenary speakers is currently very partial and tentative\, and is evolving; it includes: Teodor Shanin (Russia)\, Dzodzi Tsikata (Ghana\, tbi)\, Jayati Ghosh (India\, tbi)\, Ian Scoones (IDS Sussex)\, Marc Edelman (CUNY\, USA)\, Jan Douwe van er Ploeg (WUR\, Netherlands)\, Henry Bernstein (SOAS\, UK). \nExpanded Organizing Committee:\nTeodor Shanin (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences)\, Alexander Nikulin (RANEPA\, Moscow)\, Irina Trotsuk (RANEPA\, Moscow)\, Ben Cousins (PLAAS\, South Africa)\, Ruth Hall (PLAAS South Africa)\, Sergio Schneider (UFRGS\, Brazil)\, Sergio Sauer (U of Brasilia)\, Ye Jingzhong (China Agricultural University\, Beijing)\, Jun Borras (ISS\, The Hague)\, Transnational Institute of TNI (Lyda Fernanda\, Pietje Vervest\, Jennifer Franco). BICAS secretariat (Juan Liu/ICTA Barcelona\, Ben McKay/U of Calgary\, Gustavo Oliveira/Swarthmore College\, USA). \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/4th-bicas-conference-call-abstracts-extractivism-rural-social-dynamics-brics/ LOCATION:Bacchus Room\, New Orleans Marriott\, 555 Canal Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70130\, United States CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BICAS-logo-feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170512T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170512T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20170503T110626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T110626Z UID:11873-1494594000-1494599400@steps-centre.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170510T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170510T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20170406T121407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170406T123808Z UID:11652-1494421200-1494426600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Seminar - Ruth Hall: The Reinvention of Land Reform in South Africa: State\, Market and Citizens DESCRIPTION:Institute of Development Studies seminar with Ruth Hall\, Institute of Poverty\, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)\, South Africa \nThis event will be accompanied by a live audio stream and online discussion. \nLand reform\, one of post-apartheid governments’ main transformatory programmes\, has itself been transformed over the past twenty years\, reflecting changing policy agendas and ideological positions. Initially defined by a focus on multiple livelihoods for the rural poor\, land reform was soon transformed into a plan for the limited deracialisation of commercial agriculture rather than a process of restructuring to overcome agrarian dualism. In recent years this has been moderated by a retreat from allocating private title while still pursuing the capitalisation of black farmers under state leasehold – itself a return to prior models of state trusteeship. \nThe imposition of state control over farm size and production models has been revived\, with a new insistence on ‘production discipline’. In the midst of these changes\, land reform has succumbed to dualistic thinking and exhibits long historical continuities in official government thinking about land allocation\, tenure and the modernisation of African agriculture. While discursively framed as part of a radicalisation of the reform process\, the redistribution process appears to be narrowing\, shaped by a combination of state control\, state neglect and elite capture. \n\nRuth Hall is a professor at the Institute for Poverty\, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape\, South Africa\, and has worked on land reform\, land rights and land governance in South Africa and beyond. She is a regional coordinator of the Future Agricultures Consortium\, in partnership with IDS and others. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-ruth-hall-reinvention-land-reform-south-africa-state-market-citizens/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170317 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20161130T110224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170315T160350Z UID:11212-1489622400-1489708799@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Sustainability in Turbulent Times DESCRIPTION:‘Sustainability in turbulent times: How can research\, policy and business meet global challenges?’\nCUSP/Nexus Network/CECAN conference\nVenue: Central London \nTwitter: Follow the conference at #SITT2017 \n \nOver the next few years\, the British exit from the EU\, a new US administration\, and unpredictable waves of populism and authoritarianism are likely to recast key environmental and social policies and to have profound effects on the prospects for sustainable prosperity. International frameworks of governance and collaboration will need to be redesigned\, and the legitimacy of some forms of expertise and evidence are being called into question. \n \nWith a focus on the food-water-energy nexus\, the conference\, run by the ESRC-funded Nexus Network (in which STEPS is a core partner)\, the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) and the Centre for Evaluating Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)\, will \n\nexplore the future of environmental policy\nexamine the relationship between prosperity\, inequality and sustainability\npin-point the role of expertise and emotion in policy making\nconsider practical approaches to navigating complexity.\n\nSpeakers\nSpeakers and chairs include Achim Steiner\, Director\, Oxford Martin School and former Executive Director\, UNEP\, Tim Jackson (Director\, CUSP)\, Natalie Bennett (Green Party)\, Mike Hulme (Kings College London)\, Andrea Westall (FDSD)\, Craig Bennett (Friends of the Earth)\, Rebecca Willis (Green Alliance/Lancaster University\, Mary Creagh MP (Chair of Environmental Audit Committee)\, Michael Jacobs (UCL)\, Andy Richardson (Head of Corporate Affairs\, Volac International)\, Charlotte Burns (York)\, James Wilsdon (Director\, the Nexus Network)\, Jane Elliott (Chief Executive\, ESRC)\, Dame Athene Donald (Master\, Churchill College\, Cambridge & Chair\, HEFCE Interdisciplinary Advisory Group)\, Ian Boyd (Chief Scientific Adviser\, Defra)\, Beck Smith (Senior Policy & Advocacy Adviser\, Save the Children)\, Nigel Gilbert (Director\, CECAN)\, Clare Matterson CBE (Special Adviser\, Wellcome Trust)\, Kathryn Oliver (University of Oxford)\, Andy Stirling (Nexus Network / SPRU / STEPS Centre) and Dipak Gyawali (Director\, Nepal Water Conservation Foundation). \n\nResources\nFor a selection of our work\, projects\, events and blog posts related to the Nexus Network\, see our Nexus project page. \nFor more information on the conference\, see the event page on the Nexus Network website. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/sustainability-in-turbulent-times/ LOCATION:Central London CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160513T170000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20160414T134507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211410Z UID:8471-1463043600-1463158800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Nexuses of the Urban (Nexus Network workshop) DESCRIPTION:Nexuses of the Urban: Interactions between water\, energy and food provision for sustainable cities \nUniversity of Sussex\, Brighton\, UK \nThis workshop is the latest in a series of events organised by the Nexus Network. It is fully booked\, but you can follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #UrbanNexus. \n \nBackground\nCities are dynamically connected with other urban and rural localities\, both distant and proximate. Most critically perhaps\, cities rely on an elsewhere to produce much of the food\, water and energy they consume. \nAnd as cities grow and extend their boundaries\, this reliance on elsewhere generally expands\, despite the emergence of activities such as peri-urban agriculture and community energy installations. \nThus we need to look beyond the boundaries of cities at processes of urbanisation to develop an understanding of social\, cultural\, environmental and economic dynamics of provisioning food\, water and energy for and by urban inhabitants. \nIn recent years\, interdependence between natural resources implicated in provisioning food\, water and energy provision has been framed as the ‘nexus’. The nexuses of the urban\, in addition\, point to the interdependence between the practices/infrastructures for provisioning of water\, food and energy with each other and with ecological processes. \nRecognition of the ‘urban nexuses’ points also to the need of inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives that combine diverse insights/tools from beyond the social sciences\, humanities and the natural sciences. In part as a response to this need\, we see the emergence of new cross-disciplinary interventions such as the RCUK/Innovate UK Urban Living Partnerships and the ESRC’s Urban Transformations Network. \nWorkshop scope\nWorkshop participants will take stock of what kind of plural understandings of ‘urban nexuses’ are emerging\, produced by (partnerships between) activists\, communities\, think tanks\, corporations\, and multilateral organizations\, natural scientists\, humanities scholars and social scientists. \nWe will particularly reflect on the contribution that different social science perspectives might make in understanding urban nexuses\, and how social scientists might effectively participate in inter- and trans-disciplinary initiatives. \nWe will consider what kind of policy mechanisms and events might support the pursuit of the partnerships that may be required for developing new understandings. \nFormat\n40-50 people from academia\, civil society and business have been invited to take part in this event. We encourage you to take part across both days. \nDay one will involve presentations and discussions to stimulate the ‘urban nexus thinking’ debate\, which will be followed by a dinner for all participants. Day two will be for more in-depth participatory activities to build platforms and alliances for future work on ‘urban nexuses’. \nQuestions\nThe workshop will be structured around the following questions:\n1. What divergent framings and understandings of ‘urban nexuses’ are emerging and why are they important\, in what ways and to whom?\n2. What are the implications of these understandings and their foci for governance of nexus interactions by public\, private and hybrid arrangements?\n3. What implications do these understandings hold for political-economic action by\, and for alliances between\, civil society organizations\, businesses and social movements striving for sustainability and justice?\n4. What kind of relations (inter- and trans-disciplinary alliances\, engagements with the material world) underpin the making of the emerging understandings of ‘urban nexuses’?\n5. What new inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches (and concepts) do we need to further understand interactions at ‘urban nexuses’\, including the interdependent vulnerabilities associated with access to food\, water and energy in cities? URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/nexus-of-the-urban-nexus-network-workshop/ LOCATION:Sussex University campus\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Urbanisation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160428T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160428T140000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20160413T131424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211510Z UID:8465-1461844800-1461852000@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Seminar: Connor Cavanagh on responses to violent eviction DESCRIPTION:Differentiated dispossession: ‘Hunter-gatherer’ responses to violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve\, western Kenya \nSeminar by Connor Joseph Cavanagh \nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nLibrary Road\, Falmer\, UK \n \nCritical scholarship on global land and ‘green’ grabbing has begun to examine the politics of variegation in diverse ‘responses from below’\, or the ways in which various particularities of place influence community reactions to land and resource acquisitions. These discussions are informed by a longstanding tradition of scholarship on the class dynamics of agrarian change\, or the ways in which processes of ‘dispossession from above’ via land acquisitions might intersect with processes of ‘dispossession from below’ in the form of gradual differentiation and rural class formation. In some cases\, however\, we argue that these analyses have not sufficiently historicized and disaggregated the concept of ‘community’ to reveal how variables such as gender\, land tenure\, and prevailing modes of production refract both the impacts of dispossession and the forms of resistance that emerge in its wake. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork on the case of the indigenous Sengwer community’s violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve in western Kenya\, we illuminate the ways in which \n\ni) dispossession for conservation entails novel consequences for communities that understand themselves as ‘hunters and gatherers’\, as opposed to agriculturalists or pastoralists\,\nii) how these consequences are themselves differentiated\, placing unique burdens on women\, youths\, and the elderly in particular. We conclude with a discussion of how such variegation in experiences of dispossession informs ongoing struggles for radically alternative modes of indigenous conservation in Embobut forest.\n\nAbout Connor Joseph Cavanagh\nConnor Joseph Cavanagh is currently a PhD Fellow in the Dept. of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences\, and a Research Fellow in Science Domain 5 – Ecosystem Services at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi. Broadly defined\, Connor’s research examines tensions and contradictions within processes of uneven conservation and development in eastern Africa\, with a specific interest on transformations in forest governance. Recent articles have appeared in Forum for Development Studies\, Antipode\, the Journal of Peasant Studies\, Forest Policy and Economics\, and Geoforum. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-connor-cavanagh-on-responses-to-violent-eviction/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160229T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160229T170000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20160216T134524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211854Z UID:8282-1456732800-1456765200@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Resource Conflicts & Social Justice - Nexus Network workshop DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the notion of the nexus has gained traction in the domain of natural resource governance. It has become the defining vocabulary to understand the interlinkages between land\, water\, food and climate. Since the 2008 World Economic Forum pushed key players to be concerned about water\, food and energy security and their interlinkages\, the nexus has become a strong policy metaphor to address the ‘world in crises’. \nDate: Monday 29 February 2016.\nVenue: Institute of Development Studies\, Brighton\, UK \nEvent page (Nexus Network website) URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-conflicts-social-justice-nexus-network-workshop/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151204T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151127T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151127T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20151013T082735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213257Z UID:7876-1448629200-1448634600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Seminar: ‘Development without Growth?’ DESCRIPTION:‘Development without Growth?’ \nRay Cunningham\, Jonathan Essex\, Tom Lines \nFriday 27th November\, 13.00 – 14.30\, Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\nThis seminar is jointly held with the Resource Politics cluster at IDS.\n \nIn 2013\, the green think tank Green House published ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, which argues that economic growth\, as conventionally measured\, is over for the UK in anything but the very short term. It examines some of the many far-reaching implications of this insight\, which contradicts mainstream economic and political assumptions. The focus of the book is the implications for the UK. \nIn this seminar\, as well as outlining the core argument of the book\, we want to address the implications of the end of growth in the UK for its role in the global economy. Beyond that\, we want to open up the question of what an end to growth more widely in the ‘developed’ world will mean for the global economy and especially for ‘developing’ countries\, and indeed for our understanding of development as a concept. \nEveryone welcome! \nAbout Ray Cunningham\, Jonathan Essex\, Tom Lines\nRay Cunningham \nGreen House Coordinator\, joint editor of ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, former Director of the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society. \nJonathan Essex \nOne of the authors of ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, a chartered engineer and environmentalist. He has worked for engineering consultants and contractors in the UK\, Bangladesh and Vietnam. He is currently a sustainability consultant at IMC Worldwide\, and a borough and county councillor in Surrey. \nTom Lines \nIDS graduate with 20 years’ international consultancy experience\, specialising in trade and finance as they affect poor countries. Previously a business journalist on commodity markets\, and lecturer in international business at Edinburgh University. \nThis is a locally-sourced event. Jonathan is based in Redhill\, while Ray and Tom both live in Brighton. \n\nPlease contact Annie Lowden (a.lowden@ids.ac.uk) for further details. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-politics-cluster-seminar-development-without-growth/ LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151120 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20150924T134825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213349Z UID:7799-1447891200-1447977599@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Nexus network conference: 'Scales\, levels and spaces of the nexus' DESCRIPTION:The Nexus Network second Annual Conference will be held on Thursday 19 November 2015\, in central London. \nQuestions of scale are crucial in addressing the linked nexus challenges of food\, energy\, water and the environment. The nexus is often framed as a global security problem\, but this can obscure alternative understandings of interactions and trade-offs at local\, regional and national levels. \nRegister now using the Eventbrite form. \nFull details (Nexus Network website) URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/nexus-network-conference-scales-levels-and-spaces-of-the-nexus/ CATEGORIES:Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151116T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151116T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20151104T132606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213419Z UID:7973-1447678800-1447684200@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Centre Seminar “Will Africa Feed China?” DESCRIPTION:The STEPS Centre Seminar on ‘Will Africa Feed China?” was by Professor Deborah Bräutigam and took place at the IDS Convening Space\, on 16th November 2015\, 13:00-14.30. \nAudio recording: \n \nIs China building an empire in rural Africa? China has nine percent of the world’s arable land\, six percent of its water\, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa’s savannahs and river basins host expanses of underutilized land and water. Some believe that China is buying up African land to grow food to ship back home. \nIn her book Will Africa Feed China?\, Deborah Bräutigam probes the activities behind headlines. Challenging conventional wisdom\, she finds that Chinese farming investments and land acquisitions are surprisingly limited. China exports more food to Africa than it imports. Will this change? As Africa pushes for foreign capital\, China encourages its agribusiness firms to “go global”. International concerns about “land grabbing” are justified. Yet to feed its own population\, Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Will Africa Feed China? introduces the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and entrepreneurial private investors who followed. Their fascinating stories\, and those of African farmers and officials\, ground Bräutigam’s informative\, balanced reporting. Forcefully argued and empirically rich\, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work\, enlightening China’s quest for food security and Africa’s possibilities for structural transformation. \nAll welcome!  \n\nDeborah Bräutigam is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy\, Director of the International Development Program\, and Director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa and many studies on Chinese engagement in Africa. Previously\, she served as Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Professor at American University’s School of International Service. In addition to advising over a dozen governments on China-Africa relations\, she has served as visiting scholar at the World Bank and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Her book—Will Africa Feed China?— will be published in October 2015 by Oxford University Press. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-centre-seminar-will-africa-feed-china/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151006T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151006T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20151002T094452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213817Z UID:7845-1444136400-1444141800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Seminar: Ocean management - linking satellite and socio-economic data DESCRIPTION:‘Ocean management: Linking satellite and socio-economic data to inform sustainability’ \nEleni Papathanasopoulou and Hayley Evers-King \nKNOTS meeting area\nInstitute of Development Studies\n1-2.30pm on 6 October 2015 \nOceans are playing an increasingly important role in countries’ development strategies to address issues such as food security\, unemployment and poverty. Aquaculture has been identified as one of the priority areas for these strategies and investment. However\, it is unclear where aquaculture farms should be located and what their potential socio-economic impacts will be. \nThis talk explores how satellite and socio-economic data can be linked and used to address these uncertainties for England\, Scotland and South Africa. It will describe the data and images produced by satellite systems in terms of its temporal and spatial resolutions\, ability to identify areas of high water quality\, harmful algal blooms and monitor environmental change. The benefits of superimposing socio-economic information\, such as employment and industries’ economic contributions\, onto these satellite images and their use in sustainability analyses will be presented and explored in terms of the added value in combining these datasets. The next steps in developing a web-based visualisation tool to host and provide the capability to query the project’s data will be discussed. \nAll welcome. \nAbout Dr Papathanasopoulou and Dr Evers-King\nDr Eleni Papathanasopoulou is an economist based at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory using input-output\, general equilibrium and macroeconomic perspectives to assess the impacts of changes in the environment to whole economic and social systems. She has recently applied these approaches to estimate the economic impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in England\, health cost savings of aquatic physical activities and the social implications of changes in coastal communities. She holds an ESRC-Satellite Applications Catapult fellowship (2015-16) which is funding the work being presented. \nDr Hayley Evers-King is a marine Earth observation scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory specialising in the development of novel algorithms and applications for ocean colour satellite data. Her research has involved detection of high biomass (HABs) in South Africa\, and assessments of interannual variability of these blooms in coastal regions with developing aquaculture and fishing industries. She is developing capacity for coastal water quality remote sensing using the new generation of high and medium resolution Earth observation satellites. \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-ocean-management-linking-satellite-and-socio-economic-data/ LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars,Water END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150911T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150911T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20150903T085039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214053Z UID:7732-1441976400-1441981800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: 'Resource Politics: Future Directions' DESCRIPTION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, UK \n‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’ \nDianne Rocheleau and Kathleen McAfee \nA critical resource politics can contribute to reframing conservation sciences to bring science into the service of social and ecological justice. To this end\, many of us are challenging the fetish of economic growth and the market-centric logic that has come to dominate ‘pragmatic’ environmentalism. \nBut are better ways of knowing and acting possible? As political ecologists\, we can explore the various expressions of ‘living well’/in harmony with the living world\, to develop a useful response to the creative initiatives of social movements throughout the world. Resource politics can address ecological and cultural defense\, and alternative visions of the future\, from indigenous practices and politics to “degrowth” approaches. \nAn engaged resource politics can challenge the systematic oppression and the lethal inertia of global systems in the face of climate change\, land and resource grabbing\, and widespread contamination\, while contributing to new repertoires of knowledge and practice. \nAbout the speakers \nDianne Rocheleau is Professor of Geography and Director of the Global Environmental Studies program at Clark University. She has previously worked on forestry\, farming and development alternatives with international\, national and local organizations. She currently writes about and works with communities and movements who defend territory and complex human ecologies while building socially just and ecologically viable futures. \nKathleen McAfee (San Francisco State University\, USA) has long experience in community and global-justice activism and policy analysis (Oxfam\, UN agencies). Her academic work focuses on “selling nature to save it”\, the political economy and ecology of ecosystem services and carbon markets\, and alternatives to export-dependent\, growth-based\, market-centered development. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-resource-politics-future-directions/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150910T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150910T160000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20150904T154741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214247Z UID:7734-1441890000-1441900800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:The Politics of Nature: reimagining power\, resistance and critique from above\, below and within DESCRIPTION:Arts C 233\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, UK \nSpeakers:\nProf Dianne Rocheleau – Clark University\nKathleen McAfee – San Francisco State University \nThis interactive workshop is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre. It follows the conference ‘Resource Politics: transforming pathways to sustainability’. Attendance is free\, but registration is required. Lunch is included. \nRegistration \nIf you would like to attend\, register before 8 September 2015 by sending an email to Andrea Brock: a.brock@sussex.ac.uk URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-nature-reimagining-power-resistance-and-critique-from-above-below-and-within/ CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Understanding sustainability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150910 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20150119T120133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214405Z UID:6911-1441584000-1441843199@steps-centre.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150319T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20150219T233052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T215840Z UID:7047-1426784400-1426791600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Public Roundtable: Nature As Commodity DESCRIPTION:Download poster (PDF)\nFishery bycatch offsetting in Canada\, catastrophe bonds in the US\, weather derivatives in Ethiopia… What is at stake with the financialisation of nature? Where do we go from here? \nPanel: \n\nMelissa Leach (Director\, Institute of Development Studies)\nHannah Mowat (Fern\, Belgium)\nLarry Lohman (The Corner House)\nAntonio Tricarico (Re:Common\, Italy)\nBram Büscher (Wageningen University)\n\nThis public roundtable discussion is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy\, University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre\, and financially supported by Sussex University’s Doctoral School’s Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) fund. It is linked to a conference exploring critical perspectives on the financialisation of nature. \nAll welcome – free entry \nShare this event with others \n\nFacebook event page\nDownload a printable poster (PDF) URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/roundtable-nature-as-commodity/ LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship St\, Brighton\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150319T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150320T170000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20141028T132112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T215946Z UID:6721-1426770000-1426870800@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature - Theory\, Politics and Practice DESCRIPTION:University of Sussex\, 19-20th March 2015 \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy & STEPS Centre \nUpdate (2 March 2015): A public roundtable on this topic will be held in Brighton on 19 March\, with contributions from Melissa Leach\, Hannah Mowat\, Larry Lohman\, Antonio Tricarico and Bram Büscher.\n \nDownload the conference programme (PDF) \nCarbon markets in China\, fishery bycatch offsetting in Canada\, catastrophe bonds in the US\, weather derivatives in Ethiopia\, betting on species extinction such as Norwegian sharks… \nThese are just a few examples of the commodification\, marketisation and financialisation of nature. In what ways can we best make sense of these developments? What practical\, political and theoretical innovations will allow us to better understand them\, engage with them and contest them? \nWe invite participants from any discipline to a 1.5 day intensive workshop bringing together doctoral and early career researchers to discuss\, theorise and critically reflect on the practical and political implications of the commodification\, marketisation and financialisation of nature. Papers should focus on questions including (but not limited to): \n\nWhat are the challenges\, contradictions and limits that arise from the creation of these new forms of market-based environmental products and services?\nWhat are the new materialities and commodities of nature that are created through these novel forms of governance?\nHow do these processes change the way we relate to nature\, govern nature\, live in nature and indeed are governed by nature?\nHow does the marketisation or financialisation of nature relate to other forms of accumulation and the wider political economy?\nWhat kinds of (new) power relations are (re)produced through the making of environmental markets\, and what social and environmental justice issues are brought to light or develop in response to these (neoliberal?) phenomena?\n\nParticipants will be required to submit full papers in advance of the workshop and are expected to read each other’s work beforehand to enable in-depth engagement with one another’s arguments. The sessions will be chaired by academics working in the field who will also provide feedback on papers. Moreover\, the workshop will bring together activists and academics for a panel discussion\, reflecting on the interlinkages between activism and research on the financialisation of nature. \nSpeakers \nPresenters will include: \nConfirmed speakers \n\nProf James Fairhead (Chair in Social Anthropology\, University of Sussex)\nLarry Lohmann (The Corner House)\nHannah Mowat (FERN)\nProf Peter Newell (STEPS/Centre for Global Political Economy\, University of Sussex)\nProf Ian Scoones (STEPS/Institute of Development Studies)\n\nInvited speakers (tbc) \n\nJutta Kill\nProf John O’Neill\nCatherine Corson\n\nRegistration is free and food will be provided. We have some funding for accommodation and travel for a limited number of doctoral researchers. Details about applying for this funding will be sent out once abstracts have been selected. \nThis event is financially supported by Sussex University’s Doctoral School’s Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) fund. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/critical-perspectives-financialisation-nature-theory-politics-practice/ LOCATION:University of Sussex\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Resource politics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150317T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150317T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20150311T162521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220104Z UID:7135-1426597200-1426602600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:The inclusive turn of neoliberal conservation? Opportunities and threats of REDD+ in Tanzania DESCRIPTION:Seminar by STEPS visiting fellow Andreas Scheba \nThe rise of new markets\, or market-like instruments\, in the realm of nature conservation is a key feature of global discourse and strategies around the ‘green’ economy. Innovative ways of measuring\, valuing and trading nature have emerged that enjoy increasing support among public and private stakeholders. At the same time\, critical scholarship has warned against the problematic and contradictory logic of what they call ‘neoliberal conservation’\, raising valid questions of: How does pricing nature contribute to its protection? Who benefits from the new commodities? Who loses? What has politics got to do with it? \nThis seminar will investigate these questions in the context of REDD+ in Lindi\, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two remote\, forest-dependent villages\, I will discuss how and why neoliberal conservation emerges and manifest itself in a deprived rural context; and what effects it has on forest governance\, rural livelihoods and conservation practice. \nThe role of discourse\, politics and power over forest resources will be critically examined\, both currently and in a historical perspective. The findings of my analysis will lead me to argue for an ‘inclusive’ turn in neoliberal conservation that offers both opportunities and challenges for sustainable democratic futures. \nAndreas Scheba is an Austrian born\, early-career researcher who recently completed his PhD in Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester. His doctoral thesis examined the politics and development effects of REDD+ in the Lindi region of Tanzania\, for which he conducted ethnographic research in two remote\, forest-dependent villages. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-inclusive-turn-of-neoliberal-conservation-opportunities-and-threats-of-redd-in-tanzania/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20140424T144635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223429Z UID:6255-1399035600-1399039200@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:Seminar: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa DESCRIPTION:1.00-2.00 Friday 2 May 2014\nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nAll welcome \nSpeakers include: \n\nAndrew Tarimo (Sokoine University of Agriculture)\nEmmanuel Manzungu (University of Zimbabwe)\nBill Derman (Noragric)\nAlex Bolding\, (Wageningen University)\nBarbara Van Koppen (IWMI\, South Africa)\nSynne Movik (NIVA)\nAlan Nicol (Global Water Initiative)\n\nSince the early 1990s\, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources management. IWRM adoption has led to water reform and the rewriting of national policies in many countries in southern Africa. \nIn this seminar we draw on findings from the project Flows and Practices: The Politics of IWRM in Africa to ask: Why has IWRM been so influential in southern Africa? How do abstract ideas of IWRM which evolved in global institutions cope with plural\, overlapping and competing formal and informal legal and customary systems in southern Africa? Has IWRM succeeded in addressing issues concerning equity\, class\, race and gender and in reallocating water in an equitable way?  What does this mean for overall development and poverty reduction? \nPresenters will address these questions by drawing on ongoing research in South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, Mozambique and Tanzania. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-politics-integrated-water-resources-management-africa/ LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars,Water END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140115T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140115T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20131217T115935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224516Z UID:5889-1389790800-1389796200@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency\, Complexity and the Commons DESCRIPTION:Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses\, Wastes and Wastages\nBruce Lankford\, Professor of Irrigation and Water Policy\, School of International Development\, University of East Anglia\nThe efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy\, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In a recent Routledge book\, the author analyses resource efficiency and efficiency gains from the perspective of common pool resources\, applying this idea particularly to water resources and its use in irrigated agriculture. In a world of increasing scarcity\, the tracking\, amount and ownership of ‘saved’ resources while controlling for rebound (where savings lead to consumption elsewhere) will be of increasing importance as exemplified by Norris (2011) “… the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Montana v Wyoming brings to the forefront one of the most complicated and contested facets of irrigation efficiency: who owns the rights to the conserved water?” \nThe book proposes the concept of “the paracommons”\, through which the savings of increased resource efficiency can be viewed. In effect this asks; “who gets the gain of an efficiency gain?” By reusing\, economising and avoiding losses\, wastes and wastages\, freed up resources are available for further use by four ‘destinations’; the proprietor\, parties directly connected to that user\, the wider economy or returned to the common pool. The paracommons is thus a commons of – and competition for – resources salvaged by changes to the efficiency of natural resource systems. \nDuring the presentation\, ‘liminality’ will be explored signalling the in-betweenness of systems caught between overly optimistic prefigurations of future efficiencies and disappointing outcomes. \n All welcome. URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/bruce-lankford/ LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131101T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131101T110000 DTSTAMP:20260605T024204 CREATED:20131031T163035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225313Z UID:5767-1383294600-1383303600@steps-centre.org SUMMARY:The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in southern Africa DESCRIPTION:Special session at the 14th WATERNET Symposium\, White Sands Hotel\, Dar Es Salaam\nThis special session draws on ongoing research of the Norwegian Research Council Project ‘Flows and Practices. The Politics of IWRM in Africa’ a multi-country research consortium led by the International Environmental and Development Studies\, Norwegian University of Life Sciences See:  http://www.engopa.no/research-projects/flows-and-practices-the-politics-of-integrated-water-resources-management-in-africa \n\n\nLyla Mehta (STEPS Centre water and sanitation convenor) and Synne Movik\n\n\nThe Flows and Practices of IWRM: A Conceptual Framework \n\nEmmanuel Manzungu\, Bill Derman\, Linda Mtali and Sijabuliso Masango\n\nThe Impact of Urbanization on Implementation of IWRM in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of the Upper Manyame Catchment Council \n\n Takunda Hove\, Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu\n\nThe Intersection between IWRM\, land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe: A case study of the Middle Manyame Sub-catchment \n\n Synne Movik and Kristi Denby\n\nInstitutional Integration and Local Level Water Access in the Inkomati Water Management Area\, South Africa \n\n Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner\n\nMoving beyond IWRM: Developmental Water Management in South Africa \n\n Alex Bolding and Rossella Alba\n\nIWRM ‘Avant La Lettre’? Four Key Episodes in the Policy Articulation of IWRM in the Downstream Nation of Mozambique   \n\n Preetha Prabhakaran Bisht\n\nGender Invisibility in Global Water Discourses: A Feminist Critique of Integrated Water Resources Management \n  URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/waternet2013/ LOCATION:Tasi 1\, White Sands Hotel\, Dar Es Salaam\, Tanzania\, United Republic Of CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Water ORGANIZER;CN="Beth Mudford":MAILTO:bethm@ids.ac.uk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR