The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in southern Africa

Tasi 1 White Sands Hotel, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic Of

Special session at the 14th WATERNET Symposium, White Sands Hotel, Dar Es Salaam This 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 Lyla...

STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency, Complexity and the Commons

Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages Bruce Lankford, Professor of Irrigation and Water Policy, School of International Development, University of East Anglia The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource...

Seminar: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

1.00-2.00 Friday 2 May 2014 Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies All welcome Speakers include: Andrew Tarimo (Sokoine University of Agriculture) Emmanuel Manzungu (University of Zimbabwe) Bill Derman (Noragric) Alex Bolding, (Wageningen University) Barbara Van Koppen (IWMI, South Africa) Synne Movik (NIVA) Alan Nicol (Global Water Initiative) Since the early 1990s, Integrated Water Resources Management...

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The inclusive turn of neoliberal conservation? Opportunities and threats of REDD+ in Tanzania

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Seminar by STEPS visiting fellow Andreas Scheba The 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...

Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature – Theory, Politics and Practice

University of Sussex , United Kingdom

University of Sussex, 19-20th March 2015 Hosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy & STEPS Centre Update (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. Download the conference programme (PDF) Carbon...

Public Roundtable: Nature As Commodity

Friends Meeting House Ship St, Brighton, United Kingdom

Download poster (PDF) Fishery 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? Panel: Melissa Leach (Director, Institute of Development Studies) Hannah Mowat (Fern, Belgium) Larry Lohman (The Corner House) Antonio Tricarico (Re:Common, Italy) Bram Büscher...

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STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability Why now? Contexts and debates In 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...

The Politics of Nature: reimagining power, resistance and critique from above, below and within

Arts C 233, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK Speakers: Prof Dianne Rocheleau - Clark University Kathleen McAfee - San Francisco State University This 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....