Workshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Above and Below
27-28 January New Delhi, India For more details, see the workshop page.
Launch: South Asia Sustainability Hub
Inauguration: South Asia Sustainability Hub & Knowledge Network (SASH&KN) Launch of ‘Friends of Sustainability’ 28 January 2016 at 6pm – 9 pm New Delhi, India RSVP: [email protected] by 20 January 2016 Find out more Read more about the launch event Read more about the South Asia Sustainability Hub
International Conference: Pathways to Sustainable Urbanisation
Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, IndiaInternational Conference: Pathways to Sustainable Urbanisation 29-30 January 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Cities in India and other South Asian nations are in the midst of experiencing rapid urbanization. In this time of growth, safeguarding environmental integrity and social justice will be decisive for the health and livelihoods of citizens. This conference, organised...
Leverhulme Lecture: ‘The Degrowth hypothesis’
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLeverhulme Lecture: 'The Degrowth hypothesis' Giorgos Kallis, ICREA professor at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona; visiting professor at SOAS Monday 8 February at 4-5.30pm Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Brighton, UK If we are to radically reduce carbon emissions and material use, we have to abolish the pursuit of economic growth and develop institutions...
Contested Agronomy: whose agronomy counts?
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomContested Agronomy: whose agronomy counts? is a conference about the battlefields in agricultural research, past and present. 23-25 February 2016 Institute of Development Studies Brighton, UK Conference website Download the programme Download the conference programme (PDF, 1MB) The programme contains full details of presentations in the plenary and parallel sessions. It also has the full...
How can the ecological impact of the richest 1% be reduced at a time of extreme inequality?
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomSeminar with Dario Kenner 1.00-2.30 Friday 26 February 2016, IDS room 221 Recent research by Oxfam and French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel indicates that the richest 1% of people in many countries, including the United Kingdom, have huge per capita carbon footprints compared to the rest of the population. The fact that richer...
Resource Conflicts & Social Justice – Nexus Network workshop
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomIn 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,...
One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing
This symposium, being held 17-18 March 2016 at the Zoological Society of London, will bring together leading experts from different fields to discuss the topic 'Healthy ecosystems, healthy people'. Co-organised by the STEPS-led Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium and ZSL, in partnership with the Royal Society, it will: Present new interdisciplinary frameworks for a real-world...
Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions
Global Studies Resource Centre Arts C175, University of Sussex, United KingdomTowards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions STEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30, Monday 11 April 2016 Room C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room), Arts C, University of Sussex Helene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania and societal transformation. She will explain why and how...
Innovation governance for sustainable agri-food systems in China
SPRU Friday seminar on 15 April with Adrian Ely and Sam Geall of the Low Carbon Innovation in China project.
How should we value nature in a human-dominated world?
Lecture by Professor Dame Georgina Mace, FRS University College London This lecture will be livestreamed on the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) website. followed by a drinks reception Chichester 1 Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer Campus Nature conservation has traditionally focussed on preservation and protection. But this approach is increasingly challenged as the impact...
Seminar: Connor Cavanagh on responses to violent eviction
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomDifferentiated dispossession: ‘Hunter-gatherer’ responses to violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve, western Kenya Seminar by Connor Joseph Cavanagh Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK Critical 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...
Rapid Energy Transition
A conference on energy transitions at the Centre for Alternative Technology on 29 April 2016. Part of the 'Rapid Transitions' event series.
Nexuses of the Urban (Nexus Network workshop)
Sussex University campus Falmer, United KingdomNexuses of the Urban: Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities University of Sussex, Brighton, UK This 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. Background Cities are dynamically connected...
Bon appétit? A citizens’ jury on the future of food – in or out of Europe?
The Duke of Cambridge, 30 Saint Peter's Street London N1 8JT Register to attend this event on Eventbrite Speakers include Erik Millstone (STEPS Centre/SPRU, University of Sussex) Joan Walley (former Labour MP) Prof Tim Lang (City University) Guy Watson (founder of Riverford Organic) Whether it’s the straight banana Euromyth, the high price of healthy food...
Can we govern the climate?
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPublic lecture by Prof Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography at Durham University, on 16 May 2016 at the University of Sussex.
Future of food: burgers…or bugs?
SILO Restaurant, 39 Upper Gardner Street Brighton, UK How and what we eat, the journey it’s been through and how much is left is over has a huge impact on the world's resources. With population growth, climate change, diet-related diseases and huge inequality in the food system, do we need to take a fresh look...
Havin Guneser on Abdullah Öcalan’s Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization
A talk on Abdullah Öcalan's writing by Havin Guneser in Brighton on 24 May 2016, organised by STEPS and the Sussex Kurdish Community.
Havin Guneser on Abdullah Öcalan’s Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization
A talk on Abdullah Öcalan's writing by Havin Guneser in Brighton on 24 May 2016, organised by STEPS and the Sussex Kurdish Community.
‘Transformations’ events at the Hay Festival
At the Hay Festival in Wales, three discussion events in our 'Transformations' series will investigate how change happens in different arenas, and how rapid and just transitions can be achieved to create more sustainable futures. Tickets can be purchased online in advance from the Hay Festival website. How Quickly Can We Change…Culture? 31 May 2016...
CANCELLED: Towards a class-based approach to global energy transition
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSeminar with Kolya Abramsky on a class-based approach to energy transition.
Reimagining development in Least Developed Countries: what role for the SDGs?
Central LondonThe challenges and opportunities that the Sustainable Development Goals create for least developed countries will be discussed at an event in London next month. The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group, the International Institute for Environment and Development and the ESRC STEPS Centre will host a dialogue on Monday, 13 June to discuss the challenges and...
Rapid transition in finance and economics: recent and historical perspectives
Monsoon Room Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK See event page (Lady Margaret Hall website) This event is part of a series of Transformations events, organised by the New Weather Institute, the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, and the ESRC STEPS Centre. Charge: Free, but please register in advance by email...
Rapid transition in finance and economics: recent and historical perspectives
Monsoon Room Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK See event page (Lady Margaret Hall website) This event is part of a series of Transformations events, organised by the New Weather Institute, the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, and the ESRC STEPS Centre. Charge: Free, but please register in advance by email...
Webinar: African Farmer game
The African Farmer game will be presented at a webinar organised by CORE Group's Social and Behavior Change Working Group. Register online to attend this webinar. It will be held from 11am - 12pm Eastern Time. Presenters John Thompson, Senior Research Fellow, Rural Futures Cluster; Institute of Development Studies James Jackson, Designer/Developer; African Farmer Project...
STEPS: to a systemic ecology of mind – seminar with Ray Ison
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomConvening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK This seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing capability in the context of the Anthropocene. Prof Ison's starting point will be to lay down a challenge as to whether those present have a systemic ecology of...
Andy Stirling on Nexus Methods (7th ESRC Methods Festival)
ESRC Methods Festival, Room 3.16 University of Bath, UK STEPS co-director Andy Stirling (SPRU) is speaking on Nexus Methods as part of the 7th ESRC Methods Festival. The presentation is split into two parts: The depth, scope and diversity of 'nexus' challenges to methodology An illustrative practical response: the STEPS pathways approach and multicriteria mapping...
IDS 50: Sustainability transformations: the intersecting roles of state, market and society
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomPart of the Institute of Development Studies 50th Anniversary Conference: States, Markets and Society, this panel session will examine the politics of sustainability transformations through different cases, drawing on the work of the STEPS Centre and the emerging STEPS Global Pathways to Sustainability Consortium. The panel will open with an overview of the different ways...
Webinar: Transformative Knowledge Networks – solutions-oriented research in practice
Tuesday, 5 July 2016 16:00 – 17:00 CEST (14:00 – 15:00 UTC) Research on global change and sustainability increasingly goes hand in hand with calls for profound change and social transformation – but what do we know about these processes in different, concrete contexts of application? What can social science-led research contribute to generating solutions and...
STEPS at the SPRU 50 conference – Transforming Innovation
University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomTania Li: ‘What is politics?’
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS Seminar, all welcome Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE Listen to the seminar Hear Tania Li's seminar below, including questions and answers with the audience. Abstract: My seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing. In my discipline of anthropology,...
Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS Seminar - all welcome Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, BN1 9RE Abstract: Terms such as “energy democracy” and “climate justice” have gained increasingly widespread usage and acceptance over the last 5 years. In order to give weight to these slogans, it is necessary to understand the class relations behind the...
Who is the digital revolution for?
Panel at the event: Ann Light, Kat Braybrooke, Tim Jordan, Caroline Bassett and Andrew Sleigh. Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street Brighton, BN1 4AJ, UK This public event on 28 September 2016 explored how society and digital technology can shape each other for the common good. The event, part of the Brighton Digital Festival, is part of...
Is the future nuclear? Battle of Ideas debate with Andy Stirling
BooksFrobisher Auditorium 1 Battle of Ideas, Barbican Centre, London STEPS co-director Prof Andy Stirling (SPRU) will debate the role of nuclear power in the future of energy, at a debate hosted by the Battle of Ideas, the flagship festival run by the Institute of Ideas in London. The event is open to Battle of Ideas...
Emancipatory Transformations: Engaging Radical Democracy in Kurdistan
A public event and workshop on 3-4 November in Brighton, UK focused on the remarkable political transformations happening in Rojava (Western/Syrian Kurdistan) in the midst of bloody conflicts and a humanitarian crisis. In the region, citizens are experimenting with ‘democratic confederalism’ and ideas from feminism and ecology as part of an ambitious project of radical...