International Workshop: New Models of Innovation for Development
UCL Roberts 106 LT Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, United KingdomInnovation has been moving up the strategic agendas of business, government and international agencies working in developing countries. New markets for innovative goods and services among those at the base of the pyramid, and new technologies – particularly information and communication technologies – are inducing and enabling new actors to become involved in innovation for...
STEPS/IDS Seminar: Jon Morris – Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomReimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet Professor Jon Morris 24 July 2013 at 13.00 – 14.30 Room 221, Institute of Development Studies About the seminar: The need to ‘re-imagine’ development studies in today’s world arises because of sweeping changes which invalidate the earlier globalization emphasis which has guided social science involvement in applied policy. ...
STEPS Seminar: Bram Büscher on Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Room 221 Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS Seminar - Bram Büscher on transboundary peace parks in Southern Africa, October 2013 by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Bram Büscher talks about the themes covered in his recently published book, Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa (Duke University Press). All welcome. You can watch a video of Bram introducing his book on his website....
The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in southern Africa
Tasi 1 White Sands Hotel, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic OfSpecial 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...
Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’- E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomDr David Tyfield, Co-Director, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University One of the greatest challenges regarding contemporary research into socio-technical transition concerns the possibility of ‘sustainable transport’. Transportation, which accounts for at least one quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, is key to efforts to mitigate ‘climate change’. But with the particularly ‘locked-in’ and entrenched...
Controlling the climate? Public debate on geoengineering
The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, United KingdomAs climate change intensifies, some scientists suggest the need for a 'plan B' if immediate emissions reductions don’t prove feasible. Research into geoengineering (the large scale intentional manipulation of the climate) has begun, and includes research into technologies that might enable us to cool the planet by shielding some sunlight from the earth, or technologies...
Investing in Food security? Philanthrocapitalism, biotechnology and development
Jubilee Lecture Theatre 144 Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, BrightonSally Brooks, University of York This paper traces the evolution of philanthropic involvement in developing country agriculture from the ‘scientific philanthropy’ of the Rockefeller Foundation during and after the Green Revolution era to the ‘philathrocapitalism’ of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, by examining two cases of ‘pro-poor’ agricultural biotechnology research: pro-Vitamin A-enriched ‘Golden Rice’...
COP19 side event: Beyond Technology Transfer
Torun Room (B3), National Stadium Al. Ks. J. Poniatowskiego 1, WarsawThe STEPS Centre's energy and climate change co-convenor Dr Rob Byrne is presenting at a side event for COP19 entitled: Beyond Technology Transfer: Insights for the Technology Mechanism from low C energy policy research, organised by The Sussex Energy Group (University of Sussex) and SusTec (ETH Zurich) Summary Low-carbon technology transfer is a central aim of...
Our Future in the Anthropocene
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , SwedenSTEPS Centre director Melissa Leach will be giving a talk entitled 'science-governance challenges in the Anthropocene’ as part of a half-day seminar, Our Future in the Anthropocene, hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. The other speakers are: Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (introduction) Will Steffen, chair...
STEPS Seminar: Aid on the Edge of Chaos
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomBen Ramalingam Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute and STEPS Centre Visiting Fellow at IDS It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what...