• Seminar – Ruth Hall: The Reinvention of Land Reform in South Africa: State, Market and Citizens

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

    Institute of Development Studies seminar with Ruth Hall, Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), South Africa This event will be accompanied by a live audio stream and online discussion. Land reform, one of post-apartheid governments’ main transformatory programmes, has itself been transformed over the past twenty years, reflecting changing policy agendas and ideological...

  • STEPS Seminar: Charles Tonui on the co-management of mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya

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

    ‘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’ STEPS Seminar with Charles Tonui, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya. All are welcome to...

  • STEPS Annual Lecture: Achim Steiner

    Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    DOOMED TO FAIL OR BOUND TO SUCCEED? Sustainable Development and the Green Economy Agenda - Revisited Achim Steiner delivered the 2017 STEPS Annual lecture at the University of Sussex on 15 May. Steiner is former Executive Director of UNEP and now director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. In April 2017...

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  • The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative: Launch Event

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

    Seminar & launch event with Ruth Hall (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies) and Ian Scoones (Institute of Development Studies/STEPS Centre). All welcome - registration is not required. Deepening inequalities, failed livelihoods, mass (under)employment, climate chaos, and racist anti-immigrant attacks characterise many settings across the world. Forms of ‘progressive neoliberalism’ have failed to stem...

  • Resilience 2017: Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability

    STEPS Centre members and our partners from the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium will be taking part in the Resilience 2017 conference in Stockholm on 20-23 August 2017. The conference will discuss resilience as a key lens for biosphere-based sustainability science. It will reflect back on the scientific progress made, and aim to set out...

  • Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice

    Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus, Melbourne, Australia

    Members of the STEPS Centre, along with colleagues from the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium, will be attending the Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice conference in August. The Transformations conference is hosted by the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR) at the University of Dundee. It is the third in a biennial series...

  • 4th BICAS Conference: New Extractivism, Peasantries and Social Dynamics, Moscow 2017

    Bacchus Room, New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

    New Extractivism, Peasantries and Social Dynamics: Critical Perspectives and Debates BRICS Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies fourth conference Moscow, 13-16 October 2017 A call for abstracts has been published, with a deadline of 15 June 2017. About the conference Over the past two decades, agrarian economies and food systems have been undergoing a profound restructuring...

  • Can we all learn about how to respond to global uncertainties from pastoralists at the margins?

    European University Institute Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia, Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiesole, Florence, Italy

    European University Institute, Fiesole, Florence, Italy Lecture by Ian Scoones at the European University Institute as part of the ERC-funded project Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins. Find out more about this project Uncertainties are everywhere: climate change, financial crises, migration flows, infrastructure development, disease outbreaks and more. Yet contemporary institutions and...

  • Precaution in the Governance of Technology

    UCL Roberts 106 LT Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom

    STEPS co-director Andy Stirling will give the Centre for Law and the Environment's 2017 Annual Lecture, entitled 'Precaution in the Governance of Technology'. Details: Tuesday 31 October 2017, 18:00 - 19:00 UCL Roberts 106 LT, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE Speaker: Professor Andrew Stirling (University of Sussex) Chair: Professor Maria Lee (University College...

  • STEPS Seminar – Channing Arndt: ‘Faster Than You Think: The Global Energy Revolution and Developing Countries’

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

    STEPS Centre seminar with Channing Arndt, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute Institute of Development Studies, Room 221, 15 December 2017 An energy revolution is underway. Driven by an enormous and unexpected downward shift in the full cost of renewable generation technologies, global investment in renewable electricity generation has exceeded investment in conventional...

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