Events
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STEPS Africa launch – Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty
Crowne Plaza Hotel Nairobi, KenyaThe STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub was officially launched on 12 June 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya at a workshop entitled Low carbon Africa: Development Pathways out of Poverty. The event brought...
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Low Carbon Development in Africa
This event aimed to shape the research, policy and practice agendas for low-carbon development in Africa. It was also the launch event for the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub. Low Carbon...
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Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Challenges of Nation-wide Scaling up and Sustainability
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThis event will be live streamed (see below) and a video recording will be available afterwards. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to...
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Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities Workshop
SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThe Nexus Network workshop on ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’, led by STEPS Co-Director Andy Stirling, will be held at the University of Sussex, UK on 29-30 June 2015....
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STEPS Centre events at ‘Our Common Future’ conference
Various Paris, FranceFrom 8 - 10 July, STEPS Centre members will be participating in the international conference Our Common Future Under Climate Change in Paris. The conference comes ahead of the UN's...
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STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai – Chinese Renewable Energy Policy
‘Chinese Renewable Energy Policy – Policy Implementation, and Participation’ Yixin Dai, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University In order to reach its ambitious emissions targets, China has been...
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STISA-2024: Debating Africa’s “Blueprint” for Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Development
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThis panel debate at the Institute of Development Studies examines responses to the recently-published Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). In June 2014, the 23rd Ordinary Session of...
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STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomResource 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...
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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...
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STEPS Seminar: ‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomRoom 221, Institute of Development Studies, Library Road, Falmer, BN1 9RE, UK ‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’ Dianne Rocheleau and Kathleen McAfee A critical resource politics can contribute to reframing conservation...
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Seminar: Ocean management – linking satellite and socio-economic data
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomSTEPS seminar with Eleni Papathanasopoulou and Hayley Evers-King on 6 October 2015.
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How can makerspaces, fablabs and hackerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments?
Machines Room 45 Vyner Street, London, United KingdomMachines Room, 45 Vyner Street, London, E2 9DQ United Kingdom Interest in the social, economic and environmental possibilities of makerspaces and the maker movement continues to grow. This event brings...
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Opening up the development agenda: STEPS América Latina launch
The event ‘Opening up the development agenda’, to mark the launch of the STEPS América Latina hub, took place on 5 and 6 November in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Blog posts...
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STEPS Centre Seminar “Will Africa Feed China?”
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThe 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. Audio recording: Is...
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Nexus network conference: ‘Scales, levels and spaces of the nexus’
The Nexus Network second Annual Conference will be held on Thursday 19 November 2015, in central London. Questions of scale are crucial in addressing the linked nexus challenges of food,...
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‘The ethos of scientific advice’ Seminar
SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomArthur Peterson, from STEaPP, UCL, will give a seminar on ‘The ethos of scientific advice’ as part of the SPRU Friday Seminar Series on Friday, 20th November 2015. The seminar will be chaired...
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Seminar: ‘Development without Growth?’
Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘Development without Growth?’ Ray Cunningham, Jonathan Essex, Tom Lines Friday 27th November, 13.00 - 14.30, Room 221, Institute of Development Studies This seminar is jointly held with the Resource Politics cluster at...
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COP21 side event: Mitigation contributions from developing countries
Room OR03, Side events area Le Bourget conference centre, Paris, FranceMitigation contributions from developing countries: innovation, technology and scenario analysis Side events area, Room OR 03 Le Bourget conference centre, Paris 1 December at 15.00- 16.30 The Paris Agreement requires...
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COP21 side event: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs)
Salle 1, Climate Generations Area Le Bourget conference centre, Paris, FranceClimate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs): how to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism Climate Generations area, Salle 1 Le Bourget Conference Centre, Paris 4 December at 15.00-16.30 Listen to the audio...
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Asia’s Giants: media briefing + drinks reception
When: Friday, December 4th from 7pm-9pm; short briefing and Q&A at 7.30pm Where: Holiday Inn Paris Gare de l’Est, 5, rue du 8 Mai 1945 75010 Paris How is China shifting to...
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COP21 side event: Scaling-up investment in clean energy in developing countries
OR12, Side events area Le Bourget Conference Centre, Paris, FranceScaling-up investment in clean energy in developing countries Side events area, Room OR 12 Le Bourget conference centre, Paris 9 December at 16:45 - 18.15 Many policies and donor initiatives...
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STEPS Lunchtime Seminar: ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPlease join us for an upcoming STEPS lunchtime seminar on ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’, given by Professor Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), on Thursday,...
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Workshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Above and Below
27-28 January New Delhi, India For more details, see the workshop page.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.