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Broadening the evidence base: science and social science in social policy
NESTA London, United KingdomSeminar Series: Future directions for scientific advice in Whitehall November 2012 – February 2013 A series of four seminars asking how policymakers can make more effective use of scientific advice...
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Pandemic Flu Controversies: A Workshop to discuss lessons, policy implications and future challenges
IDS , United KingdomSince the first human deaths from H5N1 were recorded in Hong Kong in 1997, avian influenza has spread across the world, concentrating in southeast Asia. Billions of dollars have been...
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Experts, publics and open policy
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, AustraliaSeminar Series: Future directions for scientific advice in Whitehall November 2012 – February 2013 A series of four seminars asking how policymakers can make more effective use of scientific advice...
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Pathways to Sustainability and the Politics of Innovation
Arizona State University , United StatesMelissa Leach Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies Andy Stirling Professor of Science and Technology, University of Sussex Today’s environmentally anxious age is dependent upon the roles of science, technology,...
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STEPS Centre Annual Symposium
University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomCredibility across cultures: expertise, uncertainty and the global politics of scientific advice Scientific advice has never been in greater demand; nor has it been more contested. From climate change to...
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Public lecture: Prof Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor, European Commission
Jubilee Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomProf Anne Glover Chief Scientific Adviser to the President, European Commission "What is the right balance between respecting evidence and living in the real world?" Jubilee Lecture Theatre, University of...
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STEPS Seminar: Alex Arnall, University of Reading
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom‘A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique’ Alexander Huw Arnall School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading In recent...
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The Entrepreneurial State and the Risk-Reward Nexus: Implications for Innovation and Inequality
Room G30, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomMariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics and RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex Mariana presents a new framework, called the...
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Seminar: The STEPS Centre and the Participate Initiative – addressing fundamental questions in the post-2015 debate
Room 221 IDS, University of Sussex, United KingdomThis seminar is an opportunity for discussion between different areas of work at the Institute of Development Studies aiming to address some of the fundamental questions surrounding the creation of a post-2015...
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STEPS Seminar: Boru Douthwaite on Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR
Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR’ Boru Douthwaite, Principal Scientist on the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) at WorldFish Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6mpqTrFLM About...
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DIG-IT Workshop: Dialogue on Inclusive Growth, Innovation and Technology
, United StatesThe DIG-IT Workshop on Inclusive Growth, Innovation and Technology promotes a unique forum for discussion of alternative and interdisciplinary frameworks to improve our understanding of the nexus between innovation, technological...
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STEPS Centre Summer School 2013
Sussex University campus Falmer, United KingdomThe next STEPS Summer School will be on 13-24 May 2013 at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Download the 2013 Summer School brochure and application details: 2013 Summer School...
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Public lecture: Prof Michael Jacobs, Grantham Research Institute
Fulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom'Capitalism, carbon and climate change' Fulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer Brighton Public lecture, followed by drinks reception All welcome Michael Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the...
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CANCELLED: Public lecture: Prof Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre
, United StatesPlanetary boundaries and Sustainable Development Goals Unfortunately Johan Rockström, Stockholm Resilience Centre, will no longer be able to give this lecture.
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Public debate: Fuel poverty, climate change and social justice
, United StatesPublic debate at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, UK. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2013. Find out more about the 2013 STEPS Summer School Watch the video of this debate (on...
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STEPS/Future Agricultures Seminar: Mohamed Elmi and Izzy Birch
Institute of Development Studies , United KingdomThe politics of policy-making around pastoralism in Kenya Hon. Mohamed Elmi Member of Parliament for Tarbaj constituency, Kenya and Former Minister for Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands Izzy Birch...
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Transition Pathways to Water Sensitive Cities
Room 144, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Falmer, United KingdomFjalar de Haan, Annette Bos, Briony Ferguson Research Fellows at Monash Water for Liveability Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Climate change, resource limitations, changing demographics, ageing infrastructure and evolving community values...
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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...
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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’...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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STEPS Seminar: Paul Richards on social cohesion in Sierra Leone
Room 121, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK‘Clash of Institutions? Researching Social Cohesion in a Post-Conflict Agrarian Society (Sierra Leone)’ Paul Richards Visiting Professor, School of Environmental Studies, Njala University, Sierra Leone; Emeritus professor of Technology and...
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STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency, Complexity and the Commons
Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomResource 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...
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Seminar: Adrian Smith on the Lucas Plan
Room G22, SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Brighton'Recalling the Lucas Plan: what can an old movement for socially useful production tell us about democratising technology today?' Adrian Smith, STEPS Centre/SPRU 5 February 2014 1pm, room G22, SPRU...
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Grassroots Innovation Movements workshop, Delhi
Unnamed Venue Delhi, IndiaThis workshop will bring together researchers, activists and policy-makers to learn from one another about grassroots innovation movements. The workshop is organised by Dinesh Abrol at Centre for Studies in...
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STEPS-JNU Symposium: Exploring Pathways to Sustainability
Our 2014 Annual Symposium, ‘Exploring pathways to sustainability’, is being co-organised with the Centre for Studies in Science Policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and will be held on...
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Integrating Impact Planning into Research Projects: Reflections from the STEPS Centre
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS/CDI Seminar Adrian Ely, Head of Impact and Engagement, STEPS Centre and Nathan Oxley, Communications Officer, STEPS Centre Researchers, along with development programmes, are increasingly called on to demonstrate the...
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Seminar: Kevin Urama, African Technology Policy Studies Network
Global Studies Resource Centre Arts C175, University of Sussex, United KingdomSussex Africa Centre/Centre for Global Political Economy/STEPS Centre Seminar Professor Kevin Urama, African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) on 'Science, technology and innovation for development’ Professor Kevin Urama, B. Agric (First...
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Seminar: Optimism, capitalism and cities of the future
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomReluctant Optimism - What Worlds will Business Need to be Successful in the Future? 1-2.30 Tuesday 25 February 2014 IDS Convening Space STEPS Seminar: Mick Blowfield and Leo Johnson on...
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STEPS Seminar: Changing political climates: Chinese environmental journalism and sustainable development
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSam Geall, Research Fellow SPRU and executive editor Chinadialogue China’s current leadership recently made “Beautiful China” and “Ecological Civilization” two of its most prominent official slogans and enshrined sustainable development...
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IDS Rising Powers & Rio+ Centre High-Level Round-Table: BRICS & the Green Transformation: Mutual Learning for Sustainability
Hotel Sheraton, Leblon Av Niemeyer, 121 - Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilSpeakers will debate the dynamics and drivers for low-carbon development policies in Brazil, India and China, and the implications for Africa. Adrian Ely, Deputy Director and Head of Impact and...
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STEPS Seminar: In the Eye of a Cyclone: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change in the Sundarban Delta
Convening Space Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomDr Debojyoti Das, ERC Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London Tropical Cyclones are a yearly event in the Bay of Bengal coastal seaboard....
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STEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLabour arbitrage, financial fallout, expulsions: Exploring the mechanics of the inequality machine Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy, Durham University STEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage, financial fallout,...
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Seminar: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom1.00-2.00 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...
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Resilience 2014. Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation
Le Corum Monpelier, FranceMelissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, and John Thompson, our food and agriculture co-convenor, are both speaking at the Resilience 2014 conference, which this year is themed Resilience and Development: Mobilising for...
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Public lecture: Mariana Mazzucato – The green entrepreneurial state
Mariana Mazzucato: The Green Entrepreneurial State by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Public lecture, followed by a drinks reception Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the prestigious RM Phillips chair in the Economics of...
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Public lecture: Michael Grubb on Planetary Economics: Energy, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development
Jubilee Lecture Theatre 144 Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, BrightonThe Sussex Energy Group at SPRU in association with the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, invites you to a public lecture Professor Michael Grubb presenting findings from his recently...
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STEPS Seminar: Kamal Kar on Community-Led Total Sanitation
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in achieving an Open Defecation Free (ODF) World’ Kamal Kar, Chairman CLTS Foundation This event will be livestreamed (see embedded video below). The...
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STEPS/FHS Workshop on Complex Adaptive Systems in Health Systems in LMICs
Mt Washington Conference Center and the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Services Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United StatesMt. Washington Conference Center and the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Background Health systems are seen as a...
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STEPS Seminar: Daniel O’Connor on the use of social media in health research
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘The Apomediated World: The Ethical Challenges of Using Social Media in Health Research’ STEPS Seminar with Daniel O’Connor, PhD, Head of Humanities and Social Science at the Wellcome Trust STEPS...
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International Conference: Green Economy in the South
University of Dodoma Dodoma, Tanzania, United Republic OfGreen Economy in the South - Negotiating Environmental Governance, Prosperity and Development The momentum gathering behind the idea and practice of the Green Economy is coinciding with financial instability and...
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What is innovation for social inclusion?
What is innovation for social inclusion? Grassroots innovation, public policies and the politics of knowledge A session at the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, organised by Adrian Smith (STEPS Centre),...
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Las tecnologías de impresión 3D: tensiones de una “revolución” en ciernes
Centro Cultural Borges Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaOrganizan: CENIT/UNTREF, Centro STEPS para América Latina Las tecnologías de impresión 3D permiten digitalizar objetos en tres dimensiones e imprimirlos materialmente. Se argumenta que la capacidad para imprimir una variedad...
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Tackling trade-offs in the food-water-energy nexus: lessons for the SDGs
Overseas Development Institute 203 Blackfriars Road, London, United KingdomThis Overseas Development Institute event will be chaired by former STEPS Director Melissa Leach and includes a contribution from our Water & Sanitation theme convenor Lyla Mehta. Achieving poverty eradication...
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The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa
Overseas Development Institute 203 Blackfriars Road, London, United KingdomThis event in London on 24 September, organised by the Future Agricultures Consortium, includes contributions from STEPS Director Ian Scoones and STEPS members John Thompson and Jim Sumberg. The event...
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Energías renovables. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades de desarrollo y qué obstáculos enfrenta la búsqueda de alternativas energéticas sustentables?
Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCentro Cultural Borges – UNTREF, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3 Organizan: CENIT/UNTREF, Centro STEPS para América Latina El actual régimen de generación de electricidad en Argentina depende en exceso de...
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Andrew Simms – Cancel the Apocalypse: New Pathways to Sustainability
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPublic lecture organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not...
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UNFCCC Workshop: Strengthening national systems of innovation in developing countries (+ live webcast)
Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, GermanyOn 13–14 October, the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) of the UNFCCC will hold a workshop on Strengthening national systems of innovation in developing countries, covering the entire technology cycle for...
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What works at the Nexus? Conference
Coin Street Conference Centre 108 Stamford St, LondonJoin us at the first Nexus Network conference: What works at the nexus? New connections in food, energy, water and environment on Thursday 27 November from 9.30 am to 5.30...
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Seminar: Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024)
Organised by the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) Invited Presenters: Dr Mahama Ouedraogo Ag. Director of the AUC/HRST, African Union Commission Associate Professor Clapperton C. Mavhunga Program in Science,...
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Synthetic Biology & Global Health – Claire Marris seminar
Room C233, Arts C University of Sussex, BrightonSynthetic Biology & Global Health: How to move beyond the promises/perils framing? Claire Marris, King’s College London A seminar co-organised by Centre for Bionetworking, STEPS Centre and Centre for Global...
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Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa
Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, LondonThe ‘Rising Powers, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa’ team, are running a one day international workshop titled ‘Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low...
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Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa
Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, LondonThe ‘Rising Powers, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa’ team, are running a one day international workshop titled ‘Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low...
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Seminar: Providing scientific advice to the UK Parliament | Dr Chandrika Nath
Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomDr Chandrika Nath, Deputy Director, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Dr Nath is Deputy Director of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Parliament’s in-house source of scientific...
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‘India’s Risks’ book launch
Book launch: ‘India’s Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment, Health and Values’ With Professor M V Rajeev Gowda, Honorable Member of Parliament and Professor Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre,...
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Seminar: Sustainable Development at a Crossroad: Transformation of the Industrial State during a Perfect Storm
Arts A04 University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom"Sustainable Development at a Crossroad: Transformation of the Industrial State during a Perfect Storm" - seminar by Prof Nicholas Ashford (MIT) at the University of Sussex, 23 February 2015.
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Seminar: Mission-Oriented Public Investments?
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomMission-Oriented Public Investments? State Investment Banks & Picking-Winner Policies Speakers: Mariana Mazzucato and Caetano Penna Discussants: Martin Bell and Stephany Griffith-Jones This event is jointly hosted by the STEPS Centre...
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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 KingdomSeminar 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...
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Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature – Theory, Politics and Practice
University of Sussex , United KingdomUniversity 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...
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Public Roundtable: Nature As Commodity
Friends Meeting House Ship St, Brighton, United KingdomDownload 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...
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