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SUMMARY:Seminar: Kevin Urama\, African Technology Policy Studies Network
DESCRIPTION:Sussex Africa Centre/Centre for Global Political Economy/STEPS Centre Seminar\nProfessor Kevin Urama\, African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) on ‘Science\, technology and innovation for development’\nProfessor Kevin Urama\, B. Agric (First Class Honours); MSc (Nig.); MPhil (Distinction\, Cambridge); Ph.D. (Cambridge) is an Environmental and Ecological Economist developing trans-disciplinary and integrated tools for sustainable management of social\, economic and ecological systems. He holds the 2002-3 James Claydon Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in Economics or related subjects\, St. Edmund’s College\, University of Cambridge. He is the Executive Director of the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) – a multi-disciplinary network of researchers\, practitioners and policy makers that promotes science\, technology and innovation (STI) policy research\, dialogue and practice\, for African Development (ranked Africa’s best think tank in the 2013 Global Go Think Thanks and Civil Society Index see http://www.atpsnet.org).  He is a Professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Prof. Urama is also the Inaugural President of the African Society for Ecological Economics (ASEE) – the African chapter of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)\, (see http://www.ecoeco.org). \nProf. Urama serves on the boards of many international organisations\, scientific panels and research programs\, including: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as Lead Author of the IPCC SRREN report\, and a Coordinating Lead Author/Core Writing Team member on the IPCC AR5 report (in progress)\, High-Level Panel on Global Assessment of Resources for Implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020\, the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management (as Chair of the Water Working Group) and the OECD Green Growth and Poverty Reduction Task Team. \nEveryone welcome!
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/kevinurama-2/
LOCATION:Global Studies Resource Centre\, Arts C175\, University of Sussex\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140220T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140220T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20140129T113947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T110649Z
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SUMMARY:Integrating Impact Planning into Research Projects: Reflections from the STEPS Centre
DESCRIPTION:STEPS/CDI Seminar \nAdrian Ely\, Head of Impact and Engagement\, STEPS Centre and \nNathan Oxley\, Communications Officer\, STEPS Centre \nResearchers\, along with development programmes\, are increasingly called on to demonstrate the ‘impact’ of their research. There are many different ways to frame\, define and conceptualise impact\, and many possible responses to it. If impact is to be about more than box-ticking\, however\, this means engaging with questions about how researchers and research programmes interact with society\, politics and policy.  Innovative methods of planning and discussing the potential impact of research programmes have been developed and are increasingly integrated into the research process. \nIn this seminar we discuss our experience of adapting and employing a down-scaled version of ‘participatory impact pathways analysis’ (PIPA) and reflect on its utility and potential as a tool for planning relatively small-scale social science/ interdisciplinary research projects conducted with partners in developing countries.  In using PIPA\, the STEPS Centre has adapted the idea of ‘impact pathways’ in line with its broader ‘pathways approach’\, which focusses on complex and dynamic interactions between knowledge\, politics and ‘social\, technological and environmental pathways to sustainability’. The seminar coincides with the publication of a new Working Paper on the STEPS Centre’s approach to impact by Adrian Ely and Nathan Oxley.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/impactseminar/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Research methods
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ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140210T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20140122T074210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224837Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS-JNU Symposium: Exploring Pathways to Sustainability
DESCRIPTION: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 10-11 February at JNU. \nThe 2014 Annual Symposium will focus on the theme of ‘pathways to sustainability’. Our participants will consider how particular mainstream\, development interventions emerge as part of self-reinforcing trajectories for change\, and the implications of these pathways for both environmental integrity and social justice. Together\, participants will examine a range of contemporary issues including urbanisation and environmental health\, climate change\, securisation and grassroots innovation. Over two days we intend to explore future trajectories of change and possibilities for switching to more sustainable alternative pathways. \nDue to available space\, the event is invitation-only. \n\nFull details: Exploring Pathways to Sustainability symposium
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-jnu-symposium-exploring-pathways-sustainability/
CATEGORIES:Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140208T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20140204T093951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224356Z
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SUMMARY:Grassroots Innovation Movements workshop\, Delhi
DESCRIPTION:This 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 Science Policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University in colaboration with Adrian Smith\, Elisa Arond\, and Mariano Fressoli (all from the project\, Grassroots Innovation: Historical and Comparative Perspectives). \nAgainst a backdrop of increasing policy interest in ideas for inclusive innovation\, the workshop will draw upon the experiences of grassroots innovations in order to critically assess the who\, what\, how\, where\, when and why of inclusions and exclusions in innovation. Most of the day will focus on movements in India\, such as Peoples’ Technology Initiatives\, Honey Bee Network\, and free software movements in India; but debate will also be encouraged through contrasts with movements in South America and UK. \nThis event is invite-only. \n\nFull programme \nBackground note
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/grassroots-innovation-movements-workshop-delhi/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, Delhi\, India
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140205T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140205T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20140116T155021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224433Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Adrian Smith on the Lucas Plan
DESCRIPTION:‘Recalling the Lucas Plan: what can an old movement for socially useful production tell us about democratising technology today?’ \nAdrian Smith\, STEPS Centre/SPRU\n5 February 2014\n1pm\, room G22\, SPRU\nJubilee Building\, University of Sussex \nAdrian Smith will be presenting his work on the Lucas Aerospace Shop Stewards Alternative Corporate Plan\, also known as the Lucas Plan. This seminar coincides with the publication of his Working Paper on the movement for socially useful production. \nIt is thirty-eight years since a movement for ‘socially useful production’ pioneered practical approaches for more democratic technology development. Of course\, the world is different now. Nevertheless\, remembering older initiatives casts enduring issues about the direction of technological development in society in a different and informative light: an issue relevant today in debates as varied as industrial policy\, green and solidarity economies\, and grassroots digital fabrication. \nIt was in January 1976 that workers at Lucas Aerospace published an Alternative Plan for the future of their corporation. It was a novel response to management announcements that thousands of manufacturing jobs were to be cut in the face of industrial restructuring\, international competition\, and technological change. Instead of redundancy\, workers argued their right to socially useful production. \nRejected by management and government\, the Plan’s arguments attracted workers from other sectors\, community activists\, radical scientists\, environmentalists\, and the Left. The Plan became symbolic for a movement of activists committed to innovation for purposes of social use over private profit. With hindsight\, the movement was swimming against the political and economic tide\, but at the time things looked less clear-cut\, and some of their ideas did prove influential. Recalling the movement now\, what is striking is the importance activists attached to practical engagements in technology development as part of their politics. We will discuss the relevance today of old questions connecting tacit knowledge and participatory prototyping to the political economy of technology development. \nThis research is part of the STEPS Centre’s project Grassroots Innovation: historical and comparative perspectives. \n\nWorking Paper: Socially Useful Production \nSTEPS Working Paper 58\nby Adrian Smith \nA history and analysis is provided of the movement for socially useful production\, which flourished for a brief period in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. Swimming against the rising tide of neo-liberalism\, activists provided both a critique of the existing institutions for innovation in society\, and developed a set of practical initiatives that explored and anticipated more directly democratic processes for socially shaping technologies. \nView abstract\nDownload the paper (pdf\, 980 kb) \n\nLucas Plan documentary \nA 1978 film made for the Open University explains how the Lucas Plan developed\, and includes interviews with shop stewards\, other company workers and politicians.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-adrian-smith-lucas-plan/
LOCATION:Room G22\, SPRU\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9SL
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140115T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140115T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131217T115935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224516Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency\, Complexity and the Commons
DESCRIPTION:Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses\, Wastes and Wastages\nBruce Lankford\, Professor of Irrigation and Water Policy\, School of International Development\, University of East Anglia\nThe efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy\, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In a recent Routledge book\, the author analyses resource efficiency and efficiency gains from the perspective of common pool resources\, applying this idea particularly to water resources and its use in irrigated agriculture. In a world of increasing scarcity\, the tracking\, amount and ownership of ‘saved’ resources while controlling for rebound (where savings lead to consumption elsewhere) will be of increasing importance as exemplified by Norris (2011) “… the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Montana v Wyoming brings to the forefront one of the most complicated and contested facets of irrigation efficiency: who owns the rights to the conserved water?” \nThe book proposes the concept of “the paracommons”\, through which the savings of increased resource efficiency can be viewed. In effect this asks; “who gets the gain of an efficiency gain?” By reusing\, economising and avoiding losses\, wastes and wastages\, freed up resources are available for further use by four ‘destinations’; the proprietor\, parties directly connected to that user\, the wider economy or returned to the common pool. The paracommons is thus a commons of – and competition for – resources salvaged by changes to the efficiency of natural resource systems. \nDuring the presentation\, ‘liminality’ will be explored signalling the in-betweenness of systems caught between overly optimistic prefigurations of future efficiencies and disappointing outcomes. \n All welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/bruce-lankford/
LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140114T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140114T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20140110T161642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T224554Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Paul Richards on social cohesion in Sierra Leone
DESCRIPTION:‘Clash of Institutions? Researching Social Cohesion in a Post-Conflict Agrarian Society (Sierra Leone)’ \nPaul Richards \nVisiting Professor\, School of Environmental Studies\, Njala University\, Sierra Leone; Emeritus professor of Technology and Agrarian Development at Wageningen University\, The Netherlands; Honorary Professor at the University College of London (UCL). \nEscaping from poverty depends on the rules governing access to vital resources. Rural societies are a historically determined mix of varied and sometimes competing “formal” and “informal” institutions. \nThe focus of this research is to investigate whether a “clash of institutions” is a factor determining poverty in Sierra Leone\, with a specific focus on land\, labour\, seeds and rural credit.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-paul-richards-social-cohesion-sierra-leone/
LOCATION:Room 121\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, UK
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Governance & policy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131204T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131111T112601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131111T112601Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Aid on the Edge of Chaos
DESCRIPTION:Ben Ramalingam\nResearch Associate\, Overseas Development Institute and STEPS Centre Visiting Fellow at IDS \nIt 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 is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid\, and bang the drum for cutting it altogether. Meanwhile\, growing numbers are suggesting that what is most needed is the creative\, innovative transformation of how aid works. Aid on the Edge of Chaos (published by Oxford University Press) is firmly in the third of these camps. \nBen Ramalingam shows that the linear\, mechanistic models and assumptions on which foreign aid is built are inadequate in the dynamic\, complex world we face today. Instead\, he argues that a new approach embracing the ‘new science’ of complex adaptive systems can make foreign aid more relevant\, more appropriate\, more innovative\, and more catalytic. His findings are based on insights\, experiences and remarkable results of practitioners who are already putting these principles into action.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-ramalingham-2/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\,  Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131127T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131127T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131101T111215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225007Z
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SUMMARY:Our Future in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:STEPS 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. \nThe other speakers are: \n\nStaffan Normark\, Permanent Secretary the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (introduction)\nWill Steffen\, chair of the Prize Jury (The epoch of the Anthropocene)\nJohan Rockström (Planetary boundaries and resilience)\nQin Dahe (The role of the glaciers and poles in the earth system)\nElisabet Lindgren\, KI (Human health and global environmental change)\nGarry Peterson\, SRC (A positive Anthropocene)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/future-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131122T131500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131122T144500
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131023T192931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225034Z
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SUMMARY:COP19 side event: Beyond Technology Transfer
DESCRIPTION:The 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) \nSummary \nLow-carbon technology transfer is a central aim of the Technology Mechanism (TM). This event will draw on insights from new social science research on innovation and development to discuss how the TM can best deliver on its mandate. The event will focus on the role of national technological capabilities in low-carbon technology research\, development and deployment (RD&D) that fulfill the needs of developing countries. We will also discuss implications for the specification and implementation of supportive and collaborative actions under the TM. \nShort inputs from international organizations and academic researchers will be followed by a plenary session on experiences with capacity building\, local private sector involvement\, and the various aspects of ‘national appropriateness’ of mitigation and adaptation actions. \nProgramme \n\n\n\nTime\n\nTopic\nPresenter\n\n\n13.15\n13.20\nIntroduction by the Chair\nDr. Oliver Johnson\, SEI   International (Kenya)\n\n\n13.20\n13.30\nOverview   over the NAMA registry\nJules   Williams\, UNFCCC Secretariat\n\n\n13.30\n13.40\nLocal and   global knowledge – the role of value chains and technology differences\nJoern Huenteler\, ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)\n\n\n13.40\n13.50\nEnergy   Efficiency – the case of India (tbc)\nProf. Ambuj   Sagar\, IIT Delhi (India) (tbc)\n\n\n13:50\n14:00\nDe-risking   renewable energy investment – the role of building local capabilities\nMartin   Krause\, UNDP\n\n\n14:00\n14:10\nIncremental   innovation for pro-poor technology transfer\nDr. Rob   Byrne\, University of Sussex (UK)\n\n\n14:10\n14:40\nPanel   discussion on experiences with capacity building\, local private sector   involvement\, and the various aspects of ‘national appropriateness’\nPresenters\nShikha Bhasin\, DIE/GDI (Germany)\n\n\n14.40\n14.45\nWrap-up\nDr. Oliver   Johnson (SEI International)\n\n\n\n  \nContacts: \nUniversity of Sussex–Sussex Energy Group (SEG) & STEPS Centre: Dr. Rob Byrne\, r.p.byrne@sussex.ac.uk \nETH Zurich – Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec): Dr. Tobias Schmidt tobiasschmidt@ethz.ch \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop19-side-event/
LOCATION:Torun Room (B3)\, National Stadium\, Al. Ks. J. Poniatowskiego 1\, Warsaw
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob Byrne":MAILTO:R.P.Byrne@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131115T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131115T144500
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131108T115305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225120Z
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SUMMARY:Investing in Food security? Philanthrocapitalism\, biotechnology and development
DESCRIPTION:Sally Brooks\, University of York\nThis 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’ and drought tolerant maize. \nIn each case\, novel institutions developed for technology transfer have created conditions conducive to future capitalist accumulation in ways that are not immediately obvious. These initiatives can be understood as institutional experiments that are shifting debates about the governance and regulation of genetically modified (‘GM’) crops. \nMeanwhile an emphasis on silver bullet solutions and institutions that ‘connect to the market’ diverts attention from more context-responsive approaches. This trend is likely to intensify with the announcement at the recent G8 summit backing a ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ in which agri-business corporations are to play a key role. \nMore information about Sally’s work can be found at http://www.sallybrooksconsulting.com/publications/ \nSally Brooks’ book in the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability series: Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development \nBiography\nSally Brooks is a social researcher with interests in international development\, technological change in agriculture and food policy\, based in York\, UK. In recent years she has worked as a researcher and tutor at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex and the Department of Social Policy at the University of York; and is currently research associate on a component of the BBSRC-funded ‘Sustainable Crop Production for International Development’ Project led by the School of International Development (DEV) at the University of East Anglia and John Innes Centre. Previously she worked with development NGOs in Southeast Asia for several years. She is author of ‘Rice Biofortification: Lessons for Global Science and Development’ (Earthscan: 2010). \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/sallybrooksseminar/
LOCATION:Jubilee Lecture Theatre 144\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="Adrian Ely":MAILTO:a.v.ely@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131107T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131107T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131003T144419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225239Z
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SUMMARY:Controlling the climate? Public debate on geoengineering
DESCRIPTION:As 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 that might speed up the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But research in this area is controversial. Could the very idea of a technological solution take momentum away from the need for emissions reductions? If research continues\, might there be a ‘slippery slope’ to eventual deployment? Should we even be contemplating attempting to control nature in this way? \nThis public debate on geoengineering research will bring leading scientists and campaigners together with members of the public to explore the complex ethical and political questions associated with research on climate engineering\, to debate the motion: \n‘We need to do more research on geoengineering.’ \nSpeakers: \n\nDr Matt Watson (Bristol University)\nOliver Morton (The Economist)\nProf. Andy Stirling (Sussex University and co-director of the STEPS Centre)\nHelena Paul (Econexus)\n\nPart of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2013. \nRelated project: Climate geoengineering governance
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/controlling-climate-public-debate-geoengineering/
LOCATION:The Old Market\, 11A Upper Market Street\, Hove\, BN3 1AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="Sussex Energy Group":MAILTO:b.zenz@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131106T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131106T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131031T101532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225154Z
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SUMMARY:Putting the Power in 'Socio-Technical Regimes'- E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
DESCRIPTION:Dr David Tyfield\, Co-Director\, Centre for Mobilities Research\, Lancaster University\nOne 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 socio-technical system of ‘automobility’ at the core of contemporary mobility\, it is also arguably a uniquely challenging case for low-carbon transition.  In this respect\, perhaps the most significant single development is the recent transformation of mobility within contemporary China.  In little more than 3 decades\, China has gone from a society dominated by bicycles and beasts of burden to the largest car market in the world\, and with prospects for massive further growth.  Conversely\, China is also engaged in an experiment regarding electric vehicles that is receiving globally unique levels of governmental and corporate support. \nThe talk will introduce a new 30-month ESRC project – involving colleagues at Lancaster\, SPRU\, the STEPS Centre and in China – that will explore the broader prospects for low-carbon transition in China.  Focusing on the work package on low-carbon e-mobility by way of illustration\, the talk will ask in particular how thinking about low-carbon transition in the entirely different socio-economic\, political and cultural context of China forces a confrontation with some key challenges for contemporary theories of low-carbon innovation and system transition.  In particular\, while acknowledging the significant insights and benefits of two theoretical perspectives emerging as dominant in this field – the ‘multi-level perspective’ and practice theory – both need also to place issues of power at the heart of their analyses.  In this way\, the specific and different challenges of constructing an ‘entrepreneurial state’ in China (vs. for example in the UK) may also be illuminated. \nEveryone welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/e-mobility-china/
LOCATION:Room G22\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131101T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131101T110000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20131031T163035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225313Z
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in southern Africa
DESCRIPTION:Special session at the 14th WATERNET Symposium\, White Sands Hotel\, Dar Es Salaam\nThis 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 \n\n\nLyla Mehta (STEPS Centre water and sanitation convenor) and Synne Movik\n\n\nThe Flows and Practices of IWRM: A Conceptual Framework  \n\nEmmanuel Manzungu\, Bill Derman\, Linda Mtali and Sijabuliso Masango\n\nThe Impact of Urbanization on Implementation of IWRM in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of the Upper Manyame Catchment Council  \n\n Takunda Hove\, Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu\n\nThe Intersection between IWRM\, land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe: A case study of the Middle Manyame Sub-catchment  \n\n Synne Movik and Kristi Denby\n\nInstitutional Integration and Local Level Water Access in the Inkomati Water Management Area\, South Africa  \n\n Barbara van Koppen and Barbara Schreiner\n\nMoving beyond IWRM: Developmental Water Management in South Africa  \n\n Alex Bolding and Rossella Alba\n\nIWRM ‘Avant La Lettre’? Four Key Episodes in the Policy Articulation of IWRM in the Downstream Nation of Mozambique   \n\n Preetha Prabhakaran Bisht\n\nGender Invisibility in Global Water Discourses: A Feminist Critique of Integrated Water Resources Management  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/waternet2013/
LOCATION:Tasi 1\, White Sands Hotel\, Dar Es Salaam\, Tanzania\, United Republic Of
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Water
ORGANIZER;CN="Beth Mudford":MAILTO:bethm@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20131016T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20131016T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130430T092958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225527Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Bram Büscher on Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
DESCRIPTION:STEPS Seminar – Bram Büscher on transboundary peace parks in Southern Africa\, October 2013 by Stepscentre on  Mixcloud \n\nBram 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. \nYou can watch a video of Bram introducing his book on his website. \nAbout Bram:\nAssociate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies\, Erasmus University. I also hold appointments as a visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Geography\, Environmental Management and Energy Studies of the University of Johannesburg and a Research Associate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Stellenbosch University \nAbout the book:\nInternational peace parks—transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries—have become a popular ways of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In Transforming the Frontier\, Bram Büscher shows how cross-border conservation neatly reflects the neoliberal political economy in which it developed. \nDrawing on extensive research in Southern Africa with the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project\, Büscher explains how the successful promotion of transfrontier conservation as a “win-win” solution happens not only in spite of troubling contradictions and problems\, but indeed because of them. This is what he refers to as the “politics of neoliberal conservation\,” which receives its strength from effectively combining strategies of consensus\, anti-politics\, and marketing. Drawing on long-term\, multi-level ethnographic research\, Büscher argues that transfrontier conservation projects are not as concerned with on-the-ground development as they are purported to be. Instead\, they are reframing environmental protection and sustainable development to fit an increasingly contradictory world order. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/bram-buscher/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="Harret Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130724T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130724T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130723T093138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225611Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS/IDS Seminar: Jon Morris - Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet \nProfessor Jon Morris\n24 July 2013 at 13.00 – 14.30\nRoom 221\, Institute of Development Studies \nAbout the seminar: \nThe 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.  Business analysts tell us we work now in World 3.0\, with a rise of emerging markets and a digital world\, where also unexpected events occur frequently.  Drawing on this business literature by Ghemawat and Ramo (and others)\, this seminar explores implications of these changed circumstances\, which suggest we craft Development 3.0 to address planetary needs.  Such an emphasis would privilege sustainability over efficiency\, would look at all nations\, would anticipate urban problems and populations\, and would try to cope more effectively with ‘mashups’: unexpected\, major changes (such as we faced in 2008 and now again in the Arab Spring).  The aim here will be to explore better narratives and changed metrics\, to break out of the earlier assumptions (taken as facts) which guided Development 2.0\, looking to globalization to yield a better world.  \n\nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Jon Morris is based in southeast Utah\, where he teaches courses in his retirement on Southwest Indian Nations for Utah State University.  His career began in East Africa in the mid-1960s\, on topics related to land settlement\, rural development\, extension\, and education\, finishing as Professor in what is now Sokoine University of Agriculture\, Tanzania.  In the 1980s he worked on pastoralism for ODI\, London\, and on Tanzanian development for Uma Lele in the Bank. In the 1990s\, his focus became African Irrigation and livestock policies\, under USAID funded projects.  For this occasion he looks back on a half century’s development efforts\, tracking how emphases and assumptions change but persistent problems remain. \nAll welcome
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/stepsids-seminar-jon-morris-reimagining-development-3-0-for-a-changing-planet/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="STEPS Centre / IDS":MAILTO:h.corbett@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130704T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130705T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130415T124055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225642Z
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SUMMARY:International Workshop: New Models of Innovation for Development
DESCRIPTION:Innovation 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 development.  This is creating new contexts and new locations for innovation.  And\, as a result\, new models of innovation are emerging. \nThis two-day workshop aims to share and explore some of these new models for which a variety of labels have emerged: “Pro-poor innovation”\, “BoP innovation”\, “Inclusive innovation”\, “Below-the-radar innovation”\, “Grassroots innovation”\, “Frugal innovation”\, “Jugaad innovation”\, and more. \nThe STEPS Centre’s Grassroots Innovation project will be presenting a paper entitled Renewing inclusive models of innovation: grassroots innovation in historical and comparative perspective at this event\, and STEPS Centre member Adrian Ely will  present a new STEPS Centre paper. \nFind out more on the event website
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/new-models-workshop/
LOCATION:UCL Roberts 106 LT\, Roberts Building\, Torrington Place\, London\, WC1E 7JE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre for Development Informatics (CDI)":MAILTO:innov4dev@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130625T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130625T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130603T132302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225757Z
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SUMMARY:Transition Pathways to Water Sensitive Cities
DESCRIPTION:Fjalar de Haan\, Annette Bos\, Briony Ferguson\nResearch Fellows at Monash Water for Liveability\nMonash University\, Melbourne\, Australia \nClimate change\, resource limitations\, changing demographics\, ageing infrastructure and evolving community values are putting pressure on urban water systems around the world. In response\, the concept of a water sensitive city has emerged in science\, policy and practice\, as a vision for how a city’s liveability\, sustainability and resilience can take shape in relation to water management. \nThe Urban Water Transitions and Governance (UWTAG) group\, part of the interdisciplinary research centre Monash Water for Liveability\, aims to understand and contribute to change in policy and practice for enabling transition pathways to water sensitive cities. UWTAG’s research is both fundamental and problem based\, integrating empirical\, theoretical and modelling approaches to establish robust knowledge and operational tools and frameworks. \nThis presentation will showcase two recent UWTAG projects that focus on the question of how to build socio-political capital at different levels in society for steering fundamental change in urban water practices. One project examined an alternative planning approach for local sustainable stormwater management in the Cooks River catchment of Sydney. The second project implemented a transition scenario process for Melbourne as a future water sensitive city. Both projects involved innovative participatory approaches to water governance and strategic planning and drew on a range of frameworks and methods\, including governance experimentation\, transitions management\, social learning and institutional change. \nAll welcome
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transition-pathways-to-water-sensitive-cities/
LOCATION:Room 144\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\,  BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Water
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130522T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130522T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130426T132147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T225847Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS/Future Agricultures Seminar: Mohamed Elmi and Izzy Birch
DESCRIPTION:The politics of policy-making around pastoralism in Kenya\n \nHon. Mohamed Elmi Member of Parliament for Tarbaj constituency\, Kenya  and Former Minister for Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands \nIzzy Birch Technical Adviser\, National Drought Management Authority\, Kenya (formerly Ministry of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands) \nSTEPS Centre / Future Agricultures Consortium Seminar\nIn April 2008 the Government of Kenya created a ministry to focus on the distinct challenges and opportunities of the country’s arid lands. Long-neglected and misunderstood by central policy-makers\, these are areas on the one hand marked by insecurity and inequality\, but on the other possessed of substantial\, if latent\, endowments and strengths. \nThe speakers will reflect on the ministry’s experience of promoting policy and institutional reform in the interests of a predominantly pastoral region and discuss its relationships with a range of other policy actors. They will highlight the challenges of pursuing long-term change within the limits imposed by five-year administrations\, as well as the prospects for further consolidation of the reforms under Kenya’s new national and county governments. \nThe book Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins is available to buy from Routledge (published 2012).
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/mohamed-elmi/
LOCATION:Institute of Development Studies\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Governance & policy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130520T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130520T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130411T134852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230036Z
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SUMMARY:Public debate: Fuel poverty\, climate change and social justice
DESCRIPTION:Public debate at the Jubilee Library\, Brighton\, UK. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2013.\nFind out more about the 2013 STEPS Summer School \n  \nWatch the video of this debate (on YouTube) \nPanel: \n\nKirsty Alexander\, Head of Communications\, Nuclear Industry Association\nThurstan Crockett\, Head of Sustainability\, Brighton and Hove City Council\nDoug Parr\, Chief Scientist\, Greenpeace\nJim Watson\, Research Director\, UK Energy Research Centre\n\nChair: Alice Bell\, Research Fellow\, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research\, University of Sussex \nAt a time of rising unemployment\, energy and food costs\, many families are struggling to heat their homes. But can fuel poverty be tackled without tackling climate change? And will tackling climate change – and other planetary boundaries such as water and land use – and keep the planet safe but make the poor poorer? \nThis debate will use the local issues such as fuel poverty and fracking to look at the global issues of environmental sustainability\, poverty and social justice. \n \nAbout the event\nThis debate is co-organised with SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex. \nIt is part of a series of public events during the 2013 STEPS Centre Summer School on pathways to sustainability. \nOther events in this series: \n13 May: Michael Jacobs (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)\nPublic lecture: ‘Capitalism\, carbon and climate change’\nFulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex \n16 May: CANCELLED: Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/public-debate-fuel-poverty-climate-change-and-social-justice/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130516T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130516T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130411T093456Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230126Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Public lecture: Prof Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre
DESCRIPTION:Planetary boundaries and Sustainable Development Goals \nUnfortunately Johan Rockström\, Stockholm Resilience Centre\, will no longer be able to give this lecture.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/johan-rockstrom-lecture-may2013/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130513T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130513T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130411T140048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230158Z
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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Prof Michael Jacobs\, Grantham Research Institute
DESCRIPTION:‘Capitalism\, carbon and climate change’ \nFulton A Lecture Theatre\nUniversity of Sussex\, Falmer\nBrighton \nPublic lecture\, followed by drinks reception\nAll welcome \nMichael Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics\, and in the School of Public Policy at University College London. He is a former Special Adviser at the UK Treasury and 10 Downing St. \nAbout the lecture\nClimate change is now upon us: the science is incontrovertible.  But the economic downturn has turned public and political attention to more immediate concerns\, and climate policy in Britain and the EU is going into reverse. \nIn this keynote lecture\, Michael Jacobs will draw parallels between the financial crisis and the crisis of climate change\, both rooted in a failure of orthodox economic theory and political debate to understand the systemic risks built up by an under-regulated capitalism.  Tackling both crises will require a new way of thinking about economic value and economic policy\, and a reassertion of the role of politics in securing the public good. \nOther events\nThis lecture is part of a series of public events linked to the 2013 STEPS Centre Summer School on pathways to sustainability. \nSee the Spring Series events page for more details. \n \nOther events in this series: \n20 May: Fuel poverty\, climate change and social justice\nPublic debate with Jim Watson (UK Energy Research Centre)\, Kirsty Alexander (Head of Communications\, Nuclear Industry Association)\, Doug Parr (Chief Scientist\, Greenpeace) and Thurstan Crockett (Head of Sustainability\, Brighton & Hove City Council). Chaired by Alice Bell (SPRU – University of Sussex)\nJubilee Library\, Brighton \nThe previously advertised lecture by Johan Rockström on 16 May has been cancelled.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/public-lecture-prof-michael-jacobs-lse/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:steps-events@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130513T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130524T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20121211T104647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230956Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Centre Summer School 2013
DESCRIPTION:The next STEPS Summer School will be on 13-24 May 2013 at the University of Sussex\, Brighton\, UK. \nDownload the 2013 Summer School brochure and application details: \n\n2013 Summer School (pdf\, 344 kb)\n\nFor full information about the event\, see the 2013 STEPS Summer School page.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-centre-summer-school-2013/
LOCATION:Sussex University campus\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="STEPS Centre":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130501T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130502T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130415T123338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230248Z
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SUMMARY:DIG-IT Workshop: Dialogue on Inclusive Growth\, Innovation and Technology
DESCRIPTION:The 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 change\, growth and inequalities within and between regions. \nSTEPS Centre co-directors Andy Stirling and Ian Scoones and members\, Adrian Smith\, Adrian Ely are speaking at the workshop. \n\nRelevant resources from the STEPS Centre and Mariana Mazzucato\nFind out more on the workshop website\n\n  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/dig-it-workshop/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130425T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130425T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130321T152156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T111958Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Boru Douthwaite on Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR
DESCRIPTION:‘Using Theory of Change to Lever Change: Experience from the CGIAR’  \nBoru Douthwaite\, Principal Scientist on the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) at WorldFish \nVideo\n \nAbout this seminar\nWorking with staff and stakeholders to think through how research can bring about development outcomes can change how projects and partnerships are planned\, implemented\, monitored and evaluated to increase their likelihood of success.  Experience from the CGIAR shows that realizing this potential depends on facilitation and timing more than theory and formats.  This seminar examines the important dos and don’ts of using theory of change to foster change from experience from two CGIAR programs. \nBoru Douthwaite was previously the former Innovation and Impact Director at the Challenge Program on Water and Food and a Senior Scientist at CIAT\, where he developed the Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) approach\, which is used by the STEPS Centre’s projects. \nThis seminar is being held jointly with the Centre for Development Impact.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/boru-douthwaite/
LOCATION:Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Research methods
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130417T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130417T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130322T133312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T112032Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: The STEPS Centre and the Participate Initiative - addressing fundamental questions in the post-2015 debate
DESCRIPTION:This 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 development framework. \nThe STEPS Centre is currently undertaking work around aligning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS ) and post 2015 framework processes\, and Fellows in the Participation\, Power and Social Change team are leading the Participate: Knowledge from the Margins initiative\, which is providing high quality evidence on the reality of poverty at ground level\, bringing the perspectives of the poorest into the post-2015 debate. \nSpeakers: \n\nMelissa Leach – STEPS Centre director\nDanny Burns – Participate co-director\nJoanna Wheeler – Participate co-director\n\nRelevant resources:\n\nSTEPS Centre work on the Post-2015 agenda\nThe Participate project\nIDS Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Agenda research
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-steps-centre-and-participate-on-post-2015/
LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, University of Sussex\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Research methods
ORGANIZER;CN="Marion Clarke":MAILTO:m.clarke@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130416T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130416T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130322T093802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230415Z
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SUMMARY:The Entrepreneurial State and the Risk-Reward Nexus: Implications for Innovation and Inequality
DESCRIPTION:Mariana Mazzucato\, Professor of Economics and RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy\,  SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research\, University of Sussex \nMariana presents a new framework\, called the Risk-Reward Nexus\, to study the relationship between innovation and inequality. She asks: What types of economic actors (workers\, taxpayers\, shareholders) make contributions of effort and money to the innovation process for the sake of future\, inherently uncertain\, returns? Are these the same types of economic actors who are able to appropriate returns from the innovation process if and when they appear? Who takes the risks and who gets the rewards? She argues that it is the collective\, cumulative\, and uncertain characteristics of the innovation process that make this disconnect between risks and rewards possible. When\, across these different types of actors\, the distribution of financial rewards from the innovation process reflects the distribution of contributions to the innovation process\, innovation tends to reduce inequality. When\, however\, some actors are able to reap shares of financial rewards from the innovation process that are disproportionate to their contributions to the process\, innovation increases inequality. The latter outcome occurs when certain actors are able to position themselves at the point where the innovative enterprise generates financial returns; that is\, close to the final product market or\, in some cases\, close to a financial market such as the stock market. These favored actors then propound ideological arguments\, with intellectual roots in the efficiency propositions of neoclassical economics\, that justify the disproportionate shares of the gains from innovation that they have been able to appropriate. These ideological arguments invariably favor shareholder contributions to the innovation process over both worker contributions and taxpayer contributions. \nFurther Reading\n\nThe Risk-Reward Nexus in the Innovation-Inequality Relationship Mariana Mazzucato and William Lazonick\, forthcoming in (Summer 2013) Industrial and Corporate Change\, special issue on: Finance\, Innovation and Growth (ed. M. Mazzucato)\nInnovation: let the good risk-takers get their reward\, blogpost by Mariana Mazzucato and William Lazonick for the Guardian’s Comment Is Free site\nThe Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato\, Demos (2011) ISBN 978-1-906693-73-2
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/marianamazzucato/
LOCATION:Room G30\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130227T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130227T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130225T102431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230439Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Alex Arnall\, University of Reading
DESCRIPTION:‘A climate of control: flooding\, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley\, Mozambique’ \nAlexander Huw Arnall\nSchool of Agriculture\, Policy and Development\, University of Reading \nIn recent years\, the potential role of planned\, internal resettlement as a  climate change adaptation measure has been highlighted by national governments and the international policy community. However\, in many developing countries\, resettlement is a deeply political process that often results in unequal distribution of costs and benefits amongst relocated persons. \nThis seminar will examine these tensions in central Mozambique. It will use a political ecology approach to show how a dominant narrative of climate change-induced hazards for small-scale farmers in the Lower Zambezi River valley is contributing to their involuntary resettlement to higher-altitude\, less fertile areas of land. The findings add weight to the argument that a depoliticised interpretation of climate change can deflect attention away from underlying drivers of vulnerability and poverty\, as well as obscure the interests of governments that are intent on reordering poor and vulnerable populations.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-alex-arnall-university-of-reading/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="STEPS Centre":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130206T174500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20130110T122842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T113416Z
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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Prof Anne Glover\, Chief Scientific Advisor\, European Commission
DESCRIPTION:Prof Anne Glover \nChief Scientific Adviser to the President\, European Commission \n“What is the right balance between respecting evidence and living in the real world?” \nJubilee Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\nfollowed by drinks reception \nVideo\n \nThis keynote lecture\, open to all\, is part of the STEPS Centre’s symposium Credibility across cultures: expertise\, uncertainty and the global politics of scientific advice. \nProfessor Anne Glover is the European Commission’s first Chief Scientific Advisor\, appointed in 2011. Professor Glover served as Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland from August 2006 to December 2011. She holds a Personal Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen\, and has honorary positions at the Rowett and Macaulay Institutes. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh\, a member of the Natural Environment Research Council\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/prof-anne-glover-6-feb-2013/
LOCATION:Jubilee Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Research methods
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130208
DTSTAMP:20260406T002537
CREATED:20120918T193344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T230534Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Centre Annual Symposium
DESCRIPTION: Credibility across cultures: expertise\, uncertainty and the global politics of scientific advice  \nScientific advice has never been in greater demand; nor has it been more contested. From climate change to cyber-security\, poverty to pandemics\, food technologies to fracking\, the questions being asked of experts by policy makers\, the media and the public continue to multiply. At the same time\, in the wake of the global financial crisis and controversies such as ‘Climategate’\, the authority and legitimacy of experts is under greater scrutiny. And the explosion of social media opens up new channels for debate\, enabling\, and at times forcing\, experts to engage directly with more diverse audiences. \nWorldwide\, we see novel structures for scientific advice being put in place: both through new institutions like the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); and the appointment of a UK-style ‘chief scientific adviser’ at the European Commission. These issues were also magnified in the run-up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit and in debates over what should succeed the Millennium Development Goals. Following Rio+20 in June 2012\, there has also been a renewed push to ensure that the latest research and evidence informs international policy discussions\, with new initiatives such as Future Earth and the UNESCO science advisory board. \nTackling the sustainability and development challenges of the 21st century will undoubtedly require the ‘best available’ scientific advice: to measure progress; to predict impacts; to identify solutions; and to evaluate options and pathways for decision-making. But what is ‘best advice’ – and how might this idea need to be re-thought – amidst the inherent complexities\, uncertainties and contestations of knowledge and value that pervade so many of today’s challenges? Many questions persist about how to build and maintain robust\, open and accountable processes of expert advice that can operate effectively across disciplines\, sectors\, social contexts and national boundaries. This critical task – of maintaining credibility across cultures – will be the focus of the 2012 STEPS Centre Annual Symposium.  \n\nSTEPS Symposium Programme (pdf 735kb)\nMore details can be found on the Symposium page.\n\nFor further queries contact h.dudley@ids.ac.uk\n\n\nFuture directions for scientific advice in Whitehall\nThis Symposium is part of a series of four events being held about ‘Future directions for scientific advice in Whitehall’\, organised by the The Institute for Government (IfG); The Alliance for Useful Evidence; The University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP); SPRU and the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex University; and Sciencewise-ERC
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-centre-annual-symposium/
LOCATION:University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Research methods
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