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SUMMARY:IDS Rising Powers & Rio+ Centre High-Level Round-Table: BRICS & the Green Transformation: Mutual Learning for Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:Speakers will debate the dynamics and drivers for low-carbon development policies in Brazil\, India and China\, and the implications for Africa.  \nAdrian Ely\, Deputy Director and Head of Impact and Engagement\, STEPS Centre\, is taking part in this event and wrote a blogpost to coincide:\nMore than just a “clean energy race”? BRICS invesment and innovation could lead the way on green transformation \nThe ‘BRICS and the Green Transformation – Mutual Learning for Sustainability’ round-table will explore the BRICS’ contribution to the Green Transformation\, drawing out the positive lessons which arise from these countries’ own experience in this\nfield. The event will be co-hosted by the Rising Powers in International Development programme at the Institute of Development Studies; and the RIO+ Centre\, set up as a joint venture between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Brazil after the Rio+20 Summit in 2012 to promote\, articulate\, inform and inspire policies in sustainable development globally. \n14:00-14:30 Registration \n14:30-14:40 Welcome\, Layla Saad (Rio+) \n14:40-15:00 Hubert Schmitz (Institute of Development Studies) Who drives low carbon policies: lessons from China \n15:00-15:20 Emilio Lèbre La Rovere (Centro Clima\, COPPE-UFRJ) Low carbon policies in Brazil: insights from Rio de Janeiro \n15:20-15:40 Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology) Meeting multiple energy challenges: lessons from India \n15:40-16:00 Coffee break \n16:00-16:10 Adrian Ely (STEPS Centre) Diversity of Pathways \n16:10-16:20 Nozipho Mabebe Wright (Energia-Africa) What does this mean for Africa? \n16:20-17:00 Q&A\, facilitated discussion\, Leisa Perch (Rio+) \n17.00-18.00 Reception
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/bricsrio/
LOCATION:Hotel Sheraton\, Leblon\, Av Niemeyer\, 121 - Leblon\, Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="Rio+ World Centre for Sustainable Development":MAILTO:rio.plus@undp.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140325T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140325T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140312T112708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223744Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: In the Eye of a Cyclone: The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change in the Sundarban Delta
DESCRIPTION:Dr Debojyoti Das\, ERC Post-Doctoral Research Associate\, Dept. of History\, Classics and Archaeology\, Birkbeck\, University of London \nTropical Cyclones are a yearly event in the Bay of Bengal coastal seaboard. The deadliest cyclones in the world have formed here\, including the 1970 Bhola super cyclone\, which killed 500\,000 people. The misery and destruction caused by cyclones along the coast of Bengal has been greater than anywhere else in the world\, and the environmental and social problems that set the stage for disaster continue to be exceptionally severe. There is very little interest among social scientists in India to study cyclones from a range of disciplinary perspectives: historical\, anthropological and economic. The extensive and sophisticated historiographies of environment in India do not deal at all with maritime hazards. Therefore\, it is a case in point to analyse cyclones from a critical political\, economic and ecological standpoint \nI contend in this presentation that cyclone disasters\, like any other natural calamity owing their origin solely to natural causes\, are also politically and socially produced. Like revolutions and wars\, they are moments of extreme stress that can reveal the underlying structures of social and political life. I want to rethink the cyclone in the Sundarban delta as trans-national disaster—as an event that are shaped\, and in some sense created\, by the unequal power relations characteristic of British imperial policies and the consequence of political violence triggered by partition and the creation of Bangladesh during 1947 and 1971 respectively\, that led to the forced migration of people across the newly created national boundaries. There is a dialectical relationship between nature\, society and disaster that lead to environmental change with deep impact on marginalised communities. \nEveryone Welcome!
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/stepsseminardas/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140425T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140425T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140414T090221Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage\, financial fallout\, expulsions
DESCRIPTION:Labour arbitrage\, financial fallout\, expulsions: Exploring the mechanics of the inequality machine\nTed Schrecker\, Professor of Global Health Policy\, Durham University\n \n\nSTEPS Seminar: Ted Schrecker on Labour arbitrage\, financial fallout\, expulsions by Stepscentre on  Mixcloud \n\n“The inequality machine is reshaping the planet”\, in the words of the editor of Le Monde Diplomatique. In this presentation Ted addresses three aspects of that machine’s operation.  Labour arbitrage is perhaps the most familiar\, and now penetrates the labour markets even of the ‘core’ high income nations\, underscoring the need to shift from what William Robinson calls “territorial” to “social” cartographies in the study of development.  Post-2008\, the significance of financial fallout is superficially self-explanatory\, but it is important to go beyond short-term analysis of the recent crisis and its aftermath to consider the consequences for inequality of the underlying shift in power toward the owners of finance capital.  The category of expulsions\, drawn from the work of Saskia Sassen\, refers to the removal of people who are “in the way” of more profitable uses of land or resources; Ted examines gentrification and the large-scale purchase and lease of agricultural land by foreign actors as case studies.  Together\, these interconnected processes cause us to rethink our conceptions of the global\, present formidable challenges for development and the reduction of health inequities\, and demand new strategies for both research and resistance. \nTed’s academic background is in political science\, and he has taught that discipline as well as environmental studies and population health (at the doctoral level) at three Canadian universities. For the past decade his research has addressed the consequences of transnational economic integration (globalisation) for health and health equity\, currently from a broadly Marxist (but empirical) perspective.  He also has a long-standing interest in issues at the interface of science\, ethics\, law and public policy.  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/schrecker/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140424T144635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223429Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa
DESCRIPTION:1.00-2.00 Friday 2 May 2014\nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nAll welcome \nSpeakers include: \n\nAndrew Tarimo (Sokoine University of Agriculture)\nEmmanuel Manzungu (University of Zimbabwe)\nBill Derman (Noragric)\nAlex Bolding\, (Wageningen University)\nBarbara Van Koppen (IWMI\, South Africa)\nSynne Movik (NIVA)\nAlan Nicol (Global Water Initiative)\n\nSince the early 1990s\, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources management. IWRM adoption has led to water reform and the rewriting of national policies in many countries in southern Africa. \nIn this seminar we draw on findings from the project Flows and Practices: The Politics of IWRM in Africa to ask: Why has IWRM been so influential in southern Africa? How do abstract ideas of IWRM which evolved in global institutions cope with plural\, overlapping and competing formal and informal legal and customary systems in southern Africa? Has IWRM succeeded in addressing issues concerning equity\, class\, race and gender and in reallocating water in an equitable way?  What does this mean for overall development and poverty reduction? \nPresenters will address these questions by drawing on ongoing research in South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, Mozambique and Tanzania.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-politics-integrated-water-resources-management-africa/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars,Water
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140509
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20131003T182331Z
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SUMMARY:Resilience 2014. Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Melissa 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 Transformation. The event is the third International Science and policy conference on the resilience of social & ecological systems\,  and is being held in Montpellier\, France. \nHere is Melissa’s presentation: \n  \n \n Melissa Leach: Planetary boundaries\, politics and pathways. Plenary dialogue\, Resilience 2014.  from STEPS Centre
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resilience-2014/
LOCATION:Le Corum\, Monpelier\, France
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140512T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140512T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140408T132352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223304Z
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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Mariana Mazzucato - The green entrepreneurial state
DESCRIPTION:Mariana Mazzucato: The Green Entrepreneurial State by Stepscentre on  Mixcloud \n\nPublic lecture\, followed by a drinks reception \nMariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the prestigious RM Phillips chair in the Economics of Innovation at SPRU in the University of Sussex. She was recently Scientific Coordinator of a 3 year European Commission funded FP7 project on Finance\, Innovation and Growth (FINNOV)\, and is currently working on two new research projects on finance and innovation\, one funded by the Ford Foundation\, and the other by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. \nProf Mazzucato’s book The Entrepreneurial State: debunking private vs. public sector myths was one of the Financial Times’ 2013 books of the year\, and on Forbes’ 13 recommended readings for creative leaders to close out 2013. \nShe actively advises UK policy makers and the European Commission on questions related to economic growth. The New Republic has called her one of the most important thinkers about innovation. \nThis public lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the same venue\, to which all attending the lecture are welcome. \nThis event is organised by the STEPS Centre alongside our Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability. \nVideo:\n \nPresentation slides:
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/mariana-mazzucato-green-entrepreneurial-state/
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140515T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140515T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140507T140704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223150Z
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SUMMARY:Public lecture: Michael Grubb on Planetary Economics: Energy\, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development
DESCRIPTION:The Sussex Energy Group at SPRU in association with the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand\,  invites you to a public lecture \n\nProfessor Michael Grubb presenting findings from his recently published book: Planetary Economics: Energy\, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development \nChaired by Prof. Johan Schot\, Director of SPRU and with discussants Prof. Jim Watson\, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex and Research Director of UK Energy Research Centre and Mariana Mazzucato\, RM Phillips chair in the Economics of Innovation at SPRU\nthe University of Sussex\nThursday 15 May 6.00-7.30pm\, followed by a drinks reception\nJubilee Lecture Theatre\, School of Business\, Management and Economics\, University of Sussex\n\nSummary:\nHow well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy\, environment and economic development fit the facts? Energy prices have varied hugely between countries and over time\, yet the share of national income spent on energy has remained surprisingly constant. The foundational theories of economic growth account for only about half the growth observed in practice. Despite escalating warnings for more than two decades about the planetary risks of rising greenhouse gas emissions\, most governments have seemed powerless to change course. \nIn this public lecture\,  Professor Michael Grubb\,  Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at the Cambridge University Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research\, and Senior Advisor on Sustainable Energy Policy to the UK Energy Regulator Ofgem\, presents findings from his new book Planetary Economics  which shows the surprising links between these seemingly unconnected facts. He will argue  that tackling the energy and environmental problems of the 21st Century requires three different domains of decision-making to be recognised and connected. Each domain involves different theoretical foundations\, draws on different areas of evidence\, and implies different policies. \nThe book shows that the transformation of energy systems involves all three domains – and each is equally important. From them flow three pillars of policy (standards and engagement\, markets and prices\, innovation and infrastructure)  – three quite distinct kinds of actions that need to be taken\, which rest on fundamentally different principles. Any pillar on its own will fail. \nIn this lecture\, hosted by  SPRU\, Professor Grubb will focus in particular on the third pillar of innovation and infrastructure. He will set out the evidence and explain why energy is “different” in terms of innovation\, the elements of successful innovation strategies\, and the factors that tend to lock us in to high-carbon energy systems. \nJoin us for this unique opportunity to hear about and discuss analysis which brings together the lessons from 25 years of research and implementation of energy and climate policies. \nBiography\nProfessor Michael Grubb is Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at the Cambridge University Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research\, and Senior Advisor on Sustainable Energy Policy to the UK Energy Regulator Ofgem . He is editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy \, is on the editorial board of Energy Policy and was recently the Specialist Advisor to a House of Lords European Committee enquiry: ‘No Country is an Energy Island: securing investment for the EU’s Future’ (2013). His former positions include Chair of the international research organization Climate Strategies; Chief Economist at the Carbon Trust; Professor of Climate Change and Energy Policy at Imperial College London; and Head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House\, and he continues to be associated with these institutions. In 2008 he was appointed to the UK Climate Change Committee\, established under the UK Climate Change Bill to advise the government on future carbon budgets and to report to Parliament on their implementation. \nMichael Grubb is author of seven books\, fifty journal research articles and numerous other publications. He has held numerous advisory positions with governments\, companies and international studies on climate change and energy policy\, and has been a Lead Author for several reports of the IPCC on mitigation\, including the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/grubb/
LOCATION:Jubilee Lecture Theatre 144\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Schepers":MAILTO:s.m.schepers@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140520T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140520T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140512T135722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T223050Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Kamal Kar on Community-Led Total Sanitation
DESCRIPTION:‘The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in achieving an Open Defecation Free (ODF) World’ \nKamal Kar\, Chairman CLTS Foundation  \nThis event will be livestreamed (see embedded video below). \nThe UN seeks to eliminate the practice of open defecation entirely by 2025. Since its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000\, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 56 countries across Asia\, Africa and Latin America where more than 35 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments. CLTS has also been mainstreamed in the sanitation policies of several African countries. More than 80 countries are now ODF. Still\, 1 billion people continue to defecate in the open and 82% of them live in just 10 countries with India continuing to be the country with the highest number of people (597 million) defecating in the open. Nigeria has also seen the largest increase in numbers of open defecators since 1990\, with 39 million people defecating in the open in 2012\, compared with 23 million in 1990.  It is well known that open defecation causes disease spread and also increases the vulnerability of millions of women and girls around the world. \nDr Kamal Kar\, the pioneer of CLTS\, will speak about the potential of the CLTS approach in achieving the sanitation MDG with a special focus on Africa. He will highlight the progress made by nations in running the last mile until December 2015 and will also discuss second and third generation challenges of CLTS such as sustainability\, waste containment and the politics of scaling up. For the benefit of those who are not very conversant with the CLTS approach\, he will also focus on its key principles and methodology. \nFree entry – all welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-kamal-kar-community-led-total-sanitation/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Health & disease,Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="ESRC STEPS Centre":MAILTO:b.ayre@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140619
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140612T080821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222943Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS/FHS Workshop on Complex Adaptive Systems in Health Systems in LMICs
DESCRIPTION:Mt. Washington Conference Center and the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social\, Behavioral\, and Health Sciences\, Johns Hopkins University\, Baltimore\, MD\, USA \nBackground\nHealth systems are seen as a complex adaptive system (CAS)\, with multiple actors and relationships operating in difficult and changing contexts\, with many points of intervention\, and numerous intended and unintended consequences that can improve or damage people’s health. Health systems are designed to improve people’s health\, but also serve to protect people from impoverishment due to illness or the cost of health care\, and be seen as providing trusted and responsive services. Although CAS frameworks are increasingly recognized as relevant to understanding health systems\, health systems researchers have to date not taken advantage of CAS research methods to inform interventions that will be effective on a large scale and in sustainable ways. \nThis invitation-only workshop on CAS in Health Systems in LMICS is sponsored by the Future Health Systems (FHS) Research Consortium and the STEPS Centre (Social\, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability). FHS and STEPS are particularly concerned with policies\, programs\, and individual level interventions promote and protect people’s health and wellbeing\, particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. \nThe workshop is intended to bring together junior and more experienced researchers to better explore applications of concepts of complexity to the analysis of health systems in LMICS\, gain hands-on experience\, and develop current research projects. Participants would bring their current research plans\, protocols\, and data\, to work on their own research\, as well as on collective examples to develop their research. \nObjectives\nThe workshop will provide a forum for collaboration with researchers in different disciplines and groups to learn different tools and research applications\, and provide opportunity for hands-on skills building through which researchers with interest in CAS issues and in the initial stages of applying CAS tools and methods can connect with researchers who have had experience applying CAS approaches to health. The specific objectives are to:\n– Improve understanding of CAS models that can be used to understand and intervene in health systems in LMICs\n– Gain hands-on skills for applying CAS approaches and tools to health systems research questions\, particularly related to their FHS project questions\n– Identify specific analyses and publications by junior and mid-level FHS researchers\n– Produce a draft history of the FHS intervention in their research sites since the research began in 2006\n– Identify grant and other research opportunities involving collaboration on CAS related research questions in health systems
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cas_balitmore/
LOCATION:Mt Washington Conference Center and the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social\, Behavioral\, and Health Services\, Johns Hopkins University\, Baltimore\, United States
CATEGORIES:Health & disease
ORGANIZER;CN="Jeff Kenzovich":MAILTO:j.knezovich@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140704T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140704T143000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140624T134246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210404T164311Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Daniel O’Connor on the use of social media in health research
DESCRIPTION:‘The Apomediated World: The Ethical Challenges of Using Social Media in Health Research’ \nSTEPS Seminar with Daniel O’Connor\, PhD\, Head of Humanities and Social Science at the Wellcome Trust \n \n\nSTEPS Seminar: Dan O’Connor – The ethical challenges of using social media in health research by Stepscentre on  Mixcloud \n\nSocial media such as blogs\, wikis\, discussion forums\, ratings sites and online social networks like Facebook and Twitter\, are completely changing the ways in which lay people and health professionals create\, share and understand health information. We can now find\, discuss and even review diagnoses\, symptoms and treatments with pretty much anyone\, anywhere in the world\, almost instantly. The transformation from just a decade ago is astounding. This seminar will explore the ethical challenges that this transformation raises for health research in particular. \nDrawing on examples of emerging uses of social media in health research (including patient-led research\, crowdsourcing and social recruitment practices) Dr Dan O’Connor\, Head of Humanities and Social Science at the Wellcome Trust\, will argue that existing research ethics frameworks\, concerned as they are with vertical power differentials\, may be inadequate to deal with those ethical challenges. In their place he proposes an ‘ethics of apomediation’ in which the moral concerns of power differentials are replaced with those of a horizontal peer-to-peer system.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-daniel-oconnor-use-social-media-health-research/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Health & disease,Research methods,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140708T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140710T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140602T091219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222801Z
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SUMMARY:International Conference: Green Economy in the South
DESCRIPTION:Green Economy in the South – Negotiating Environmental Governance\, Prosperity and Development \nThe momentum gathering behind the idea and practice of the Green Economy is coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the North\, but generally happier economic circumstances in the South. Economies are growing and ‘green economic initiatives’ are part of these changes. Carbon payments\, ecotourism\, community-based wildlife management\, Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and offsets by mining companies exploiting new resources are all a part of a landscape offering new commodities\, opportunities for commercialization and integration into wealth-generating markets. And so too are growing incidents of land (and water) grabbing\, displacement and alienation of resources required for wealthy tourists\, bitter local conflicts over the locally-defined rules of access to carbon (e.g. firewood) purchased by wealthy northerners\, green washing and other harmful activities that either cause poverty\, or else distribute the fortune and misfortune of the green economy inequitably. Equally demands for alternatives to market-driven environmental degradation\, and for market-dominated solutions are also gaining strength and coherence. \nThe conference will be held in Tanzania and builds on a series of sister conferences held in Europe and North America (most recently Grabbing Green and Nature Inc). We are convening it in Tanzania because we want the focus of this conference to be about the growth of the Green Economy in the South\, and therefore this conference must be more accessible to Southern speakers\, researchers and activists. \nIn addition to the conference itself we will also be organizing field trips to sites after the conference is formally finished to locations where interventions of the green economy are unfolding\, in carbon forestry\, wildlife management and eco-tourism. \nThe conference is hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies\, University of Dodoma\, Tanzania\, and co-hosted by the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)\, University of the Western Cape; the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)\, University of Manchester; The Institute for Social Studies (ISS)\, Erasmus University; and\, the Sustainability Platform\, Copenhagen Business School (CBS). \nSpeakers include Martin Kijazi and others from the STEPS Centre’s Political Ecologies of Carbon in Africa project.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/international-conference-green-economy-south/
LOCATION:University of Dodoma\, Dodoma\, Tanzania\, United Republic Of
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Governance & policy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140823T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140823T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140814T094045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222709Z
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SUMMARY:What is innovation for social inclusion?
DESCRIPTION:What is innovation for social inclusion? Grassroots innovation\, public policies and the politics of knowledge \nA session at the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires\, organised by Adrian Smith (STEPS Centre)\, Mariano Fressoli (Institute for Science and Technology Studies\, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) and Elisa Arond (Clark University). \nThere is growing interest amongst researchers\, civil society actors\, and policy-makers internationally in the topic of innovation and social inclusion. Moreover\, this interest exists in both the global north and global south: along with growing interest from international institutions like OECD\, IDRC\, WB and CEPAL\, national institutions in Latin America and other parts of the world are already developing programs and projects on science\, technology and inclusive innovation. However\, as an emergent idea\, innovation for social inclusion draws on a diversity of definitions and approaches that while enriching and heterogeneous can also overlap and contradict one another. \nThe development of innovation for social inclusion shows a complex entanglement of concepts and technologies\, frames of knowledge and practices\, all operating through heterogeneous networks of international aid agencies\, public institutions\, social movements and firms. As an already flourishing set of definitions\, initiatives and experiences\, innovation for social inclusion also calls for empirical analysis and theoretical reflection and policy debate. The field of STS is well-placed to contribute systematic explorations of these issues and challenges. \nFull event details in English and Spanish \nAbstracts and papers
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/innovation-social-inclusion/
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140826T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140826T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140814T195213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222615Z
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SUMMARY:Las tecnologías de impresión 3D: tensiones de una "revolución" en ciernes
DESCRIPTION:Organizan:  CENIT/UNTREF\, Centro STEPS para América Latina \nLas tecnologías de impresión 3D permiten digitalizar objetos en tres dimensiones e imprimirlos materialmente. Se argumenta que la capacidad para imprimir una variedad materiales (desde plásticos\, arcillas o metales hasta alimentos y cultivos celulares) podría modificar las formas actuales de consumo y el acceso a bienes. Esto se debe a que las tecnologías de impresión digital acortan considerablemente los tiempos requeridos entre el diseño y la producción\, permitiendo acelerar los mecanismos de producción flexible de pequeñas cantidades – eventualmente eliminando la necesidad de stocks. Simultáneamente\, la impresión digital acentúa el rol de la economía de servicios y el ascenso de las capacidades de diseño y programación mientras que amenaza las capacidades manufactureras tradicionales. \nDe esta manera\, las tecnologías de impresión digital han sido caracterizadas – de modo grandilocuente- como el comienzo de una “tercera revolución industrial”\, impulsora de procesos de autonomía tecnológica\, y de formas de consumo más sustentable. Entre los grupos que promueven las tecnologías de impresión 3D se incluyen\, de manera divergente\, desde redes de activistas y grupos de innovación de base hasta instituciones estatales y grandes corporaciones. Las promesas de la impresión digital han atraído así tanto a la industria aeroespacial como a grupos sociales que proponen la autoproducción y el fin de la economía de la escasez. Pero\, ¿podrán cumplirse las promesas (y amenazas) de la impresión digital? \nEl gran interés actual sobre la impresión digital y la heterogeneidad de imaginario sobre su futuro constituyen en verdad un llamado a la precaución y el análisis. En este marco\, proponemos debatir más allá de las promesas de “revolución digital”\, haciendo foco en las siguientes cuestiones: ¿Cuáles son los principales alcances y desafíos de la tecnología de impresión 3D en la actualidad? ¿Cuál es el papel de las redes y movimientos sociales\, las empresas y el Estado en la promoción de esta tecnología? ¿De qué manera se pueden facilitar el acceso a estas tecnologías para promover el uso responsable y el desarrollo sustentable? \nModerador: Mariano Fressoli \nPanelistas:\nAdrian Smith (SPRU – STEPS Centre/Universidad de Sussex)\nConstanza Manfredi y Josefina Grinberg (MINCyT)\nRodrigo Perez Weiss (3D Lab fab&café). A confirmar. \nMás información / Find out more
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/las-tecnologias-de-impresion-3d-tensiones-de-una-revolucion-en-ciernes/
LOCATION:Centro Cultural Borges\, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3\, Buenos Aires\, Argentina
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140911T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140911T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140812T140216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222422Z
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SUMMARY:Tackling trade-offs in the food-water-energy nexus: lessons for the SDGs
DESCRIPTION:This 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. \nAchieving poverty eradication and sustained progress in development will depend upon the use of natural resources as we enter a new era of post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs). The longer-term sustainability of natural resources\, threatened by population and income growth\, can be a low priority for many policy-makers in developing countries faced by the immediate challenges of poverty and low productivity. But how these development objectives are achieved can enhance sustainability\, through appropriate policies and practices. In particular\, it requires the integration of policy\, planning and implementation across sectors – especially food\, water and energy. National interpretation and implementation of SDG targets will also require integration across these sectors. \nThis event will examine how certain developing countries have tackled the trade-offs inherent within the food-water-energy nexus\, balancing environmental concerns with the need for development\, and it will reflect on the importance of integrating across sectors for the implementation of the SDGs. New research conducted as part of ODI’s Development Progress project will be discussed\, including: \n\nCase studies on sustainable energy and development in Viet Nam and Brazil\nA case study on sustainable agricultural techniques in Burkina Faso\nA case study on water resource management in China\nA report on development progress and the food-water-energy nexus over the past two decades\n\nThe launch will include a public event with a panel of experts\, followed by an invited roundtable to allow for further inputs and more in-depth discussion. \nFollow #envprogress on Twitter for live coverage. \nMore details and registration (ODI website)  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/tackling-trade-offs-food-water-energy-nexus-lessons-sdgs/
LOCATION:Overseas Development Institute\, 203 Blackfriars Road\, London\, SE1 8NJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140924T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140924T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140812T141919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222026Z
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SUMMARY:The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa
DESCRIPTION:This 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. \nThe event will present new research from Future Agricultures on how agricultural policy in Sub-Saharan Africa is shaped and put into practice\, in the light of changing patterns of growth and investment agendas from within Africa and beyond. \nInterest in African agriculture is high\, with investment from the ‘Rising Powers’ and the US-led New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition competing and interacting with regional\, national and local plans and priorities. \n\nRegister online (ODI website)\n\nEvent details\n9:30 – 17:00 on 24 September 2014\nOverseas Development Institute\, 203 Blackfriars Road\, London\, UK \nTo attend this event\, you must register online at the Overseas Development Institute’s event page. There is no cost to attend. \nAbout the event\nThe Future Agricultures Consortium’s research and analysis\, which has been supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) since 2005\, focuses on the political economy of agricultural policy processes in Sub-Saharan Africa.  The Consortium’s work critically examines how and why agricultural policy decisions are made\, the conditions for change and the practical and policy challenges of establishing and sustaining pro-poor agricultural growth.  This type of analysis is particularly relevant at the present time\, as the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) moves into its second decade and the G-8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NA) unfolds across Africa\, as it is often these political and institutional factors that influence what type of investments are prioritised\, which initiatives take off and who benefits from them. \nIn this event we will present key findings and policy insights emerging from a range of Future Agricultures’ recent research activities on key themes of relevance to CAADP and the NA agendas\, including: \n\nThe political economy of agricultural policy processes\nLand acquisitions and principles of responsible investment\nChanging patterns of agricultural growth and investment\nPathways to improved irrigation performance\nChina and Brazil in Africa and new paradigms of agricultural development\nStrengthening and integrating Africa’s seed systems\nPastoralism\, livestock marketing and dynamic change at the margins\n\nSpeakers include: \n\nBlessings Chinsinga – Senior Lecturer\, University of Malawi\nColin Poulton – Research Fellow\, SOAS\, University of London\nHannington Odame – Interim Executive Director\, Centre for Africa Bio-entrepreneurship (CABE)\nHussein Mahmoud – Lecturer\, Egerton University Kenya\nIan Scoones – Research Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)\nJeremy Lind – Research Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)\nJim Sumberg – Research Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)\nJohn Thompson – Research Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)\nNaomi Oates – Research Officer\, Overseas Development Institute\nRoger Calow – Head of the Water Policy Programme\, Overseas Development Institute\nRuth Hall – Associate Professor\, Institute for Poverty\, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)\nSeth Cook – Senior Researcher\, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)\nSteve Wiggins – Research Fellow\, Overseas Development Institute\n\nFor more information and registration\, visit the event’s page on the ODI website.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/political-economy-agricultural-policy-processes-africa/
LOCATION:Overseas Development Institute\, 203 Blackfriars Road\, London\, SE1 8NJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="Future Agricultures":MAILTO:info@future-agricultures.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141007T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141007T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20141003T130947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T222224Z
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SUMMARY:Energías renovables. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades de desarrollo y qué obstáculos enfrenta la búsqueda de alternativas energéticas sustentables?
DESCRIPTION:Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF\, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3 \nOrganizan: CENIT/UNTREF\, Centro STEPS para América Latina \nEl actual régimen de generación de electricidad en Argentina depende en exceso de la producción de gas y otros hidrocarburos que requieren grandes inversiones en exploración y explotación mientras que cierran el camino a otras alternativas. Sin embargo\, existen alternativas energéticas como el desarrollo de la energía eólica. En la actualidad\, el sector de energía eólica en Argentina es relativamente pequeño\, con 140 kW de capacidad instalada (ya sea en o fuera de la red general de suministro de electricidad)\, que representa alrededor de 0\,4% del total de capacidad de generación de electricidad\, aunque se prevé una expansión considerable para los próximos años. Al mismo tiempo\, empresas estatales y nacionales han desarrollado competencias y se muestran activas en todos los eslabones de producción y generación. Esto incluye: la fabricación de turbinas de gran potencia (IMPSA y NRG Patagonia); manufactura de turbinas de pequeña escala (INVAP y otras pequeñas empresas); una amplia cadena de suministro\, ahora organizada como un cluster industrial; y la construcción\, instalación\, operación y mantenimiento de los parques eólicos. Por último\, la utilización de energías eólicas de baja escala permite crear nichos que favorecen a actores tales como las cooperativas eléctricas que\, a pesar de jugar un papel minoritario en el sistema energético\, cumplen una importante función social. \nEn conjunto\, estos puntos ponen en evidencia que existe la oportunidad de promover el desarrollo de una industria doméstica en este sector\, lo cual resulta crucial dado su alto potencial de creación de empleo\, de desarrollo industrial y regional\, y de exportaciones. En este marco\, proponemos debatir ¿Cuáles son las posibilidades y obstáculos para el desarrollo de las energías renovables\, y en particular la energía eólica para presentar alternativas complementarias a la matriz energética actual? ¿Por qué no se invierte más? ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que se presentan para el desarrollo de la industria doméstica en el futuro? ¿Qué tipo de actores y procesos deberían incentivarse para el desarrollo? ¿Qué podemos aprender de la experiencia internacional (43% de la inversión para generar nuevas capacidades de generación eléctrica a nivel mundial en 2013 fue en energías renovables)? \nModeradores: Patrick van Zwanenberg y Mariano Fressoli \nPanelistas: Daniel Hugo Bouille (Fundación Bariloche)\, Santiago Garrido (Investigador Conicet y IESCT – UNQ). \nEvento en Facebook
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/energias-renovables-cuales-son-las-oportunidades-de-desarrollo-y-que-obstaculos-enfrenta-la-busqueda-de-alternativas-energeticas-sustentables/
LOCATION:Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF\,\, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3\, Buenos Aires\, Argentina
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141008T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141008T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20140922T080712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221622Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Simms - Cancel the Apocalypse: New Pathways to Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:Public lecture organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex \nEver get the feeling that things are falling apart? You’re not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless\, but what if everything could turn out\, well\, even better than before? What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies? \nIt’s a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream\, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports\, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value\, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay. \nIn fascinating and iconoclastic detail – on everything from the cash in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our working lives – Cancel the Apocalypse describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning\, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to our environment\, and hasn’t even made us any happier in the process. \nSimms believes passionately in the human capacity for change\, and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While global warming and financial meltdown might feel like modern day horsemen of the apocalypse\, Simms shows how such end of the world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beginning. \nAndrew Simms is the author of several books\, including Ecological Debt\, The New Economics and the bestselling Tescopoly. He is the chief analyst on the environment at Global Witness\, and was NEF’s policy director for over a decade\, founding its work programme on climate change\, energy and interdependence. He trained at the London School of Economics and was described by New Scientist Magazine as\, ‘a master at joined-up progressive thinking.’ The Independent newspaper listed him as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists and London’s Evening Standard included him in their Power 1000 as one of the capital’s most influential people.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/andrewsimms/
LOCATION:Fulton A Lecture Theatre\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141013T091500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141014T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20141009T131930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221523Z
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SUMMARY:UNFCCC Workshop: Strengthening national systems of innovation in developing countries (+ live webcast)
DESCRIPTION:On 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 climate technology. This workshop will be webcast (see link below).  \nThe workshop includes a presentation by David Ockwell\, convenor of the STEPS Centre’s Energy and Climate Change domain\, on the subject of Transferring climate technology knowledge and developing national capacity to absorb knowledge. \nThe TEC is organizing the workshop to facilitate the implementation of its 2014-2015 rolling workplan. The workshop will support the TEC’s work on enhancing enabling environments for and addressing barriers to technology development and transfer\, in accordance with its mandated functions. It will have three sessions: \n\nStrengthening national systems of innovation\nIssues related to knowledge transfer between national systems of innovation\nKnowledge transfer mechanisms: enhancing collaboration.\n\nFull details of the event\, including an agenda\, background note and speaker biographies\, can be found on the TEC web page about the workshop. \nWebcast and virtual participation\nAll stakeholders are invited to follow the workshop through the live webcast and participate in the workshop discussions via social media. By using the Twitter hashtag #climatetech\, you may tweet questions for the consideration of the workshop participants.\n \n\nView webcast\nTweet questions using #climatetech\n\n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/unfccc-workshop-strengthening-national-systems-innovation-developing-countries-live-webcast/
LOCATION:Wissenschaftszentrum\, Bonn\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141128
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20141008T082344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221447Z
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SUMMARY:What works at the Nexus? Conference
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 pm at the Coin Street Conference Centre in London. \nThis is an opportunity for network members to meet\, hear high-profile keynote speakers\, discuss nexus challenges from a variety of perspectives\, and find out about possibilities for collaboration. \nThe meeting is open to everyone interested in nexus issues\, from academia\, policy organisations\, business\, practitioners and civil society. The event is free but we do ask you to register to secure your place as we expect to be oversubscribed. If you are not able to come in person\, we hope to webcast the event to allow you to take part- more details to follow. \nSECURE YOUR PLACE: Register via eventbrite \nThe STEPS Centre is a lead partner in The Nexus Network\, a new ESRC-funded initiative bringing together researchers\, policy makers\, business leaders and civil society to improve decision making on food\, energy\, water and the environmen \n——————————————————————————– \nAgenda \n09:30 Registration and coffee \n10:00 Navigating the nexus\nProf. James Wilsdon\, Director\, The Nexus Network (chair & introduction) \nKeynote: Prof. Ian Boyd\, Chief Scientific Adviser\, Defra \nPanel:\nProf. Lyla Mehta\,Research Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies\nProf. Ian Bateman\, Professor of Environmental Sciences & Director\, CSERGE\,University of East Anglia\nDr Jake Reynolds\, Director of Business Platforms\, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership \n——————————————————————————– \n11:15 Coffee break \n——————————————————————————– \n11:45 The business of the nexus\nDr Gemma Cranston\, Programme Manager\, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (chair) \nAnna Swaithes\, Head of Water and Food Security Policy\, SABMiller\nDamian Crilly\, Manager\, Environment & Business\, Environment Agency\nAdrian Greet\, Mars \n——————————————————————————– \n13:00 Lunch with poster session for small projects and thinkpieces \n——————————————————————————– \n14:00 Governing the nexus\nProf. Jane Elliott\, Chief Executive\, ESRC (Chair & introduction) \nPanel:\nDr Gemma Harper\, Defra Chief Social Researcher and Deputy Director of Evidence & Analysis\nProf. Michael Bradshaw\, Professor of Global Energy\, Warwick Business School\nProf. Quentin Grafton\, Professor of Economics & Director of the Centre for Water Economics\, Environment and Policy (CWEEP)\, Australian National University\nDr. Heide Hackmann\, Executive Director\, International Social Science Council \n——————————————————————————– \n15:15 Tea break \n——————————————————————————– \n15:45 The global politics of the nexus\nDr Rose Cairns\, Network Coordinator\, The Nexus Network (chair) \nKeynote: Prof. Jacqueline McGlade\, Chief Scientist\, United Nations Environment Programme \nThomas Lingard\, Global Advocacy Director\, Unilever\nProf. Andy Stirling\, Professor of Science & Technology Policy\, University of Sussex & Co-Director of ESRC STEPS Centre\nNick Hildyard\, The Corner House (tbc) \n——————————————————————————– \n17:15 Closing remarks \nMartin Cooke\, Chair\, The Nexus Network Advisory Group\nProf. James Wilsdon\, Director\, The Nexus Network \n17:30 Drinks reception and close
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/works-nexus-conference/
LOCATION:Coin Street Conference Centre\, 108 Stamford St\, London\, SE1 9NH
CATEGORIES:Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Cairns":MAILTO:R.Cairns@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141128T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141128T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20141111T145952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221408Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Science\, Technology and Innovation (STI) Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024)
DESCRIPTION:Organised by the Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa) \nInvited Presenters:\nDr Mahama Ouedraogo\nAg. Director of the AUC/HRST\, African Union Commission \nAssociate Professor Clapperton C. Mavhunga\nProgram in Science\, Technology and Society\, MIT\, USA \nDr David Ockwell\nDeputy Director (Research)\, STEPS\, University of Sussex\, UK \nSenior official (tbc)\nDepartment of Science and Technology\, RSA \nChair: Prof. G Marcelle  \nHead of Centre for Science\, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CESTII)\, HSRC \nDate:  Friday\, 28 November    Time: 12:30  – 14:00 (South Africa time)\nVenue:  Pretoria / Cape Town / Durban (all via video conference)On 3 July 2014\, the African Union adopted the Science\, Technology and Innovation (STI) Strategy for Africa. This policy document\, which is central to shaping Africa science\, technology and innovation activities in the years to come\, has the potential to have significant implications for the socio-economic development of the continent. The strategy has received a range of responses across the continent and internationally. \nCeSTII will be organizing a lunchtime seminar to debate issues around STISA-2024. The seminar will provide a platform for knowledge exchange among academics\, policymakers\, civil society\, think-tanks and the business community. \nCritical issues that will be explored include: the main objectives of STISA-2024; underlying assumptions within the strategy; the roles that relevant research\, policy and practice can play in operationalising STISA-2024; and potential impacts of STISA-2024 on innovation-led growth\, development and competitiveness of the continent. This debate forms part of a series of interventions to initiate policy relevant engagement on STI policy. \nThe seminar may be attended in Pretoria\, Cape Town and Durban. \nRSVP by 27 November\nCape Town: Jean Witten jwitten@hsrc.ac.za\nDurban: Ridhwaan Khan rkhan@hsrc.ac.za\nPretoria: Arlene Grossberg acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-science-technology-innovation-sti-strategy-africa-stisa-2024/
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150129T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20150114T092953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221323Z
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SUMMARY:Synthetic Biology & Global Health - Claire Marris seminar
DESCRIPTION:Synthetic Biology & Global Health: How to move beyond the promises/perils framing?\nClaire Marris\, King’s College London\n \nA seminar co-organised by Centre for Bionetworking\, STEPS Centre and Centre for Global Health Policy \nIn a speech announcing the UK’s “eight great technologies” in 2012\, Chancellor George Osborne stated that “synthetic biology will heal us\, heat [us] and feed us”. Against this articulation of synthetic biology’s promise\, concerns are routinely raised around narrowly defined “potential risks” and “ethical issues”\, but the main concern amongst institutions promoting synthetic biology seems to be that its grand destiny is in danger of being subverted by irrational public perceptions and fears. \nIn this seminar Claire Marris will discuss her efforts to try to shift discussions away from this ‘promises versus perils’ framing. \nDr Claire Marris is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Science\, Health and Medicine at King’s College London. She is deputy leader of SSHM’s Research Group Biotechnology\, Pharmaceuticals and Public Policy and leads SSHM’s research on the social dimensions of synbio. \nFor inquiries about this event email Dr Adrian Ely: a.v.ely@sussex.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/marris/
LOCATION:Room C233\, Arts C\, University of Sussex\, Brighton
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20150123T171457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220353Z
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SUMMARY:Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa
DESCRIPTION:The ‘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 carbon energy and development in Africa’  in London on February 3rd 2015. \nThe workshop will mark the culmination of our ESRC project on The Rising Powers\, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa\, a project affiliated to the STEPS Centre. \nThe workshop will be a platform to present findings from the research and engage with various stakeholders working on similar themes in Africa. It will draw together the key findings from the international research community working on the opportunities and challenges of addressing development\, climate change\, and low carbon energy in Africa together with the experiences of policy-makers and practitioners in this field. \nFor inquiries about the event please email Ankit Kumar; ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/realising-transition/
LOCATION:Royal Society\, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, SW1Y 5AG
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
ORGANIZER;CN="Ankit Kumar":MAILTO:ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150203T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20150123T171457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150123T171457Z
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SUMMARY:Realising the Transition: Addressing the challenges of low carbon energy and development in Africa
DESCRIPTION:The ‘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 carbon energy and development in Africa’  in London on February 3rd 2015. \nThe workshop will mark the culmination of our ESRC project on The Rising Powers\, Clean Energy and the Low Carbon Transition in Southern Africa\, a project affiliated to the STEPS Centre. \nThe workshop will be a platform to present findings from the research and engage with various stakeholders working on similar themes in Africa. It will draw together the key findings from the international research community working on the opportunities and challenges of addressing development\, climate change\, and low carbon energy in Africa together with the experiences of policy-makers and practitioners in this field. \nFor inquiries about the event please email Ankit Kumar; ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/realising-transition-2/
LOCATION:Royal Society\, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, SW1Y 5AG
ORGANIZER;CN="Ankit Kumar":MAILTO:ankit.kumar@durham.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150211T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150211T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20150209T141016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220314Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Providing scientific advice to the UK Parliament | Dr Chandrika Nath
DESCRIPTION:Dr Chandrika Nath\, Deputy Director\, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology \nDr Nath is Deputy Director of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)\, Parliament’s in-house source of scientific advice. In this talk Dr Nath will describe how POST works\, and how research evidence is incorporated into the parliamentary process. She will also talk briefly about POST’s work to support evidence-informed policy making in developing countries. \nDr Nath heads POST’s physical sciences team (covering defence\, security and telecommunications) and oversees POST’s international work. Prior to joining POST she worked at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge and has a doctorate in Particle Physics from Oxford University.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/nath/
LOCATION:Room G22\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Brighton\, BN1 9RH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="Adrian Ely":MAILTO:a.v.ely@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150219T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T022350
CREATED:20150217T102838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T220234Z
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SUMMARY:'India's Risks' book launch
DESCRIPTION:Book launch: ‘India’s Risks: Democratizing the Management of Threats to Environment\, Health and Values’\n \nWith Professor M V Rajeev Gowda\, Honorable Member of Parliament and Professor Ian Scoones\, STEPS Centre\, Institute of Development Studies\, University of Sussex UK \nThursday 19 February at 6.00 – 7.30 pm at The British Council\, New Delhi \nLive streamed video coverage (starts 6.30pm Delhi time) \n \nProf M V Rajeev Gowda will be introducing his new book\, co-edited with Raphaelle Moor\, in conversation with a range of eminent panellists: \n\nProfessor Shiv Visvanathan\, Professor and Vice Dean\, Centre for the Study of Science\, Society and Sustainability\, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy\, O.P. Jindal University\nMr Keshav Desiraju\, Secretary\, GOI Ministry of Consumer Affairs\, Food and Public Distribution\nDr Nafees Meah\, Director – Research Councils UK\, India\n\nIn association with the British Council. \nEnquiries/RSVP: Lakshyata.sinha@britishcouncil.org \n\n  \nAbout the book \nA prospective superpower\, India is still grappling with a host of risks that threaten to hamper its progress. These range from environmental threats caused by GM crops and pollution; dangers to health from HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality; safety concerns about natural hazards\, nuclear power\, and industrial disasters; and challenges to livelihoods and values. \nSome of the issues that this volume explores are: what counts as an ‘acceptable’ risk\, and who decides? How should divergent perceptions of risks be reconciled? And\, where is the line between science and politics? Advocating a more multidimensional approach to managing risks\, the authors challenge many of the dominant perspectives in India. \nThe field of risk research\, which has emerged over the last 40 years in the West\, has been relatively unexplored in India. In an effort to bridge this gap\, this volume brings together Indian and Western scholars and practitioners across the fields of psychology\, anthropology\, law\, politics\, sociology\, public health\, philosophy\, science\, and architecture\, who offer insights on the theory of risk\, lessons from the West\, and the realities of risk in India. \nBuy the book online \nRead more about ‘India’s Risks’ \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/indias-risks-book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Sustainable Development at a Crossroad: Transformation of the Industrial State during a Perfect Storm
DESCRIPTION:STEPS/SPRU seminar \nNicholas A. Ashford\, PhD.\, JD. \nProfessor of Technology and Policy and Director of the Technology and Law Program\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). \nThe most important barriers to achieving a transformation to a more sustainable industrial system is lock-in or path dependency due to (1) the failure to envision\, design\, and implement policies that achieve co-optimization\, or the mutually reinforcing – rather than the compromising – of societal goals (economic welfare\, environmental quality\, and employment/earning capacity) and (2) entrenched economic and political interests that game (and gain from) the present system and advancement of its current trends. System-wide change requires system-wide thinking and action. \nSound legislative and programmatic changes\, and an independent judiciary\, are compromised by gridlock\, corruption\, and diversionary tactics while the debates we should be having are sidestepped by the media and self-serving political maneuvering. Sustainable development requires both technological and institutional changes\, while ‘opening up the participatory and political space’ to enable new voices to contribute to integrated systems thinking and solutions. Societal innovations and transformation are also needed but they are insufficient by themselves to transcend technical\, economic\, financial\, and political lock-in. However\, technology is neither the major barrier nor the solution. Financial and political reform is key to accomplishing both. \nInsights from Prof Ashford’s recent book with Ralph Hall: Technology\, Globalization\, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2011\, Yale University Press) will inform the presentation.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/sustainable-development-at-a-crossroad-ashford/
LOCATION:Arts A04\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Mission-Oriented Public Investments?
DESCRIPTION:Mission-Oriented Public Investments? State Investment Banks & Picking-Winner Policies\n\nSpeakers: Mariana Mazzucato and Caetano Penna \nDiscussants: Martin Bell and Stephany Griffith-Jones \nThis event is jointly hosted by the STEPS Centre and IDS Business and Development Centre \n\nLive Streaming   Tuesday 10 March 2015 12:30 to 14:00 \nRefreshments will be provided from 12:00 IDS Convening Space \n\nThis seminar focuses on the rise of state investment banks (SIBs) as lead funders of ‘mission-oriented’ innovation in various countries’ agendas regarding ‘smart’ (innovation-led) growth\, arguing that the market failure justification for public finance does not capture the increasingly active role that such banks are playing in shaping and creating markets. \nIt will also look at mission-oriented investments by other types of public funding agencies — sometimes branded as ‘picking winner’ policies—with a particular focus on the need for metrics to evaluate such investments in a way that captures the market shaping (vs. fixing) role of public investments. \nAbout the Speakers\nMariana Mazzucato is a Professor in the Economics of Innovation in the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)\, University of Sussex. Her work focuses on the economics of innovation; finance and economic growth; and the role of the State in modern capitalism. She advises policy makers globally on how to achieve ‘smart’ – innovation led – and more inclusive economic growth. \nHer recent book\, The Entrepreneurial State: debunking private vs. public sector myths\, challenges the image of the lethargic\, regulating state versus the dynamic business sector\, showing how some of the most high risk and courageous investments that led to revolutions in IT\, biotechnology and nanotechnology\, were sparked by public sector institutions. She is winner of the New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy and in 2013 the New Republic called her one of the ‘3 most important thinkers about innovation’. \nCaetano C.R. Penna obtained his PhD in Science and Technology Policy from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)\, University of Sussex\, in 2014; his MA in Technology Governance from the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance\, TUT\, Estonia in 2009\, and his BA in Economics and Political Economy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 2006. \nDr Penna was a Research Fellow in Finance and Innovation at SPRU until November 2014\, where he played a leading role in linking two research projects led by Professor Mariana Mazzucato (INET’s Financing Innovation and Ford Foundation’s Finance and The Entrepreneurial State). Together with Mazzucato\, he has developed the video project Rethinking the State. He is a founding partner of BabelTeam Internet Business Solutions\, and has previously worked at the Investor Relations department of Petrobras\, the Brazilian oil company. \nDiscussants\nMartin Bell\, an historian and economist\, is an Emeritus Professor at SPRU\, University of Sussex. His research has been concerned with processes of building industrial innovation capabilities in Asian\, Latin American and African economies. He focuses in particular on the roles of these capabilities in the long-term evolution of innovation systems in these countries\, and on the influence of those paths on both the structural diversification of their economies and their possible transitions towards more sustainable futures. \nStephanie Griffith Jones is an economist working on global capital flows\, with particular focus on flows to emerging markets\, macro-economic management of capital flows in Latin America\, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa\, proposals for international measures to diminish volatility of capital flows and reduce the likelihood of currency crises\, analysis of national and international capital markets and international financial reform.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-mission-oriented-public-investments/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:The inclusive turn of neoliberal conservation? Opportunities and threats of REDD+ in Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:Seminar by STEPS visiting fellow Andreas Scheba \nThe rise of new markets\, or market-like instruments\, in the realm of nature conservation is a key feature of global discourse and strategies around the ‘green’ economy. Innovative ways of measuring\, valuing and trading nature have emerged that enjoy increasing support among public and private stakeholders. At the same time\, critical scholarship has warned against the problematic and contradictory logic of what they call ‘neoliberal conservation’\, raising valid questions of: How does pricing nature contribute to its protection? Who benefits from the new commodities? Who loses? What has politics got to do with it? \nThis seminar will investigate these questions in the context of REDD+ in Lindi\, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two remote\, forest-dependent villages\, I will discuss how and why neoliberal conservation emerges and manifest itself in a deprived rural context; and what effects it has on forest governance\, rural livelihoods and conservation practice. \nThe role of discourse\, politics and power over forest resources will be critically examined\, both currently and in a historical perspective. The findings of my analysis will lead me to argue for an ‘inclusive’ turn in neoliberal conservation that offers both opportunities and challenges for sustainable democratic futures. \nAndreas Scheba is an Austrian born\, early-career researcher who recently completed his PhD in Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester. His doctoral thesis examined the politics and development effects of REDD+ in the Lindi region of Tanzania\, for which he conducted ethnographic research in two remote\, forest-dependent villages.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-inclusive-turn-of-neoliberal-conservation-opportunities-and-threats-of-redd-in-tanzania/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature - Theory\, Politics and Practice
DESCRIPTION:University of Sussex\, 19-20th March 2015 \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy & STEPS Centre \nUpdate (2 March 2015): A public roundtable on this topic will be held in Brighton on 19 March\, with contributions from Melissa Leach\, Hannah Mowat\, Larry Lohman\, Antonio Tricarico and Bram Büscher.\n \nDownload the conference programme (PDF)  \nCarbon markets in China\, fishery bycatch offsetting in Canada\, catastrophe bonds in the US\, weather derivatives in Ethiopia\, betting on species extinction such as Norwegian sharks… \nThese are just a few examples of the commodification\, marketisation and financialisation of nature. In what ways can we best make sense of these developments? What practical\, political and theoretical innovations will allow us to better understand them\, engage with them and contest them? \nWe invite participants from any discipline to a 1.5 day intensive workshop bringing together doctoral and early career researchers to discuss\, theorise and critically reflect on the practical and political implications of the commodification\, marketisation and financialisation of nature. Papers should focus on questions including (but not limited to): \n\nWhat are the challenges\, contradictions and limits that arise from the creation of these new forms of market-based environmental products and services?\nWhat are the new materialities and commodities of nature that are created through these novel forms of governance?\nHow do these processes change the way we relate to nature\, govern nature\, live in nature and indeed are governed by nature?\nHow does the marketisation or financialisation of nature relate to other forms of accumulation and the wider political economy?\nWhat kinds of (new) power relations are (re)produced through the making of environmental markets\, and what social and environmental justice issues are brought to light or develop in response to these (neoliberal?) phenomena?\n\nParticipants will be required to submit full papers in advance of the workshop and are expected to read each other’s work beforehand to enable in-depth engagement with one another’s arguments. The sessions will be chaired by academics working in the field who will also provide feedback on papers. Moreover\, the workshop will bring together activists and academics for a panel discussion\, reflecting on the interlinkages between activism and research on the financialisation of nature. \nSpeakers \nPresenters will include: \nConfirmed speakers  \n\nProf James Fairhead (Chair in Social Anthropology\, University of Sussex)\nLarry Lohmann (The Corner House)\nHannah Mowat (FERN)\nProf Peter Newell (STEPS/Centre for Global Political Economy\, University of Sussex)\nProf Ian Scoones (STEPS/Institute of Development Studies)\n\nInvited speakers (tbc) \n\nJutta Kill\nProf John O’Neill\nCatherine Corson\n\nRegistration is free and food will be provided. We have some funding for accommodation and travel for a limited number of doctoral researchers. Details about applying for this funding will be sent out once abstracts have been selected. \nThis event is financially supported by Sussex University’s Doctoral School’s Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) fund.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/critical-perspectives-financialisation-nature-theory-politics-practice/
LOCATION:University of Sussex\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics
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SUMMARY:Public Roundtable: Nature As Commodity
DESCRIPTION:Download poster (PDF)\nFishery 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 from here? \nPanel: \n\nMelissa Leach (Director\, Institute of Development Studies)\nHannah Mowat (Fern\, Belgium)\nLarry Lohman (The Corner House)\nAntonio Tricarico (Re:Common\, Italy)\nBram Büscher (Wageningen University)\n\nThis public roundtable discussion is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy\, University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre\, and financially supported by Sussex University’s Doctoral School’s Researcher-Led Initiative (RLI) fund. It is linked to a conference exploring critical perspectives on the financialisation of nature. \nAll welcome – free entry \nShare this event with others \n\nFacebook event page\nDownload a printable poster (PDF)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/roundtable-nature-as-commodity/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship St\, Brighton\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics
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