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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160411T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160411T133000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions
DESCRIPTION:Towards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions \nSTEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30\, Monday 11 April 2016\nRoom C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room)\, Arts C\, University of Sussex \nHelene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania  and societal transformation. She will explain why and how electrification processes simultaneously reinforce social inequality and enhance social mobility. \nAhlborg studies the co-development of technology and society and how the provision of electricity services\, based on small-scale renewable energy resources\, impacts on people’s lives and transforms rural communities. She also looks at how the local context and relations of power influence the electrification process and impact on the long–term viability of the energy system. \nHelene belongs to the interdisciplinary research group STEEP-RES (Socio-Technical-Ecological Evaluations of Potential Renewable Energy Systems) at Chalmers University of Technology\, Göteborg\, Sweden. Find out more about Helene Ahlborg. \nEveryone welcome!
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-helene-ahlborg-on-power-and-politics-politics-in-energy-transitions/
LOCATION:Global Studies Resource Centre\, Arts C175\, University of Sussex\, BN1 9SJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160317T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160318T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151105T164832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211704Z
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SUMMARY:One Health for the Real World: zoonoses\, ecosystems and wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:This symposium\, being held 17-18 March 2016 at the Zoological Society of London\,  will bring together leading experts from different fields to discuss the topic ‘Healthy ecosystems\, healthy people’. Co-organised by the STEPS-led Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium and ZSL\, in partnership with the Royal Society\, it will: \n\nPresent new interdisciplinary frameworks for a real-world One Health approach.\nHighlight evidence from field-based settings in Africa and beyond.\nDebate implications for policy and practice.\n\nFind out more at bit.ly/OneHealth2016
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/one-health-for-the-real-world-zoonoses-ecosystems-and-wellbeing/
CATEGORIES:Health & disease
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160229T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160229T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20160216T134524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211854Z
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SUMMARY:Resource Conflicts & Social Justice - Nexus Network workshop
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the notion of the nexus has gained traction in the domain of natural resource governance. It has become the defining vocabulary to understand the interlinkages between land\, water\, food and climate. Since the 2008 World Economic Forum pushed key players to be concerned about water\, food and energy security and their interlinkages\, the nexus has become a strong policy metaphor to address the ‘world in crises’. \nDate: Monday 29 February 2016.\nVenue: Institute of Development Studies\, Brighton\, UK \nEvent page (Nexus Network website)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-conflicts-social-justice-nexus-network-workshop/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160226T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160226T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20160203T110916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T211932Z
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SUMMARY:How can the ecological impact of the richest 1% be reduced at a time of extreme inequality?
DESCRIPTION:Seminar with Dario Kenner\n1.00-2.30 Friday 26 February 2016\, IDS room 221 \nRecent research by Oxfam and French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel indicates that the richest 1% of people in many countries\, including the United Kingdom\, have huge per capita carbon footprints compared to the rest of the population. The fact that richer people have a larger ecological impact is not that surprising. The question is what to do about it. Dario Kenner\, who has recently published a working paper on the inequality of overconsumption\, will talk about the difficulty in getting the richest 1% to reduce their negative impact on the environment. \nAbout Dario Kenner\nDario Kenner is an independent researcher who launched whygreeneconomy.org in 2013 as a space to share ideas on the policies that should be adopted to address climate change and biodiversity loss. He has extensive experience of working on the environment and in international development\, including lobbying at UN climate change conferences and Rio+20. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/how-can-the-ecological-impact-of-the-richest-1-be-reduced-at-a-time-of-extreme-inequality/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160223T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160225T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150205T121545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210404T163231Z
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SUMMARY:Contested Agronomy: whose agronomy counts?
DESCRIPTION:Contested Agronomy: whose agronomy counts? is a conference about the battlefields in agricultural research\, past and present. \n23-25 February 2016\nInstitute of Development Studies\nBrighton\, UK \nConference website \nDownload the programme\nDownload the conference programme (PDF\, 1MB) \nThe programme contains full details of presentations in the plenary and parallel sessions. It also has the full text of abstracts submitted by participants for posters and conference papers. \n\nConference themes\nContributions have been invited on any aspect of the politics of knowledge within the field of agronomy. \nCase studies of historical or present day significance to the developing world are of particular interest. These cases might focus on the history or nature of contestation; actors and coalitions; political and institutional drivers and dynamics; or the implications of contestation (e.g. for the field of agronomy\, for researchers and research institutions\, for journals\, for policy or for farmers). \nApplications to join this conference are now closed. \n\nOrganising Committee:\n\nJames Sumberg (Institute of Development Studies/STEPS Centre)\nJohn Thompson (Institute of Development Studies/STEPS Centre)\nKen Giller (Wageningen UR)\nJens Andersson (CIMMYT – International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)\n\nThis event is supported by the STEPS Centre\, and co-hosted by the Institute of Development Studies\, Plant Production Systems Group\, Wageningen University\, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Future Agricultures Consortium.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/contested-agronomy-cases-dynamics-implications/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Research methods
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160208T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160208T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20160203T102126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212309Z
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SUMMARY:Leverhulme Lecture: 'The Degrowth hypothesis'
DESCRIPTION:Leverhulme Lecture: ‘The Degrowth hypothesis’\nGiorgos Kallis\, ICREA professor at ICTA\, Autonomous University of Barcelona; visiting professor at SOAS \nMonday 8 February at 4-5.30pm\nConvening Space\, Institute of Development Studies\nBrighton\, UK \nIf we are to radically reduce carbon emissions and material use\, we have to abolish the pursuit of economic growth and develop institutions and structures that secure social sustainability under conditions of economic contraction. \nHosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and the STEPS Centre.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/leverhulme-lecture-the-degrowth-hypothesis/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160129T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20160112T115503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T084006Z
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SUMMARY:International Conference: Pathways to Sustainable Urbanisation
DESCRIPTION:International Conference: Pathways to Sustainable Urbanisation \n29-30 January 2016\nJawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, India \n \nCities in India and other South Asian nations are in the midst of experiencing rapid urbanization. In this time of growth\, safeguarding environmental integrity and social justice will be decisive for the health and livelihoods of citizens. This conference\, organised by the South Asia Sustainability Hub & Knowledge Network\, focused on the possibilities for sustainable urban transformations. \nWhilst urbanisation brings the creation of new opportunities for some\, it can also pose enormous challenges for poor and marginalised citizens in cities and in peri-urban areas. \n\nConference proceedings\nAfter the event\, a Conference Proceedings document was published by the organisers. \nAs well as background and concept notes\, the Proceedings include summaries of the discussion in each session at the conference and full details of speakers and the programme. \nDownload: Conference Proceedings (pdf\, 830kb) \n\nAbout the conference\nThis conference was organised by the South Asia Sustainability Hub & Knowledge Network (SASH&KN)\, and was the hub’s first activity immediately after its launch in Delhi. It comprised a series of plenary sessions and working group discussions\, with invited speakers from around the globe. \nTopics: \n\nUrban sustainability: perspectives and approaches\nEnvironment\, health and sustainable cities: what next for the ‘nexus’?\nGrowth and urban sustainability\nSocial mobilization and sustainable urban transformation\nDeveloping future research agendas: what is to be done?\n\n\nRelated events\nWorkshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Below and Above\n27-28 January 2016\, Delhi \nLaunch: South Asia Sustainability Hub & Knowledge Network\, 28 January 2016 \nSTEPS-JNU symposium: Exploring pathways to Sustainability\, 2014 \n\nResources\nWaste not\, want not Digital story (Medium.com) \nThe Water Cookbook Graphic novel \nContested sustainabilities in the peri-urban interface Report \nBangalore: Living in a global city Film \nWater and justice: peri-urban pathways in Delhi Film \nResilience and the peri-urban: limitations and potential Briefing
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/international-conference-pathways-to-sustainable-urbanisation/
LOCATION:Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, India
CATEGORIES:Urbanisation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20160128T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20160128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20160111T161327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212452Z
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SUMMARY:Launch: South Asia Sustainability Hub
DESCRIPTION:Inauguration: South Asia Sustainability Hub & Knowledge Network (SASH&KN) \nLaunch of ‘Friends of Sustainability’ \n28 January 2016 at 6pm – 9 pm\nNew Delhi\, India \nRSVP: trcssjnu@gmail.com\nby 20 January 2016 \n\nFind out more\nRead more about the launch event \nRead more about the South Asia Sustainability Hub
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/launch-south-asia-sustainability-hub/
CATEGORIES:Understanding sustainability
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160127T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20160113T105944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T105548Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Climate Change and Uncertainty from Above and Below
DESCRIPTION:27-28 January\nNew Delhi\, India \nFor more details\, see the workshop page.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/workshop-climate-change-and-uncertainty-from-above-and-below/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Research methods
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151210T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151210T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151204T085100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212837Z
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SUMMARY:STEPS Lunchtime Seminar: ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an upcoming STEPS lunchtime seminar on ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’\, given by Professor Glenn Davis Stone\, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)\, on Thursday\, 10th December 2015\, from 12.30-2pm\, at the IDS Convening Space. \nIn this talk\, Glenn Stone will draw on long-term research on various technological regimes in agriculture to advance our theory of agricultural decision-making and to stake out a set of key issues for upcoming research. In particular I focus on how different introduced technologies change farmer attitudes\, decision-making\, and understandings of agricultural phenomena. The talk will draw on Glenn’s long career of research in Nigeria and India as well as ongoing research in Philippines\, looking at the technological regimes surrounding transgenic cotton and various types of rice – hybrid\, heirloom\, and transgenic Golden Rice. \nAll welcome!  \n\nGlenn Stone is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his ethnographic work in Nigeria and India on small-scale farming and agricultural technology\, and particularly in recent years for his longitudinal studies on the impacts on farmers’ systems of seeds\, knowledge and learning (skilling) of transgenic Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh (Telangana)\, India.\nYou can find more information about Glenn here:\nhttps://anthropology.artsci.wustl.edu/stone_glenn\nhttp://pages.wustl.edu/stone\nhttp://fieldquestions.com/ – this is Glenn’s entertaining and informative blog offering ‘the rest of the story on food\, farming and biotechnology’ \nGlenn is visiting Sussex on 10 & 11 December as a Visiting Fellow of the STEPS Centre\, hosted by Dr. Dominic Glover (d.glover@ids.ac.uk). If you wish to meet Glenn during his visit please contact Dominic to request an appointment.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-lunchtime-seminar-the-making-and-unmaking-of-agricultural-knowledge/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\,  Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151209T164500
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151209T181500
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151111T152022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151111T152022Z
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SUMMARY:COP21 side event: Scaling-up investment in clean energy in developing countries
DESCRIPTION:Scaling-up investment in clean energy in developing countries\nSide events area\, Room OR 12\nLe Bourget conference centre\, Paris\n9 December at 16:45 – 18.15 \nMany policies and donor initiatives target renewable energy and energy efficiency\, yet investment levels remain low. Participants will discuss how they are addressing finance and policy gaps\, de-risking nascent markets for clean energy and catalysing green entrepreneurship and growth. \nSpeakers: (some tbc) Dr Ana Pueyo (IDS)\, Martin Hiller (REEEP)\, Dr Tobias Schmidt (ETH)\, Oliver Waissbein (UNDP) Prof Peter Newell (University of Sussex)\, Peter Storey (CTI PFAN)\, Dr Steve Comello (Stanford University)\, Dr Maria Mendiluce (WBCSD)\, Dr Hilton Trollip (University of Cape Town). \nThis is a side event at the UN COP21 conference on climate change.  \nRead more on our activities at COP21 \nView a list of all the side events at COP21 (UNFCCC website) \nUpdates\nSign up to our special COP21 mailing list for updates on our events\, new articles and comment direct from the conference.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/scaling-investment-cop21-2/
LOCATION:OR12\, Side events area\,  Le Bourget Conference Centre\, Paris\, France
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151203T200948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212858Z
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SUMMARY:Asia's Giants: media briefing + drinks reception
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, December 4th from 7pm-9pm; short briefing and Q&A at 7.30pm \nWhere: Holiday Inn Paris Gare de l’Est\, 5\, rue du 8 Mai 1945 75010 Paris \nHow is China shifting to a low-carbon economy? Will low-carbon innovation in China affect decarbonisation pathways elsewhere? Why do Indian policymakers insist on low-carbon rather than no-carbon? What are the prospects of India’s ambitious solar programme? \nJoin us for a briefing at 7.30pm from: Adrian Ely\, Co-Investigator\, Low Carbon Innovation in China project; Isabel Hilton\, CEO and Editor\, chinadialogue; Joydeep Gupta\, Editor\, India Climate Dialogue; Sam Geall\, Research Fellow\, University of Sussex; and Yu Jie\, Climate Analyst at chinadialogue. \nThere will also be drinks\, opportunities to talk to experts\, and copies of the reports China’s Low Carbon Future Offers Global Opportunities and Hot Air: Climate negotiations and India available. \nPlease confirm attendance by email: info@chinadialogue.net \n\nAbout the reports\nChina’s Low Carbon Future Offers Global Opportunities\, by chinadialogue\, the Low Carbon Innovation in China project and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit\, illustrates the dynamism of China’s low-carbon development and asks if China’s more ambitious approach to climate change could create incentives for other countries to move in a similar direction. \nHot Air: Climate negotiations and India\, by India Climate Dialogue\, traces the evolution of India’s climate policy and its stance at climate negotiations over the last few decades; how India has championed the cause of the developing world.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/asias-giants-media-briefing-drinks-reception/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151204T150000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151111T150140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T212940Z
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SUMMARY:COP21 side event: Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs)
DESCRIPTION:Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders (CRIBs): how to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism\n \nClimate Generations area\, Salle 1\nLe Bourget Conference Centre\, Paris\n4 December at 15.00-16.30 \nListen to the audio recording\n \n\nCOP21 side event: How to strengthen the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism by Stepscentre on  Mixcloud \n\n\nAbout this session\nThe session focuses on how the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism can be strengthened to promote the building of national systems of innovation (NSIs) in developing countries. NSIs are essential to fostering the development and transfer of technology for both climate change adaptation and mitigation. Speakers will examine what policies\, institutional arrangements\, capabilities and interventions the Technology Mechanism can promote to support NSI-building. The panellists will draw from research undertaken in a range of developing countries\, focussing especially on Africa but with reference to developing Asia and Latin America\, to provide practical recommendations on ways forward. \nSpeakers: Dr Rob Byrne (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex)\, Dr Cosmas Ochieng (ACTS)\, Dr Heleen de Coninck (Radboud University)\, Jonah Osore (Kenya Office of the Deputy President)\, Adrian Ely (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex). \nPolicy Briefing: CRIBs (Climate Relevant Innovation-system Builders) A powerful new focus for international climate technology policy \n\nThis is a side event at the UN COP21 conference on climate change.  \nRead more on our activities at COP21 \nView a list of all the side events at COP21 (UNFCCC website) \n  \nUpdates\nSign up to our special COP21 mailing list for updates on our events\, new articles and comment direct from the conference.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop21-side-event-climate-relevant-innovation-system-builders-cribs/
LOCATION:Salle 1\, Climate Generations Area\, Le Bourget conference centre\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T150000
DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Azores:20151201T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151111T145833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213053Z
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SUMMARY:COP21 side event: Mitigation contributions from developing countries
DESCRIPTION:Mitigation contributions from developing countries: innovation\, technology and scenario analysis\nSide events area\, Room OR 03\nLe Bourget conference centre\, Paris\n1 December at 15.00- 16.30 \nThe Paris Agreement requires country-level implementation\, where institutional capabilities and integrated assessment modelling capacities are needed. With colleagues from Colombia and Kenya we show how collaboration on scenario analysis and work through the Technology Mechanism can contribute. \nSpeakers (some tbc): Rob Byrne (STEPS Centre/SPRU\, University of Sussex)\, Cosmas Ochieng (African Centre for Technology Studies)\, Heleen de Coninck (University of Nijmegen)\, Ambuj Sagar (Indian Institute of Technology)\, James Falzon (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands). Chair: Gabriel Blanco (UNICEN / UN Technology Executive Committee) \nThis is a side event at the UN COP21 conference on climate change.  \nRead more on our activities at COP21 \nView a list of all the side events at COP21 (UNFCCC website) \nUpdates\nSign up to our special COP21 mailing list for updates on our events\, new articles and comment direct from the conference.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/cop21-side-event-mitigation-contributions-from-developing-countries/
LOCATION:Room OR03\, Side events area\, Le Bourget conference centre\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
ORGANIZER;CN="Unnamed Organizer":MAILTO:R.P.Byrne@sussex.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151127T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151127T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151013T082735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213257Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: ‘Development without Growth?’
DESCRIPTION:‘Development without Growth?’ \nRay Cunningham\, Jonathan Essex\, Tom Lines \nFriday 27th November\, 13.00 – 14.30\, Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\nThis seminar is jointly held with the Resource Politics cluster at IDS.\n \nIn 2013\, the green think tank Green House published ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, which argues that economic growth\, as conventionally measured\, is over for the UK in anything but the very short term. It examines some of the many far-reaching implications of this insight\, which contradicts mainstream economic and political assumptions. The focus of the book is the implications for the UK. \nIn this seminar\, as well as outlining the core argument of the book\, we want to address the implications of the end of growth in the UK for its role in the global economy. Beyond that\, we want to open up the question of what an end to growth more widely in the ‘developed’ world will mean for the global economy and especially for ‘developing’ countries\, and indeed for our understanding of development as a concept. \nEveryone welcome! \nAbout Ray Cunningham\, Jonathan Essex\, Tom Lines\nRay Cunningham \nGreen House Coordinator\, joint editor of ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, former Director of the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society. \nJonathan Essex \nOne of the authors of ‘The Post-Growth Project’\, a chartered engineer and environmentalist. He has worked for engineering consultants and contractors in the UK\, Bangladesh and Vietnam. He is currently a sustainability consultant at IMC Worldwide\, and a borough and county councillor in Surrey. \nTom Lines \nIDS graduate with 20 years’ international consultancy experience\, specialising in trade and finance as they affect poor countries. Previously a business journalist on commodity markets\, and lecturer in international business at Edinburgh University. \nThis is a locally-sourced event. Jonathan is based in Redhill\, while Ray and Tom both live in Brighton. \n\nPlease contact Annie Lowden (a.lowden@ids.ac.uk) for further details.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-politics-cluster-seminar-development-without-growth/
LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Resource politics,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151120T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151120T144500
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151117T153735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213641Z
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SUMMARY:‘The ethos of scientific advice’ Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Arthur Peterson\, from STEaPP\, UCL\, will give a seminar on ‘The ethos of scientific advice’ as part of the SPRU Friday Seminar Series on Friday\, 20th November 2015. The seminar will be chaired by Andy Stirling (SPRU)\, and followed by a Roundtable on ‘Dilemmas of Uncertainty in the Politics of Science and Innovation’\, with James Wilsdon and Erik Millstone as panellists. \nThe seminar will begin at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre 144 in the Jubilee Building\, at the University of Sussex\, and end at approximately 2.45pm. \nAll welcome!  \nPlease note sandwiches will be available beforehand from 12:45pm. Coffee/tea/biscuits will be available from 2pm after a very short break\, introducing the discussion sessions. \n********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** \nAbstract:  \nThere are many theories that can inform analysis of how science advice is done or should be done. Here I define “science advice” as “practices involving individuals\, organisations and structures that mobilise natural and social scientific and engineering knowledge into public decision-making”. In this seminar\, I will demonstrate that although some theories are well elaborated\, empirical proof for the described changes\, roles and processes in scientific advice is limited. After reviewing literature and outstanding questions on roles of scientific advisors at local\, national and international levels\, I will offer a pragmatist analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Subsequently\, I will assess capacity-building needs in science advice across a range of cultural and political contexts\, and governance scales: What skills do future science advisors and recipients of science advice need to deal responsibly with their tasks? I will conclude with presenting elements of an ethos of scientific advice\, which are based on experiences with implementing post-normal science at the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. \nBio: \nProfessor Arthur C Petersen (DPA PhD MA MSc) joined UCL STEaPP fulltime in September 2014 after more than 13 years’ work as scientific adviser on environment and infrastructure policy within the Dutch Government. Most recently he served as Chief Scientist of the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2011–2014).\nArthur is also Adjunct Professor of Science and Environmental Public Policy at the VU University Amsterdam (since 2011) and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (since 2009)\, and has been Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2009–2014) and at UCL STEaPP (January–August 2014).\nArthur studied physics and philosophy\, obtained doctorate degrees in atmospheric sciences (Doctor of Philosophy – PhD\, Utrecht University\, 1999) and philosophy of science (Doctor of Public Administration – DPA\, VU University Amsterdam\, 2006)\, and now also finds disciplinary homes in anthropology and political science. Most of his research is about managing uncertainty. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-ethos-of-scientific-advice-seminar/
LOCATION:SPRU\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151120
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150924T134825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213349Z
UID:7799-1447891200-1447977599@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Nexus network conference: 'Scales\, levels and spaces of the nexus'
DESCRIPTION:The Nexus Network second Annual Conference will be held on Thursday 19 November 2015\, in central London. \nQuestions of scale are crucial in addressing the linked nexus challenges of food\, energy\, water and the environment. The nexus is often framed as a global security problem\, but this can obscure alternative understandings of interactions and trade-offs at local\, regional and national levels. \nRegister now using the Eventbrite form. \nFull details (Nexus Network website)
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/nexus-network-conference-scales-levels-and-spaces-of-the-nexus/
CATEGORIES:Resource politics
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151116T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151116T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151104T132606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213419Z
UID:7973-1447678800-1447684200@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Centre Seminar “Will Africa Feed China?”
DESCRIPTION:The STEPS Centre Seminar on ‘Will Africa Feed China?” was by Professor Deborah Bräutigam and took place at the IDS Convening Space\, on 16th November 2015\, 13:00-14.30.  \nAudio recording: \n \nIs China building an empire in rural Africa? China has nine percent of the world’s arable land\, six percent of its water\, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa’s savannahs and river basins host expanses of underutilized land and water. Some believe that China is buying up African land to grow food to ship back home. \nIn her book Will Africa Feed China?\, Deborah Bräutigam probes the activities behind headlines. Challenging conventional wisdom\, she finds that Chinese farming investments and land acquisitions are surprisingly limited. China exports more food to Africa than it imports. Will this change? As Africa pushes for foreign capital\, China encourages its agribusiness firms to “go global”. International concerns about “land grabbing” are justified. Yet to feed its own population\, Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Will Africa Feed China? introduces the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and entrepreneurial private investors who followed. Their fascinating stories\, and those of African farmers and officials\, ground Bräutigam’s informative\, balanced reporting. Forcefully argued and empirically rich\, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work\, enlightening China’s quest for food security and Africa’s possibilities for structural transformation. \nAll welcome!  \n\nDeborah Bräutigam is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy\, Director of the International Development Program\, and Director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa and many studies on Chinese engagement in Africa. Previously\, she served as Director of the Economic and Political Development Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Professor at American University’s School of International Service. In addition to advising over a dozen governments on China-Africa relations\, she has served as visiting scholar at the World Bank and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Her book—Will Africa Feed China?— will be published in October 2015 by Oxford University Press.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-centre-seminar-will-africa-feed-china/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Resource politics,Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151105T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151106T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20170126T093405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170126T093405Z
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SUMMARY:Opening up the development agenda: STEPS América Latina launch
DESCRIPTION:The event ‘Opening up the development agenda’\, to mark the launch of the STEPS América Latina hub\, took place on 5 and 6 November in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. \n\nBlog posts\nOpening up democratic politics for sustainable development\, by Andy Stirling\, 24 November 2015 \nOpening up science and development in Latin America\, by Nathan Oxley\, 8 November 2015 \nSharing the Open Source Seed Initiative at STEPS América Latina\, by Claire Luby\, 12 November 2015 \nWhat are we doing when we do open science and inclusive innovation? by Adrian Smith\, 12 November 2015 \n\n  \n \nPhotos from the event – see our gallery on Flickr \nThe event\, which brought together an international line-up of speakers\, included panels on open science\, inclusive innovation\, horizontal innovation for sustainability\, and natural resources and development. \nThere were also participatory sessions on the politics of open knowledge production\, and to envisage a new research agenda for sustainable innovation and development for Latin America. \n\nPanels and sessions\nFull information about the panels and sessions (in Spanish) is on the STEPS America Latina website. \n5 November\nInnovation for inclusion and sustainable development\nJudith Sutz\, Benito Juarez Velez and Paula Peylourbet. Discussant: Adrian Ely \nOpen Science\nLeslie Chan\, Sarita Albagli\, Mariano Fressoli and Valeria Arza. Discussant: Pablo Kreimer \nThe politics of opening up knowledge production\nCristian Matti (facilitator) \nSummary: Open science and inclusive innovation\nAdrian Smith and Valeria Arza \n6 November\nHorizontal innovations towards sustainability\nClaire Luby\, Roberta Ramos and Pablo Ridolfi (discussant: Verónica Robert) \nNatural resources and the environment\nJorge Katz\, Maristella Svampa and Anabel Marín (discussant: Miguel Lengyel) \nSummary: Horizontal innovations and natural resources & environment\nAndy Stirling and Anabel Marin
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/opening-up-the-development-agenda-steps-america-latina-launch/
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Technology & innovation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151026T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151026T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150901T094051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213732Z
UID:7721-1445850000-1445878800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:How can makerspaces\, fablabs and hackerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments?
DESCRIPTION:Machines Room\, 45 Vyner Street\, London\, E2 9DQ United Kingdom  \nInterest in the social\, economic and environmental possibilities of makerspaces and the maker movement continues to grow. This event brings together people involved or interested in sustainability activities to share\, discuss\, and reflect upon their experiences. \nIn the discussions\, our objective will be to consider strategies for promoting and reinforcing the roles makerspaces can and could play in sustainable developments\, including extending connections with opportunities in wider society and economy. \nThis event is organised by SPRU and CIED (the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand)\, from the University of Sussex\, together with the STEPS Centre. \nSpeakers \n\nTrystan Lea\, Open Energy Monitor\nJanet Gunter\, Restart Project\nDidac Ferrer\, Tarpuna Co-operative & Ateneus de Fabricació Digital\, Barcelona\nSophie Thomas\, RSA Great Recovery\nMax Wakefield\, Demand Energy Equality\nRichard Clifford\, MAKLab\, Glasgow\nJustyna Swat\, POC21 and OuiShare\nLiz Corbin / Mark Miodownik\, Institute of Making\, London\nSusana Nascimento\, ex-Vitruvius FabLab and Joint Research Centre – Brussels\,\nEuropean Commission\nAnn Light\, Professor of Creative Technology\, University of Sussex\n\nFree entry\, registration required (see below). \nTimings \n\n9am – tea & coffee\n10am – event starts\n5pm – event ends\n\nRegister / More info \nFull details: CIED event page \nRegister: Eventbrite (registration deadline: 11 October) \nDownloadable flyer (PDF) \nContact: Bettina Zenz – b.zenz@sussex.ac.uk \nFurther reading \nFloat like a Fab Lab\, sting like a Honey Bee (Medium.com) \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/how-can-makerspaces-fablabs-and-hackerspaces-help-cultivate-sustainable-developments/
LOCATION:Machines Room\, 45 Vyner Street\, London\, E2 9DQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
ORGANIZER;CN="SPRU/CIED/STEPS":MAILTO:b.zenz@sussex.ac.uk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151006T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20151006T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20151002T094452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T213817Z
UID:7845-1444136400-1444141800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Seminar: Ocean management - linking satellite and socio-economic data
DESCRIPTION:‘Ocean management: Linking satellite and socio-economic data to inform sustainability’  \nEleni Papathanasopoulou and Hayley Evers-King \nKNOTS meeting area\nInstitute of Development Studies\n1-2.30pm on 6 October 2015 \nOceans are playing an increasingly important role in countries’ development strategies to address issues such as food security\, unemployment and poverty. Aquaculture has been identified as one of the priority areas for these strategies and investment. However\, it is unclear where aquaculture farms should be located and what their potential socio-economic impacts will be. \nThis talk explores how satellite and socio-economic data can be linked and used to address these uncertainties for England\, Scotland and South Africa. It will describe the data and images produced by satellite systems in terms of its temporal and spatial resolutions\, ability to identify areas of high water quality\, harmful algal blooms and monitor environmental change. The benefits of superimposing socio-economic information\, such as employment and industries’ economic contributions\, onto these satellite images and their use in sustainability analyses will be presented and explored in terms of the added value in combining these datasets. The next steps in developing a web-based visualisation tool to host and provide the capability to query the project’s data will be discussed. \nAll welcome. \nAbout Dr Papathanasopoulou and Dr Evers-King\nDr Eleni Papathanasopoulou is an economist based at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory using input-output\, general equilibrium and macroeconomic perspectives to assess the impacts of changes in the environment to whole economic and social systems. She has recently applied these approaches to estimate the economic impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in England\, health cost savings of aquatic physical activities and the social implications of changes in coastal communities. She holds an ESRC-Satellite Applications Catapult fellowship (2015-16) which is funding the work being presented. \nDr Hayley Evers-King is a marine Earth observation scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory specialising in the development of novel algorithms and applications for ocean colour satellite data. Her research has involved detection of high biomass (HABs) in South Africa\, and assessments of interannual variability of these blooms in coastal regions with developing aquaculture and fishing industries. She is developing capacity for coastal water quality remote sensing using the new generation of high and medium resolution Earth observation satellites. \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/seminar-ocean-management-linking-satellite-and-socio-economic-data/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars,Water
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150911T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150911T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150903T085039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214053Z
UID:7732-1441976400-1441981800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: 'Resource Politics: Future Directions'
DESCRIPTION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, BN1 9RE\, UK \n‘Resource Politics: Future Directions’ \nDianne Rocheleau and Kathleen McAfee \nA critical resource politics can contribute to reframing conservation sciences to bring science into the service of social and ecological justice. To this end\, many of us are challenging the fetish of economic growth and the market-centric logic that has come to dominate ‘pragmatic’ environmentalism. \nBut are better ways of knowing and acting possible? As political ecologists\, we can explore the various expressions of ‘living well’/in harmony with the living world\, to develop a useful response to the creative initiatives of social movements throughout the world. Resource politics can address ecological and cultural defense\, and alternative visions of the future\, from indigenous practices and politics to “degrowth” approaches. \nAn engaged resource politics can challenge the systematic oppression and the lethal inertia of global systems in the face of climate change\, land and resource grabbing\, and widespread contamination\, while contributing to new repertoires of knowledge and practice. \nAbout the speakers \nDianne Rocheleau is Professor of Geography and Director of the Global Environmental Studies program at Clark University. She has previously worked on forestry\, farming and development alternatives with international\, national and local organizations. She currently writes about and works with communities and movements who defend territory and complex human ecologies while building socially just and ecologically viable futures. \nKathleen McAfee (San Francisco State University\, USA) has long experience in community and global-justice activism and policy analysis (Oxfam\, UN agencies). Her academic work focuses on “selling nature to save it”\, the political economy and ecology of ecosystem services and carbon markets\, and alternatives to export-dependent\, growth-based\, market-centered development.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-resource-politics-future-directions/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150910T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150910T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150904T154741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214247Z
UID:7734-1441890000-1441900800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:The Politics of Nature: reimagining power\, resistance and critique from above\, below and within
DESCRIPTION:Arts C 233\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, UK \nSpeakers:\nProf Dianne Rocheleau – Clark University\nKathleen McAfee – San Francisco State University \nThis interactive workshop is organised by the Centre for Global Political Economy and the STEPS Centre. It follows the conference ‘Resource Politics: transforming pathways to sustainability’. Attendance is free\, but registration is required. Lunch is included. \nRegistration \nIf you would like to attend\, register before 8 September 2015 by sending an email to Andrea Brock: a.brock@sussex.ac.uk
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-nature-reimagining-power-resistance-and-critique-from-above-below-and-within/
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Understanding sustainability
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150910
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150119T120133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214405Z
UID:6911-1441584000-1441843199@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics
DESCRIPTION:Resource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability \nWhy now? Contexts and debates \nIn the build up to the confirmation of the post-2015 sustainable development goals\, the politics of resource access\, allocation and distribution are high on global policy agendas. The limits to economic activity in the face of ‘planetary boundaries’ are being fiercely debated\, and even humanity’s survival in the age of the Anthropocene is questioned. Some suggest a ‘perfect storm’ of factors is combining to present ever growing threats\, often assumed to be at the ‘nexus’ of food\, water\, energy and climate change issues. Among the responses are advocates of ‘green economy’ strategies\, seeking transformations to more sustainable economies. \n  \nBut the ‘sustainability’ framing of these issues needs interrogating. How do these debates draw on earlier neo-Malthusian visions of ‘Limits to Growth’\, blind to social difference\, distributional implications\, and failing to disaggregate local users and politics concerning resource use\, consumption and production? What politics and power relations are hidden by the apocalyptic framings of environmental disaster? What interests are supported by particular framings of ‘scarcity’ or ‘limits’\, justifying appropriation of resources by some to the exclusion of others? \n  \nFood\, water\, fuel and minerals have become the focus of global and local political contests. Land\, water and green ‘grabs’ have re-allocated existing resources to so called ‘efficient’ and economically productive users\, causing local resource scarcities and dispossessions\, damaging livelihoods and infringing basic rights. Resources have become valued\, marketised and commodified\, with a range of unforeseen consequences. At the same time\, activism has flourished\, contesting dominant perspectives. As we seek pathways to sustainability that assure both environmental integrity and social justice\, now is a critical time to ask tough questions about the politics of resources. \nWhy a conference? \nThe STEPS Centre and its partners hope this conference can help unpack assumptions\, question simplistic prescriptions and debate alternatives about the politics of resources and pathways to sustainability. The conference will present research evidence from varied locations revealing multiple pathways of change\, linking conceptual challenges of understanding ‘resource politics’ with institutional and practical dimensions\, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is hoped this debate – with academics\, practitioners\, policymakers and activists taking part – can provide the basis for open and balanced debate about future options. \n  \nResearch challenges \nIn conceptual terms\, the focus on political ecology\, long concerned with understanding the politics of access to\, and control over\, resources from local to global\, is increasingly combined with a concern with the politics of knowledge\, emerging from fields such as science and technology studies. Resource politics should be seen in relation to complex combinations of artefacts\, people and knowledges. Resource control and ‘grabbing’ debates have reinvigorated a concern for earlier Marxist concerns with accumulation and dispossession\, while new perspectives are required to understand the commodification and financialisation of nature. Pathways to sustainability are thus constructed through this complex interplay\, with analysis of power dynamics at the core. This means engaging critically with questions of environmental and social justice and what these mean to different people in diverse contexts in both the global South and North. Increasingly a conceptual perspective on ‘pathways’ combining an understanding of material and structural forces\, the politics that underpin them and the discursive knowledge politics that frame such dynamics\, is essential. \nThe STEPS Centre’s work on resource politics \nThe STEPS Centre’s ‘pathways approach’ has been developed as a way of understanding contending and conflicting pathways of change\, in complex\, highly contested settings. Building on earlier work on ‘scarcity’ and the politics of allocation\, we have highlighted the multiple framings of and responses to climate uncertainty. Similarly\, an earlier focus on ‘institutions’ for resource control and access\, has been extended to looking at resource access in diverse settings from peri-urban India to rural China. Historical work on the politics of landscapes\, including forests or rangeland areas\, has been built on to investigate the commodification of carbon in African forests. Work on water resources has linked issues of access to notions of security\, highlighting political contestation\, for example\, dam construction in southeast Asia. And we have highlighted the variegated consequences of land\, water and green grabbing in different sites across the world. \n  \nConference themes\nSix themes will run throughout the conference\, with panels clustered within each theme. This will allow delegates to take part in fulsome discussions around particular themes. \n\nScarcity\, politics and securitization\nResource grabbing\nGovernance\, elites\, citizenship and democracy\nFinancialisation and markets\nGrowth\, waste and consumption\nGender\, race\, class and sustainability\n\nFind out more on the conference website
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/resource-politics2015/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Resource politics
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150811T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150811T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150722T110500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214509Z
UID:7607-1439307000-1439312400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STISA-2024: Debating Africa’s “Blueprint” for Science\, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Development
DESCRIPTION:This panel debate at the Institute of Development Studies examines responses to the recently-published Science\, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). \nIn June 2014\, the 23rd Ordinary Session of African Union Heads of State and Government Summit adopted a 10-year Science\, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024). The strategy is part of the long-term AU Agenda 2063 that is underpinned by science\, technology and innovation (STI) as enablers for achieving continental development goals. \nThe Agenda calls for the diversification of sources of growth and sustenance of Africa’s current economic performance\, and in the long-run\, lifting large sections of the population out of poverty. The strategy aims at fostering social transformation and economic competitiveness through human capital development\, innovation\, value addition\, industrialisation and entrepreneurship. \nIn this panel debate we bring together a panel from Africa\, Europe and America to debate STISA and address critical questions that include: \n1. How does STISA fit into Africa’s broad development strategy?\n2. How do we deal with governance and its impact on STI?\n3. Beyond the African Union and its agencies\, what role for citizens in Africa?\n4. What roles for the Diaspora?\n5. How do we fund STISA? \nThis open session (starting at 3.30pm) is the final part of a day-long workshop about STISA. The previous sessions are invite-only. \nPanel\nAllam Ahmed\, World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD)/SPRU (moderator)\nJohan Schot\, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)\, University of Sussex\nClapperton C Mavhunga\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\nTighisti Amare\, Chatham House\nChandrika Nath\, Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST)\nHambani Masheleni\, African Union Commission\nMartin Bell\, SPRU\nSolomon Mugera\, BBC Africa\nOsama Idris\, Agrigum International Limited \nConclusions and closing remarks will be given by Adrian Ely (SPRU/STEPS Centre) and Chux Daniels (SPRU). \nPlanning Committee Members: Chux Daniels\, Clapperton Mavhunga\, Elsie Onsongo\, Yusuf Dirie and Harriet Dudley. \nThis workshop is jointly hosted by SPRU\, MIT\, STEPS Centre\, ATPS UK\, Sussex-Africa Centre and African Union. \n\nAttendance\nAll are welcome to attend this event and no registration is required. For more information\, contact Chux Daniels (email: c.u.daniels [at] sussex.ac.uk). \nRelated blogs\nDebating science and technology for development in Africa by Ian Scoones\, 11 August 2015 \nSTISA-2024: Debating Africa’s “Blueprint” for Science\, Technology & Innovation by Chux Daniels\, 22 July 2015 \nSame meat\, different gravy? The new Science\, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA) by David Ockwell\, 5 August 2014 \nHow to redefine innovation & development: an African perspective by Gillian M. Marcelle\, 10 March 2015
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/stisa-2024-debating-blueprint-science-technology-and-innovation-in-africa/
LOCATION:Convening Space\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\,  Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150715T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150706T130415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214544Z
UID:7564-1436976000-1436981400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Yixin Dai - Chinese Renewable Energy Policy
DESCRIPTION:‘Chinese Renewable Energy Policy – Policy Implementation\, and Participation’ \nYixin Dai\, School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University \nIn order to reach its ambitious emissions targets\, China has been promoting renewable energy through a series of top-down policies since 2006. Recent successes have seen wind turbine installation capacity exceed 100GW in 2014\, and nuclear installation capacity reach 23GW in June 2015. The questions are: can we attribute this to strong central government? What is the role of local implementation in promoting renewable energy policies? Will any bottom-up effort influence future development of Chinese renewable energy policy?  This seminar addresses these questions by drawing on two of the speaker’s papers on the implementation gap and perception gap in Chinese renewable energy (RE) policy development. \nYixin Dai is an assistant professor in School of Public Policy and Management\, Tsinghua University. Her research interests focus on theory of innovation and technology transfer\, technological innovation in the environment and energy area\, and technology governance. Her current research studies different low carbon innovation paths between China and other parts of the world\, technology governance at local levels\, as well as the national innovation system in China.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/yixin-dai-chinese-renewable-energy-policy/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Seminars,Technology & innovation
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150708T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150710T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150703T201206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T214706Z
UID:7547-1436342400-1436547600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:STEPS Centre events at 'Our Common Future' conference
DESCRIPTION:From 8 – 10 July\, STEPS Centre members will be participating in the international conference Our Common Future Under Climate Change in Paris. The conference comes ahead of the UN’s COP21 conference in December. It looks at the state of knowledge about\, and the range of responses to\, climate change. \nFind out about our research and engagement work around COP21 and Our Common Future \n\n  \nBreakdown of events featuring STEPS members \nWednesday 8 July at 17.30 \nAdrian Ely and Rob Byrne: ‘Building pro-poor\, low carbon innovation systems through international and indigenous efforts’\, by Adrian Ely\, Rob Byrne and David Ockwell \n\n4413(a) – Technology\, transformations and capabilities in developing countries\nUPMC Jussieu – ROOM 309 – Block 24/34\n\nThursday 9 July at 15.00 \nPeter Newell: ‘The political economy of contending pathways to de-carbonisation’ \n\n4409(a) – Climate Governance: Driving Societal Transformations\nUPMC Jussieu Ampi Herpin\n\nThursday 9 July at 16.30 \nSam Geall and Adrian Ely: Low carbon innovation in China \n\n3333 – China’s climate policies and low-carbon innovation\nUNESCO Fontenoy – ROOM XI.\n\nFriday 10 July at 14.00 \nAdrian Ely: STEPS work in China and Africa \n\n4417 – Transforming Society and Science for Sustainability – Addressing Challenges in Transdisciplinary Research\nUNESCO Bonvin – ROOM XIV.\n\n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-at-our-common-future/
LOCATION:Various\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Understanding sustainability
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20150629T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150630T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193303
CREATED:20150421T150857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T110106Z
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SUMMARY:Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Nexus Network workshop on ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’\, led by STEPS Co-Director Andy Stirling\, will be held at the University of Sussex\, UK on 29-30 June 2015. \nThe workshop will be shaped around two key questions: \n\nWhat different kinds and interconnections of method in contrasting contexts\, form the most practical basis for enabling transformative action to address Nexus challenges?\nHow can such encompassing Nexus methodologies best enable academic\, government\, business and civil society actors to develop appropriate skills\, training and research capabilities?\n\nStimulus paper by Andy Stirling\, STEPS Centre Co-Director\n\nIn the stimulus paper for the workshop\, Professor Andy Stirling and colleagues from the Nexus Network set out the context for the Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities workshop. Please take a look at the full paper before applying to take part in the workshop: NexusNetwork_MethodsWorkshop_June2015_StimulusPaper_forparticipants \nApply to take part in the workshop\nWe would like to invite around 60 people from research\, business\, policy and civil society organisations\, to take part in the workshop and who come with an expertise and experience of interdisciplinary approaches. We anticipate a large amount of interest in this workshop which is why we ask you apply with some additional information to allow us to select the workshop participants. A priority will be placed on participants with experience in developing cross-disciplinary methods; to give a balance between sectors and to encourage early career participation. \nFor more information on topics\, speakers and the full agenda please go to the Workshop page. \nApplication deadline\nPlease complete your application by attend by 5 pm on Friday 8 May 2015. \n \nSelection notification\nWe will you know by end of May if your application has been successful or if you have been added to the waitlist.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/methodsworkshop/
LOCATION:SPRU\, Jubilee Building\, University of Sussex\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9SL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Research methods,Understanding sustainability
ORGANIZER;CN="Deborah Charman":MAILTO:d.l.charman@sussex.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Challenges of Nation-wide Scaling up and Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:This event will be live streamed (see below) and a video recording will be available afterwards.\n \nSince its innovation in Bangladesh in 2000\, Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has spread to more than 65 countries across Asia\, Africa and Latin America where more than 400 million people are now living in open defecation free (ODF) environments. \nDr Kamal Kar\, the pioneer of CLTS\, will speak about the challenges of nationwide scaling up of CLTS\, especially in the run up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a particular focus on new strategies of some African nations on national scaling up. He will also discuss second and third generations challenges of CLTS susch as sustainability\, inclusion and waste containment. \nLive stream below:
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/kamal-kar-clts-june2015/
LOCATION:Room 221\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Health & disease,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Low Carbon Development in Africa
DESCRIPTION:This event aimed to shape the research\, policy and practice agendas for low-carbon development in Africa. It was also the launch event for the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub. \nLow Carbon Development in Africa workshop. Photo: STEPS Centre\nIn Sub-Saharan Africa\, two-thirds of people still lack access to electricity. Working for economic development and reducing poverty\, while addressing climate change\, is a complex and pressing challenge. \nTo debate ways forward\, this event in Nairobi brought together over 100 international delegates drawn from government\, industry\, universities and civil society. It was jointly hosted by the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, the STEPS Centre\, the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)\, the Stockholm Enviroment Institute Africa (SEI Africa)\, and Practical Action. \nThe workshop also marked the official launch of the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub\, one of five hubs in the Pathways to Sustainability Consortium. \n\nWorkshop report\nDownload the workshop report (pdf 532 KB) \n\nProgramme\nProf Judi Wakhungu\, Cabinet Secretary for Environment\, Water and Natural Resources\, Kenya\, gave the keynote address on behalf of the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury on Kenya\, Hon. Henry Rotich. \nSessions covered at the workshop included: \n\nLow-carbon pathways out of energy poverty\nCase studies of research in Africa\nEnergy access\nKnowledge gaps and inclusion\nAfrican priorities for research\, policy and practice\n\nDownload the programme (pdf\, 360KB) \n\nMedia coverage and blog posts\nEvent Storify – a selection of tweets\, links and images from the workshop \nPress coverage\n\nSciDev.Net Low-carbon hubs could help solve Africa’s energy gap 3 July 2015\nOther coverage: Coastweek / ScienceAfrica / SpyGhana\n\nBlogs\n\nAfrica Sustainability Hub will promote low-carbon opportunities by David Ockwell\, 19 June 2015\nPro-poor\, low carbon energy conversations across the STEPS global consortium by Adrian Ely\, 16 June 2015\nSTEPS Africa Sustainability Hub launched in Nairobi by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\nKenyan Finance Minister: STEPS Africa “a huge contribution” by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\nKnowledge is power: towards low carbon energy in Africa by Nathan Oxley\, 10 June 2015\nWhy access to energy is crucial for economic growth and poverty reduction by Ian Scoones\, 10 June 2015\n\n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/low-carbon-development-in-africa/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Technology & innovation
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