Seminar: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom1.00-2.00 Friday 2 May 2014 Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies All welcome Speakers include: Andrew Tarimo (Sokoine University of Agriculture) Emmanuel Manzungu (University of Zimbabwe) Bill Derman (Noragric) Alex Bolding, (Wageningen University) Barbara Van Koppen (IWMI, South Africa) Synne Movik (NIVA) Alan Nicol (Global Water Initiative) Since the early 1990s, Integrated Water Resources Management...
Resilience 2014. Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation
Le Corum Monpelier, FranceMelissa Leach, director of the STEPS Centre, and John Thompson, our food and agriculture co-convenor, are both speaking at the Resilience 2014 conference, which this year is themed Resilience and Development: Mobilising for Transformation. The event is the third International Science and policy conference on the resilience of social & ecological systems, and is being held in Montpellier,...
Public lecture: Mariana Mazzucato – The green entrepreneurial state
Mariana Mazzucato: The Green Entrepreneurial State by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Public lecture, followed by a drinks reception Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the prestigious RM Phillips chair in the Economics of 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...
Public lecture: Michael Grubb on Planetary Economics: Energy, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development
Jubilee Lecture Theatre 144 Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, BrightonThe Sussex Energy Group at SPRU in association with the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, invites you to a public lecture Professor Michael Grubb presenting findings from his recently published book: Planetary Economics: Energy, Climate Change and the Three Domains of Sustainable Development Chaired by Prof. Johan Schot, Director of SPRU and with discussants...
STEPS Seminar: Kamal Kar on Community-Led Total Sanitation
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘The Potential of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in achieving an Open Defecation Free (ODF) World’ Kamal Kar, Chairman CLTS Foundation This event will be livestreamed (see embedded video below). The 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...
STEPS/FHS Workshop on Complex Adaptive Systems in Health Systems in LMICs
Mt Washington Conference Center and the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Services Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United StatesMt. Washington Conference Center and the Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Background Health systems are seen as a 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...
STEPS Seminar: Daniel O’Connor on the use of social media in health research
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘The Apomediated World: The Ethical Challenges of Using Social Media in Health Research’ STEPS Seminar with Daniel O’Connor, PhD, Head of Humanities and Social Science at the Wellcome Trust STEPS Seminar: Dan O'Connor - The ethical challenges of using social media in health research by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Social media such as blogs, wikis, discussion...
International Conference: Green Economy in the South
University of Dodoma Dodoma, Tanzania, United Republic OfGreen Economy in the South - Negotiating Environmental Governance, Prosperity and Development The momentum gathering behind the idea and practice of the Green Economy is coinciding with financial instability and 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...
What is innovation for social inclusion?
What is innovation for social inclusion? Grassroots innovation, public policies and the politics of knowledge A session at the 4S/ESOCITE conference in Buenos Aires, organised by Adrian Smith (STEPS Centre), Mariano Fressoli (Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) and Elisa Arond (Clark University). There is growing interest amongst researchers, civil society...
Las tecnologías de impresión 3D: tensiones de una “revolución” en ciernes
Centro Cultural Borges Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaOrganizan: CENIT/UNTREF, Centro STEPS para América Latina Las tecnologías de impresión 3D permiten digitalizar objetos en tres dimensiones e imprimirlos materialmente. Se argumenta que la capacidad para imprimir una variedad 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...