Resource Conflicts & Social Justice – Nexus Network workshop
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomIn 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,...
One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing
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: Present new interdisciplinary frameworks for a real-world...
Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions
Global Studies Resource Centre Arts C175, University of Sussex, United KingdomTowards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions STEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30, Monday 11 April 2016 Room C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room), Arts C, University of Sussex Helene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania and societal transformation. She will explain why and how...
Innovation governance for sustainable agri-food systems in China
SPRU Friday seminar on 15 April with Adrian Ely and Sam Geall of the Low Carbon Innovation in China project.
How should we value nature in a human-dominated world?
Lecture by Professor Dame Georgina Mace, FRS University College London This lecture will be livestreamed on the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) website. followed by a drinks reception Chichester 1 Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer Campus Nature conservation has traditionally focussed on preservation and protection. But this approach is increasingly challenged as the impact...
Seminar: Connor Cavanagh on responses to violent eviction
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomDifferentiated dispossession: ‘Hunter-gatherer’ responses to violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve, western Kenya Seminar by Connor Joseph Cavanagh Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK Critical scholarship on global land and ‘green’ grabbing has begun to examine the politics of variegation in diverse ‘responses from below’, or the ways in which various...
Rapid Energy Transition
A conference on energy transitions at the Centre for Alternative Technology on 29 April 2016. Part of the 'Rapid Transitions' event series.
Nexuses of the Urban (Nexus Network workshop)
Sussex University campus Falmer, United KingdomNexuses of the Urban: Interactions between water, energy and food provision for sustainable cities University of Sussex, Brighton, UK This workshop is the latest in a series of events organised by the Nexus Network. It is fully booked, but you can follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #UrbanNexus. Background Cities are dynamically connected...
Bon appétit? A citizens’ jury on the future of food – in or out of Europe?
The Duke of Cambridge, 30 Saint Peter's Street London N1 8JT Register to attend this event on Eventbrite Speakers include Erik Millstone (STEPS Centre/SPRU, University of Sussex) Joan Walley (former Labour MP) Prof Tim Lang (City University) Guy Watson (founder of Riverford Organic) Whether it’s the straight banana Euromyth, the high price of healthy food...
Can we govern the climate?
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPublic lecture by Prof Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography at Durham University, on 16 May 2016 at the University of Sussex.