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...
Tackling trade-offs in the food-water-energy nexus: lessons for the SDGs
Overseas Development Institute 203 Blackfriars Road, London, United KingdomThis 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. Achieving 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 Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa
Overseas Development Institute 203 Blackfriars Road, London, United KingdomThis 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. The 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...
Energías renovables. ¿Cuáles son las oportunidades de desarrollo y qué obstáculos enfrenta la búsqueda de alternativas energéticas sustentables?
Centro Cultural Borges – UNTREF, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCentro Cultural Borges – UNTREF, Viamonte 525 C.A.B.A. Aula 3 Organizan: CENIT/UNTREF, Centro STEPS para América Latina El 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,...