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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Paul Richards on social cohesion in Sierra Leone
DESCRIPTION:‘Clash of Institutions? Researching Social Cohesion in a Post-Conflict Agrarian Society (Sierra Leone)’ \nPaul Richards \nVisiting Professor\, School of Environmental Studies\, Njala University\, Sierra Leone; Emeritus professor of Technology and Agrarian Development at Wageningen University\, The Netherlands; Honorary Professor at the University College of London (UCL). \nEscaping from poverty depends on the rules governing access to vital resources. Rural societies are a historically determined mix of varied and sometimes competing “formal” and “informal” institutions. \nThe focus of this research is to investigate whether a “clash of institutions” is a factor determining poverty in Sierra Leone\, with a specific focus on land\, labour\, seeds and rural credit.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/steps-seminar-paul-richards-social-cohesion-sierra-leone/
LOCATION:Room 121\, Institute of Development Studies\, Library Road\, Falmer\, UK
CATEGORIES:Food & agriculture,Governance & policy,Seminars
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SUMMARY:STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency\, Complexity and the Commons
DESCRIPTION:Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses\, Wastes and Wastages\nBruce Lankford\, Professor of Irrigation and Water Policy\, School of International Development\, University of East Anglia\nThe efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy\, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In a recent Routledge book\, the author analyses resource efficiency and efficiency gains from the perspective of common pool resources\, applying this idea particularly to water resources and its use in irrigated agriculture. In a world of increasing scarcity\, the tracking\, amount and ownership of ‘saved’ resources while controlling for rebound (where savings lead to consumption elsewhere) will be of increasing importance as exemplified by Norris (2011) “… the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Montana v Wyoming brings to the forefront one of the most complicated and contested facets of irrigation efficiency: who owns the rights to the conserved water?” \nThe book proposes the concept of “the paracommons”\, through which the savings of increased resource efficiency can be viewed. In effect this asks; “who gets the gain of an efficiency gain?” By reusing\, economising and avoiding losses\, wastes and wastages\, freed up resources are available for further use by four ‘destinations’; the proprietor\, parties directly connected to that user\, the wider economy or returned to the common pool. The paracommons is thus a commons of – and competition for – resources salvaged by changes to the efficiency of natural resource systems. \nDuring the presentation\, ‘liminality’ will be explored signalling the in-betweenness of systems caught between overly optimistic prefigurations of future efficiencies and disappointing outcomes. \n All welcome.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/bruce-lankford/
LOCATION:Room 221\, IDS\, Library Road\, Falmer\, Brighton\, BN1 9RE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Resource politics,Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Harriet Dudley":MAILTO:h.dudley@ids.ac.uk
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