Pandemic Flu Controversies: A Workshop to discuss lessons, policy implications and future challenges

IDS , United Kingdom

Since the first human deaths from H5N1 were recorded in Hong Kong in 1997, avian influenza has spread across the world, concentrating in southeast Asia. Billions of dollars have been spent on control measures, contingency plans and policy measures. In 2009 another influenza virus, H1N1 (popularly named ‘swine’ flu), was recorded in Mexico, and spread...

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Seminar: Low carbon innovation paths in Europe and Asia: Divergence or Convergence?

Room 144, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom

IDS/SPRU/STEPS Seminar The current technological shift from high to low carbon development coincides with a geographical shift: the rapid expansion of green production and innovation capacity in China and India. This constellation gives rise to the question: to what extent, how and why do the innovation paths in Europe and in Asia differ? The seminar...