climate change
STEPS Seminar: Alex Arnall, University of Reading
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom‘A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique’ Alexander Huw Arnall School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading In recent years, the potential role of planned, internal resettlement as a climate change adaptation measure has been highlighted by national governments and the international policy community....
Public lecture: Prof Michael Jacobs, Grantham Research Institute
Fulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom'Capitalism, carbon and climate change' Fulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer Brighton Public lecture, followed by drinks reception All welcome Michael Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and in the School of Public Policy at University College...
Public debate: Fuel poverty, climate change and social justice
, United StatesPublic debate at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, UK. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2013. Find out more about the 2013 STEPS Summer School Watch the video of this debate (on YouTube) Panel: Kirsty Alexander, Head of Communications, Nuclear Industry Association Thurstan Crockett, Head of Sustainability, Brighton and Hove City Council Doug Parr, Chief Scientist, Greenpeace...
STEPS/IDS Seminar: Jon Morris – Reimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomReimagining development 3.0 for a changing planet Professor Jon Morris 24 July 2013 at 13.00 – 14.30 Room 221, Institute of Development Studies About the seminar: The need to ‘re-imagine’ development studies in today’s world arises because of sweeping changes which invalidate the earlier globalization emphasis which has guided social science involvement in applied policy. ...
Controlling the climate? Public debate on geoengineering
The Old Market 11A Upper Market Street, Hove, United KingdomAs climate change intensifies, some scientists suggest the need for a 'plan B' if immediate emissions reductions don’t prove feasible. Research into geoengineering (the large scale intentional manipulation of the climate) has begun, and includes research into technologies that might enable us to cool the planet by shielding some sunlight from the earth, or technologies...