Public lecture: Mariana Mazzucato – The green entrepreneurial state

Mariana Mazzucato: The Green Entrepreneurial State by Stepscentre on Mixcloud Public lecture, followed by a drinks reception Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the prestigious RM Phillips chair in the Economics of Innovation at SPRU in the University of Sussex. She was recently Scientific Coordinator of a 3 year European Commission funded FP7 project on Finance, Innovation and Growth...

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International Conference: Green Economy in the South

University of Dodoma Dodoma, Tanzania, United Republic Of

Green 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...

When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Green extractivism and confronting the industrial machine

Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

As part of the Politics of Nature reading group, Dr Alexander Dunlap, co-hosted by the CGPE and STEPS centre, presents a seminar on the merits of an anarchist political ecology in assessing extractive projects and charting new directions in (re)imagining ecological, unruly and dignified futures.   Drawing on case studies of Europe’s largest opencast coal mine, the Hambach...

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