STEPS Seminar: Bruce Lankford on Resource Efficiency, Complexity and the Commons

Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons: The Paracommons and Paradoxes of Natural Resource Losses, Wastes and Wastages Bruce Lankford, Professor of Irrigation and Water Policy, School of International Development, University of East Anglia The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource...

Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature – Theory, Politics and Practice

University of Sussex , United Kingdom

University of Sussex, 19-20th March 2015 Hosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy & STEPS Centre Update (2 March 2015): A public roundtable on this topic will be held in Brighton on 19 March, with contributions from Melissa Leach, Hannah Mowat, Larry Lohman, Antonio Tricarico and Bram Büscher. Download the conference programme (PDF) Carbon...

Public Roundtable: Nature As Commodity

Friends Meeting House Ship St, Brighton, United Kingdom

Download poster (PDF) Fishery bycatch offsetting in Canada, catastrophe bonds in the US, weather derivatives in Ethiopia… What is at stake with the financialisation of nature? Where do we go from here? Panel: Melissa Leach (Director, Institute of Development Studies) Hannah Mowat (Fern, Belgium) Larry Lohman (The Corner House) Antonio Tricarico (Re:Common, Italy) Bram Büscher...

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