Political ecology
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....
International Conference: Green Economy in the South
University of Dodoma Dodoma, Tanzania, United Republic OfGreen 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...
Critical Perspectives on the Financialisation of Nature – Theory, Politics and Practice
University of Sussex , United KingdomUniversity 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...
STEPS conference 2015: Resource Politics
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomResource Politics: Transforming Pathways to Sustainability Why now? Contexts and debates In the build up to the confirmation of the post-2015 sustainable development goals, the politics of resource access, allocation and distribution are high on global policy agendas. The limits to economic activity in the face of ‘planetary boundaries’ are being fiercely debated, and even...
When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Green extractivism and confronting the industrial machine
Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomAs 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...
Enchanting nature: tentacular storytelling in the Great African Kelp Forest
Roundtable with My Octopus Teacher director Pippa Ehrlich and others from the Sea Change Project Video recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNL-TDa31ks About this event There is a forest beneath the waves off the western coast of South Africa that is as biologically rich as a tropical rainforest. Few people have experienced the Great African Kelp Forest like the...