Latest Past Events

Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions

Global Studies Resource Centre Arts C175, University of Sussex

Towards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions STEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30, Monday 11 April 2016 Room C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room), Arts C, University of Sussex Helene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania  and societal transformation. She will explain why and how...

The inclusive turn of neoliberal conservation? Opportunities and threats of REDD+ in Tanzania

Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton

Seminar by STEPS visiting fellow Andreas Scheba The rise of new markets, or market-like instruments, in the realm of nature conservation is a key feature of global discourse and strategies around the ‘green’ economy. Innovative ways of measuring, valuing and trading nature have emerged that enjoy increasing support among public and private stakeholders. At the...

International Conference: Green Economy in the South

University of Dodoma Dodoma

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...