Please join us for Cultures of Energy iX: New Directions in Energy Humanities! On May 27-28, 2021, the Center for Environmental Studies hosts Rice’s 9th Cultures of Energy symposium, marking a decade of conversations about energy from the point of view of humanists, artists, and social scientists. This year we’re featuring the voices of emerging scholars in sessions organized […]
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Wednesday April 7 at Noon, we present our final lecture of the term. Joëlle Saey-Volckrick is a lecturer on ecological economics and coordinates degrowth.info. With her colleague Nick von Andrian, they will explain what the economics of degrowth means, and how it can help shape a sustainable recovery from COVID-19. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/degrowth-in-the-time-of-covid-19-tickets-147021911495?aff=snews
Some of the questions asked will address ways in which rural Europe offers valuable templates for building more resilient, prosperous, and sustainable societies, what we have learned in recent decades about the role of food systems in protecting biodiversity, and how the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerating climate change have underscored the need to abandon old […]
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From the UCDavis Political Ecology Lab: Environmental perspectives shaped by Black and Indigenous knowledge have the power to shape our theories of environmental justice. Join us for new conversations at the intersections of Black and Indigenous geographies and political ecology. For the full program and scheduled webinars, see this link. All webinars from 12:00 noon to […]
Global Epistemologies and Ontologies (GEOS) is a research project of the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation (KTI) Group of Wageningen University. Our work brings together philosophical and empirical research on global negotiations of knowledge and social-environmental challenges. We aim to understand heterogeneous knowledge about socio-environmental systems by equally heterogeneous actors from Indigenous farmers to laboratory scientists. Bringing […]
The next session of the Environmental Politics and Governance Online seminar is taking place this Thursday (28th January) at 08:30 West Coast, 11:30 East Coast, 16:30 UK, 17:30 Central Europe, 21:00 Delhi, 00:30 (Friday) Beijing. Our presentations for this week are: 28th January Who is delaying state climate action? Interest groups and coalitions in legislative strugglesTrevor […]
The Low Carbon Methods & Media Lecture Series is a set of discussions for the coming semester exploring how climate change not only stands to alter what we study, but also how we do so. Through short and conversational exchanges, the series will explore the prospects for more climate-safe research methods and media practices in […]
