2012
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This seminar focuses on factors that prevent effective implementation of environmental politics in general, and in particular, barriers related to effective energy saving efforts and the increased use of renewable energy sources.
MILENs second international conference, to be held 22. – 23. November, at the University of Oslo, will aim to build on the success of the first conference, held in November 2010. The conference is intended to solidify and expand MILENs international network; provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research on sustainable energy and environment; and to stimulate interdisciplinary cooperation and new thinking through exposure to theory, methods, analytical approaches and examples.
The Interfaculty research area LEVE - Livelihoods in developing countries. Health, poverty, and the evironment has been in operation since 2009. At this year's conference they will present some of the findings and results from the research in their affiliated research groups and projects.
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In spite of the availability of new renewable energy sources and techno-scientific capabilities, very few resources have been transformed into economic production. The seminar will handle various aspects of technological innovation, emphasizing on how actors, technology, markets and institutions co-evolve.
Rio +20 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations' Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) also referred to as the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. For this event, we have invited former Minister of Environment and Development Erik Solheim, the delegates present in Rio 1992, as well as the new 2012 generation in order to discuss today's climate-related challenges and the opportunities ahead in the run-up to Rio+20.
The purpose of this media training workshop is to encourage, inspire and not least prepare PhD-students to get in touch with and communicate with the media.
Welcome to the second LEVE Student Seminar with presentation of fieldwork in Ethiopia and film screening from Sierra Leone.
The aim of this seminar is to give an insight into the main Latin American intellectual contributions to the current debate about the role of religion in development, and to discuss historical and contemporary experiences shedding light on different aspects of it.
Stig Schølset, head of EU carbon analysis company Thomson Reuters Point Carbon will hold a seminar on the interaction between politics and the market. Schølset will in the seminar discuss confidence in the carbon market, adaptability and the role of the carbon market in different scenarios.
In this seminar, Anne Hellum will present findings from the research project 'Gender, Human Rights and Water Governance'.
Paulo Roberto Ribeiro Guimarães, Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of Brazil, will present his recently published book, followed by prepared comments.
The recently assumed government of Guatemala has elaborated a broad progam to confront organized as well as common crime and strengthen the justice system. President Otto Pérez Molina has also called for a regional dialogue on new methods to confront drugtrafficking, including analyzing the decriminalization of distribution and consumption ofdrugs. If agreed by the other Central American countries, the proposal will be taken to the upcoming summit of the American states.
SUM students has invited CEO of Cultura Sparebank, Lars Hektoen, to talk about the principals and the foundation for the unique Norwegian bank. The lecture is open for everyone within and outside SUM.
Arresting environmental deterioration and achieving sustainable energy represent some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. To take on this challenge we need to engage in interdisciplinary research, research that combines technical, political and social and environmental perspectives.
As part of SUM’s focus on sustainability, we will be holding a series of events to mirror the process of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Using the themes of the roundtable events being held in the run-up to the Earth Summit, we will hold a three-day mini conference on March 2-4, 2012. The event will take place at two different venues. The first part will be open seminars at Litteraturhuset in Oslo (March 2-3). The second part will consist on a weekend cabin trip for PhD and Master’s students (March 3-4) combining workshops, discussions, and outdoors activities.
The 2012 edition of this series features Prof. Brian Wynne (Lancaster University and TIK-centre UiO), Trond Gärtner (Statkraft) and Asbjørn Torvanger (CICERO). Göran Sundvist (TIK) is responsible for this seminar series.
LEVE Student seminars is aimed at students at Master’s level who are interested in issues concerning health, the environment and poverty in developing countries.
This is a breakfast seminar with Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, Senior Associate at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), will be handling President Juan Manuel Santos’ human rights, labor rights and drugs policies.
In this seminar we will take stock of the changes that have occurred in Peru since Humala’s take-over, focusing in particular on the evolution of resource extraction and social-environmental conflicts.
This seminar invites the Norwegian academic society to share thoughts and experiences in the health field and discuss how to cooperate to engage in the global health challenges.
This year's first SFFE/MILEN Lunch seminar features Tommy Fernandes of Solar Energy Unlimited. Fernandes will be handling issues relating to the implementation of solar technology in low-income communities.
Call for papers: Scholars engaged in rhetorical studies, broadly defined, are invited to submit abstracts of papers that deal with how human-animal spaces of action are created with rhetorical means. Contributions from a variety of academic disciplines and approaches, geographical locations, and fields of practice are welcome.Submit an abstract (max. 300 words) to kristian.bjorkdahl@sum.uio.no by February 1, 2012.
During this seminar Katerini T. Storeng will examine the concept of vulnerability in the context of maternal morbidity and mortality in Burkina Faso, an impoverished country in West Africa.
This course is organised by the Department of Political Science, CICEP and MILEN. Arild Underdal, Steffen Kallbekken and Nils B. Weidmann will be lecturing over the course of five days, and students will learn how agent-based modelling can be used as a tool of research within the social science framework.