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Events 2005
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Sep 8
2005
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Is Sustainable Development Necessarily Fair? -
Introduction to LUCSUS Lunch Seminars
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Alf Hornborg
Kenneth Hermele
Christer Gunnarsson
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Sep 15
2005
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Water as a Human Right?
Divergent Conceptions of Justice in the Water Arena
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Ken Conca
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Sep 22
2005
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Forskningens finansieringskällor
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Forskningsservice
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Sep 29
2005
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Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Women:
A Key Element in Sustainable Development
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Ilaria Bottigliero
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Oct 6
2005
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Justice and Global Climate Change
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Edward A. Page
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Oct 13
2005
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Philosophical Perspectives on Global Justice
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Lena Halldenius
Magnus Jiborn
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Oct 20
2005
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Democratic Legitimacy of Global Environmental Governance:
Toward a Sustainable World Order
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Karin Bäckstrand
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Oct 27
2005
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Fair Trade? Non-monetary Measures of Global Resource flows
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Alf Hornborg et al.
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Nov 3
2005
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Theological Perspectives of Environmental Equity
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Anders Melin
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Nov 10
2005
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Today’s Expansion of Nuclear Power: Lessons from the Past
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Dean Abrahamson
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Nov 17
2005
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Justice in Time and Space: Perspectives on Nuclear Waste Storage
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Per Johansson
Ebba Lisberg Jensen
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More info »
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Nov 24
2005
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Green’ Consumption -
Solution or Sand in the Eye?
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Stefan Gössling
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More info »
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Dec 1
2005
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Politics for Posterity:
Equity and Designing for Future Sustainability Pathways
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Tim O’Riordan
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More info »
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
September 8, 2005
Is Sustainable Development Necessarily Fair? -
Introduction to LUCSUS Lunch Seminars
The LUCSUS Lunch seminars this autumn will focus on global equity issues and its connections to the societal goal of sustainable development. The relation between sustainability and equity, justice, or fairness is not as straightforward as suggested by much current discussion on environment and development. It would seem theoretically possible to increase sustainability while decreasing equity, or vice versa. This introducing seminar will give an overview of the connections between these two global societal goals and discuss the extent to which they are congruent or contradictory. The seminar panel will also discuss how research can provide us with better tools for promoting their implementation. Researchers, students and public are welcome to join the discussion.
Seminar panel:
Alf Hornborg, Professor, Human Ecology, More info
Author of the book ‘The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment’, AltaMira/Rowman & Littlefield 2001.
Kenneth Hermele, Economist and Author with special interests in sustainable development, ecological economics and development studies. His latest book is ‘Världens oordning’. 60 år med Världsbanken och IMF, Agora/Forum Syd 2004.
Christer Gunnarsson, Professor Dept. of Economic History, More info
Co-writer on equity issues in background paper to 2006 World Development Report by the World Bank
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
September 15, 2005
Water as a Human Right?
Divergent Conceptions of Justice in the Water Arena
Assoc. Prof. Ken Conca
Department of Government & Politics
University of Maryland, US
Ken Conca is an associate professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland and Director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda.
His research and teaching focus on global environmental politics, social movements, environmental policy, North-South issues, and peace and conflict studies. He is the author/editor of several books, including Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building (MIT Press, forthcoming); Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg (Westview Press, 2004); Environmental Peacemaking (Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002); Confronting Consumption (MIT Press, 2002); Manufacturing Insecurity: The Rise and Fall of Brazil’s Military-Industrial Complex (Lynne Rienner, 1997); and The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics (Columbia University Press, 1993).
Dr. Conca has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and a visiting professor at Nankai University (People’s Republic of China) and Mount Holyoke College (USA). He is also a contributing editor to Politics and the Life Sciences and an associate editor of Global Environmental Politics. More info
Seminar organized by AGESI and Department of Political Science.
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
September 22, 2005
Forskningens finansieringskällor –
Aktuell information från Forskningsservice
Forskningsservice, Lunds Universitet Mer info
Forskningsservice bevakar och informera om för universitetet intressanta finansieringskällor för forskning och utveckling inom t.ex. EU, stiftelser, fonder med mera. Forskningsservice bistår universitetets fakulteter och forskare i frågor som rör extern forskningsfinansiering såsom kontakter med forskningsfinansiärer, projektansökningar, budgetering, kontraktshantering och ekonomisk redovisning av forskningsprojekt. Forskningsservice har ett nära samarbete med bland andra Juridiska enheten och Enheten för näringslivssamverkan.
Man kommer här att informera om aktuella finansiärer för forskning och forskningssamarbete. Det kommer också att finnas tid för att ställa frågor och att veta mer om vad Forskningsservice kan erbjuda för stöd.
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
September 29, 2005
Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Women:
A Key Element in Sustainable Development
Ilaria Bottigliero, Raul Wallenberg Institute
In September 1995, 189 Governments and over 2,500 NGOs - some 30,000 participants in total from around the world - gathered in Beijing at the Fourth World Conference on Women, making it one of the larger conferences ever organized. There, delegations adopted a landmark Declaration pledging to “advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity”. Together, they reaffirmed their commitment to “the equal rights and inherent human dignity of women and men” and they pledged to “ensure the full implementation of the human rights of women and of the girl child as an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of all human rights and fundamental freedoms”. Ten years later, have the promises of Beijing being kept? Is the international community doing enough to promote and protect women’s human rights, particularly in the context of sustainable development? This presentation highlights how, today more than ever, promoting and protecting women’s human rights around the globe remain essential elements within the global strategy to achieve sustainable development, equality, peace and better opportunities for all.
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
October 6, 2005
Justice and Global Climate Change
Edward A. Page, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham More info
Global climate change has important implications for the way in which benefits and burdens are distributed across time and space. As a result, it raises important questions of intergenerational and global justice. The talk will provide a critical overview and analysis of the growing literature on the consequences of, and policies designed to manage, climate change and places them within the broader context of distributive justice and sustainable development. It will be argued that a range of theories of distribution - notably those grounded in ideals of equality, priority and sufficiency - converge on the adoption of an ambitious global climate policy framework known as Contraction and Convergence.
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
October 13, 2005
Philosophical Perspectives on Global Justice
Lena Halldenius, School of international migration and ethnic relations,
Malmö University
Magnus Jiborn, Dept. of Philosophy,
We are currently experiencing how jobs in the manufacturing industry are moving from Europe to low wage countries like China or Indonesia. Is this development a good or a bad thing from the point of view of justice?
Proponents of globalization and free trade commonly argue that it is a win-win situation; the globalization of production creates economic growth and jobs in poor countries, and at the same time yields cheaper commodities (e.g. T-shirts) for consumers in Europe.
Critics of globalization, on the other hand, focus on workers losing their jobs in Europe (cheaper T-shirts on the market is a bad compensation for a lost job) and people in poor countries being exploited by having to work for low wages under unacceptable working conditions.
In this seminar we discuss the philosophical underpinnings of this debate. We consider some different conceptions of justice and responsibility and how they apply to the issue of global justice. To what extent does justice require global economic equality? If there are global injustices, how do we allocate responsibility for rectification or compensation?
Finally, we address the problem of implementation; can the realization of a more just world order be entrusted to a market-driven process or does it really require a system of global governance?
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
October 20, 2005
Democratic Legitimacy of Global Environmental Governance: Toward a Sustainable World Order
Karin Bäckstrand, Department of Political Science More info
Harnessing governance for sustainable development represents a formidable policy challenge. Debates about sustainable development are increasingly dominated by questions of how to secure values such as participation, accountability, equity and legitimacy in governance arrangements transnational levels. The global Earth Summits in Rio and Johannesburg affirmed the need to embrace a more participatory approach in the implementation of sustainable development by enrolling civil society stakeholders such as women, NGOs, business, indigenous people etc. Stakeholder participation and citizen deliberation are seen as cornerstones in building more effective global policy frameworks for sustainable development. This lecture focuses on prospects for democratizing global governance for sustainable development. Critical, cosmopolitan and liberal routes for reforming contemporary structures and processes of environmental governance are explored and contrasted.
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
October 27, 2005
Fair Trade? Non-monetary Measures of Global Resource Flows
Professor Alf Hornborg, Human Ecology Division More info
and invited Scandinavian Researchers and other experts on Trade and Environment.
Recent decades have seen the development of several alternative methods of measuring flows of resources within and between nations, for example 'ecological footprints', 'material flow analysis', 'eMergy' (energy memory), etc.
The purpose of this workshop is to compare a handful of such measures and assess their relative merits and shortcomings. Discussions will deal with methodological problems and developments as well as general issues pertaining to dialogue with standard economics regarding topics such as equity and normativity.
Program
12.30 Welcome to LUCSUS Lunch Seminar. Lunch served from 12.30
13.15 Introduction:
Fair Trade? Non-monetary measures of global resource flows
Prof. Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS
Project Coordinator Sabina Andrén, AGESI.
13.30 Alternative Measures for Sustainable Trade.
Presentation of research project
Prof Alf Hornborg, Human Ecology Division.
Paper to be presented
14.00 Reflections from invited researchers
Responses and questions from invited researchers and
other experts on Trade and Environment.
Panel guests:
Susanne Johansson, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, SLU,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Title of PhD thesis: ‘The Swedish Foodprint - An Agroecological
Study of Food Consumption’.
Matti Larsson, Student in Human Ecology with special interest in cross
-cultural relations. Recent experiences of Fair Trade in South Africa and Minor Field Studies in Zimbabwe
Sverker Molander, Professor at Environmental Systems Analysis,
Chalmers University of Technology. His research and teaching has
followed two paths: sustainability, with an emphasis on indicators, and
methods for ecological risk assessment from both a generic and site
-specific point of view.
Dan Moran, working on the Ecological Footprint with Global Footprint
Network and is presently a student in the LUMES program at Lund.
He is presently researching non-monetary measures of trade and development.
Lennart Salomonsson, associate professor at the Department of Rural Development and Agroecology at SLU, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His research focus is on interdisciplinary perspectives on Agroecology, with a systems ecology theory as base. Special interest in research on Emergy and Trade.
15.00 Coffe break
15.30 Panel Discussion
Discussion between researchers and other invited guests, questions
and comments from the audience
16.30 Concluding reflections
Alf Hornborg, Human Ecology Division
Lennart Olsson, LUCSUS
17.00 Reception
Refreshments in room ‘Sky high Lounge’, floor 5, Geocentrum
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
November 3, 2005
Theological Perspectives of Environmental Equity
Anders Melin,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Since the 1960s questions about the moral relationship between humans and nature have been increasingly acknowledged within Christian theology. The purpose of this lecture is to give an overview of the current discussion.
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
November 10, 2005
Today’s Expansion of Nuclear Power: Lessons from the Past
Dean Abrahamson, University of Minnesota
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
November 17, 2005
Justice in Time and Space:
Perspectives on Nuclear Waste Storage
Ebba Lisberg Jensen, Human Ecology
Per Johansson, Human Ecology
The spatial part of the project aims to understand and analyse the cultural factors connected to place, when it comes to nuclear waste storage. In what ways is the perception of the place altered if a final storage is situated in the area? What social aspects are central to the stakeholders? How does the idea of place change when storage is planned? Is differing social backgrounds and concepts of locality central to those who agree respectively oppose to a nuclear waste storage?
The temporally oriented part of the project is concerned with the 'figures of thought' governing the reasoning and interpretation of the temporal aspects of the nuclear waste dilemma, among various actors - professionals and laymen alike. The dilemma amounts to a discrepancy between the time scale in which decisions have to be made and the very long duration of the lethal material itself. A 'final' depository is planned to last for 100,000 years, which is a time scale encountered nowhere else in our society, yet the political and technical problems connected with this scale of events are very real in our present.
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
November 24, 2005
‘Green’ Consumption -
Solution or Sand in the Eye?
Stefan Gössling, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Service Management,
Campus Helsingborg, Lund University
Lecture Notes
Stefan Gössling will elaborate on the concept of sustainable consumption. Which 'green' products and services exist, how are these demanded by customers, and which role do they play in building sustainable societies? Is 'green' consumption the solution to fair and sustainable development?
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LUCSUS Lunch Seminar -
December 1, 2005
Politics for Posterity:
Equity and Designing for Future Sustainability Pathways
Tim O’Riordan, Prof. Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia,
Executive Editor of Environment Magazine
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