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Feb 9
2006
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Climate Change and the Future of Energy
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Christian Azar
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Feb 16
2006
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Trade and Environmental Justice
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Alf hornborg et al
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Feb 23
2006
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Nature and the City:
perspectives from Australian suburbs
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Lesley Head
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Mar 2
2006
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Late lessons from early warnings:
Learning from the the precautionary principle
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David Gee
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Mar 10
2006
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Sustainable development at a regional level - the case of Region Skåne
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Charlotte Book
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Mar 16
2006
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Economic Globalization and Global Justice
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Göran Collste
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Mar 23
2006
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Can a virus halt human development?
The AIDS pandemic and its impact
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Jerker Liljestrand
Bertil Egerö
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Mar 30-31
2006
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The VHU national conference
“Utbildning och lärande
för hållbar utveckling”
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Apr 6
2006
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The European Union and sustainable development – current environmental challenges and possible future actions
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Jock Martin
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Apr 20
2006
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Swedish International Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development
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Mats Segnestam
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Aprl 24
2006
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How do we build a more sustainable society?
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Stefan Edman
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Sep 20
2006
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Dialogues for Sustainable Development at Lund University
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Elisabeth Gierow »
Environment manager, Lund University
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Sep 28
2006
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The Future of the World Bank and the IMF
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Kenneth Hermele,
Economist and lecturer in Development Economics, University of Växjö and Ecological Economics, Lund University
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Oct 5
2006
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The Challenge of Sustainability in a European context
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Anders Wijkman »
Member of the European Parliament with special interest in Environment and Sustainable Development
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Oct 12
2006
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Their peace - our security: How do we share our responsibility for the world?
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Anders Oljelund
Deputy Director General, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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Oct 19
2006
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Seven challenges-
Depletion of Oceanic Fish Stocks
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Oct 26
2006
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The revised EU strategy for sustainable development – implications for Europe and Sweden
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Lars Lundberg,
Coordination Unit for Sustainable Development at the Swedish Ministry of Sustainable Development
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Nov 9
2006
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Unlike the state: NGOs as agents of change in rural Bangladesh
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Malin Arvidson »
Department of Sociology, Lund University
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Nov 16
2006
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No Limits: The Discourse of Economic Growth
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Eva Friman
Director Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Uppsala University, CEMUS »
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Nov 30
2006
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Politics for Posterity: Designing for Future Sustainability Pathways
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Tim O’Riordan
Professor, Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Executive Editor of Environment Magazine
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Dec 14
2006
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Climate Change and Potential Health Implications
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Pim Martens »
Director, ICIS, International Centre for Integrated assessment & Sustainable development
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February 9, 2006
Climate Change and the Future of Energy
Christian Azar
Professor of Sustainable Industrial Metabolism, Physical Resource Theory,
Chalmers University of Technology
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Christian has worked as an advisor to Margot Wallström, and a member of the UN panel on climate change, IPCC. Currently he is a member of Göran Persson's Oil Commission.
In this seminar, Christian Azar will discuss the science of climate change, the implications for the energy system, ways to reduce CO2 emissions. He will demonstrate ways to solve the problem while at the same time maintaining economic growth.
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February 16, 2006
Trade and Environmental Justice
The Human Ecology Division, together with LUCSUS and AGESI at Lund University, are organizing a two day international workshop on Trade and Environmental Justice. The main objective is to discuss and compare different non-monetary measures of commodity flows, such as ecological footprints, eMergy, material flow analysis, and exchange of embodied labor, in relation to overarching issues of political ecology, ecologically "unequal" exchange, ecological distribution conflicts, and environmental load displacement.
As part of this workshop a panel discussion between researchers representing different aspects of Trade and Environmental justice is organized as a LUCSUS seminar. Researchers, students and other interested are very welcome to join the seminar and participate in the discussion.
Panel debate with:
Joan Martinez Alier
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Workshop presentation:
Social Metabolism and Ecological Distribution Conflicts
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Roldan Muradian
Development Research Institute (IVO), Tilburg University, Netherlands. Workshop presentation:
China as an emerging core of the world economy and its environmental implications worldwide
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Simron Jit Singh
Institute of Social Ecology, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies Vienna
Workshop presentation:
From unequal exchange to disaster capitalism: A look at pre-and-post tsunami Nicobars
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Dan Moran
Participant in the Global Footprint Network, and student in the LUMES program (Lund University International Master’s Programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science).
Workshop presentation:
Ecological Footprint to capture ecological trade flows
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Lennart Salomonsson
The Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU.
Workshop presentation:
Emergy and equitable exchange
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Jan-Otto Andersson
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Workshop presentation:
International trade in a full and unequal world
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Moderators:
Alf Hornborg
Sabina Andrén
Lund University, AGESI »
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February 23, 2006
Nature and the City:
perspectives from Australian suburbs
Lesley Head
As we approach the first time in human history when the majority of the world's population lives in cities, it becomes more relevant than ever to understand the environmental attitudes, behaviours and interactions of those people. This is a new way of thinking about nature, which has generally been conceptualised as existing outside cities. In the Australian context nature has been understood as 'out there' - in the bush, the outback, the desert. I will report on ethnographic research in backyard gardens in Sydney, Wollongong and Alice Springs, and make some comparative observations after six months working in Sweden.
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March 2, 2006
Late lessons from early warnings:
Learning from the the precautionary principle
David Gee
David Gee is working with science, policy and innovation issues at the European Environment Agency, EEA. He is co-editor of the report Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896-2000 (EEA Environmental issue report, No 22). This report is about gathering information on the hazards raised by human economic activities and its use in taking action to protect better the environment and the health of the species and ecosystems that are dependent on it. The study aims to contribute to better and more accessible science-based information and more effective stakeholder participation in the governance of economic activity so as to help minimize environmental and health costs and maximize innovation.
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March 10, 2006
Sustainable development at a regional level - the case of Region Skåne
Charlotte Book
The regional organisation Region Skåne was formed in 1999 and operates on a trial basis. The organisation is shouldering great responsibility for issues concerning regional development and various regional services. Region Skåne deals with matters such as trade and industry, culture, health and medical care, public transport, physical planning and sustainable development. Planning and Environment (Planering och Miljö) is a department within Region Skåne, and a driving force in the region's development. Planning and Environment works to ensure sustainable development of our society – from a regional perspective. This includes among others questions about transport infrastructure, land use planning, housing development, nature conservation, and environment protection.
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March 16, 2006
Economic Globalization and Global Justice
Göran Collste
Professor of Applied Ethics, Director for the Centre for Applied Ethics,
Linköping University
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Globalisation is a multifaceted process that has ethical implications. For example, a decision to introduce a Structural Adjustment Programme by the World Bank and IMF is not only an economical but also a moral decision. In the face of globalisation and the global divide, ethical theory must become globally sensitive. The implications of globalisation for ethics are twofold. It questions a traditional view of moral responsibility because it has become arbitrary to limit our responsibility to our fellow national citizens and it questions a methodological and normative ethical “territorialism” in favour of ideas of global justice. Global justice can mean different things. In my discussion about global justice I distinguish between Global Rectificatory Justice and Global Distributive Justice.
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March 23, 2006
Can a virus halt human development?
The AIDS pandemic and its impact
Jerker Liljestrand
Department of Health Sciences,
Division of Social Medicine and Global Health, Lund University
Bertil Egerö
Twenty-five years into the AIDS pandemic, adult death tolls to AIDS are now rising in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. A slow-motion Tsunami wave reaches all corners of society, weakening households, food and industry production, services and public office. When this mortality wave was predicted over fifteen years ago it raised little attention among resource-rich institutions. Today, its potentially serious impacts on the UN Millennium Development Goals are slowly getting recognised, but a response at par with the threat is not even contemplated by the international community.
The future size of the mortality wave and its duration in time remain uncertain – odds are that it will run its course of destruction for decades ahead. Will this persistent drain on societies facilitate further spread of the virus thus moving them down a vicious circle of inverted development?
The answers provided by medical science will be discussed, and we will open for a debate on the challenges for social science.
Jerker Liljestrand is associate professor in public health at Lund university, and has worked with international reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS, since the 1980s.
Bertil Egerö is associate professor (emer.) in sociology at Lund university, and has studied AIDS-relevant issues in poor nations since the early 1990s.
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March 30-31, 2006
LUCSUS was co-organizing the VHU national conference
“Utbildning och lärande
för hållbar utveckling”
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April 6, 2006
The European Union and sustainable development – current environmental challenges and possible future actions
Jock Martin
Programme Manager (Analysis, integration and reporting), European Environment Agency, EEA
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What are the current environmental trends in the European Union? Is Europe on a path towards sustainable development? What can be done on different levels of society? Jock Martin from the European Environment Agency will give a seminar based on the report The European Environment - State and Outlook 2005.
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April 20, 2006
Swedish International Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development
Mats Segnestam
Head of Environment Policy Division,
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
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The overall goal of SIDA is to contribute to making it possible for poor people to improve their living conditions. By reducing injustices and poverty throughout the world, better opportunities are created for development, peace and security for all people and nations. Sustainable development shall permeate all Sida's activities. Together with cooperation partners, Sida works actively for an environmentally sustainable development within a wide range of countries and sectors. This seminar will highlight changes in attitudes over the years with regard to environmental aspects of development, as well as the development of approaches and methods within Swedish international development cooperation. Present and future challenges and opportunities in relation to sustainable development will be discussed.
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April 24, 2006
How do we build a more sustainable society?
Stefan Edman
Stefan Edman, biologist, environmental author and debater, and adviser for the Swedish government.
Stefan Edman is a well known Swedish author and debater on environment and sustainable development. He has for several years been appointed as an adviser for the Swedish government, for example in the official report on sustainable consumption (SOU 2005:51). He is now a member of Göran Persson’s ‘Oil Commission’ and in this seminar, Stefan will speak about climate change, the oil peak and our challenges and possibilities to create a more sustainable society
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September 20, 2006
Dialogues for Sustainable Development at Lund University
Elisabeth Gierow
Environment manager, Lund University
Lund University will shortly initiate a dialogue process to support and coordinate our initiatives to enhance Sustainable Development in our operations. The dialogue process has been developed for a network organization and seeks to legitimize and promote the work for a common policy through a bottom-up process. The dialogue process will initially focus on the need to develop and disseminate methods to ensure that, during his or her education, each student encounters and relates to discipline-relevant ethical and social aspects in the environment and sustainability areas.
The dialogue process will be launched by an invitation from the Vice Chancellor to an open meeting on the 9th of October at 13.30 (Kårhusets Hörsal)
At the seminar on the 20th of September the newly adopted environmental and sustainable development policy and objectives for Lund University will also be presented.
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September 28, 2006
The Future of the World Bank and the IMF
Kenneth Hermele
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Economist and lecturer in development economics, Peace and Development Studies, University of Växjö, and in ecological economics at the Human Ecology Division, Lund University
The Wold Bank and the IMF, which were created 60 years ago in order to finance development after World War II and secure financial stability, have during the last decades been severely criticized for going against their original mandates. Today, the discussion is no longer IF they should reform but HOW.
This seminar was organized in collaboration with LUMID, Lund University International Master in Development and Management.
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October 5, 2006
The Challenge of Sustainability in a European context
Anders Wijkman
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Member of the European Parliament with special interest in Environment and Sustainable Development
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October 12, 2006
Their peace - our security: How do we share our responsibility for the world?
Anders Oljelund
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- Director at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He was appointed in January 2006 as a mediator in the Darfur conflict in Sudan.
Anders Oljelund, who takes up a new post in August 2006 as Ambassador for international cooperation in the fight against human trafficking
No lasting peace can be found in isolation. Nor can security. This understanding is not at all new but the accelerating globalization has given much evidence to these two statements. How do we make practical and practicable policies out of the knowledge we have about the constructive and destructive forces of globalization? The Swedish policy document "Shared responsibility" is one attempt. This seminar will discuss the implications of that document and what it takes to make it successful.
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October 19, 2006
Seven Challenges for Sustainability
Challenges no 7:
Depletion of Oceanic Fish Stocks
LUCSUS convenes a series of events with the title ‘Seven Challenges for Sustainability’. As part of this, whole day seminar is organized on marine fishing and sustainability issues. We are inviting people representing different stake holders to give presentations and participate in panel discussions. In addition, scholars from different disciplines and universities will take active part in discussing the challenges from different disciplinary approaches.
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October 26, 2006
The revised EU strategy for sustainable development – implications for Europe and Sweden
Lars Lundberg
Lars Lundberg, PhD, is a Director at the Coordination Unit for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Sustainable Development in Sweden. He was the Swedish delegate in the negotiations on the new EU Strategy in the first semester of 2006. More info »
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Building on the first EU strategy for sustainable development from Gothenburg 2001, the European Council in June 2006 adopted a renewed, more ambitious strategy. It comprises a number of objectives, targets and measures in seven areas: climate change and energy, transport, sustainable consumption and production, natural resources, health, social inclusion, and global development challenges. Procedures for follow-up are stepped up, with a comprehensive review by the European Council every second year. The new strategy has the potential to bring the EU:s sustainable development efforts significantly forward in the coming years. The seminar will discuss effects, challenges, interaction with the Lisbon strategy and how Sweden can contribute.
Renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy »
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November 9, 2006
Unlike the state: NGOs as agents of change in rural Bangladesh
Malin Arvidson
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Department of Sociology, Lund University
NGOs from all over the world claim to be agents of change towards more equal and socially just societies. They are seen as important troubleshooters and ethical role-models in a world where both states and the private sector are failing to contribute to a safe and secure environment that is enabling for poverty reduction. The NGO sector in Bangladesh is renowned for its size and groundbreaking actions such as empowerment of women through micro-credits. But how has the sector contributed to a generally strengthened civil society? The relationship between the state and the NGO sector is highly problematic and this affects the possibilities and opportunities available (or lack thereof) at the grassroots. It seems that despite its size and 30 years of action, the NGO sector has failed in creating more and equal opportunities for all, and in promoting good governance and democracy as the basic ethics of practice in society.
How can we understand and explain this? While it may to some extent be true that getting access to donor money is a source of motivation for some NGOs, this is not a satisfactory explanation for what may seem as deceptive rhetoric and false claims of achievement. The NGOs are part of complex networks of relations based on social, cultural, political (local and international) and economic realities. Despite their grand visions local reality often makes it difficult to fulfill these visions.
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November 16, 2006
No Limits: The Discourse of Economic Growth
Eva Friman
Director of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS), Uppsala University
Very few arguments serve to legitimize policy as powerfully as higher growth rates. Economic growth has become a master narrative, desirable and worth substantial sacrifices. This lecture presents results from Friman's doctorate thesis, which analyzes the 20th century discource of economic growth, and which finds science, language and power to have important explanatory value.
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November 30, 2006
Politics for Posterity: Designing for Future Sustainability Pathways
Tim O’Riordan
Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia,
Executive Editor of Environment Magazine
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December 14, 2006
Climate Change and
Potential Health Implications
Pim Martens »
Director, ICIS, International Centre for Integrated assessment & Sustainable development
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