Nettsider med emneord «climate change»

Welcome to this breakfast seminar in the Cities & Society seminar series: Fostering Sustainable Urban Futures: Building Equity into Climate Change Planning and Action, with Robin Leichenko, Professor of Geography at Rutgers University.

Coffee and light snacks will be served.

Environmentally friendly technologies are an important example of an area where innovations have a high social value, but where markets would be scarce – or even absent – without public interventions. In our article “Can direct regulations spur innovations in environmental technologies? A study on firm-level patenting” we address this timely question and find that such public policies indeed encourage innovation in environmentally friendly technologies.

Responding effectively to climate change requires an understanding of what shapes people's sense of responsibility towards the future, and how individual and collective agency may transform into political engagement and ecological citizenship. This project investigates such human dimensions of climate change by focusing on the voices of young people in Norway.

Adaptation: Combining Old and New kNowledge to Enable Conscious Transformation to Sustainability

The objective of AdaptationCONNECTS is to develop new understandings of whether and how different types of transformations can contribute to successful adaptation to climate change.

Join us for an interactive conversation with Anne Caspari about how change happens. She will talk about emergence, complex adaptive systems, micronarratives and the personal dimension of change. Be prepared to have your assumptions challenged - and have fun with it on a Friday afternoon!

Join us for a public international seminar featuring Prof. Karen O'Brien and Alaskan tribal leader AlexAnna Salmon, sponsored by the RCN-financed project AdaptationCONNECTS, UiO.

The WAGE project seeks to examine how oil workers in Norway, Nigeria, US and Canada assess their own role in a green transformation.

Pathways to social transformation (CLIMWAYS)