Environment and Development / Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (multi-lingua)

The traditional approaches to development in academic or policy circles have not coped, by and large, with the transformation of the processes of development under the conditions of multidimensional globalization, technological change, multiculturalism, and ecological consciousness. In this public lecture Manuel Castells explores a reconceptualisation of development in the global information age.

Manuel Castells Reconceptualising Development in the Global Information Age

Elva Arrieta, Fernando Illanes, M. Teresa Larrea, Diego Mory y Vanity Torres

Resumen "La Sociedad Red" de Manuel Castells

Speaker(s): Professor Lord Giddens | Professor Lord Giddens published The Politics of Climate Change in 2007and is currently preparing a new edition for publication in 2015. In this lecture he will consider how much progress has been made since the work was first published in containing global warming - arguably one of the greatest threats to a stable future for humanity. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. Credits: Tom Sturdy (Audio Post-Production), LSE AV Services (Audio Recording).

The Politics of Climate Change 2014: what cause for hope? [Audio]

So far we are trying to deal with climate change at the wrong time scale.  A really deep problem cannot be solved by shallow innovations, no matter how clever.  The scale of climate change requires thinking and acting in multi-decade terms at the level of infrastructure—personal as well as societal.  Get it right, and “the result can be like living in a beautifully managed garden.”

Saul Griffith is an inventor and meta-inventor, currently founder of Otherlabs in San Francisco (devising such things as soft robotics, soft exoskeletons, cheap solar tracking, and conformable gas tanks.)  He is a MacArthur Fellow and frequent TED dazzler.  His 02009 SALT talk on Climate Change Recalculated: http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/jan/16/climate-change-recalculated/ is the most viewed video in our twelve-year series.

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"Ecocity Group Curitiba" founder Duncan Crowley is currently doing a 2 year Masters Research programme in the public university UFPR, in MADE (Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento / Environment and Developement). His research area is: "From the village to the city: Confronting climate change by creating ecocities ". 