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]

"I now believe there are over one million organizations working toward ecological sustainability and social justice. This is the largest social movement in all of history, no one knows its scope, and how it functions is more mysterious than what meets the eye. What binds it together is ideas, not ideologies. The promise of this unnamed movement is to offer solutions to what appear to be insoluble dilemmas: poverty, global climate change, terrorism, ecological degradation, polarization of income, loss of culture." Paul Hawken is the author of Blessed Unrest and co-author of Natural Capitalism.

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