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Conference - Energy transitions in an interdependent world
Publication now available on the Scientific Capacity Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries (CAPaBLE Programme)
Vacancy Programme Fellow for Communications and Development and Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs
Special issue of 'Technological Forecasting and Social Change'
Special issue of JIE on Materials Use Across World Regions
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Conference - Energy transitions in an interdependent world
The Sussex Energy Group at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex is organising and hosting an international conference to discuss and debate emerging research agendas in energy social science. he conference will be held at the University of Sussex, near Brighton, on the 25th and 26th February 2010 and is open to academics, policy makers, industry and non-governmental organisations working in the field of energy transitions. We welcome abstracts that outline theoretically robust and empirically informed contributions to one or more of the following themes: low carbon energy innovation; secure and resilient energy systems; the politics of sustainable energy transitions.
Further details including the full conference call and application guidelines are available from the conference website here
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Publication now available on the Scientific Capacity Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries (CAPaBLE Programme)
The CAPaBLE Phase 1 In Review brochure is now available.
This publication highlights the key outcomes of the Scientific Capacity
Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing
Countries (CAPaBLE Programme) in its first phase from April 2003 to
March 2006. To download a copy of the brochure and other APN
publications, please visit the APN Products webpage here
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Vacancy Programme Fellow for Communications and Development and Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs
As
part of the APN's capacity building efforts, the Secretariat is
inviting applications from highly motivated individuals for the
positions of Programme Fellow for Communications and Development and
Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs, based in Kobe,
Japan. For position description, specific duties and qualifications, please click the link below:
Programme Fellow for Communications and Development
Programme Fellow for Science and Institutional Affairs
Application deadline is on 2nd June 2009
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Special issue of 'Technological Forecasting and Social Change'
special issue of 'Technological Forecasting and Social Change' was published, resulting from a collaboration between researchers of IHDP-IT and KSI. It is entitled 'Sustainability Transitions in Developing Asia: Are Alternative Development Pathways Likely?', and edited by Frans Berkhout, David Angel and Anna J. Wieczorek.
The references and links to ScienceDirect can be found here
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Special issue of JIE on Materials Use Across World Regions
The Journal of Industrial Ecology has recently published a special issue on Materials Use Across World Regions: Inevitable Pasts and Possible Futures. The special issue examines resource use on a global scale--focusing on materials use at national and world regional levels, detailed analysis of metals cycles within this context, and assessment of existing governmental policies that are based on material flow analysis (MFA). Countries and regions examined include Australia, Japan, Austria, the USA, Europe, Latin America, and the transition economies. Articles in this special issue specifically address:
* The global sociometabolic transition
* Resource productivity in Japan
* Resource use trajectories in Australia
* Historical carbon flows in Austria
* Comparative material flows in Latin America
* Material use changes in transition economies
* Platinum group metal flows in Europe
* An approach to historical material flow analysis
* The "hidden" trade of metals in products
* Prospects for material flow accounts in the U.S.
* Japan's government policies based on material flow analysis
The Journal of Industrial Ecology is an international, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed bimonthly published by Wiley-Blackwell, owned by Yale University, and headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The special issue is edited by Helga Weisz, of Klagenfurt University, Austria, and Heinz Schandl, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.
The special issue is available here
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