Maja Essebo: Machine Learning Through Storytelling
Maja Essebo, a visiting scholar from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies discusses how machine learning can provide a way for creating and telling stories. She elaborates on the use of myth; a naturalized belief which is used to legitimize/ naturalize environmental policy and practice. Through the incorporation of machine learning, we are able to […]
Cagdas Dedeoglu: Religion, Environment and Politics in Turkey
Cagdas Dedeoglu, an adjunct professor at Yorkville University (Toronto, ON) and a Research Associate at The Center for Critical Research on Religion (USA) showcased his research connecting the relationship between environmental attitudes, political ideology, and religion in Turkey. His study investigates the various ecological issues in Turkey, such as the building of the hydropower plants […]
Laura Tozer: Bringing Nature Into The City? Transitional Governance And The Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solution
Laura Tozer, a post-doctoral research associate at Durham University, explains her study with Harriet Bulkeley on how urban nature is being governed transnationally, which highlights three themes: nature for resilience, nature for climate, and nature for nature. Moreover, she highlights the characteristics of the emerging transnational governance space, such as shifting governance arrangements and diverse actors. […]
Daniel Rosenbloom and Jochen Markard: Why Carbon Pricing is Not Sufficient and What Sustainability Transition Policy Can Offer
Daniel Rosenbloom, a SSHRC post-doctoral researcher at the EGL, and Jochen Markard (ETH Zurich) presented their research on the challenges facing carbon pricing. Rosenbloom and Markard began by outlining the principal weaknesses of this dominant climate policy approach with respect to: problem framing and solution orientation, policy priorities, assumptions about innovation, contextual considerations, and politics. […]
Christina Hoicka: Measuring the Diffusion of Multiple Low Carbon Innovations for End-Users in a 1.5ºC Energy Transition
Christina Hoicka, a Professor of Sustainable Energy Economics from York University presented her research on how taking a systems approach can lower costs and lock-out carbon. She specified that the multiple demand-side innovations establishes complementarities. An example given is regarding the improvements within renewable energy systems, which is largely needed for combating climate change. She […]