• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment

Wednesday 13 May 2015

• 13:00 - Elephant Research Afternoon
  TBA

Monday 18 May 2015

• 17:00 - Inside climate negotiations: a personal perspective
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 20 May 2015

• 12:30 - Gendered Mobility and Life-­‐Course Pathways in Palestine
  TBA

Friday 22 May 2015

• 10:00 - Peace-scapes: exploring Landscapes of Peace and Peacebulding
  TBA

Monday 1 June 2015

• 13:30 - GOTO - Thirsty Multinationals: Corporate Water Risk and Return
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Tuesday 2 June 2015

• 15:00 - Gender, Knowledge and Discourses of Environmental Risk
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 16:00 - Natural capital – how to protect and enhance the natural environment
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 18:00 - The Societalization of Social Problems: Recent Social Crises and the Civil Sphere
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Friday 5 June 2015

• 10:15 - The Anthropocene Project at the Tate Modern
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Monday 8 June 2015

• 11:00 - Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure – Case Studies from South East Asia
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:00 - India's Sustainable Development: the Role of the Private Sector
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:00 - India's Sustainable Development: the Role of the Private Sector
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:00 - India's Sustainable Development: the Role of the Private Sector
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 11 June 2015

• 10:00 - Towards New Farming and Food Systems: Sustainable Intensification and Food Democracy
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Saturday 13 June 2015

• 09:00 - Low Carbon Week
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Monday 15 June 2015

• 12:00 - What’s going on in the climate talks? UNFCCC Debrief Session
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 17:00 - Deadlines: Weds 17th June 2015 to attend COP21 Paris. Mon 15th June for Side Events and Exhibits
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 18 June 2015

• 09:30 - Successes and failures
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Friday 19 June 2015

• 09:30 - Strategies in comparison
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 14:00 - Time(s) of changes
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Monday 22 June 2015

• 09:00 - Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2015
  Registration is open at: http://environmenteurope.org/education/5 for school - 30 August - 5 September
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:00 - Mass Transit Needs Mass: Urban Density Thresholds for Cost-Effective Fixed-Guideway Investments
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 24 June 2015

• 13:00 - Small farmers from India and Malawi: climate change, fair trade
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 13:00 - Small farmers from India and Malawi: climate change, fair trade
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 2 July 2015

• 09:00 - Infrastructure Investment in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies - Systems Thinking for New Institutions and Global Challenges
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 15:00 - Who Is Responsible for Climate Change?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 24 September 2015

• 09:00 - 1st Global Conference on Stranded Assets and the Environment
  TBA

Wednesday 7 October 2015

• 13:00 - Urban morphology and climate change: Isobenefit Urbanism evolutions for future human habitats
  Luca D'Acci (Coodinator of Urban Environment and Climate Change at IHS in Erasmus University of Rotterdam)

Thursday 8 October 2015

• 17:30 - Launch event of new report from the University of Oxford's Project for Protected Area Resilience
  TBA

Monday 12 October 2015

• 17:00 - What happens to land and property rights in the Anthropocene - winners & losers?
  Camilla Toulmin
• 17:30 - Annual Oxford Global Justice Lecture: State Immunity and Human Rights
  Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood KCMG QC (International Court of Justice)

Tuesday 13 October 2015

• 17:00 - Water risks and insecurity
  Professor David Grey (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 17:00 - Climate change: did journalism fail?
  Alan Rusbridger (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 October 2015

• 10:00 - Controlling Environments Workshop
  TBA
• 17:00 - Demographic change – the evolving health challenges
  Prof Sarah Harper (Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing), Professor Robyn Norton (Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Health)
• 17:00 - Anthropocenic Geosociality: the geopolitics of volcanoes
  Gísli Pálsson

Friday 16 October 2015

• 16:00 - Global to Local: Practicing Change and Changing Practice
  Dr Nick Brown (Principal, Linacre College), Nicky Chambers (Strategy Advisor, Anthesis), Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute), Barbara Hammond (CEO Low Carbon Hub), Nick Mottram (Environmental Strategy Officer, Oxfordshire County Council), Dr Benito Mueller (Oxford Climate Policy)

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 17:00 - A new economics for the Anthropocene
  Professor Giorgos Kallis
• 17:30 - Does cultural diversity boost innovation?
  Professor Jacques Poot (Professor of Population Economics at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand)

Thursday 22 October 2015

• 17:00 - Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy), Prof Henry Snaith (Co-Director of the Programme on Solar Energy: Organic Photovoltaics)

Friday 23 October 2015

• 13:00 - Muddied Waters: The World Bank and transboundary water governance in the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed
  TBA

Monday 26 October 2015

• 12:00 - The migrant and refugee crisis - A panel discussion on responses and solutions
  Professor Ian Goldin ( Director, Oxford Martin School)

Wednesday 28 October 2015

• 09:30 - An Introduction to Small Area Statistics and Geodemographic Segmentation
  Guy Lansley

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 18:30 - Behaviour change from the inside out: Psychosocial approaches to sustainability, energy and climate change
  Dr Renee Lertzman (Anglia Ruskin University), Dr Rosie Robison (Anglia Ruskin University)

Monday 2 November 2015

• 09:00 - TOSCA Map event in Oxford
  TBA

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 17:00 - EU climate policy – where are we headed?
  Dr Jos Delbeke ( Director-General of DG CLIMA)

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 12:00 - Roundtable on coal-to-liquids, coal-to-gas, and underground coal gasification
  TBA
• 15:30 - Saturating the Desert: The Management of Rising Groundwater Levels in the Eastern Alluvium Aquifer of Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia
  Professor Gamal Abdo (Director of the Water Research Centre at the University of Khartoum)

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 17:00 - 4th Trapnell Lecture: Revisiting the Green Sahara
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Jessica Tierney (University of Arizona)

Friday 20 November 2015

• 19:30 - Global trends to 2030: Can the EU meet the challenges ahead?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  James Elles (former MEP and Honorary President of ESPAS), Anthony Teasdale (Director General of the European Parliamentary Research Service), David Blackman (Chairman of the Oxford Region Branch of the European Movement)
• 20:00 - Syria Fundraiser for Jusoor
  TBA

Saturday 21 November 2015

• 10:00 - How to Read Geological Maps
  Professor Paul Smith (Director and Geologist)

Monday 23 November 2015

• 16:30 - Debate: This House Believes Time and Space are the Enemies of Business Sustainability
  Leo Johnson (Author), Peter Lacy (Global MD, Accenture), J. B. Bentham (Scenarios Leader, Shell), Jamie Butterworth (Partner, Circularity Capital), Emma Howard Boyd (Deputy Chair, Environment Agency)

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 17:00 - Natural capital - sustaining economic growth
  Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford)
• 19:00 - An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist
  Nick Middleton (Supernumerary Fellow in Physical Geography at St Anne's College)

Thursday 26 November 2015

• 16:30 - Cartography of the Anthropocene: the World as you’ve never seen it before
  Dr Benjamin D. Hennig (Researcher, Member of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster)

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 17:30 - Graduate Research Seminar
  Various (See programme)

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 16:30 - Speedy Sandscapes
  Various (See programme)
• 16:30 - Speedy Sandscapes: TED-style talks
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various (See programme)

Thursday 3 December 2015

• 17:00 - Explorations in Food System Outcomes: food security, the environment and economy
  Dr Rosemary Collier (Warwick University), Dr Kelly Reed ( Warwick University), Professor Mike Rayner ( Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 December 2015

• 10:00 - Innovation and Enterprise: Add Impact to your Research
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various (See programme)

Thursday 21 January 2016

• 14:00 - Precarious Women Workers in Montreal: The relationship between paid and unpaid labour.
  Dr Carmen Teeple Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment)
• 17:30 - Energy Businesses in a post-COP21 world
  Juliet Davenport (CEO Good Energy)

Thursday 25 February 2016

• 18:00 - A new map of the financial world and why it matters - Annual Lecture 2016
  Professor Dariusz Wójcik (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:30 - Extraction and Exclusion - A Necessary Relationship?
  Prof Gavin Bridge (University of Durham)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 18:00 - Predicting our climate future: what we know, don’t know and can’t know
  Prof David Stainforth (London School of Economics)