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Roundtable – “Global Response to crisis: sustainability, SDGs, and climate change”, 27th April, 4pm (BST)
Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022
Aims:
- To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.
- To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.
- To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.
Final Target:
National and international legal and political orders around the world.
Lead by:
Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School
Dr Rita G. Klapper, Manchester Business School
Thematic areas:
- Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (practice and education): led by Dr Rita G. Klapper (UK and international).
- Gender: Led by Dr Kay Lalor (UK) and Dr Natalina Stamile (Italy)
- Access to rights: Lea by Dr Jorge E. Núñez (UK and Latin America)
- Poverty, Sovereignty and Economic Rights: Led by Dr Clarice Seixas Duarte (Brazil)
- Climate change: Led by Dr Danielle Denny (Brazil)
Roundtable 1, Wednesday 27th April 2022 at 4pm BST
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Seb Carney, Head of Environment, Social, Governance, and Sustainability, Daisy Group
Thierry Roussin, CEO, AguiaLabs
Juris North Discussion Group Open to all platform
About this event
Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022
“Global Response to crisis: sustainability, SDGs and climate change”
Aims:
. To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.
. To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.
. To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.
Final Target:
National and international legal and political orders around the world.
Lead by:
Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School
Dr Rita G. Klapper, Manchester Business School
Thematic areas:
• Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (practice and education): lead by Dr Rita G. Klapper (UK and international).
. Gender: Lead by Dr Kay Lalor (UK) and Dr Natalina Stamile (Italy)
• Access to rights: Lead by Dr Jorge E. Núñez (UK and Latin America)
• Poverty, Sovereignty and Economic Rights: Lead by Dr Clarice Seixas Duarte (Brazil)
• Climate change: Lead by Dr Danielle Denny (Brazil)
Hosts
Dr Rita Klapper, Reader in Enterprise and Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez, PhD in Law (University of Manchester, UK)
Campaign – The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Making Tourism a Force for Peace
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Making Tourism a Force for Peace – A Call From Tourism and Hospitality Academicians and Students
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine and so began the largest assault on a European state since 1945.
Please sign the following campaign: https://www.change.org/p/tourismforceforpeace
Accordingly, tourism academicians:
• voice support for the call from Colombia, Guatemala, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, and Ukraine requesting the suspension of the membership of the Russian Federation from the UNWTO in accordance with Article 34 of the Statutes for conducting a policy, contrary to the fundamental aim of the Organization as enshrined in Article 3 of the Statutes of the UNWTO [12].
• call on the members of the World Travel and Tourism Council to suspend any business operations they have in the Russian Federation and to make the extent of their business operations in the country transparent to the travelling public.
• call on tourism-related academic departments and institutions to suspend all institutional relations with departments and institutions in the Russian Federation.
In order to fulfill the values of tourism as a force for peace, and to reinforce sanctions regimes we further encourage:
• all travel and tourism businesses to suspend their activities that enable tourist traffic to and from the Russian Federation.
• ask all tourists to not travel to the Russian Federation until such time as Russia has withdrawn from Ukraine and ceased its armed aggression in compliance with UN General Assembly Resolutions.
In conclusion, we invite representatives of the tourism and hospitality academy and students of tourism and related fields of study to sign this petition against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you support this initiative, please support our action by signing and by sharing:
Let us make a #TourismForceForPeace until justice has been served.
Authors:
Michal Apollo, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland; Global Justice Program, Yale University, USA; Academics Stand Against Poverty, USA
C. Michael Hall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Oulu University, Finland; Linnaeus University, Sweden; Lund University, Sweden; Taylor’s University, Malaysia; Co-editor, Current Issues in Tourism
Ian Wickens, On Tourism & Sustainability, UK
29th April, 3pm – 4pm (BST time) Book Launch – Cities Without Capitalism
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Dedicated to the Memory of the Great Thinker and Activist, Prof. Peter Marcuse
Book Launch: Cities Without Capitalism
Edited by: Hossein Sadri & Senem Zeybekoglu
Foreword by: Peter Marcuse
Book Description
This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future of cities.
The exploitative nature of capitalist urbanization, as seen in the manifestation of modern cities, has threatened and affected life on Earth in unprecedented ways. This book unravels these threats to ecosystems and biodiversity and addresses the widening gap between the rich and the poor. It considers the future impacts of the capitalist urbanization on the planet and the generations to come and offers directions to imagine and build de-capitalised and de-urbanised cities to promote environmental sustainability. Written in lucid style, the chapters in the book illustrate the current situation of capitalist urbanization and expose how it exploits and consumes the planet. It also looks at alternative habitat practices of building autonomous and ecological human settlements, and how these can lead to a transformation of capitalist urbanization.
The book also includes current debates on COVID-19 pandemic to consider post-pandemic challenges in envisioning a de-capitalised, eco-friendly society in the immediate future. It will be useful for academics and professionals in the fields of sociology, urban planning and design and urban studies.
Table of Contents
Foreward Peter Marcuse
Part 1: Cities and Capitalism
1. Cities Without Capital: A Systemic Approach
Porus D. Olpadwala
2. Cities and Subjectivity Within and Against Capitalism
Kanishka Goonewardena and Sinead Petrasek
3. Can Urbanization Reduce Inequality and Limit Climate Change?
William W. Goldsmith
4. Tent City Urbanism
Andrew Heben
Part 2: Cities Against Capitalism
5. Transition Design as a Strategy for Addressing Urban Wicked Problems
Gideon Kossoff and Terry Irwin
6. Transition Pioneers: Cultural Currents and Social Movements of Our Time That “Preveal” the Future Post-Capitalist City
Juliana Birnbaum
7. Urban Commons: Toward a Better Understanding of the Potentials and Pitfalls of Self-Organized Projects
Mary H. Dellenbaugh-Losse
8. Counteracting the Negative Effects of Real Estate-Driven Urbanism + Empowering the Self-Constructed City
David Gouverneur
Part 3: Cities Without Capitalism9. What Will a Non-capitalist City Look Like?
Tom Angotti
10. Towards Democratic and Ecological Cities
Yavor Tarinski
11. The Coming Revolution of Peer Production and the Synthetisation of the Urban and Rural: The Solution of the Contradiction between City and the Country
Jakob Rigi
ROGER W. GALE SYMPOSIUM: A wicked problem – Individual freedoms and climate change
April 12, 2022 | Online Virtual Event | The University of British Colombia
9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. PST
IT HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR DECADES THAT THE EARTH’S CLIMATE IS CHANGING, AND THE ROLE OF HUMAN INFLUENCE ON THE CLIMATE SYSTEM IS UNDISPUTED – VALÉRIE MASSON-DELMOTTE, IPCC WORKING GROUP I CO-CHAIR, 2021-08-09.\
https://epp.ok.ubc.ca/about/freedomsandclimatechange/
There is no reasonable doubt that the collectivity of individual human decisions has substantially changed the global climate, and on its current trajectory, the rate of change is accelerating. The impacts of this change are being seen around the world as wildfires, heat waves, torrential rains and powerful storms. The more heat-trapping gasses are added to the atmosphere, the further the climate will change and the greater the risk that the climate system tips into a new and substantially different state. A state that will seriously disrupt all ecological systems – within which human systems are embedded – on the planet.
Each of us has a range of choices available that have differing impacts on other people and the global environment. Should that range of choices be constrained for some so that the global climate system can be stabilized? Whose choices? How? What, if anything, we do together to change the choices we make as individuals is a “wicked” problem (Churchman, 1967), intersecting various important values with no objectively right solution.
Join us on April 12, 2022, to explore this intersection with our distinguished guests.
The ninth annual Amartya Sen Prize
This year, Global Financial Integrity, Academics Stand Against Poverty, and Yale’s Global Justice Program will be awarding the ninth annual Amartya Sen Prizes to the two best original essays examining one particular component of illicit financial flows, the resulting harms, and possible avenues of reform. Essays should be about 7,000 to 9,000 words long. There is a first prize of USD 5,000 and a second prize of USD 3,000. Winning essays must be available for publication in Journal Academics Stand Against Poverty.
Illicit financial flows are explicitly recognized as an obstacle to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and singled out as target #4 of SDG 16. They are defined as cross-border movements of funds that are illegally earned, transferred, or used – such as funds earned through illegal trafficking in persons, drugs or weapons; funds illegally transferred through mispriced exchanges (e.g., among affiliates of a multinational firm seeking to shift profits to reduce taxes); goods misinvoiced or funds moved in order to evade taxes; and funds used for corruption of or by public or corporate officials.
Components of illicit financial flows can be delimited by sector or geographically. Delimitation by sector might focus your essay on some specific activity, business or industry – such as art, real estate, health care, technology, entertainment, shipping, weapons, agriculture, sports, gaming, education, politics, tourism, natural resource extraction, banking and financial services – or on an even narrower subsector such as the diamond trade, hunting, insurance, or prostitution. Delimitation by geography might further narrow the essay’s focus to some region, country, or province.
Your essay should describe the problematic activity and evaluate the adverse effects that make it problematic. You should estimate, in quantitative terms if possible, the magnitude of the relevant outflows as well as the damage they do to affected institutions and populations. This might include harm from abuse, exploitation and impoverishment of individuals, harm through subdued economic activity and reduced prosperity, and/or harm through diminished tax revenues that depress public spending.
Your essay should also explain the persistence of the harmful activity in terms of relevant incentives and enabling conditions and, based on your explanation, propose plausible ways to curtail the problem. Such reform efforts might be proposed at diverse levels, including supranational rules and regimes, national rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, individual initiatives, or any combination thereof. The task is to identify who has the responsibility, the capacity and (potentially) the knowledge and motivation to change behavior toward effective curtailment. Special consideration will be given to papers that provide a detailed description of how change may come about in a particular geographical or sectoral context.
We welcome authors from diverse academic disciplines and from outside the academy. Please send your entry by email attachment on or before 31 August 2022 to Tom Cardamone at SenPrize@gfintegrity.org. While your message should identify you, your essay should be stripped of self-identifying references, formatted for blind review.
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