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"From pollution to solution: will China save the planet?" with Barbara Finamore

18th June 2019: 5:00pm

Registration Required

"New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene" with Prof Eric Beinhocker

20th June 2019: 5:00pm

Registration Required

"Clouds and climate" with Prof Tapio Schneider

5th September 2019: 4:00pm

Registration Required

Event Series: Evolving economic thought

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Re-thinking economics has never been more important. Climate change, technological change, equitable development and migration are among the many challenges the world is currently facing, and new paradigms of economic thought can help society respond effectively. An economic lens can help us understand, adapt and plan for the future. This lecture series presents ideas from leading-edge thinkers on how we might do so.

"New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene" with Prof Eric Beinhocker

20th June 2019: 5:00pm

Registration Required

Forthcoming Events

June

"From pollution to solution: will China save the planet?" with Barbara Finamore

18th June 2019: 5:00pm Registration Required

Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe?

'The future of food in the Anthropocene': A discussion of the EAT-Lancet and TYFA scenarios

19th June 2019: 6:00pm

In this talk Marco Springmann (Oxford Martin School), Xavier Poux (AScA and IDDRI) and Pierre-Marie Aubert (IDDRI) will discuss the EAT Lancet scenario and the TYFA scenario, respectively for the global and European food systems.

'Urban segregation in behaviours: a data-driven approach' with Dr Xiaowen Dong

20th June 2019: 2:00pm

Series: OIPA Trinity 2019 Seminar Series: Qualitative & quantitative methods for Big Data: a journey through social, medical and natural sciences

"New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene" with Prof Eric Beinhocker

20th June 2019: 5:00pm Registration Required

The biosphere and econosphere are deeply interlinked and both are in crisis. Industrial, fossil-fuel based capitalism delivered major increases in living standards from the mid-18th through late-20th centuries, but at the cost of widespread ecosystem destruction, planetary climate change, and a variety of economic injustices.

Series: Evolving economic thought

Creating healthy, sustainable, city food environments

20th June 2019: 5:30pm

Levels of obesity in most cities are growing fast, as is the associated healthcare burden. Urban food provisioning – the way people in cities access food – is a significant part of the problem, but urban authorities around the world are starting to take a new approach; one that combines systems thinking and coherent policies with a people-centred approach that engages with inhabitants’ lived experience.

September

"Clouds and climate" with Prof Tapio Schneider

5th September 2019: 4:00pm Registration Required

Crocodiles once roamed the Arctic, during the Eocene about 50 million years ago. Polar regions were lush and warm. Greenhouse gas concentrations were higher than today, but at most about 4 times higher - not enough, according to current climate models, to have warmed the Arctic sufficiently. Something appears to be missing in current models to account for the warmth of the past.

Oxford Stem Cell Institute Annual Symposium 2019: 'Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy'

17th September 2019: 9:00am

The Symposium will highlight areas of stem cell research with trajectories towards treatments of diseases including metabolic and genetic skin disorders, neurodegeneration, musculoskeletal disease, heat failure and cancer.