Sustainability Roundup [19 June 2023]

News, Events, Links, Jobs (Candel interview on the Nitrogen Wars, film on tax evasion, and student assistantship in sustainable education)

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News:

• Radboud Conference Earth System Governance updates:

  • Registration closes on 1 July.

  • The Innovative Session Programme is out!

• Freshwater-Experts needed at the IPBES Biodiversity Panel, 28 August-2 September.

• Nitrogen Wars: How the Netherlands Hit the Limits to Growth. An interview with Jeroen Candel.

Events

• Sustainable Challenges Centres Meeting:

  • Monday 26, 3-4pm, EOS 1.110 and hybrid.

    Jan Hendrik from the Sustainable Centre at Hochschule Rhein-Waal in Kleve will come to visit the Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. This is first and foremost meant for both centers to meet and exchange about synergies and potential collaborations. Come and join the discussion!

• Launch Event Journal of Political Sociology, 4 July, 11-12.30pm, HG 2.537 and hybrid. The JPS establishes a home for the study of the political in all its forms. JPS goes beyond a narrow understanding, discussing political processes in governments and movements, but also in art, economics, education, ecology, science, technology, religion, public health, and identity formation. We invite current and future authors and readers to launch a boundary-spanning discussion about the political of contemporary societies.Find the registration link and the pre-print here.

• Post-Capitalist Seminar: A critical, decolonial, Indigenous perspective on food system, 22 June, Wageningen University.

• Extinction Rebellion Arnhem General Assembly, 21 June, 7-9pm, Beeldhouwerstraat 74, Arnhem.

• IPBES 10th session will take place in Bonn, Germany, from 28 August-2 September:

  • Online dialogue workshop with national and (sub)regional platforms and networks, 23 June, 1-3pm. The objective of this dialogue is to explore efforts to increase synergies and collaboration in supporting the implementation of the IPBES rolling work programme up to 2030 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Sign up and join!

  • Stakeholder Day, 27 August, 8.30-6pm, Bonn, Germany, Registration is now

    open!

• Tax me if you can, LUX Nijmegen, until 20 June, documentary how billions in tax money every year do not end up with the government.

  

• From the Roots Up, 6-11 July 2023, Modbury, UK, residential workshop exploring the power of radical nature connection and ecological learning for social change.

• Long live the intoxication! 19 July, 4-4.30pm, A Radboud Reflects lecture by cultural scientist Roel Smeets about how the boundaries of the self become porous in collective mass musical experiences.

• Green Peace Activist Camp & Training, 20-25 July, Romania.

Links

• Training wicked scientists for a world of wicked problems. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

• Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice, Deivanayagam et al, 2023, The Lancet.

• Possibilities for mainstreaming biodiversity? Two perspectives on the concept of bioeconomy, Siegel et al, 2023, Earth System Gouvernance Journal.

• What it means to practise values-based research

  Environmental scientist. Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land. Nature.

• Using a multi-lens framework for landscape decisions. People and Nature.

• Community Food Initiatives: A Critical Reparative Approach. A new edited volume by Oona Morrow, Esther Veen, Stefan Wahlen

• Paradoxes of Transformative Social Innovation: From Critical Awareness towards Strategies of Inquiry, Pel, et al, 2023.

Jobs

• Internship: Governing food sharing in Utrecht, September 2023-January 2024.

• Post Doctoral Associate Climate Change Disinformation and Propaganda, University of Miami.
  Deadline: position open until filled.

• Professor of Development Policy, University of Notre Dame: Keough School of Global Affairs.
  Deadline: September 29.

• Visiting Assistant Professor in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, University Minnesota.
  Deadline: position open until filled.

• Postdoctoral cluster hire in sustainable food systems, University of Vermont.

• Two student assistants for the Sociology and English Language and Culture programmes. Are you or do you know a suitable student? Then take a look at these vacancies below:

  • English Language and Culture student for Sustainability in Education.

  • Sociology student for Sustainability in Education.