Sustainability Roundup [26 Jan 2024]
News, Events, Links, Jobs (New gas power plant in Nijmegen, Post Growth Cities and Foodpark Amsterdam Event, EU on track to lighten rules for new genomic techniques in agriculture)
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News:
The City of Nijmegen proposes to build a gas power plant and a number of groups have opposed this. These groups have created a referendum asking for signatures of Nijmegen residents. You can read the referendum here
The EU Environment committee approves proposal to relax rules on new genomic techniques for plant breeding and agricultural use. Full vote to come February
Events
Postgrowth Cities: The Future of Commons-Based Urban Agriculture and Foodpark Amsterdam, 9th February.
Radboud Heritage Mini-Exhibition on Birds, from 9 January in the Valkhof Museum, Keizer Karelplein 33.
The Fabric of Society: Unraveling the Socioeconomic Threads of Moral Values, Thursday 1st February, 10.30am-12pm, tbd in EOS.
Bird Census on Campus, Tuesday 23rd, 12-1pm, Oud Heyendaal.
Open Stargazing Evening, Friday 26 January, 7-9pm, Huygens Building.
Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on mammals, Monday 29 January 2024, 4.30pm
Meeting Special Interest Group (SIG) Interdisciplinary Education, Tuesday 30 January, 3-4pm
Digital footprint: the pollution of AI and other digital conveniences, Thursday 1 February, 8-9.30pm, Lecture Hall CC.
‘Open Mic: Open Kitchen’, 10 February, 6pm, De Klinker.
The Paris compatibility of green hydrogen and CO2 reuse technologies, Thursday 8 February, 10.30am, PhD defense by K. de Kleijne, Environmental Science.
Energy Consumption in the Faculty of Science: Pathways to Solutions, Thursday 8 February, 1pm-3.30pm. A discussion forum aimed at reflecting on the faculti’s energy use.
Breathing in the mud, Thursday 22 February, 10.30am, PhD defense of K.L. Dalimunthe, Faculty of Social Science
Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change, from April 29 to May 3. Open to registration.
2.Dh5 Solidarity Festival, 23-25 February, Amsterdam. 2.Dh5 is an annual festival for the exchange of radical ideas, strategies and practices by grassroots groups, collective projects and direct action campaigns in the Netherlands and beyond.
Links
Cebuan Bliss on the governance of invasive animals: Just Conservation Futures.
Chung, Holly, Katherine Cullerton, and Jennifer Lacy-Nichols. 2024 “Mapping the Lobbying Footprint of Harmful Industries: 23 Years of Data From OpenSecrets.” The Milbank Quarterly
Global Land Deals: What Has Been Done, What Has Changed, and What’s next?” Plaas (blog). January 15, 2024.
New Book: Lambert, Max, and Christopher Schell. 2023. Urban Biodiversity and Equity: Justice-Centered Conservation in Cities. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Aoki Inoue, Cristina Yumie, Thais Lemos Ribeiro, Veronica Korber Gonçalves, Larissa Basso, and Paula Franco Moreira. "Indigenous and traditional communities’ ways of knowing and being in planetary justice." Environmental Politics (2023): 1-20.
Jobs
Junior researcher international biodiversity policy analysis, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.
Director River and Field Campus Washington College’s Center for Environment and Society.
Assistant Professor in Political Science - Specialization in Political Economy of Finance, University of Amsterdam.
Deadline: 31 January.
Assistant Professor in Science in Society, Radboud University. Deadline: January 31