Sustainability Roundup [29 September 2023]

News, Events, Links, Jobs (ESG Conference October, TransAct Seminar Series Videos, Planetary Boundaries Updated)

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News:

• Radboud Conference Earth System Governance updates:

  • Find the Conference Agenda here!

• Find and share the Call for Volunteers for the conference.

• ESG New Working Group on Governance of Social-Ecological Systems: if you are interested in joining this working group, email Elke Kellner:  ekellner@asu.edu. 

• Call for Volunteer to join De-mooo-cracy: a democratic experiment:

  De-mooo-cracy is a (fictional) citizen’s assembly in which both cows and humans are represented. We are looking for people to participate in the assembly, which will be performed on October 24 during the Earth System Governance conference at Radboud. Starting September 29, there will be 5 sessions to prepare, these include: workshop cow language, theatre exercises, workshop landscape architecture, storytelling. All details can be found here.

• Will you be attending the COP28?

  A call to our Radboud and RCSC Community! Are you or any of your colleagues intending to attend the COP28 event in Dubai this winter? You have a part to play. We are keen to explore opportunities for enhancing our contributions to sustainability. Please share widely this message with your colleagues, respond to this email or write to rcsc@ru.nl if you consider attending.

Events

• Seminar Responsible Organization (ResOrg) - Footfalls and heartprints for Indigenous inclusion for Diversity Day, 3 October.

• Advances in large-scale multi-species impact assessments, 3 October, 12.30-, Huygensgebouw.

• Public law & digitalization, 5 October, 1-5pm, Grotiusgebouw.

• Governement and Nature, Interventions in the History of Biopolitics, 5 October, register by sending an email to: antonio.cimino@ru.nl.

  

• Training Thesis and Internship Supervision, Education Support, 5 October, 2-5pm.

• Social Safety Training for science senior students, 11 October, 4.30-8pm, Huygensgebouw.

• Belasting voor de allerrijksten, 12 October, 8-9.30pm, LUX.

• Conflict tussen democratie en rechtsstaat, 12.30-2.00pm

  

• Diversity in the Classroom: Befriend the Other: Radboud Reflects, 16 October, LUX.

  

Links

• The New Colonialist Food Economy: How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South. The Nation

• All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of nine crossed

  

  The 2023 update to the Planetary boundaries. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Credit: "Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Richardson et al 2023".

• ESG South-South Series: on Decolonizing Environmental Governance from Community-led Perspectives:

• TransAct Seminar Series: Sustainable Transformations through

  Creative Thinking with Simone Ritter:

• TransAct Seminar Series: Prospering without Growth with Mario Pansera:

• New book on “Ungrading”: Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop

• Most (Un)wanted: Explaining Emerging Relationships Between “Invasive Alien” Species and Animal Governance. Global Environmental Politics 2023; Cebuan Bliss, Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, Duncan Liefferink.

Jobs

• Radboud PhD Candidate: Novel Methods to Understand Animal Movement.

• Radboud PhD Candidate: Accountability for Human Rights Violations.

• Radboud Postdoctoral Researcher in High-Integrity Voluntary Climate Action.

• Assistant Professor in Climate Policy, Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy Duke University.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship Center for Environment, Community, & Equity, American University: School of International Service.