Global crises in a resource-constrained, multipolar world , John Humphrey, IDS
COMPLEX CRISES: THE CHALLENGES OF EVIDENCE FOR POLICY Tuesday and Wednesday 9th & 10th March 2010
James Deane and Gerry Power, BBC World Service Trust : Effective States and the Media: a research d
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Episode 37: Reinvigorating the World Trade Organization Political scientist and Warwick Commission member Prof Ann Capling demystifies the World Trade Organization (WTO), and suggests how it might reinvigorate itself in a changing global trade environment. With podcast host Eric van Bemmel. Episode 90: The Cost of A Life: Peter Singer on Ending World Poverty Philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer puts forward his vision of how individuals can take an ethical and just approach to tackling world poverty. With host Jennifer Cook. Peter Singer - The World in 2050 IQ2: The World in 2050 Panel Discussion How Individual Rights Transformed World Politics Uncertainty, Lags and Nonlinearity: Challenges to Governance in a Turbulent World Tougher Crops for a Warmer World A World of Hurt. The true global death count of environmental degradation. Feeding Anxiety - The World Food Crisis Forum The Mabo Case: Its Significance for Australia and the World Antipodean Archaeology & the Wider World: Some personal reflections on the last 40 years Coping with Climate Change: Is Development in India and the World Sustainable? Vanishing Third World Emigrants? The Seventh H. W. Arndt Memorial Lecture The 70th Annual George E Morrison Lecture: Australia and China in the World Promises & challenges in developing new vaccines, with a focus on diseases of the developing world How to Write a World Class Paper How to Write a World Class Paper Gary Hirshberg: Make Money and Save the World Environmental activist and businessperson Gary Hirshberg calls on individuals to realize their power to effect change in the marketplace — "the power of one" — while proving that environmental commitment makes for a healthier planet and a healthier bottom line. Hirshberg, president and "CE-Yo" of Stonyfield Farm, Inc. — the world's largest organic yogurt company — discusses how business can both save the planet and deliver higher growth and superior profits.
By 2050 there will be far more of us: world population is predicted to be two billion higher than it is today. This rise, predominantly in the developing world, will engender major geopolitical shifts and tensions. By 2050 there will be far more of us: world population is predicted to be two billion higher than it is today. This rise, predominantly in the developing world, will engender major geopolitical shifts and tensions. Unless new and appropriate technologies are urgently adopted, rising d
Panel discussion by speakers from the James Martin 21st Century School. The event is hosted by Intelligence Squared (the international debating forum on crucial issues of the day). What kind of world will we inhabit 40 years from now? What moral codes will we live by? We've tended to leave these enormous questions to science fiction but time travel isn't essential. In this fascinating evening of talks the scientific experts of the 21st Century School will reveal - sometimes to an alarming degre
Have individual rights transformed world politics? Prof. Reus-Smit challenges the circumscribed nature of this debate, arguing the relationship between individual rights and world politics has a longer history and is more fundamental than it suggests. Have individual rights transformed world politics? Debate on this question has focused to date on the efficacy, or lack thereof, of the international human rights regime. Prof. Reus-Smit challenges the circumscribed nature of this debate, arguing t
Prof. Homer-Dixon looks at systems displaying high levels of uncertainty. Using the example of climate change, he asks whether standard "management" approaches used by policymakers are enough or if we must find new approaches in times of uncertainty. Global financial, climate, energy, and food challenges exhibit similar characteristics - all emerge from systems exhibiting high levels of uncertainty, countless unknown unknowns, time lags, threshold effects, occasional chaotic behavior, and someti
Trying to grow plants in Australian conditions is challenging - it always seems to be too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too salty, too infertile. And it is likely to get harder as the effects of climate change become increasingly apparent. The economic and social effects of our harsh environment are significant, reducing yield for farmers and making the sustainable use of land difficult.
It's no secret that environmental degradation has been shown to have damaged people's health, often fatally, in many specific cases.
Now, however, world-leading research at the University of Adelaide has linked the two on a staggering global scale.
If the growing body of experts is right, dwindling global food security poses a significant threat to much of humanity.
A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when the High Court discarded
the doctrine of terra nullius in the Mabo case. The ruling had
repercussions for Indigenous peoples within Australia and around the
world, especially in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
In this lecture presented by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research (CAEPR), ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences,
Professor Peter Russell considers the background and consequences of
the Mabo case, contextualising
Aspects of Australian archaeology have had widespread repercussions upon archaeology beyond the Antipodes. In this talk Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy explored a series of ways in which Antipodean archaeology has impacted upon archaeology elsewhere, particularly in Britain and Europe, focusing on three major areas: (1) prehistory and parallel issues which Australia and New Zealand have in common with Europe; (2) the last 250 years and the influence of Antipodean archaeology in the examination
2007 K R Narayanan Oration
Recent high rates of economic growth in India and other parts of the
developing world, while reducing poverty and raising global economic
growth, have put considerable stress on the environment even as it is
already saddled with high emissions from the developed world. The 2007 K R Narayanan Oration by
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri questions whether such growth patterns can be
sustained into the future and what options are available for ensuring
that the adv
A secular decline in emigration rates from the Third World since the 1990s has gone unnoticed. The recent rise in unemployment in high-wage countries has accelerated the secular decline. These trends have gone unnoticed partly because observers have been obsessed with immigration rates, and partly because of their belief that aging in rich countries will augment the demand for more immigrants. This lecture shows that the Third World supply side matters even more, just as the previous two centuri
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the 70th annual George E Morrison Lecture in the Hall at University House at ANU. Speaking on the theme Australia and China in the world, the Prime Minister also announced Commonwealth funding for a new national centre for research and education on China to be based at ANU.
Learning how to harness the power of the immune system to combat infectious killers has been one of the most dramatic developments in the history of medicine. Eradication of smallpox and the near elimination of polio serve to remind us that the destiny of disease can be written by human ingenuity. These and other great feats continue to inspire us all as we strive to combat major infectious killers of the 21st Century. Success rarely comes easily and we are enormously challenge
Professor Peter J LaPlaca, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, USA, presents 'How to Write a World Class Paper', 20 July, 2009. There are over 8000 academic journals in the world yet most of the leading journals in all fields routinely have rejection rates of eighty, ninety, ninety-five percent or higher. To combat this problem, more than 40 editors from Elsevier's broad array of journals have come together to develop a seminar on 'How to Write a World-Class Paper'. Using their co
Professor Peter J LaPlaca, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, USA, presents 'How to Write a World Class Paper', 20 July, 2009. There are over 8000 academic journals in the world yet most of the leading journals in all fields routinely have rejection rates of eighty, ninety, ninety-five percent or higher. To combat this problem, more than 40 editors from Elsevier's broad array of journals have come together to develop a seminar on 'How to Write a World-Class Paper'. Using their co
