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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Dealing with The New Normal: Resilience in systems that must cope with uncertainty

Part of the School's intergrative seminar series. Delivered by Professor Patricia Hirl Longstaff, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow, Professor, Syracuse University, Research Associate, Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy.
Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2011

Sustainability: How can each generation live well within limits?

Well-being, Time and Sustainability: Epicurus or Aristotle? This seminar addresses two key questions about sustainability.
Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2011

Is the fiscal crisis forcing a rethink of our intergenerational compact with the elderly?

Professor Peter Heller (John Hopkins University) on 'Is the fiscal crisis forcing a rethink of our intergenerational compact with the elderly?'.
Certification and Sustainability

Fair Trade Certification

Dr Alex Nicholls (Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship) examines how over the past ten years the market for Fair Trade products has grown at double digit rates across many countries in the North.
Certification and Sustainability

Problems With Credit Rating Agencies

Professor Timothy Sinclair (University of Warwick) looks at why getting credit ratings 'right' seems vitally important to many professional observers and politicians.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Integrating Technology, Science, Law, Economics, and Politics: Development of Practical Policy for Carbon Capture and Storage

Dr Kenneth Richards, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow on how carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a potentially promising approach to mitigating carbon dioxide emissions.
Certification and Sustainability

Standards for sweatshops: voluntary labour standards programs in global supply chains

Increased attention to sweatshops, child labour, and the suppression of labour rights has led to a range of voluntary initiatives that set, monitor, and certify labour standards in global supply chains.
Certification and Sustainability

Conflict diamonds and the governance of resources

Professor Ian Taylor (University of St. Andrews) discusses conflict diamonds and the governance of resources. Part of the Michaelmas Term Seminar series 2010.
Certification and Sustainability

Driven to Drive Markets: The contradictions of forest certification in the promotion of sustainability

Professor Dan Klooster (University of Redlands) summarizes the formation and growth of forest certification and illustrates how it qualifies sustainability and leverages meaningful changes in forest management.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Working with the crowd : 21st century citizen science

Galaxy Zoo PI and James Martin Fellow Chris Lintott will review the technologies available to researchers seeking to rescue themselves from drowning in data by recruiting the help of tens or even hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
Certification and Sustainability

Enacting the Ethical Consumer

Dr Clive Barnett (Open University) asks how do consumers know when they are acting responsibly? Are they making a difference when they buy "Fairtrade" or "certified organic"? Can consumers trust these kinds of accreditations?
Certification and Sustainability

Introduction to and Overview of Third Party Certification

Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2010 - Dr Lars Gulbrandsen, 'Introduction to and Overview of Third Party Certification'.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Climate Shocks: Turning Crisis into Opportunity

Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs; full Professor, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo on Climate Shocks: Turning Crisis into Opportunity.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun?

Special seminar from the James Martin 21st Century School: Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun?
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

The Plundered Planet

Paul Collier, Oxford Professor and author of The Bottom Billion, launched a discussion based on his latest publication, The Plundered Planet.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

A Panel Discussion with George Soros

Lessons from Financial Crises: Paradigm Failure and the Future of Financial Regulation.
Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

Global Eradication of Infectious Diseases: Can 'Not Very Much' undermine the goal of 'None at All'?

Despite the well-publicised success of global smallpox eradication, 'zero' remains an elusive goal for the majority of vaccine-preventable diseases, making reduced pathogen circulation, or direct protection of the vulnerable more achievable strategies.
Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

A New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament: Learning from International Humanitarian Law Success

Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?

Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Geoengineering the climate

Geoengineering the climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty: The Royal Society Study - John Shepherd (NOCS).

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