ACDI SEMINAR SERIES 'RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE'              

This is a series of lunch-time, weekly seminars where we will hear from and engage with various academics and practitioners working in the climate change adaptation space.

Where: Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Studio 5, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town.

When: Every Wednesday @ 1pm

 

Date

Speaker

Topic

14/05/2013

Jorge Garcia (CICERO: Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway)

 

Willingness to Accept Local Wind Energy Development: Does the Compensation Mechanism Matter?

 

21/05/2013

Noel Oettle (EMG)

Adaptation with a Human Face: Participatory Action Research and the climate challenge in the Suid Bokkeveld, Northern Cape

 

28/05/2013

NO SEMINAR

 

04/06/2014

Robyn Pharoah (RADAR)

Overlaps between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

11/06/2014

Ralph Hamman (ACDI Research Chair, Graduate School of Business, UCT )

Systemic engagement: How and why companies become agents of positive change for social-ecological resilience

18/06/2014

Martine Visser (ACDI Research Chair, School of Economics, UCT)

Behavioral nudges as a water saving strategy: Evidence from Cape Town

 

 

 

The titles and abstract of each seminar will be distributed slightly in advance through the ACDI Mailing list. Please contact kirsty.nortje@acdi.uct.ac.za to join the mailing list.

 

 

*Bring your lunch along, refreshments will be provided