[Netnews-action] 21 & 30 June: Tyndall Centre seminars

[Michael]

>From: "susan stubbs" <s.stubbs at manchester.ac.uk>
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>S  E  M  I  N  A  R  S:
>REMINDER for Tyndall seminar tomorrow, Tuesday 21st June at 4.00pm, 
>tea/coffee from 3.45pm
>Venue: Tyndall North -  Room H18, Pariser Building, Sackville St, 
>University of Manchester
>"Developing scenarios for climate change"
>Speaker: Dr Chris Anastasi, Senior Environmental Advisor, British Energy plc.
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>An interactive Seminar exploring the way scenarios are developed and used 
>by stakeholders in the climate change debate.
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>Chris Anastasi is currently Senior Environmental Advisor for British 
>Energy plc having joined the Company in that capacity in July 1998.  He 
>has a background in environment and the related areas of energy, economics 
>and technology.
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>AND announcing: Joint IPEG & Tyndall Centre - Seminar
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>30th June at 4.30pm (tea/coffee at 4.00pm) Room 3.51B, Venue: Williamson 
>Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester
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>"Clumsy solutions for a complex world"
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>Speaker: Marco Verweij,  Associate Professor of Political Science, 
>Singapore Management University.
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>Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative 
>combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and 
>resolving the issues.  These contending policy perspectives justify, 
>represent, and stem from four different ways of organising social 
>relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism, and fatalism.  Each 
>of these perspectives provides a clear expression of the way in which a 
>significant portion of the populace feels we should live with one another 
>and with nature. “Clumsy solutions” – policies that creatively combine all 
>opposing perspectives on what the problems are and how they should be 
>resolved – are therefore called for.  Marco briefly illustrates these 
>claims for the case of global warming in addition to a few other pressing 
>issues.