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Julia Steinberger

Professor of Social Ecology & Ecological Economics, School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
Participe à 2 sessions

Julia Steinberger is a Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Lausanne. From 2011 to 2020, she was an associate professor in ecological economics at the University of Leeds. Before she was a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna (SEC), where she investigated sustainable cities and the links between material use and economic performance, held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich, and obtained her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and societal performance (economic activity and human wellbeing).

She received a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project 'Living Well Within Limits'investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She was the Lead Author in working group 3 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)6th Assessment Report, contributing to the report's discussion of climate change mitigation pathways.

Sessions auxquelles Julia Steinberger participe

Vendredi 4 Juin, 2021

Fuseau horaire: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:55 AM
8:59 AM EDT - 9:00 AM EDT | 1 minute

Clare Saunders

Conférencier.ère

Karen O'Brien

Conférencier.ère

Maxwell Boykoff

Conférencier.ère

Lauren Feldman

Conférencier.ère

Julia Steinberger

Conférencier.ère

Nadia Seraiocco

Maître.sse de cérémonie

Stevan Harnad

Instructeur.rice
9:00 AM
9:00 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT | 1 heure 15 minutes

Climate activism is crucial for any sustained progress on climate action. I will discuss this from two systemic perspectives in social science: political economy and science communication. I will explore what the terms "fossil capitalism" and "captured state" mean in reality and for activism, in particular through the lens of the political economy of dependence on cars. I will build on this systemic understanding to draw lessons for the role, potential and necessity of social organizing and a...