Seminar

Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy

February 6, 2018, 10h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

Programme

10:00-10:15 Opening of session (Stefania Barca, CES/UC)

10:15-10:30 EU Energy Policy from a Political Ecology perspective: initial thoughts (Gavin Bridge, Durham University)

10:30-10:45 The great carbon divide. Energy transitions in Europe, from the industrial revolution to present (Stefania Barca, Center for Social Studies, Univ. of Coimbra)

10:45-11:00 Socio-environmental conflicts around/related to EU energy policy: Insights from the EJ Atlas (Begüm Özkaynak, Boğaziçi University)

11:00-11:15 Après Paris, le déluge: Coal, climate and justice in EU’s energy-climate policies (Ethemcan Turhan, KTH Environmental Humanities Lab)

11:15-11:30 Making low-carbon energy resources: Thoughts on the implications of a resource-making’ perspective for EU energy policy (Ryan Wyeth, Durham University)

11:30-11:45 break

11:45-12:45 open discussion

12:45-13:00 concluding remarks (Gavin Bridge, Durham University)