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SUMMARY:GSI Research Seminar Series - Professor Tim O'Riordan - 'Redefinin
 g Sustainability in a Post Austerity Britain' - Professor Tim O'Riordan OB
 E\, DL\, FBA\, University of East Anglia
DTSTART:20140117T130000Z
DTEND:20140117T140000Z
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CONTACT:Julie-Anne Hogbin
DESCRIPTION:In a curious paradox\, sustainability is both shunned and soug
 ht after in a nation struggling to find its identity in this troubling per
 iod of coming to grips with austerity. On the one hand the cal is for “r
 e-growth” with all the anticipated trappings of investment and employmen
 t. On the other there is growing concern over the unemployability of an in
 creasing number of young people in the UK (even worse in southern Europe) 
 with a real prospect of persistent declining standards of living for all b
 ut the very rich and comfortable. Into this mix comes a new push for a sci
 ence for sustainable development which is geared to compassion\, fairness\
 , empathy\, and social justice. In  its wake is a call for wellbeing and b
 etterment being the hallmarks of  social economy and for more community ba
 sed localism with considerable changes to the geography of governance. Par
 t of this expression is the emergence of Future Earth as a fresh science f
 or sustainable development and for the encompassing of whole campuses with
  moves to employability and to future skills training and forms of learnin
 g which capture this emerging form of knowledge sharing.	\n\nTim O’Riord
 an is an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of
  East Anglia. He is leading the contribution by the British Academy to the
  creation of Future Earth in the UK and is active in working with many oth
 ers to create landscape wide water stewardship for the east and south of E
 ngland. He has also completed extensive research on adaptation to the chan
 ging coasts of North Norfolk and Portugal. He is working with colleagues i
 n the University of East Anglia on the same mission as colleagues in ARU o
 n the widening of the Future Earth mission across the whole campus
LOCATION:LAB 222 (Anglia Ruskin University\, Cambridge Campus)
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