Role of women in Renewable Energy SectorShiva Gorjian
Renewable energy sectors can be classified according to the principal economic activity and the use of technology – heating and electricity. It is also possible to make a distinction between renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind and hydro. Progress has been made in recent decades to raise the level of gender equality but women are still much less likely to have access or control over productive and natural
resources and have less access to modern technologies or financial services and receive poorer education, training, and technical advice.
Appropriate climate responsive technologies for inclusive growth and sustaina...Abhishek Agrawal
Climate change is an ever existing inevitable reality. It’s a natural phenomenon; human intervention has however accelerated this process to the level which has upset the ecological balance. Development and climate change are related such that one affects the other. It is a global problem and collective action is an imperative to nations to cope climate change. Technology is widely recognized as a vital part of any economy or country and it can be used for having a safe impact on the environment. The debate today is not only about the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide emission but has a broader aspect. The real challenge is how to reposition it by shifting towards a developmental paradigm that holds sustainability as its core. It is hoped that this paper will provide a definite idea on appropriate climate responsive technologies and its importance and some useful insights on the underlying meaning, policies and choices which may help to shape the systems to attain inclusive growth with sustainable development.
US–China Apollo-like goal to begin to turn around climate change by reducing CO2 from 400ppm to 350ppm in 10 years… with a NASA-like global R&D program that others can join. In 1963 most believed landing a man on the moon within the decade was impossible In 2014 most believe turning around climate change in ten years is impossible
2 billion more people in just 35 years
What was US & China’s economic-environmental impact 35 years ago? What is it today? And likely in 35 years?
More people will be more wealthy than every before: Internet - the new means of production - is being distributed to all, with capacities beyond imagination
Role of women in Renewable Energy SectorShiva Gorjian
Renewable energy sectors can be classified according to the principal economic activity and the use of technology – heating and electricity. It is also possible to make a distinction between renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind and hydro. Progress has been made in recent decades to raise the level of gender equality but women are still much less likely to have access or control over productive and natural
resources and have less access to modern technologies or financial services and receive poorer education, training, and technical advice.
Appropriate climate responsive technologies for inclusive growth and sustaina...Abhishek Agrawal
Climate change is an ever existing inevitable reality. It’s a natural phenomenon; human intervention has however accelerated this process to the level which has upset the ecological balance. Development and climate change are related such that one affects the other. It is a global problem and collective action is an imperative to nations to cope climate change. Technology is widely recognized as a vital part of any economy or country and it can be used for having a safe impact on the environment. The debate today is not only about the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide emission but has a broader aspect. The real challenge is how to reposition it by shifting towards a developmental paradigm that holds sustainability as its core. It is hoped that this paper will provide a definite idea on appropriate climate responsive technologies and its importance and some useful insights on the underlying meaning, policies and choices which may help to shape the systems to attain inclusive growth with sustainable development.
US–China Apollo-like goal to begin to turn around climate change by reducing CO2 from 400ppm to 350ppm in 10 years… with a NASA-like global R&D program that others can join. In 1963 most believed landing a man on the moon within the decade was impossible In 2014 most believe turning around climate change in ten years is impossible
2 billion more people in just 35 years
What was US & China’s economic-environmental impact 35 years ago? What is it today? And likely in 35 years?
More people will be more wealthy than every before: Internet - the new means of production - is being distributed to all, with capacities beyond imagination
Since 2007, The Climate Institute has produced Climate of the Nation research capturing the nation's pulse on attitudes to climate change. This year's results show an increasing awareness and concern about the impacts of climate change and the country’s future energy mix amid the intensifying political debate.
More Australians trust the science that says climate change is caused by human activities.
The findings provide a critical opportunity for the Abbott government to better reflect public sentiment on climate change in its upcoming announcement on Australia’s post-2020 carbon pollution reduction target. More think that "the Abbott government should take climate change more seriously” and there is a strong expectation for government to regulate carbon pollution, move to phase out aging coal power stations, and invest in renewable energy.
A presentation prepared for the Archdiocese of Chicago's Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity, June 6, 2018.
Event description: "Join the Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity on Wednesday, June 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as we answer Pope Francis’ call to 'each person on this living planet' to care for our common home. Because everyone’s home is different, creating effective campaigns around this initiative can be challenging. During this seminary, Assistant Professor of Journalism Jill Hopke of DePaul University will share insights from the latest social science research on how to design communication strategies that connect climate change to daily life and tips for choosing engaging climate visuals. Participants will get ideas for how to tell new narratives about the human toll of our changing climate, as well as for building community resiliency and climate hope."
Are Australians climate dinosaurs? Climate of the Nation 2014, benchmarking Australian attitudes to climate change, finds that political leaders risk being stuck in the past as public attitudes on climate change and its solutions are on the rebound. In mid-2014, more Australians think that climate change is occurring and are concerned about impacts, present and future. There is a rebound in desire to see the nation lead on finding solutions and a strong expectation of government to address the climate challenge. Opposition to carbon pricing has continued to decline and there is a decline in the minority supporting repeal. For the first time more support carbon pricing than oppose it, even though there is lingering confusion around it. For more information, visit www.climateinstitute.org.au/climate-of-the-nation-2014.html
The Climate Institute has been conducting our annual Climate of the Nation attitudinal research since 2007. It is the longest continuous survey of community attitudes about climate change. We have charted the views of Australians about matters relating to climate change and energy policy, through the ups and downs of changing weather patterns, related natural disasters and the waxing and waning of the political landscape.
This presentation summarises this year's research, conducted by polling over 2,000 people across the country, as well as holding focus groups in Brisbane, Melbourne and Newcastle, which once again benchmarks the views of everyday Australians on these key issues. We compare and contrast them to the findings over these past years.
This is the presentation of Matthias Braubach at the event "Enabling nature-based health and social care through Knowledge Alliances" of the 1st Decemeber 2021.
This event was jointly organized by Green4C and Connecting Nature. Learn more about the event here:
https://www.greenforcare.eu/news/green-care-knowledge-alliances/
this presentation was delivered at Turning Point Recovery and was the basis of a 6 hour CEU presentation. It provides the framework for a "Trauma Identity" and how to de-escalate it.
Minco Ruiter
Project Leader, Inforsa
Minco Ruiter works in forsenic and mental health care, particularly within high and intensive care wards. From 2008 Mr Ruiter has been heading a large project on 'minimising coërcion and restraint' in three forensic and regular mental health high and intensive care clinics. From 2013 this project refocused and now aims to look at 'close contact care' as a whole by providing one-to-one teams and de-escalation mentors. Mr Ruiter gained a Bachelor in Social Work at the University of Amsterdam.
Workshop Title: Close Contact Care and Emotional Needs of Patients
The workshop will outline the successes of an experience-based intervention for reduction of coercion and seclusion and the de-escalation mentor within the clinics of high and forensic care of Inforsa, Arkin, Amsterdam.
It will outline how the key to de-escalation lies in changing the emotional distance between caregivers and care receivers. Handling aggression and trying to de-escalate is about reflecting and meeting the emotional needs of the other, even when they are in rage. He will argue that the key is de-escalation mentors allowing those involved to reflect and therefore act in line with the emotional needs of those
Extracting and visualising event chains from psychotherapy narrativesPhil Gooch
Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) techniques for working with clinical texts have largely on extracting medical problems, diagnoses and treatments from hospital notes in physical medicine, such as progress notes, discharge summaries and lab reports. This has been often been done for purposes of decision support: modeling the patient as a set of problems to be solved and identifying the correct course of treatment according to the prevailing medical model.
Narrative medicine, however, places importance on the meaning of illness as experienced by the patient, or as reflected by the clinician's personal experience of working with the patient. These narratives may make rich use of emotive language that may be missing from traditional clinical notes.
Patient narratives consist of a series of unfolding events involving interacting protagonists and their roles. Computationally, these can be modeled as narrative event chains: sets of partially ordered events related by a common protagonist. In psychotherapy, cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is a model that specifically considers these narrative events in order to reformulate the patient¹s problems in terms of the event sequences and reciprocal roles that lead to and maintain maladaptive personal relations. In this presentation, I present exploratory work on developing a computational framework for extracting and visualizing narrative event chains from CAT narratives, and consider the potential uses and benefits of such a framework.
Since 2007, The Climate Institute has produced Climate of the Nation research capturing the nation's pulse on attitudes to climate change. This year's results show an increasing awareness and concern about the impacts of climate change and the country’s future energy mix amid the intensifying political debate.
More Australians trust the science that says climate change is caused by human activities.
The findings provide a critical opportunity for the Abbott government to better reflect public sentiment on climate change in its upcoming announcement on Australia’s post-2020 carbon pollution reduction target. More think that "the Abbott government should take climate change more seriously” and there is a strong expectation for government to regulate carbon pollution, move to phase out aging coal power stations, and invest in renewable energy.
A presentation prepared for the Archdiocese of Chicago's Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity, June 6, 2018.
Event description: "Join the Office of Human Dignity and Solidarity on Wednesday, June 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as we answer Pope Francis’ call to 'each person on this living planet' to care for our common home. Because everyone’s home is different, creating effective campaigns around this initiative can be challenging. During this seminary, Assistant Professor of Journalism Jill Hopke of DePaul University will share insights from the latest social science research on how to design communication strategies that connect climate change to daily life and tips for choosing engaging climate visuals. Participants will get ideas for how to tell new narratives about the human toll of our changing climate, as well as for building community resiliency and climate hope."
Are Australians climate dinosaurs? Climate of the Nation 2014, benchmarking Australian attitudes to climate change, finds that political leaders risk being stuck in the past as public attitudes on climate change and its solutions are on the rebound. In mid-2014, more Australians think that climate change is occurring and are concerned about impacts, present and future. There is a rebound in desire to see the nation lead on finding solutions and a strong expectation of government to address the climate challenge. Opposition to carbon pricing has continued to decline and there is a decline in the minority supporting repeal. For the first time more support carbon pricing than oppose it, even though there is lingering confusion around it. For more information, visit www.climateinstitute.org.au/climate-of-the-nation-2014.html
The Climate Institute has been conducting our annual Climate of the Nation attitudinal research since 2007. It is the longest continuous survey of community attitudes about climate change. We have charted the views of Australians about matters relating to climate change and energy policy, through the ups and downs of changing weather patterns, related natural disasters and the waxing and waning of the political landscape.
This presentation summarises this year's research, conducted by polling over 2,000 people across the country, as well as holding focus groups in Brisbane, Melbourne and Newcastle, which once again benchmarks the views of everyday Australians on these key issues. We compare and contrast them to the findings over these past years.
This is the presentation of Matthias Braubach at the event "Enabling nature-based health and social care through Knowledge Alliances" of the 1st Decemeber 2021.
This event was jointly organized by Green4C and Connecting Nature. Learn more about the event here:
https://www.greenforcare.eu/news/green-care-knowledge-alliances/
this presentation was delivered at Turning Point Recovery and was the basis of a 6 hour CEU presentation. It provides the framework for a "Trauma Identity" and how to de-escalate it.
Minco Ruiter
Project Leader, Inforsa
Minco Ruiter works in forsenic and mental health care, particularly within high and intensive care wards. From 2008 Mr Ruiter has been heading a large project on 'minimising coërcion and restraint' in three forensic and regular mental health high and intensive care clinics. From 2013 this project refocused and now aims to look at 'close contact care' as a whole by providing one-to-one teams and de-escalation mentors. Mr Ruiter gained a Bachelor in Social Work at the University of Amsterdam.
Workshop Title: Close Contact Care and Emotional Needs of Patients
The workshop will outline the successes of an experience-based intervention for reduction of coercion and seclusion and the de-escalation mentor within the clinics of high and forensic care of Inforsa, Arkin, Amsterdam.
It will outline how the key to de-escalation lies in changing the emotional distance between caregivers and care receivers. Handling aggression and trying to de-escalate is about reflecting and meeting the emotional needs of the other, even when they are in rage. He will argue that the key is de-escalation mentors allowing those involved to reflect and therefore act in line with the emotional needs of those
Extracting and visualising event chains from psychotherapy narrativesPhil Gooch
Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) techniques for working with clinical texts have largely on extracting medical problems, diagnoses and treatments from hospital notes in physical medicine, such as progress notes, discharge summaries and lab reports. This has been often been done for purposes of decision support: modeling the patient as a set of problems to be solved and identifying the correct course of treatment according to the prevailing medical model.
Narrative medicine, however, places importance on the meaning of illness as experienced by the patient, or as reflected by the clinician's personal experience of working with the patient. These narratives may make rich use of emotive language that may be missing from traditional clinical notes.
Patient narratives consist of a series of unfolding events involving interacting protagonists and their roles. Computationally, these can be modeled as narrative event chains: sets of partially ordered events related by a common protagonist. In psychotherapy, cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is a model that specifically considers these narrative events in order to reformulate the patient¹s problems in terms of the event sequences and reciprocal roles that lead to and maintain maladaptive personal relations. In this presentation, I present exploratory work on developing a computational framework for extracting and visualizing narrative event chains from CAT narratives, and consider the potential uses and benefits of such a framework.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Steve de Shazer and BRIEFEvan George
BRIEF comments on some key quotes taken from Steve de Shazer's writings. Steve was very much our 'mentor' at BRIEF during the last 15 years of his life. He saw many clients with us at BRIEF in London and inspired our thinking. Indeed our work has been an attempt to take his thinking 'seriously and to explore where it can lead.
Behavioural Meetup: "Think global, act local? Public engagement with climate ...Prime Decision
Our spreaker for the February 2016 Behavioural Meetup in Bristol was Prof. Lorraine Whitemarsh from the University of Cardiff.
Despite scientific consensus about the reality and severity of climate change, the public appears to show relatively little concern about the issue and to be taking few actions to tackle it. In this talk, we will discuss what influences public perceptions and how they may be shaped by communication. Recent survey and interview data, and findings from psychological experiments will be used to expose the strong ideological and social influences on public attitudes to climate change. Research will also be presented on low-carbon lifestyles, along with insights into fostering behaviour change, including new research to achieve behavioural ‘spillover’ (i.e., when changing one behaviour leads to further behavioural changes).
Behavioural Meetup: Perceptions of and behavioural responses to climate change.Poppy Mulvaney PhD
Our February Behavioural Meetup featured Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh from the University of Cardiff:
Despite scientific consensus about the reality and severity of climate change, the public appears to show relatively little concern about the issue and to be taking few actions to tackle it. In this talk, we will discuss what influences public perceptions and how they may be shaped by communication. Recent survey and interview data, and findings from psychological experiments will be used to expose the strong ideological and social influences on public attitudes to climate change. Research will also be presented on low-carbon lifestyles, along with insights into fostering behaviour change, including new research to achieve behavioural ‘spillover’ (i.e., when changing one behaviour leads to further behavioural changes).
Communicating Science Across the Divide: Lessons from the Climate Change & Va..._klburke
A talk I gave at Emory & Henry College in October 2016. Many thanks to Dan Kahan at culturalcognition.net for sharing so many resources that are helpful to those practicing science communication.
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A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
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- about important knowledge gaps that remain
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BUILDING HOPE
Positive Psychology, a new branch of psychology focused on the empirical study of such things as positive emotions, strengths-based character, and healthy institutions. This emerging field offers guidance on how to feel more satisfied and engaged with life, regardless of one’s circumstances. Nineteen different scientifically-validated questionnaires on everything from love, compassion, grit and gratitude are building a robust body of data about what makes people happy and resilient.
What is hope? Hope is:
• a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life
• A feeling that what you want is achievable and that events will turn out for the best.
Happiness, on the other hand, is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. Hope is about the future and happiness is about the present. You could say that people aspire to want hope and have happiness. To put it another way, hope is a means to having happiness.
Communicating Climate Change - Session with Panos South Asia Media Fellows - ...Nalaka Gunawardene
Presentation made by science writer Nalaka Gunawardene to Panos South Asia Climate Change Media Fellows at a regional workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 23 to 25 April 2013.
This is part of a Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) project for enhancing climate change awareness and understanding among journalists in South Asia. The project, which is currently in its second phase, has already produced several quality outputs across the region on Climate change–related issues.
Details at http://www.panossouthasia.org/Left_read.asp?leftStoryId=224&leftSectionId=3
DRAFT document. Posted for discussion related to this piece on the Dot Earth blog: "On the Allure of Ostriches and New Paths in Climate Communication" http://nyti.ms/KiJmTD
An overview of how fundamental and use-inspired research and innovation are related. A presentation I made at the American Control Conference workshop on this topic.
Public Health, Politics, and the Creation of Meaning: A Public Health of Cons...Jim Bloyd, DrPH, MPH
"The creation of meaning may be an unfamiliar role for public health, but one whose import comes into sharp relief when we recognize the inevitability of the political at the heart of what we do."
How will we power the UK in the future? bis_foresight
Sir Mark Walport gave a series of public talks on energy at Science and Discovery Centres across the UK between September 2015 and April 2016. In these talks he explored how we could power the UK in the future.
These slides come from the last talk given in Birmingham, but differ only slightly from the slides used in earlier talks.
See the accompanying animations at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb-lLN3v5qAxFKlzS-eaaGJUEhVbyES2f
On 21 October 2015, the British Embassy in Paris hosted a day of discussions on French-British collaboration on resilience to extreme weather, with talks from UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Mark Walport, former vice-chair of IPCC WKI Dr. Jean Jouzel, as well as representatives from the Met Office and Meteo France, UK and French government departments, and the private sector.
Crop Protection Association - Managing risk, not avoiding itbis_foresight
Presentation by Sir Mark Walport at the Crop Protection Association (CPA) conference on 14 May 2015.
Read an extract of the speech on the current science around neonicotinoid insecticides: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/crop-protection-managing-risk-not-avoiding-it
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Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
1. Engaging the Nation with Science
and Research: A Vision for the Future
Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government
2. Faraday at the Royal Institution (Credit: Royal Institution)
Engaging the nation with science is not about
‘correcting the deficit’
2 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
(Credit: Science Museum)
3. 3 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Public engagement needs to stimulate interest,
demonstrate relevance, and show where it might
lead…
Could the naked
mole rat help find
a cure for cancer?
Should we do GM
research - what are
the risks and
benefits
Is nuclear fission the energy of the
future?
4. Three areas for scientific engagement:
Things that are interesting:
• Fundamental science: the Higgs
boson, genetics and genome
science, and how the brain
works
Things that affect us directly:
• e.g. medical science
Things where an informed public
has societal benefits:
• e.g. environmental issues,
climate change, vaccination…
(Credit: BBC)
(Credit: Advanced Cell Technology)
(Credit: BBC)
5. The scientific consensus on climate change is
overwhelming
IPCC report on the physical science basis
of climate change due out shortly
This is the most authoritative and
comprehensive report to date of scientists’
understanding of how the climate is
changing and the causes
The science is robust and there is an
overwhelming scientific consensus that
human emissions of greenhouse gases
are warming the climate
5 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
6. 6 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Source: Poortinga et al (2013)
As far as you know, do you personally think that the world’s climate is changing? (in %)
Although a clear majority of the public still think the climate is
changing, there has been a downward trend in public belief in the
reality of climate change
The level of consensus among the public is divided
7. Concern about climate change among the
public has also decreased
7 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Source: Poortinga et al (2013)
Concern about climate change (in %)
8. Although those who think there is a human
component to climate change has remained
fairly stable
8 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Source: Poortinga et al (2013)
Thinking about the causes of climate change, which, if any, of the following
best describes your opinion?
9. Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer9 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Possible Explanations
• Global economic downturn
• Sceptic voices in the media
• Increasing climate fatigue
From Poortinga et al, 2013
The reasons for decrease in belief in, and concern
about, climate change are likely to be manifold
(Credit: PA)
(Credit: REUTERS)
10. Public perceptions of climate change are
important
• The scale of transformation required for a low carbon
economy is likely to require behaviour change
• Political will depends on public attitudes, so we need a
public that is well-informed, both about the risks, and the
options for responding
10 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
(Credit: Ulverstan Green Party)(Credit: Action Tracker) (Credit: Jeremy Hughes)
12. Climate change: science to policy issues
We need to understand public concerns
12 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Nick Pidgeon et al
13. Reducing the use of
finite resources
Reducing overall
levels of energy use
Efficient
Environmental
protection
Avoiding waste
Capturing
opportunities
Naturalness and
Nature
Availability and
Affordability
Reliability
Safety
Autonomy and Freedom
Choice and Control
Social Justice
Fairness, Honesty &
Transparency
Long-term
trajectories
Interconnected
Improvement and
quality
(Source: Cardiff University, 2013)
Energy policy needs to take account of public
values
13 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
14. Biofuels
Environmental harm,
pollution?
Clean, efficient?
Waste products reused?
Grown for purpose in
UK?
Conflict with food
systems (unfair)?
Safe?
Security?
It’s not just about the technologies, it’s also
about the values that they symbolise for people
Carbon capture and
storage
Climate change: science to policy issues14 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Negative
emissions
15. Presentation title - edit in Header and Footer15 Engaging the nation with science and research: a vision for the future
Public attitudes are susceptible to change – public
dialogue on science and policy should be an on-
going process
Source: Poortinga et al (2013)
Percentage of respondents having mainly or very favourable opinions or
impressions of different energy sources for producing electricity
16. We don’t do ourselves any favours
communicating complex information
Mitigation/adaptation, Discount rate, pH, Gigatonnes, Petagrams, Billion tonnes (of
carbon, carbon dioxide), PPM, eqCO2, Attribution, Negative emissions, Climate
sensitivity, Anthropogenic, Multi-decadal oscillation, Datasets, Urban heat island,
NOAA...
Switch off words….
Excellent in one context, challenging in public engagement!
18. We all need to communicate more!
- but the direction of travel is good
• Academia – engagement now commonly
tied to research funding
• The media – long history and excellent
examples, but also some very bad
examples…
• Government – open policy making and
Civil Service Reform, reinforce need and
capability to engage
• Wider society are already there and can
help the rest of us
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