FINANCIALISATION AND ENVIRONMENT
Hallsworth Conference on Financialisation and Environment
The Implications for Environmental Governance of the Global Financial Crisis
15-16 April, 2010, University of Manchester
Board Room, Arthur Lewis Building, 2nd floor
Please register at: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/events/hallsworth/booking/
Program
Thursday, 15 April 2010
10:30: Welcome and Registration
11:00: Introduction – Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester
11:30: Debates on Economic Valuation and Payment for Environmental Services – Joan Martinez Allier, Autonomous University of Barcelona
12:30: Lunch
13:30 Carbon trading, new enclosures and eco-social contestation – Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
14:30: The Financialisation of the ‘Good Environment’ and ‘Good Environmental Citizen’ – Samuel Randalls, University College London
15:30: Coffee
16:00: The Domination of Finance capital over Nature – Claude Serfati, University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
17:00: Discussion
17:30: Close
Friday, 16 April 2010
10:00: The Role of Finance in the Ambiguous Post-Neoliberalising of Nature: A Research Program for the Agro-fuels Project – Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna
11:00: Sugarcane in Brazil: Finance capital, Slave Labour and Deforestation – Leonardo Sakamoto, Brazilian Comission for the Eradication of Slave Labour and NGO Repórter Brasil
12:00: Carbon Markets and Climate Change – Larry Lohman, The Corner House
13:00: Lunch
13:30: Carbon Emissions as New Fields for (Finance) Capital – Christian Zeller, University of Salzburg
14:30: Processes of Exchange in the Carbon Credit Industry – John Broderick, University of Manchester
15:30: Coffee
15.45: Round Table: Financialisation of the Environment: What Governance?
17:00: Close
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