Environmental and Energy Studies

The CEU's Summer University is inviting applications for the 'Bridging Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Environment' summer course!

The CEU's Summer University is inviting applications for the 'Green Industry: Pathways Towards the Industry of the Future' summer course!

The application deadline is 14 February, 2014

Amanda Winter, 2nd year PhD candidate received a Graduate Scholar Award at the Spaces and Flows’ Fourth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies held at the University of Amsterdam.

Viktor Lagutov joins the high level Budapest Water Summit, Budapest, Hungary, 8-11 October 2013. To move forward the post-Rio water agenda the President of Hungary announced 2012 in Rio de Janeiro Hungary’s intention to organize an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations in October 2013 in Budapest, Hungary. The 2013 Budapest Water Summit forms part of the events of the UN International Year of Water Cooperation led by UNESCO.

Paper presented at the IST 2013 – 4th International Conference on Sustainability Transitions, June 19-21, 2013, F1: Special Session - Citizens and Consumers & backcasting session, Thursday, 20/Jun/2013, 16:30-18:0`, organized by the Sustainability Transitions Research Network.

The program is available at www.ist13.ch

Andrea Farsang (PhD candidate) co-authored a paper presenting results of the envisioning process of the EU FP7 project CRISP at the International Conference on Sustainability Transitions

Prof. Alan Watt and PhD candidate Andrea Farsang co-authored and presented results of the CRISP project at the IAPS (International Association People-Environment Studies) International Network Symposium 2013 – Sustainable environments in a changing global context (La Coruna, Spain): Identifying opportunities for innovative spaces and practices in contexts of crisis, Specific Session (SS-02) – Participatory Transitories to a Low Carbon Europe: Lesson for Policy

More information at: http://www.iaps2013symposium.org/

CEU researchers at the 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Research network Sociology of Consumption, Section Sustainable Consumption – 28-31 August, 2013, Torino, Italy

Prof. Alan Watt, Prof. Laszlo Pinter and PhD candidate Andrea Farsang presented as co-authors the comparison of backcasting workshops conducted in Norway and Hungary within the CRISP project at the 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association – Crisis, Critique and Change: Which crisis? Whose critique? What changes?

The Environmental Systems Laboratory (http://syslab.ceu.hu) represents CEU at the World Water Week (http://www.worldwaterweek.org) held in Stockholm on September 1-6, 2013. Throughout the this event week, participants will have the opportunity to engage with leaders from government, business, academia and members from nearly 250 convening organisations. The theme for this year's Week is “Water Cooperation: Building Partnerships”.

Mukesh Gupta, PhD Candidate published articles on Urban Times

Mukesh Gupta, PhD Candidate recently published four articles on Urban Times, a leading online magazine. All the four articles relate to the growing importance of slum dwellers energy use, future of slums, and slum strategies in developing countries. The title and respective links are given below:

Why Slums Could Be The Key To Sustainable Urban Energy System Transformation