Environmental and Energy Studies

Student Conference: The Intersection of Crisis and Transition

December 12, 2019

"Be the change you wish to see in the world"

Professor Urge-Vorsatz Co-Authors Study Countering Climate "Doomism"

December 12, 2019
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An antidote to the “doomism” lately fashionable among both climate activists and skeptics has been co-authored by CEU’s Diana Urge-Vorsatz. ‘Recalibrating climate prospects’ appears in Environmental Research Letters, the prestigious environmental studies journal.

New publications by our PhD Candidate, Balsa Lubarda

Balsa Lubarda, our PhD candidate has just published three works based on his research.

Disaster Risk Reduction Day at CEU

October 25, 2019
Disaster Risk Reduction Day 2019 at CEU

On Oct 14th CEU community took part in the International Disaster Risk Reduction Day.   

The Multiple Benefits of the 2030 EU Energy Efficiency Potential

October 16, 2019
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Souran Chatterje, alumni PhD student and Diana Ürge-Vorsatz professor of our department co-authored an article together with other colleagues from different institutions on their research on co-benefits of energy efficiency. The open-access article was published in Energies as part of the Special Issue Electricity Demand Side Management and is available online

The Youth Climate Summit – Reflections and Next Steps

Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Nador u. 15
Room: 
103
Date: 
September 26, 2019 - 5:30pm

The Youth Climate Summit 
– Reflections and Next Steps

By

Krisztina Zálnoky
Co-founder, Visegrad for Sustainability (V4SDG)

Introduction: Zoltan Illes, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences

Alumna Dr. Yolanda Ariadne has drawn on her dissertation to publish two journal articles

Dr. Yolanda Ariadne Collins defended her Dissertation titled “REDD+ Unravelled: A Discursive Analysis of Neoliberal Forest Conservation in Guyana and Suriname” at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in May, 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Guntra Aistara.

Articulations of Indigeneity in Two Mining Regions of Russia: A Comparative Case Study of Karelia and Buriatia

Type: 
Doctoral Defense
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Senate Room
Date: 
October 15, 2019 - 3:00pm

This is to cordially invite you to the PhD dissertation public defense of 

Anna Varfolomeeva

(Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy)

Articulations of Indigeneity in Two Mining Regions of Russia: A Comparative Case Study of Karelia and Buriatia   

Dissertation Committee:

And beauty for all

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Type: 
Lecture
Building: 
Nador u. 15
Room: 
101 Quantum
Date: 
September 17, 2019 - 5:30pm

And beauty for all

by

 John de Graaf

Independent producer and filmmaker
Seattle, WA, United States

Introduction: Dr. László Pintér, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and Senior Fellow, International Institute for Sustainable Development

The future of electricity storage: report for the Austrian Parliament, co-authored by our PhD candidate, Steffen Bettin

Environmental Sciences and Policy PhD Candidate Steffen Bettin co-authored a report for the Austrian Parliament at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) on the future of electricity storage. In the study, various storage technologies, e.g.