worldpoverty@manchester #5: Climate change adaptation from the bottom

Manoj Roy and David Hulme, looks at the way poor urban slum dwellers in Bangladesh are developing coping strategies to adapt to shocks exacerbated by climate change.

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Peoples in Movement

May 3 2013, 14.15-16.00 / IMER, Univ of Bergen

Potential contributions of migrant rights movements of Latin American origin to the emergence of counter-hegemonic paradigms of human rights- comparative aspects in the Euro-African and global context.

ICSU/ISSC: Food Futures networking conference

“Food Futures” is an invitation to think creatively on the potential for change and transformation of our food systems and how research can help define and achieve these visions.

Revolution and Social Transformation in Egypt

Public round table session held at the "Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South" workshop.

CROP Events

Crisis and austerity: A painful watershed for the South European welfare state

May 6, 2013, 12-14, / University of Bergen

Open lecture with CROP Fellow Professor Maria Petmesidou: What is the status and impact of the financial crisis on the welfare states in Greece and other countries in South Europe?

Public Meetings at World Social Science Seminar

March 26-27, 2013 / Quito, Ecuador

CROP, jointly with the ISSC, IHDP and Andean University Simon Bolivar, is organizing two public panels, taking place within the framework of the WSS Seminar "Sustainable Urbanization: Innovative approaches to understanding urbanization in the 21st century".