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Festival brings the tropics to town
Researchers from Lancaster University are bringing a flavour of the tropics to town this month.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 21 February 2012
Lancaster's University Challenge Team!
Three of LEC's postgraduate students have qualified for the televised rounds of BBC's University Challenge. The Lancaster team is made up of:
Tue 14 February 2012
LEC PG Open Days and Travel Bursary
LEC is pleased to announce that Open Day Travel Bursaries are available to prospective applicants not currently studying at Lancaster who attend a LEC PG Open Day in 2012.
Tue 14 February 2012
BHS-JBA Trust Studentship awarded to David Mindham on MSc Sustainable Water Management
Congratulations to David Mindham for being one of only six students in the UK to be awarded a BHS-JBA Trust Studentship!
Thu 9 February 2012
Events
Breathe Easier: Resolving critical air-quality problems with passive directional sampling'
Dr Maria Angeles Solera Garcia, Lancaster Environment Centre
Friday 24th February 2012, 1500-1600
LEC Training Room 2
Ensuring Water Resource Security: Assessing Water-Related Business Risks
Wednesday 29th February 2012, 0930-1600
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2
Catchment Change Network hosts NERC Water Security Knowledge Exchange Programme (WSKEP) workshop. Lead presentations for the workshop and facilitated discussion include:
Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing carbon emissions
Professor Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester
Wednesday 29th February 2012, 1430-1530
Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre
Unprecedented growth in recent emissions demands a radical departure from the mitigation proposals suggested by many policy makers and scientific reports. This presentation strips away the rhetoric of such proposals to reveal a profound challenge to science and society. It argues that our abject failure to reduce emissions leaves the global community with stark choices. To continue the delusion that emission can be controlled through rhetoric, financial fine-tuning and piecemeal incrementalism; to view the future as one of futility and despair; or to acknowledge that the greatest obstacles to real change are an absence of honesty and imagination alongside a fear of change itself. The paper concludes that whilst 2°C futures are all but lost, early harnessing of human will and ingenuity may yet offer opportunities to deliver relatively low-carbon and climate-resilient communities.