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Research seminar organised by the Academy Fellowship project IDEALE: “Interplay between National Defence, Security and Low-Carbon Energy Policies: a Sustainability Transitions Perspective” 2019-2024, funded by the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE. We are living in an era of rapid changes in terms of advancing climate change, shifting geopolitical landscape and progressing energy transition. These three elements influence each other in a dynamic way creating new challenges and opportunities. While sustainability transitions were initially about creating new innovations and their diffusion, especially the energy transition has progressed to a stage, where the new innovations are gradually becoming part of the mainstream in some countries, while still very far from it in others. This stage also creates new implications as it means that the dominant socio-technical regimes built around traditional ways of fossil-based energy production and using energy are changing. Such changes are significant also from the perspective of security and geopolitics. On the other hand, the recent IPCC reports show that climate change is progressing, and its impacts are already seen in many places – making climate change the most pressing security issue globally. This seminar is drawing from different research disciplines, including security studies, policy studies and sustainability transition studies to discuss how the understanding of security and geopolitics is changing with the above developments. Our keynote speaker is Dhanasree Jayaram, who is Assistant Professor in the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, and currently Research Fellow at Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) and Guest Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. She completed her PhD on the military dimensions of environmental security in 2018, and has subsequently worked on human security, climate diplomacy and geopolitics. The seminar also includes invited presentations from Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, University of Helsinki, and Emma Hakala, Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Key insights from the IDEALE project will be presented by Paula Kivimaa.
More information about the speakers here (pdf file).
Programme:12:30 Opening words by Eeva Primmer, Research Director, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE 12:35 ‘Climatization’ of Security and Geopolitical Narratives in South Asia: Dhanasree Jayaram, Assistant Professor, Manipal University 13.30 Interplay between national security, defence and sustainable energy transitions in four European countries: Paula Kivimaa, Research Professor, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE 14:10 Coffee break 14.30 Visualizing and coding of energy assemblages to enable energy transition and “Ruxit”: Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Professor, University of Helsinki 15:00 (Re-)Conceptualising security in the time of sustainability transitions: Emma Hakala, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs FIIA 15.30 Final discussion and closing at 16:00
Registrate here by 16.8.2022 (Webropol).
For more information contact:Paula Kivimaa (paula.kivimaa@syke.fi; +358 400 148 849) Marja Helena Sivonen (marja.sivonen@syke.fi; +358 295 251 012)
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