Events in May 2012

Citizen-led efforts, often in partnership with private and public interests, are becoming a more prevalent and effective force for food policy change within local jurisdictions.

This presentation discusses the governance of natural resources from an often neglected perspective: the role of property rights. The problem: Plants and animals are the basis of food production, but also the wider bio- and eco-economy.

Susan McHugh is Professor of English at the University of New England, USA. All of her research and some of her teaching focus on literary, visual, and scientific stories of species.

The talk will address how the current international human rights regime, when properly understood, has far-reaching implications for how the world's cities should develop in future.

The seminar will present the evolution of the relationship between civil society organisations and the U.N., in particular the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the U.N.

The current economic crisis leaves a strong imprint on public space, in Greek cities. The visualisation of the effects of crisis on the most vulnerable sections of the society is most vivid on the streets and squares.

The Future of Public Service Delivery:Social sciences inter-school seminar series 2012-2013. Registration is open until 12th April 2013 at: http://citizenpublicservicedelivery.eventbrite.com

Peter Shirlow has written widely upon conflict and transformation in Northern Ireland. Peter has also undertaken conflict transformation work in Iraq, Jordan and the Balkans Region.

Cardiff presents itself today as an enticing worldly city that epitomises a quintessential case of urban makeover and cultural and social transformation.

This paper builds on recent research in human geography, rural studies, and STS to explore the relationship between technologies and their ‘users’.

How do emerging infections happen and why have they seemingly become more active in the last decade or so?

Online event only! We are holding a webinar on Urban Food Strategies to explore recent and ongoing research in this field.

Sport is a multi-million pound business with millions of particpants everey week; for many people it provides their main link to the environment.

Whilst there is wide spread interest in researching community-based sustainability initiatives, far less attention has thus far been afforded to the land on which such practices take place.

Recently, the provision of space for the dead has become more problematic in The Netherlands. Local governments experience difficulties in expanding existing or creating new graveyards, or meeting environmental legislation.

The seminar will present a participatory action research project conducted with an innovative civic food network emerging in Spain, grupos de consumo or solidarity purchasing groups.

Join us for the UCAS Open Day at the Cardiff School of Planning and Geography.

image by Rob Cowan courtesy of the NPF. Based on research published in June 2010 the lecture will look at the opportunities mediation presents to fundamentally change the culture of the UK planning systems from plan-making to enforcement.

Despite having access to drinkable tap water, UK consumers drank over 3 billion litres of bottled water in 2008 (Euromonitor 2009).

What are the challenges emerging from a policy of aiming for ”at least 80% of renewable electricity” by 2050?

The Cardiff city-region is emerging as one of the new arenas of governance in Wales. This presentation and exhibition of student work explores the spatial planning agenda facing the Cardiff city-region.

The spaces where countryside meets town are often amongst society's most valued and pressured places which collectively form the rural-urban fringe (RUF).

In this paper we examine the claims that competing networks make over the safety or risk attached to an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in Crymlyn Burrows in South Wales.

Join us for the UCAS Open Day at the Cardiff School of Planning and Geography.

This presentation considers whether and how tokens of virtual identity can be linked to the probable characteristics of people and places.

This lecture will focus on the use of cellular automata (CA) models to simulate urban phenomena and complexity.

Staff and students at the Cardiff School of Planning and Geography display their Movember charity creations and make a final call for Mo Money!!

The Postgraduate Open Day will provide you with an ideal opportunity to find out more about postgraduate study at Cardiff. A link to book your place can be found by selecting 'Postgraduate Open Day 2012' above.

Richard Guise is a chartered architect and planner with more than 38 years experience of practice and teaching in architecture, planning and urban design. EVENT NOW FULL

Apologies but this Open Day is fully booked. Please take a look at our other dates available.

A presentation followed by question and answer session led by a panel of experts who have had specific experience of working with social and business communites in designing their own local regeneration and pro-growth strategies.

This is the first of three seminars under the theme "The Future of Public Service Delivery: Social Sciences Inter-school Seminar Series".

Fifty years ago the iconic report ‘Traffic in Towns’ set out how to transform towns to cope with impending mass motorisation.

The complexity of problems such as climate change, food and nutrition insecurity, high rates of food related disease, and escalating rates of unemployment requires the adoption of a sustainable food systems perspective.

Guthman will discuss some of the conceptual and empirical limitations of the obesogenic environment thesis.

Tridib's lecture will discuss the theme of public space with a critical perspective that questions neoliberal enthusiasm about privatisation of public space

Festivals, in common with all businesses, have a responsibility to both maximise the positive impacts and minimise their direct impacts on the environment.

This paper considers the difference between how climate change is studied by social scientists and how it is dealt with by people.

Fee: £95. Conference hosted by the Sustainable Places Research Institute.

As the Staff at CPLAN were holding a 'Think Pink' day in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness on the 19th October. Staff and Students will collect and donate on behalf of Size of Wales today.

In the ex-industrial Welsh economy, expansion of state funded activity can no longer cover the inability of the private sector to create jobs. Public lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit.

Nora Schuurman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. Public seminar series hosted by the Environment Research Group

The economic crises in Europe and the Eurozone have been deeper and longer than either politicians or economists anticipated. Public lecture hosted by the Innovation and Engagement Unit.

The Cardiff School of Planning and Geography Innovation and Engagement opening event of the new academic year. A lively debate on the proposed Severn Tidal Barrage. Hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit.

Talk and movie presentation: Dr Jon Anderson will present the film he made for the 'Affective Landscapes' conference earlier in 2012. Public Seminar series hosted by the Environment Research Group

Filmed event now available to view!!

Smart Specialisation Workshop All regions in the EU may be required to produce a Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation as part of their preparations for future Structural Fund programmes (2014-20).

In 2003 Jon Murdoch made a passionate call for geographers working on ethics, animals and food production for research.

Our 2011 event was described by one Head of Geography as: 'Thoughtful, intelligent and one of the best training courses I have ever attended as a teacher.'

Marcus Westbury an internationally renowned speaker discusses temporary uses to stimulate the arts and creative Industries to facilitate regeneration.

Despite all the rhetoric about sustainable development, much new development in the UK is literally building unhealthy, inequitable and carbon-intensive conditions into the fabric

Attempts to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis between farmed cattle and wild badgers has caused considerable controversy.