On Wednesday 25 July, I had the opportunity to talk to Aberdeen Trades Union Council about a just transition, and what it might mean for Aberdeen and the north-east. With the entire country baking in scorching heat that had caught the attention of the media and policymakers alike, it was a good time to be… Read More Notes on just transition talk at ATUC: Wed 25 July 2018
This post is copied over from a new collaborative blog which will be launched soon – stay tuned for more details… I’m just back from Taipei, where Dr Wan-Yu Shih and I were continuing to develop our collaboration. It was during this trip that I had the idea to set up a new blog to… Read More Winter 2016 Taipei Report
I would never like to call myself an ‘expert’ in anything. I saw Donald Trump do it once and it sounded crass and vulgar. I am certainly not an expert in interdisciplinary research by any stretch. But having worked on projects that are to a certain degree interdisciplinary for my entire academic career, I’d hope… Read More Interdisciplinarity and the MEOPAR Annual Scientific Meeting
Three days of constant dialogue and discussion can be tiring. Very tiring. It was an early night all round for the UK contingent tonight, and my collaborator Jun Kita forgot some of his Japanese when being served in the convenience store as a result of speaking English all weekend. But the consensus (fortunate given the… Read More Consensus and environmental governance – day 3 report
Today was a field-based day. The idea when we put the workshop proposal together was to do something that would give us a sense of the kind of case studies our Japanese counterparts work on – so at 9.00am sharp we loaded into three cars, pulled out of the green Hokkaido University campus, and headed… Read More Day 2 – field trip to Tomatoh Commons
Day 1 of the GB Sasakawa Foundation-funded UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Environmental Governance is in the can – and what a day we had. Those of the UK contingent who had arrived they day before were now feeling more awake after a long sleep and full breakfast, and we headed en masse through the green… Read More Consensus and environmental governance – day 1 report
Last week I was in Tokyo for an international workshop of the Japanese Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Programme (SIP): Next-Generation Technology for Ocean Resources Exploration. The environmental and socio-economic impact assessment work programme is led by my collaborator Prof Midori Kawabe at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, and along with Dr Kjersti Eline… Read More Presenting North Sea Transitions at International Workshop in Tokyo
A video of the talk I gave at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan earlier in December is now online – if watching me talk for nearly an hour is your thing… Enjoy what’s left of 2015 and all the best for the upcoming year!
As per the previous post, after Hanoi I headed to China for a two-week stay in Beijing. I was there to participate in the 2015 Summer Institute for Disaster and Risk Reduction at Beijing Normal University, an initiative run by the university’s Hazard and Risk Science Base. The institute had the kind of participants I… Read More Reflections on two weeks in Beijing
Several weeks ago I was in Hanoi, Vietnam on the first leg of my ‘Asian Tour’ (will write about the second leg – Beijing – soon after). I was there very much on a fact finding mission, to learn about what some of the institutions in Hanoi are doing. Any apprehensions I had about whether… Read More Hanoi, Vietnam
Dr Leslie Mabon 