ISSSUM 4180 Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, 2013

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1 ISSSUM 4180 Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, 2013 UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Contacts: : [email protected], Mob ; Ane Evenstad: [email protected], Mob Postal address: Center for Development and the Environment (SUM) P.O. Box 1116 Blindern N-0317 Oslo Norway. Phone:

2 International Summer School 2013 Course Name: Course Leaders: Course Secretary: Week 1 ISS SUM4180 Ane Evenstad Date Time Topic Lecturer June Welcome to SUM, the Centre for Development and the Environment Introduction and course overview Sustainable development: the concept and its history Energy concepts, and the Scandinavian and Norwegian context Kristi Anne Stølen June 25 The impact of electrification in rural Zanzibar - social and environmental aspects Electricity, gender and development Summary of case and discussion June 26 Environmental NGOs How environmental NGOs influence decisions on climate / global warming How to combat global warming - with focus on CO2 capture and storage (CCS) Participants input Aage Stangeland Aage Stangeland Aage Stangeland June 27 Social dimensions of energy use Cultural and anthropological perspectives in energy and development Kerala, India: Socio-cultural change and sustainability Hal Wilhite Hal Wilhite Hal Wilhite June Student inputs Student inputs Student inputs Student inputs Week summary Participants / Maren O. Kloster 2

3 Week 2 Date Time Topic Lecturer July 01 Sustainable consumption and wellbeing Sustainable consumption and wellbeing Discussion Mónica Guillen Mónica Guillen Mónica Guillen July The crucial role of energy savings versus supply Technological options for end-use energy savings End-use energy saving measures and policies Optimizing the economy chain: from resources to satisfaction Jørgen Nørgård Jørgen Nørgård Jørgen Nørgård Jørgen Nørgård July 03 Historic Flashes of Environmental Movements and Development Scenarios for sustainable energy planning Discussion Jørgen Nørgård Jørgen Nørgård Jørgen Nørgård/ July 04 The Norwegian Energy System Norwegian Energy: Industry, Oil and Gas, Hydro, resources and issues Discussion John Hille John Hille JH / Participants July 05 Sustainable Buildings and Green Architecture Building materials, Environment and Health Information and preparations for the field trip 3

4 Week 3 Date Time Topic July 08 Route: Oslo-Porsgrunn-Telemark-Røldal Norcem Cement Industry; Yara Industries and Fertiliser production Lunch: Yara Overnight and dinner: Haukeliseter Fjellstue July 09 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 Route: Røldal-Suldal-Stavanger-Jæren Erga Ecological farm and info on the Centre for Green Living Lunch: Erga (Possible)Visit to the Norwegian Petroleum Museum Dinner: Stavanger Overnight: Stavanger bed and breakfast, Stavanger Route; In and around Stavanger Stavanger regional development in the oil age: Greater Stavanger Lunch: greater Stavanger Visit to the Norwegian Petroleum Directory Dinner: Stavanger Overnight: Stavanger bed and breakfast, Stavanger Route: Stavanger-Kårstø-Etne-Odda Boliden Zinc factory and waste deposit Lunch: Boliden. Odda town and former Carbide factory. Dinner: Odda Overnight: Hardanger Hotel Route: Odda-Tyssedal-Eidsfjord-Hardangervidda-Geilo Tyssefaldene Hydro company: Resources, history, tour to mountain dam, power station The Norwegian Industry and Hydropower Museum Lunch: Tyssedal Hotel Dinner and overnight: Øen Tourist Cottages, Geilo Route: Geilo-Brandbu-HurdalOslo The Bio Energy Centre, Brandbu Hurdal eco village Dinner: Hurdal Return to Blindern. 4

5 Week 4 Date Time Topic Lecturer July 15 Norwegian Environment and Energy: Excursion feedback Renewable Energy Norway and Scandinavia Solar Energy issues and applications July Sustainable Cities Case study. Tainan Ecocity Master Plan, GAIA International Evaluating Sustainability: The Value Map Group work seminar Participants / July 17 Participant seminar to be planned with participants Participants / July Participant inputs and experiences to be planned with participants Participants / July 19 Energy: technology versus behaviour? The local level: sustainability in communities and municipalities Case studies: Ecocommunities: ecological footprint and lifestyle 5

6 Week 5 Date Time Topic Lecturer July 22 Case study: Punakha, Bhutan Development and Sustainability GNH Gross National Happiness? - discussion July Presentation of group work papers Participants / July 24 Climate: status and new challenges Climate: status and new challenges Discussion Steffen Kalbekken Steffen Kalbekken Steffen Kalbekken / Chris July Energy and developing countries: future scenarios Case studies from Asia Issues of energy conservation and legislation Case studies and discussion Ashok Sarkar Ashok Sarkar Ashok Sarkar Ashok Sarkar/ July 26 Energy and Development (continued) Issues of delivery Discussion Ashok Sarkar Ashok Sarkar Ashok Sarkar/ 6

7 Week 6 Date Time Topic Lecturer July 29 Delivering Sustainability: GAIA Planning and Community Participation A Short History of Good Ideas Technology, Research and Reality: Ecominimalism Sandy Halliday Sandy Halliday Sandy Halliday Money rules the world but who rules money? The case of green economics and complementary currencies Dr. Margrit Kennedy July Money as service complementary currencies participan workshop Sustainable Economics - discussion Building a Permaculture Park New Social and Ecological Techniques Dr.Margrit Kennedy Dr.Margrit Kennedy Declan Kennedy July Final exam August Course summary Participant feedback and evaluation. Conclusion., course staff and participants 7

8 Week 3: EXCURSION PROGRAMME: JULY 2013 MONDAY Route: Oslo-Porsgrunn-Telemark-Røldal TUESDAY Route: Røldal-Suldal-Stavanger-Jæren Departure from Blindern for Porsgrunn Herøya Industrial park. Norcem 12.00: Lunch at Yara 12.30: Yara Industries and fertilizer production : Departure from Porsgrunn for Røldal. Route: Telemark-Røldal Dinner and overnight at Haukeliseter Fjellstue close to Hardangervidda national park Departure for Stavanger Lunch at Erga Ecological farm Visit to Erga Ecological farm and info on the Centre for Green Living (possible) Visit to the Norwegian Petroleum Museum Dinner in Stavanger Overnight at Stavanger Bed and Breakfast, Stavanger WEDNESDAY Route; In and around Stavanger Seminar with Greater Stavanger; all-day seminar with lunch 13:00 Visit Norwegian Petroleum Directory Dinner, Stavanger Overnight at Stavanger Bed and Breakfast, Stavanger THURSDAY Route: Stavanger-Kårstø-Etne-Odda Departure from Stavanger for Odda Lunch at the factory s cantina Boliden Zinc factory and waste deposit Odda town and history. Walking tour if good weather Dinner in Odda Overnight at Hardanger Hotel FRIDAY Route: Odda-Tyssedal-Eidsfjord-Hardangervidda-Geilo Tyssefaldene Hydro company: The Norwegian Industry and Hydropower Museum Resources, history, tour to mountain dam, power station Lunch at Tyssedal Hotel Departure for Eidsfjord If fine weather: a short walking trip Departure for Geilo Dinner and overnight at Øen Tourist Cottages, Geilo SATURDAY Route: Geilo-Brandbu-Oslo Departure for Brandbu The Bio Energy Centre, Brandbu Lunch Hurdal Eco Village Dinner Return to Oslo

9 Course Staff and lecturers (course leader) has worked with environmental architecture, energy, and ecology for 30 years, as practicing architect, researcher, lecturer, and author of several books. Chris worked in Asia (Bhutan) for 10 years for international organisations as project coordinator and architect for schools and a hospital. He has also done Tibetological research and translations. He was Director of the UIA Work Program The Road from Rio - Sustainable Development of the Built Environment from and Project Leader, NABU, Norwegian Architects for Sustainable Development, ( ). Guest Professor at the Oslo School of Architecture ( ) and at St Johns University, Minnesota, USA (2009). Chris currently works as architect and international consultant in the GAIA network, which specializes in sustainable architecture, as well as senior adviser at the Ideas Bank Foundation, Oslo. is a senior researcher at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo. Her PhD study in anthropology centred on the social impact of electrification in Zanzibar, Tanzania. She holds a Master in Power Engineering and has been employed in the Norwegian electricity sector. Currently, she is involved in two research projects; one on sustainable electricity use in Norway, and the other on solar PV mini-systems and transfer of knowledge from India to Kenya (Solar Transitions). She has also been involved in work for the World Bank. John Hille was educated in earth sciences, economics, and humanities. He currently divides his time between a position as Senior Advisor at the Ideas Bank Foundation and freelance writing and research. He has been interested in sustainable energy issues since the 1980s, coordinated courses on the subject at the CDE during the early 1990s and has since been a regular lecturer at the ISS. He has recently advised several Norwegian cities and communities on climate and energy planning, and been an advisor to the Government Commission on Low Emissions. Harold Wilhite is a social anthropologist and an Associate Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo (SUM). Here he leads the research topic entitled Consumption, energy and social change and is former Director of the Master s program. Wilhite s main research interests have been associated with the theory and policy of sustainable consumption. At the heart of this research has been how public policy, technology and the sociocultural factors are implicated in changing consumption, both in the North and the South. He has recently completed a 4-year study of the role of consumption in everyday life in India. 9

10 Aage Stangeland is a Dr. scient. in material technology and worked formerly as an adviser (with particular focus on CO2 storage) in the energy section of at Bellona - one of Norway s leading environmental NGOs, with a mixture of activism and cooperation and broad experience both within Norway and as regards the former Soviet Union, oil nuclear, EU environmental policy, etc. Aage is now working as Special Advisor for The Research Council of Norway. Ashok Sarkar leads the strategic efforts for scaling up energy efficiency operations in the World Bank and has over 18 years of experience in 30+ countries of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Prior to joining the World Bank, he had worked in the areas of sustainable energy and climate change in the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines; in the US Agency for International Development -India; at Resource Management Associates, Inc., a private sector international energy consulting firm based in Madison, Wisconsin; and at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, a power engineering company based in India. Jørgen Stig Nørgård (Jorgen Stig Norgard), born in 1933 in Denmark. He joined rather late the academic world after working as a farmer and mechanic. He has a MSc and PhD from Technical University of Denmark, DTU and has worked there since 1970 as associate professor, investigating and teaching how to achieve environmental sustainability through changes in technology, economics, life styles, etc, with focus on energy savings. He has written numerous papers, articles, and books, given lectures and seminars all over the world, and been advisor for UN, governments, and NGOs. He is now an emeritus ass. professor at DTU. Monica Guillen is a guest researcher at SUM and holds a PhD from the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath (UK). Her research is transdisciplinary within the social sciences and draws on economics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology to study the relationship between consumption and wellbeing in income-poor and rich countries. She is currently working on a project on sustainable consumption and human needs in Catalunya (Spain). Sandy Halliday, a chartered engineer, has worked in building research, training, policy guidance and as project advisor for local and national government and private clients for over 25 years. Her degree in Engineering Design & Appropriate Technology focused on socially and environmentally responsible engineering. She initially worked as a research manager developing UK policy & disseminating information on passive design, resource efficient, clean technologies and benign processes, products & materials. She founded Gaia Research (1996) to develop sustainable solutions for the built environment. Sandy s work extends to research, policy guidance, brief development, community consultation and interdisciplinary education. 10

11 Margrit Kennedy from Germany is a wellknown author and lecturer on the topic of alternative money systems and ecology. Her standpoint is that radical changes are needed, both for ethical reasons and for global sustainability. Maren Olene Kloster (course coordinator) is a research assistant at Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo. She finished her Master thesis at SUM in December, where she was granted a scholarship from LEVE livelihoods in developing countries. In her Master s thesis she focused on Norway s development assistance for health. Her studies have been focused on environmental change, water, and development. Declan Kennedy, is an Irish Architect, Urban Planner, Mediator, and Permaculture Designer. He has been teaching and practicing urban design and landscape, renewable energy and agricultural planning, coupled with holistic strategies in Germany since 1972 and in intensive seminars - organized in many countries; from 1972 to 1990 Prof at the Architectural Department of the Technical University of Berlin; 1985 co-founder of eco-village Lebensgarten Steyerberg, Germany; 1995 Founding Chairman: Global Eco-Village Network (GEN). His preoccupation with positive energies and ecovillage design has led to his engagement in the Gaia University, a young university without walls, based on action-learning. Ane Evenstad (course coordinator) works as a research assistant at Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo. She finished her Master thesis in Latin American studies in September. In her Master s Thesis she focused on the effects of Migration from Guatemala to the US. Her studies and work have been focusing on REDD+, Norwegian Environmental Policy, Migration, Land use and Women. 11

12 PARTICIPANTS, ISSSUM Tokode, Oluwatosin Israel NIGERIA 2. Rai, Purna Bdr. BHUTAN 3. Baniya, Bishal NEPAL 4. Ndirangu, Harriet Nyambura KENYA 5. Mukasa, Bryans UGANDA 6. Geletu, Biruk Kebede ETHIOPIA 7. Andoh, George GHANA 8. Duric, Slavica SERBIA 9. Denysenko, Artur UKRAINE 10. Serdarevikj, Natasha MACEDONIA 11. Zbijowska, Agata Balbina POLAND 12. Zipkin, Tor USA 13. Azim, Md. BANGLADESH 14. Pillai Sivashanmugham, Rahul INDIA 15. Batsaikhan, Uuriintuya MONGOLIA 16. Mushtaq, Seemal PAKISTAN 17. Medugorac, Vanja CROATIA 18. Chidarara, Darlington ZIMBABWE 19. Ahmadova, Konul AZERBAIJAN 20. Romanski, Tessa Ruth USA 21. Amponsah, Bismark Akwasi GHANA 22. Sunter, Catherine Elizabeth UNITED KINGDOM 23. Bertram, Mathias GERMANY 12