Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Room 5
Audience: All University researchers considering applying for the Twinning Call or those who would just like to find out more
Energy
Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Room 5
Audience: All University researchers considering applying for the Twinning Call or those who would just like to find out more
Professor Michael Pollitt, EPRG, Cambridge Judge Business School
Energy Prices: Is a Price Freeze a Sensible Way to Restore Trust in the Market?"
Speaker: Professor Jorge E. Vinuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy
Location: Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site
Time: 18:00
The Guardian year-long project exploring the UK energy crisis and how it can be solved will draw to a close in January 2014. During the last few months, the Guardian Big Energy Debate has heard from policy makers, academics, consumers, voters, politicians and industry leaders to find how energy affects them.
The ratio of people living in cities compared to rural areas is set to rise to 7 out of every 10 people by 2050. Can we rethink how we design and live in cities? How will cities adapt to the challenges facing them in the future? What new research and new connections would help us to prepare for these challenges?
The UK undertakes a considerable amount of land management activities on private and public land, for example to maintain parkland or to conserve wildlife habitats. The land management results in the production of biomass waste that in many cases are either burned or left to decompose.
Dr N.A. Burdett, Head of Environment, Drax Power Station, Yorkshire
Speaker: Dr Kamel Hooman (The University of Queensland)
Sino-Russian Gas and Oil Cooperation: The Reality and Its Impacts towards Regional and Global Trading
Established in 1979, the Denman Lecture hosts leading academics from around the world, on topics across the built and natural environment, economics and planning.