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Reflections on what will need to change by 2050 to accommodate a doubling in size of the urban population, with special reference to the global South

by Mark Swilling | Apr 11, 2018 | Talks

On 11th April 2018 I delivered the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture at the famous Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. It was a public lecture for the wider Yale community and alumni. I drew on material from the Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future...

Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization

by Mark Swilling | Feb 10, 2018 | Talks

Panel presentation at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) conference at University of Cape Town, 3 February, 2018. Other members of the panel were Aro Revi from the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and Carlos Lopez, former Secretary-General of the United Nations...

Political obstacles to a mass renewable energy programme

by Mark Swilling | Oct 13, 2017 | Talks

Talked presented on 12 October 2017 at the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) in Cape Town, which formed part of AIDC’s Million Climate Jobs Campaign. A great group of activists who do a amazing work in communities and publish Amandla!...

The Weight of Cities and the Global Transition

by Mark Swilling | Oct 12, 2017 | Talks

Keynote presented at 10th Conference of the Green Buildings Conference of South Africa on 11 October...

Weight of Cities, Experimentation and Transdisciplinarity

by Mark Swilling | Sep 29, 2017 | Talks

This talk was delivered at the Conference on Transformative Innovation Policy hosted by the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (led by Prof Johan Schot from SPRU, University of Sussex), 20-21 September, Pretoria. I was asked to speak on upscaling...

Global trends, SA context – the centrality of the global renewable energy revolution

by Mark Swilling | Sep 3, 2017 | Talks

  Talk presented on 31 August 2017 at the AIDC in Cape Town – audience comprised left-wing researchers and activists involved in social movements around the...
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