‘Sustainability and inclusive development' with Joyeeta Gupta

Part 2 of the International Development Studies Lecture Series in cooperation with the Governance and Inclusive Development group of the University of Amsterdam

Event

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. This second lecture of a lecture series about the future of international development will be given by Joyeeta Gupta, professor of Environment and Development in the Global South. How can we ensure both inclusive development and the protection of our ecosystems? Location: SPUI25.

International Development Studies in the era of the Anthropocene (the epoch that began when human activities had a significant effect on the climate) is evolving rapidly. It has many challenges to tackle. First, it needs to continuously address the forces that lead to growing inequality in and among societies world-wide in terms of discourses, processes and outcomes. Second, local to global geopolitics and economics are changing. New governance forms are emerging that may or may not be able to cope with the new development challenges of the 21st century. Third, it needs to look at the structural challenges to our current development patterns and see how these can be addressed.

We have to examine how our collective development strategies put a strain on our global ecosystems in such a manner that everyone is affected. The concept of ‘Inclusive Development’ is increasingly seen as a way to counter the dominance of neo-liberal capitalist approaches to governing our global resources. Gupta will turn to one of the main ways in which the global community is attempting to deal with these myriad problems: through the current ongoing debates on the Sustainable Development Goals. How well do these Goals score on inclusiveness? Do they take all relevant issues into account?

This lecture is part of the lecture series "International Development Studies: Prospects and Vistas". 

Joyeeta Gupta

About the speakers

Joyeeta Gupta is professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She is also a member of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute and editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics . She was and continues to be lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment which won the Zaved Second Prize. 

Respondent Annelies Zoomers is professor of International Development Studies at Utrecht University.

 

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES: PROSPECTS AND VISTAS

The field of international development studies must evolve to stay on top of the many changes affecting the world of today. Such changes challenge the traditional divide between the ‘South’ and ‘North’ as well as the types of issues that need to be addressed. What do they mean for our understanding and the practice of development? This public lecture series, organized by the Governance and Inclusive Development group of the University of Amsterdam, aims to find answers to these questions and stimulate new thinking. By including presentations by key thinkers from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the series seeks to highlight southern perspectives on new development issues. 

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